Black Visual Cultures

The Black Visual Cultures (BVC) minor at City Tech helps students develop knowledge about Black visual cultures from Africa, the United States, and the Caribbean from a range of perspectives presented in courses that reflect the interdisciplinary and research-based nature of AFR including art history, the history of photography, and media studies. The minor is easy to pursue, as it is available to all students in any academic major with 12 or more open credits in the General Education Flexible Common Core and College Option. Students can declare and begin working on the BVC minor courses, at the earliest, during their second semester of enrollment at City Tech.  Graduates from our program are well prepared to continue their education by pursuing advanced degrees and/or enter the workforce with robust writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills.

Learning Outcomes:

Students will:

• Develop knowledge about black visual cultures from Africa, the United States, and the Caribbean from a range of perspectives presented in courses that reflect the interdisciplinary and research-based nature of AFR including art history, the history of photography, and media studies.

• Utilize skills in analysis in order to derive meaning from existing scholarship, research, place-based learning, one’s own experience, and other kinds of gathered knowledge about Black visual culture in order to gain awareness of how history, society, class, and race intersect with knowledge from different contexts.

• Integrate different kinds of visual and textual literacies by gathering, evaluating, and applying information, theories, and concepts discerned from a variety of sources. Demonstrate the ability to connect scholarly inquiry about Black visual cultures to professional contexts.

Progression and Graduation Requirements

• All courses must be completed with a grade of C or higher.

Advisement Information

If you’re interested in declaring and earning an academic minor in Black Visual Cultures, please consult the Academic Minors page for more information about minors and to download the appropriate forms. The coordinator for this academic minor is Professor Debarati Biswas.