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Apr 22, 2026
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CLL 025 - (AA) Picture This! Exploring Verbal-Visual Relations in Art and LiteratureSemester Hours: 3
This course will present an historical overview of pictorial representation in word and image in Western culture from ancient Greece and Rome through 20th-century modernity (circa 900 BCE – 1950 CE), with specific non-Western cross-cultural comparisons at different junctures. The interdisciplinary bifocular view will connect key moments in Western cultural history through related developments in visual and verbal culture, in word and image, situating those developments also in broader historical contexts. Short theoretical readings will help maintain the dual focus, which will consist each week of the presentation and ‘reading’ of visual images with scenes in literature: students will learn the practice of ‘close reading’ of images or scenes in their verbal or visual representations, with key technical terminology, and how each medium shapes perception and understanding in its intellectual, socio-historical and cultural contexts.
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Summer Session I 2026
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Fall 2026
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