BA in Anthropology in Visual Anthropology

The Visual Anthropology curriculum emphasizes a well-rounded liberal arts background and a comparative understanding of the world's varied systems of visual representation and other forms of media communication. The Visual Anthropology curriculum allows students to combine cultural anthropology with the study and practice of visual communication, media production, circulation, and reception. Courses in the Visual Anthropology curriculum combine topics and methods familiar to the social sciences, humanities, and media arts. It is well suited to those students interested in popular culture as well as the fine arts.