The Visual Studies Graduate Certificate offers team-taught graduate seminars as part of its required curriculum. It will next offer that class (MDA 599) in Spring 2010.
The Visual Studies Graduate Certificate is designed for students enrolled in a Ph.D. program at USC whose scholarly work includes a significant focus on visual culture. Rather than attending to visual forms in isolation from one another, the certificate considers the overlaps between images, texts, and material objects as well as the alternative modes of interpretation such overlaps demand. Currently Carolyn Malone and Jason Glenn are teaching “Visualizing the Monastic Experience in the Middle Ages.” Prior team-taught courses include “Image / Word / Object: Rethinking the History of Books and Reading” (Daniela Bleichmar and Deborah Harkness) “Visualizing Colonialism” (Philippa Levine and Janet Hoskins); “Picturing Paradise” (Nancy Lutkehaus and Jane Iwamura) “Visual Culture and Its Discontents” (Nancy Troy and Anne Friedberg) and “Envisioning Frontiers and Borderlands” (Bill Deverell and Roberto Lint Sagarena).
The Certificate seeks proposals for team-taught graduate seminars for next Spring 2010. Teams of two professors are asked to submit proposals. We urge teams that consist of professors in different departments within the College and/or across the University, although this is not a requirement.
Proposals should include: A cover letter describing how the collaboration fits into the research vision and educational goals of each member of the teaching team; a “mock syllabus” which includes a course description and tentative and general schedule of readings; a letter of acknowledgement from each professor’s unit Chair; a list (and short description if necessary) of all other courses taught by each instructor.
Deadline: February 27, 2009. All applications should be submitted to the VSGC Administrator, Jeanne Herman at vsgc@usc.edu and cc’d to Vanessa Schwartz at vschwart@usc.edu. |
