VISST-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 VISST-2000 requirement.COURSE DESCRIPTIONFrom the success of shows like Orange is the New Black to the visual depiction of so-called criminals on the F.B.I.'s "Wanted" posters, criminality and punishment has a long and entangled relationship to U.S. visual culture. Representations of crime correspond to histories of racialization and ideologies about gender and sexuality, shaping how we understand policing, surveillance, criminality, jails, and prisons. This seminar explores historical representations of crime and punishment, visual culture produced inside carceral facilities, and art that confronts these systems to understand how visuality influences law, policy, and social attitudes toward the criminal justice system.

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