VTP Course list 2023/24

Fall term 

Course US Credits Instructor

VSP Type

Mand/Elective

Host Unit

UWC 5019

Audio Production

2

Thomas Aichinger

Core/Mandatory

UWC 

Visual Studies Platform

UWC 5014

Fundamentals of Documentary Filmmaking

 2 Klara Trencsenyi  Core/Mandatory

UWC 

Visual Studies Platform

HIST 5237 

ICONO/GRAPHY Interactions of Image and Text

2 Ulrich Meurer Core/Mandatory Department of History 

HIST 5060

History in the Visual Mode: Methods and Practices of Documentary Storytelling

2 Elective Department of History 

HIST 5108

Museums and Public History

2 Elective Department of History 

CHSP 5087

The Power of Images: Memory, Heritage, and Visual Culture

2 Anastasia Felcher Elective Cultural Heritage Studies Program

HIST 5491 Belonging in the Museum I+II

4 (fall and spring) Khadija Zinnenburg Carroll Elective  Department of History 
GENS5073 Gender, Sexuality and the Non/Human  4 Elective (note: subject to approval by VSP, contact VSP Steering Committee) Department of Gender Studies 

Winter Term

Course US Credits Instructor VSP Type Mand/Elective Host Unit

NATI 5062 

Foundations of Visual Practice 

2 Klara Trencsenyi Core/Mandatory Nationalism Studies Program

VSPF 5001 

Images: Knowledge, History, Politics

2 Ulrich Meurer Core/Mandatory  Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

SOCL 5019 

Visual Anthropology and Ethnographic Filmmaking  

4 Vlad Naumescu
Elective Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

HIST 5358 

Research Through the Lens: Photographic Methods in Social Sciences 

2 Daniel Halasz  Elective  Department of History

DOPP 5301 

Policy Advocacy and Video for Social Change 

2

Elective Department of Public Policy

GENS 5129 

Feminist Biopolitics and Cultural Practices

4 Hyaesin Yoon
Elective Department of Gender Studies

HIST 5864

Habsburg Material Culture: From Monarchical Representation to the Dance Floor, 1500–1918

2 Robyn Dora Radway Elective  Department of History

Spring Term

Course US Credits Instructor

VSP Type

Mand/Elective

Host Unit

UWC5025

Visual/Aural Knowledge Production 

2 Core/Mandatory

UWC 

Visual Studies Platform

HIST 5491 Belonging in the Museum I+II
Khadija Zinnenburg Carroll Elective  Department of History