Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DISEASE AND DIFFERENCE: THE BODY IN VISUAL CULTURE ***** This course examines the history of visual representations of disease in photography, cinema, and digital media. We will consider how nationally, racially, and sexually marked bodies constitute an iconography of social and organic contamination. Topics include early cinema, colonialism, photography, eugenics, immigration, science fiction, and internet viruses. ***** Also offered as HART 486 and ENGL 458.