PUIL
3300

Topics

Parsons School of Design: School of Art, Media, and Tech

Non-Liberal Arts
Undergraduate Course
Degree Students (with Restrictions)
Topics: Document & Investigate
Spring 2025
Taught By: Ananya Parekh and Lauren Redniss
Section: A

CRN: 2052

Credits: 6

Using research techniques from the fields of science, art, and journalism, students in Topics: Document/Investigate will explore the real world and translate those explorations into a variety of forms, including visual reportage, graphic memoir, illuminated interviews, abstract infographics, interpretive films, and more. We will consider questions around fiction and nonfiction, objectivity, neutrality, positionality, and perspective. In an age of AI, we’ll create work that avoids algorithms and data scraped from the internet and instead draws upon original reporting and primary sources. Students will hone skills of observation, pose questions about hidden-in-plain sight dimensions of the modern world, and develop their own approaches to depicting their findings in works that combine text and image, static and moving pictures. The course is designed to support the development of each student as a unique thinker and creator.

Open to: Bachelors degree in Illustration juniors only, pre-requisite PUIL 3115.

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Art, Media, and Tech (AMT)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Studio (S)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 13

Repeat Limit: N/A

Add/Drop Deadline: February 3, 2025 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 15, 2025 (Tuesday)

Seats Available: Yes

Status: Open*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 8:54pm EST 12/11/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Wednesday, Friday
Times: 9:00am - 11:40am
Building: TBD
Room: TBD
Date Range: 1/22/2025 - 5/9/2025
Topics: Messages & Multiples
Spring 2025
Taught By: Ella Desmond and Lale Westvind
Section: D

CRN: 14433

Credits: 6

This course explores printmaking without relying on access to presses or other large print studio facilities. Students will experiment with a variety of printmaking techniques including monotypes, cyanotypes, lino and woodcuts, and Risograph. Thematically, the course will encourage students to explore ideas of multiplicity and accessibility, affordability, community building, the role of print in protest movements and underground information dissemination. We will look at type and text, as well as coded and symbolic language.

Open to: Bachelors degree in Illustration juniors only, pre-requisite PUIL 3115.

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Art, Media, and Tech (AMT)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Studio (S)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 13

Repeat Limit: N/A

Add/Drop Deadline: February 3, 2025 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 15, 2025 (Tuesday)

Seats Available: Yes

Status: Open*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 8:54pm EST 12/11/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Tuesday, Friday
Times: 4:00pm - 6:40pm
Building: Parsons 2 W 13th
Room: 802
Date Range: 1/21/2025 - 5/9/2025
Topics: Utopia/Dystopia
Spring 2025
Taught By: Katherine Mukai and Hazel Santino
Section: B

CRN: 5232

Credits: 6

This section will be a space for students to explore the aesthetic and political possibilities of utopias and dystopias. It will consider the way in which sci-fi and fantasy are used to comment on contemporary life or to propose alternative ways of living. Issues to discuss include the feminist implications of the cyborg and the play space of digital games, as well as changing visions of dystopia/utopia and how to draw utopian practice into everyday life. Utopian design will be considered (fonts of the Bauhaus), as will the movement of dystopian imagery (the red cloaks from Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale) into contemporary protest.

Open to: Bachelors degree in Illustration juniors only, pre-requisite PUIL 3115.

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Art, Media, and Tech (AMT)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Studio (S)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 13

Repeat Limit: N/A

Add/Drop Deadline: February 3, 2025 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 15, 2025 (Tuesday)

Seats Available: No

Status: Waitlist*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 8:54pm EST 12/11/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Tuesday, Friday
Times: 4:00pm - 6:40pm
Building: TBD
Room: TBD
Date Range: 1/21/2025 - 5/9/2025
Topics: Cute/Kitsch/Horror
Spring 2025
Taught By: Paul Andrejco and Qiaoyi Shi
Section: C

CRN: 8460

Credits: 6

This section will explore the juxtaposition and inter-relation of cute, kitsch, and horror in the service of storytelling through lectures, readings, exercises, and individual projects. It will consider the origins of cute--including cultural, biological, and psychological understandings of cuteness--and look at the history of Kawaii and its increasing global dominance. In contrast, we will also lift the veil to expose “horror,” the shadow of cute, or the underlying tragedy that engenders the vulnerabilities that evoke “cuteness.” Students will be encouraged to think about their visual guilty pleasures and to examine the value of kitsch and its relationship to folk art and may discuss camp and the re-use of aesthetic in non-normative gender roles. We will also look at sentimentality and notions of worth and value associated with particular images. Students should take this section if: They want to explore the origins and contemporary meaning(s) of what is cute or what is absolutely not, they want to make work exploring appeal and the affect of objects or characters.

Open to: Bachelors degree in Illustration juniors only, pre-requisite PUIL 3115.

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Art, Media, and Tech (AMT)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Studio (S)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 13

Repeat Limit: N/A

Add/Drop Deadline: February 3, 2025 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 15, 2025 (Tuesday)

Seats Available: No

Status: Waitlist*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 8:54pm EST 12/11/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Tuesday, Friday
Times: 12:10pm - 2:50pm
Building: TBD
Room: TBD
Date Range: 1/21/2025 - 5/9/2025
Topics: Animated Forms
Spring 2025
Taught By: Amanda Bonaiuto and Carrie Hawks
Section: E

CRN: 14821

Credits: 6

This course explores animation in relation to the natural world and the laws of nature. Students will explore existing environments and interrogate their relationship to light, trash, sound, condensation, deterioration, and nature inside and outside of the body. Students will work with materials that elude finite control and challenge the idea of authorship. Investigation and research will play a vital role in the creation of animated forms. The course welcomes students who consider themselves animators but wish to expand their practice in more experimental directions as well as students who do not focus on animation but would like to develop new perspectives and time-based work.

Open to: Bachelors degree in Illustration juniors only, pre-requisite PUIL 3115.

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Art, Media, and Tech (AMT)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Studio (S)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 13

Repeat Limit: N/A

Add/Drop Deadline: February 3, 2025 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 15, 2025 (Tuesday)

Seats Available: No

Status: Waitlist*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 8:54pm EST 12/11/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Wednesday
Times: 9:00am - 11:40am
Building: TBD
Room: TBD
Date Range: 1/22/2025 - 5/7/2025
Days: Friday
Times: 9:00am - 11:40am
Building: Parsons 2 W 13th
Room: 401
Date Range: 1/24/2025 - 5/9/2025
Topics: Cute/Kitsch/Horror
Spring 2025
Taught By: Esther Kim and Eva Redamonti
Section: F

CRN: 15861

Credits: 6

This section will explore the juxtaposition and inter-relation of cute, kitsch, and horror in the service of storytelling through lectures, readings, exercises, and individual projects. It will consider the origins of cute--including cultural, biological, and psychological understandings of cuteness--and look at the history of Kawaii and its increasing global dominance. In contrast, we will also lift the veil to expose “horror,” the shadow of cute, or the underlying tragedy that engenders the vulnerabilities that evoke “cuteness.” Students will be encouraged to think about their visual guilty pleasures and to examine the value of kitsch and its relationship to folk art and may discuss camp and the re-use of aesthetic in non-normative gender roles. We will also look at sentimentality and notions of worth and value associated with particular images. Students should take this section if: They want to explore the origins and contemporary meaning(s) of what is cute or what is absolutely not, they want to make work exploring appeal and the affect of objects or characters.

Open to: Bachelors degree in Illustration juniors only, pre-requisite PUIL 3115.

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Art, Media, and Tech (AMT)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Studio (S)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 13

Repeat Limit: N/A

Add/Drop Deadline: February 3, 2025 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 15, 2025 (Tuesday)

Seats Available: No

Status: Waitlist*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 8:54pm EST 12/11/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Tuesday, Friday
Times: 9:00am - 11:40am
Building: TBD
Room: TBD
Date Range: 1/22/2025 - 5/9/2025