Title	Instructors	Location	Time	Description	Cross listings	Fulfills	Registration notes	Syllabus	Syllabus URL
VLST 2110-401	Perception	Ansh Soni Callista Dyer Johannes Burge		MW 10:15 AM-11:44 AM	How the individual acquires and is guided by knowledge about objects and events in their environment.	PSYC1340401
VLST 2110-402	Perception	Ansh Soni		R 5:15 PM-6:14 PM	How the individual acquires and is guided by knowledge about objects and events in their environment.	PSYC1340402
VLST 2110-403	Perception	Callista Dyer		R 3:30 PM-4:29 PM	How the individual acquires and is guided by knowledge about objects and events in their environment.	PSYC1340403
VLST 2110-404	Perception	Ansh Soni		F 12:00 PM-12:59 PM	How the individual acquires and is guided by knowledge about objects and events in their environment.	PSYC1340404
VLST 2110-405	Perception	Callista Dyer		F 1:45 PM-2:44 PM	How the individual acquires and is guided by knowledge about objects and events in their environment.	PSYC1340405
VLST 2140-301	Intercultural Dialogue and Perception (SNF Paideia Program Course)	Claudia Elena Tordini		R 1:45 PM-4:44 PM	Students taking this course will emerge with increased confidence to interpret complex issues and manage diverse relationships. This course will offer a safe space for students to exchange cultural and personal points of view as expressed in many forms and to then participate in dialogues that delve into these rich and complex forms of expression. Through experiential learning, students will build awareness of the extent and depth of perception and biases - particularly those related to cultural differences – and build openness and acceptance of others and their perspectives. Students will engage in dialogues to inquire into personal and cultural differences, thereby participating in intercultural communication. Art will be used intensively to create a neutral platform for perceiving cultural differences through careful exploration, verbal description, and an exchange of insights into ways artists express concerns, biases, and world views. The course is experiential and hands-on. It requires personal commitment, an open mind and a desire to grow using new, non-traditional and effective ways of connecting art and intercultural dialogue. It does not require prior knowledge of or experience with art or an artistic or creative personality. As part of the experiential learning, some of the course activities will take place in museums, art galleries and other venues in Philadelphia.
VLST 2340-401	Art of Global Asia	Sonal Khullar		MW 10:15 AM-11:14 AM	This course surveys flows of ideas, images, and objects across, within, and beyond Asia. It considers how the art of Asia is and has been global from antiquity through the present, and introduces 'Asia,' 'globality,' and 'art' as key terms and concepts that shift over time and place. Artistic traditions are presented within broader historical, cultural, social, and economic frameworks, with attention to their local and regional significance. Trade, exchange, and interaction between cultures and groups, including but not limited to artists, pilgrims, merchants, warriors, and rulers, and the transmission of concepts through languages, religions, and philosophies, will be highlighted throughout. We shall address problems of iconophilia and iconoclasm, narrative and temporality, archeology and historiography, ritual and religion, sovereignty and kingship, gender and sexuality, colonialism and nationalism, diasporas and migration as they pertain to the images, objects, and sites of our study. We shall make use of local resources at the Penn Museum and Penn Libraries, as well as other sites, to show how objects retain and inflect these ideas. The course builds out from a central focus on the arts of South Asia or the arts of East Asia, depending upon the specialty of the faculty member teaching the course, with additional faculty offering guest lectures as available. Students with a background in art history, studio art, architecture, history, religion, literature, anthropology, and/or South or East Asian Studies are especially welcome.	ARTH1040401	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis			https://coursesintouch.apps.upenn.edu/cpr/jsp/fast.do?webService=syll&t=202630&c=VLST2340401
VLST 2340-402	Art of Global Asia			F 10:15 AM-11:14 AM	This course surveys flows of ideas, images, and objects across, within, and beyond Asia. It considers how the art of Asia is and has been global from antiquity through the present, and introduces 'Asia,' 'globality,' and 'art' as key terms and concepts that shift over time and place. Artistic traditions are presented within broader historical, cultural, social, and economic frameworks, with attention to their local and regional significance. Trade, exchange, and interaction between cultures and groups, including but not limited to artists, pilgrims, merchants, warriors, and rulers, and the transmission of concepts through languages, religions, and philosophies, will be highlighted throughout. We shall address problems of iconophilia and iconoclasm, narrative and temporality, archeology and historiography, ritual and religion, sovereignty and kingship, gender and sexuality, colonialism and nationalism, diasporas and migration as they pertain to the images, objects, and sites of our study. We shall make use of local resources at the Penn Museum and Penn Libraries, as well as other sites, to show how objects retain and inflect these ideas. The course builds out from a central focus on the arts of South Asia or the arts of East Asia, depending upon the specialty of the faculty member teaching the course, with additional faculty offering guest lectures as available. Students with a background in art history, studio art, architecture, history, religion, literature, anthropology, and/or South or East Asian Studies are especially welcome.	ARTH1040402	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis
VLST 2340-403	Art of Global Asia			F 1:45 PM-2:44 PM	This course surveys flows of ideas, images, and objects across, within, and beyond Asia. It considers how the art of Asia is and has been global from antiquity through the present, and introduces 'Asia,' 'globality,' and 'art' as key terms and concepts that shift over time and place. Artistic traditions are presented within broader historical, cultural, social, and economic frameworks, with attention to their local and regional significance. Trade, exchange, and interaction between cultures and groups, including but not limited to artists, pilgrims, merchants, warriors, and rulers, and the transmission of concepts through languages, religions, and philosophies, will be highlighted throughout. We shall address problems of iconophilia and iconoclasm, narrative and temporality, archeology and historiography, ritual and religion, sovereignty and kingship, gender and sexuality, colonialism and nationalism, diasporas and migration as they pertain to the images, objects, and sites of our study. We shall make use of local resources at the Penn Museum and Penn Libraries, as well as other sites, to show how objects retain and inflect these ideas. The course builds out from a central focus on the arts of South Asia or the arts of East Asia, depending upon the specialty of the faculty member teaching the course, with additional faculty offering guest lectures as available. Students with a background in art history, studio art, architecture, history, religion, literature, anthropology, and/or South or East Asian Studies are especially welcome.	ARTH1040403	Arts & Letters Sector Cross Cultural Analysis
VLST 2380-001	Virtual Reality and Perception	Gregory M. Vershbow		TR 10:15 AM-11:44 AM	An understanding of perception is crucial in creating digital interactive experiences ranging from immersive art to video games and user interfaces. Design solutions in art, video games, and user interfaces can also offer insights into the nature of perception. In this course, we will study ideas and experiments in Visual Perception and how they relate to digital interfaces and experiences, and create our own XR (Extended Reality) projects that explore these ideas. We will produce XR art, games, environments, and interfaces using open-source software (including Blender 3d, Godot Engine, and Three.js). (Students may also use commercial software such as Maya3D and Unreal Engine) These projects will recreate historic perception experiments and optical illusions, build new experiments, and incorporate lessons of perception into original art and design projects. Students will leave this course with an introduction to the study of visual perception and a skillset in 3d Modeling and XR application/game and UX (User Experience) design. Students will also learn to initiate original projects that combine creative and analytical thinking.
VLST 3050-401	What is an Image?			R 10:15 AM-1:14 PM	The course explores various concepts of images. It considers natural images (as in optics), images as artifacts, virtual images, images as representations, and works of art as images. Themes to include: the image controversy in cognitive science, which asks whether some cognitive representations are irreducibly imagistic; the question of whether some images resemble what they represent; the development of the concept of the virtual image and of three-dimensional images; the notions of pictorial representation and non-representational images in art. Readings from C. S. Peirce, Nelson Goodman, Robert Hopkins, Dominic Lopes, W. J. T. Mitchell, John Kulvicki, and Mark Rollins, among others.	ARTH3071401
VLST 3950A-301	Senior Project	Ian F Verstegen		T 3:30 PM-4:59 PM	Permission of Instructor Required.