The program in Visual & Critical Studies at CCA train creative leaders in visual and critical fields. Seminars offered under the heading VCS Topics build skills in historical investigation, critical thinking, and visual analysis, while providing students with key theoretical tools as well as exposure to thir academic, social, and artistic applications.COURSE DESCRIPTION"VCS Topics: Digging Deep: Research in the Archive" Artists, curators, and art historians and scholars of visual cultural studies have good reason to do primary research in archives, which treasure troves of material awaiting contextualization and interpretation. In this course, the student will: gain an understanding of how archives function learn how to identify appropriate archives for research ways to access historical materials and do research at an archive write a seminar paper (18-20 pages) whose research topic and problem are formed by primary material found in the archive San Francisco is home to many archives, including those at the San Francisco Public Library, the deYoung Museum, San Francisco State University, the Prelinger Library, the GLBT Historical Society, and the Center for Sex and Culture. The class will visit several of these archives.

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