HAAVC 3000 seminars continue developing students' visual analysis and research skills while providing students the opportunity for in-depth study of the visual/structural artifacts associated with a particular topic, region, or movement. Students will also engage with the relevant primary/secondary literature for the specific topic/theme. Courses will pay particular attention to the larger cultural, historical, and theoretical/ideological contexts in which the visual artifacts and structures under consideration were created. This course cannot fulfill the HAAVC 2000 requirement.“Monstrosity always reveals a truth.” - Marie-Hélène Huet, Monstrous ImaginationModern culture is bristling with monsters: specters, werewolves, sphinxes and Frankensteins galore have taken over our big and small screens, haunt our bookshelves, and stalk the halls of our museums and galleries. Even as a literal belief in monsters and the supernatural seems less common in many parts of the world today than it was in the past, monsters have continued to be immensely potent in the modern world as metaphors of our relationships with ourselves, with each other, and with nature. In this class, we will explore some of the ways in which creators over the last couple of centuries have used monsters and ghosts to explore a world full of rapidly changing understandings of the human mind and body, and a radically and constantly transforming relationship to the forces of nature. 

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