This advanced seminar studies a range of methodologies and theories that shape the fields of art history and visual studies. Students will engage with significant methodological approaches to art history and visual studies from the sixteenth century to the present, including biography, formalism, iconography, semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism, social art history, theories of cultural techniques, and contemporary curatorial practices. Emphasis will be placed on different methods of analysis and interpretation, the history of the development of the respective fields of art history and visual studies, as well as their interdisciplinary dialogue. This is a required upper-level course for Visual Studies majors and minors. Prerequisite: LVIS 2001 Introduction to Art History and Visual Studies.