Our Program of Study: Revised Curriculum Beginning Fall 2014!
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Our Program of Study: Curriculum
Beginning Fall 2014
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Critical and Visual Studies is a Bachelor of Arts program for curious and imaginative students who want to pursue
uniquely individualized studies in the liberal arts and sciences
while immersed in Pratt’s environment of creative openness and
intellectual experimentation.
Anchored in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, our program features an innovative curriculum that
provides a broad foundation in the classic and contemporary works of
the social sciences, philosophy, history, critical theory, and visual
studies. Students choose from a generous selection of electives and
concentrations from within the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
and across the Institute in architecture, art history, art and
design, and planning. In the third and Senior years, students enjoy
a variety of electives while focusing on their concentrations,
Minors, and Senior Thesis projects.
At the core of the program is the understanding that
the integration of theory, method, and experience is crucial to
learning and this brings vitality, creativity, and practical
application to intellectual practice. Our students and faculty are
interested in every aspect of social life—from street art to
political systems, from international media to the global economy.
Critical and Visual Studies provides an unique interdisciplinary
framework within which our students explore the social, political,
and artistic meanings of cultural and aesthetic production.
First Level: The first two years of the curriculum will give our students a broad and solid foundation in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, as well as allowing you to begin exploring your own individual interests.
Semester I
The first semester immerses our students into the foundations of the Liberal Arts: critical analysis, history, philosophy, science, and literature. Students share a common experience in the first semester that will establish a unique basis for your studies:
CST.100 First Year Seminar - 3.0 credits
CH.300 World History I - 3.0 credits
PHIL.208 or PHIL.209 History of Philosophy - 3.0 credits
ENGL.101 Introduction to Literary and Critical Studies I - 3.0 credits
MSCI.210 Science and Society - 3.0 credits
CST.190 Beyond Google I: Basic Information Literacy - 1.0 credit
Total Credits 16.0
Semester II
Semester Two completes the introduction to history, critical studies, literature and writing. It allows students the flexibility to choose electives from across the department, the school, and the institute. To ensure a distribution of elective credits, in semesters 2, 3, and 4 students may take no more than 6 non-required credits in any one disciplinary field of Social Science, History, Philosophy, and, Math and Science and no more than 15 credits from any single division at Pratt (i.e. SLAS, Art & Design, and Architecture).
ENGL.103 Introduction to Literary and Critical Studies II - 3.0 credits
CH.400 World History II - 3.0 credits
Open Elective credits 9.0 - 3.0 credits
Total Credits - 15.0
Semester III
In Semester Three, students take the new Symposium course and continue their distribution of electives.
SS.225 Symposium - 3.0 credits
Open Elective - 12.0 credits
Total Credits - 15.0
Semester IV
In semester 4, students participate in the guided advisement of Moderation. They also take their required Theory and Practice course and continue to take electives. “Moderation” provides students with the opportunity to reflect on their studies during semesters 1-3, identify their interests and begin to focus on the concentration that will structure the final two years of their program. Moderation requires students to examine their initial experiences in the program, their goals, and their interests, to evaluate their performance and their commitment to a course of study and to chart their final two years of college with the help of a faculty committee.
Theory and Practice requirement - 3.0
SS.299 Moderation - 2.0
Open Elective credits - 9.0
Total Credits - 14.0
First Level (Years 1 and 2) Total Course Credits: 60
Second Level: In their third and senior years, students are immersed in their guided electives, minors, internships, and their senior project or honors thesis. The project or thesis is undertaken with a committee chosen from and approved by the faculty. With the help of their Moderation advisers, students develop a course of study tailored to their individual interests and faculty expertise.
Semester V
CST.390 Beyond Google II: Thesis and Information Research - 1.0 credit
Guided elective - 9.0 credits
Open elective - 6.0 credits
Total Credits - 16.0
Semester VI
Guided electives - 9.0 credits
Open electives - 6.0 credits
Total Credits - 15.0
Semester VII
Guided elective - 3.0 credits
Open electives - 9.0 credits
CST.440 Senior Seminar - 3.0 credits
Total Credits - 15.0
Semester VIII
You may choice two options, either a 6 credit Senior Thesis or a 3 credit Senior Thesis
CST.480 Thesis/Senior Project* - 3.0 credits
Open Electives - 12.0 credits
OR
CST.480 Thesis/Senior Project* - 6.0 credits
Open Electives - 9.0 credits
Total Credits - 15.0
Second Level (Years 3 and 4) Total Credits 61
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Total Credits for Degree - 121
*Senior projects carry 3 credits while more formal and in depth academic thesis carries 6 credits. If a student undertakes a 3 credit project, then they will take 12 elective credits. If a student undertakes a 6 credit thesis, they will take 9 credits.
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For more information, please visit our official page at:
http://www.pratt.edu/academics/liberal_arts_and_sciences/critical_visual_studies/
BA Program in Critical & Visual Studies
Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies
School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Ave.
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11205
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