Curriculum

  • Paul B. Jaskot

The Digital Art History & Visual Culture Research Lab curriculum is both wide and deep. Its depth extends through the undergraduate curriculum from innovative and popular first-year seminars such as VMS 89S Visual Culture of Venice and entry-level courses such as ARTHIST 227 Medieval Castles of Europe and, one of our oldest core offerings, ARTHIST 225 Gothic Cathedrals. Students can further their engagement through intermediate and advanced seminars that also engage graduate students, such as ARTHIST 315 Mapping History with GIS and ARTHIST 551SL Wired! The Lives of Things.

Undergraduate and graduate students learn side by side in the 2012 course The Museum Inside Out. Image Credit: Nasher Staff

A number of these advanced experiences have been made possible through important initiatives such as the Bass Connections projects Building Duke and Digital Durham, to name but two.

The Digital Art History & Visual Culture curriculum is both wide and deep. Its depth extends through the undergraduate curriculum from innovative and popular first-year seminars. Students can further their engagement through intermediate and advanced seminars that also engage graduate students.

Conversely, we support Art History and Visual Culture courses that have incorporated digital components for assignments or specific collaborative projects such as in ARTHIST 284 The Political History of Modern Architecture and ARTHIST 208 The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Athens. At the graduate level, Wired! contributes to the key core offering of a two-semester Proseminar sequence (HCVIS 580S & 581S) that introduces Digital Humanities methods within the context of Art History and Computational Media. Graduate students develop individual digital projects that extend from our faculty offerings including A Cultural Analysis of Ghettos or 3D Design and Programming in Art & Medicine, the latter of which yielded Medieval Color Comes to Light. As this range shows, the Wired! faculty and staff cover a wide spectrum of student careers at Duke and also engage in a variety of topics across the Digital Humanities, while taking up innovative subjects in Art History and Visual Culture.

Banner Image: Caroline Bruzelius and Sheila Dillon study an object in the Nasher Museum of Art's permanent collection. Image Credit: Nasher Staff