{"id":172,"date":"2010-07-13T19:59:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T19:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/visual-culture\/academic-program\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:50:26","slug":"academic-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/art-visual-culture\/academics\/academic-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"catalog-block catalog-department-listing\"><h3 class=\"catalog-program-title\">Art and Visual Culture<\/h3><p><em>Professors Balco (chair) and Rand (Art and Visual Culture and Gender and Sexuality Studies); Associate Professors Gonz\u00e1lez Valencia and Nguyen; Assistant Professor Boomer (Art and Visual Culture, Classical and Medieval Studies, and Religious Studies); Visiting Assistant Professors Droge, King, and Nolan; Lecturer Dewsnap; Visiting Lecturer Fairbairn.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-d2df6160-7fff-31af-efa5-254c84b2da7f\">Visual literacy and visual acuity \u2013 looking with awareness and intention \u2013 are fundamental to liberal arts education. The Department of Art and Visual Culture centers creation and critique, providing foundations in studio practice and in contemporary and historical analysis, while attending to how power and privilege have shaped our fields in their local and global contexts. Students pursue interdisciplinary pathways to learning, situating making, materials and media, objects and monuments, and ideas and ideologies in new frames.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-d2df6160-7fff-31af-efa5-254c84b2da7f\">The department offers majors in Studio Art and the History and Criticism of Art and Visual Culture, and a minor in History and Criticism of Art and Visual Culture. Students intending to study abroad must discuss fulfillment of major\/minor requirements with their advisor and the department chair in advance. <\/span><\/p>\n<div>More information is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/art-visual-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art and Visual Culture department website<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><br\/>\n\u00a0<\/p><section class=\"catalog-section_curriculumtext\"><h5>Curriculum<\/h5><div class=\"sitemap\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.bates.edu\/departments-programs\/art-visual-culture\/history-criticism-art-visual-culture-major\/\">History and Criticism of Art and Visual Culture Major<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.bates.edu\/departments-programs\/art-visual-culture\/studio-art-major\/\">Studio Art Major<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.bates.edu\/departments-programs\/art-visual-culture\/history-criticism-art-visual-culture-minor\/\">History and Criticism of Art and Visual Culture Minor<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/section><section class=\"catalog-section_faculty\"><\/section><div class=\"catalog-department-overview-catalog-link\">\n\t\t <p>Our course catalog may include more information on Art and Visual Culture, its programs, courses, and requirements.<\/p>\n\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.bates.edu\/departments-programs\/art-visual-culture\/\">Full Catalog Listing<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":198,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/art-visual-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/art-visual-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/art-visual-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/art-visual-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/art-visual-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/art-visual-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/art-visual-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions\/761"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/art-visual-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/art-visual-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}