The Minor in Visual Cultures is an interdisciplinary programme that equips students with skills to understand, critique, and ethically use visually-driven media and artefacts in contemporary society. Connecting the fields of design, digital technology, communications and new media, architecture, visual arts, aesthetics, and culture, the Minor in Visual Cultures offers a balanced STEM-Humanities curricula. It combines theoretical rigour with practice-based experience and engages both core courses and resonant electives drawn from across the university. Lilian Chee serves as Academic Director of the NUS Museum and Programme Director for the new Minor in Visual Cultures.
With the upcoming launch of the Visual Cultures Minor (VCU) co-developed by the Department of Communications and New Media (CNM) and the NUS Museum, a series of three programmes, workshopped collaboratively amongst the Department of Communications and New Media, NUS Libraries and the NUS Museum is set to take place for prospective students.
Focusing on collections being mobilised in different modes, the programmes feature exhibitions display, suggests ways of categorising and analysing materials for research, and experiential modes of learning such as collections handling and access at the Museum. Collections, therefore, are presented in a plurality of formats for prospective students who wish to apply for the Visual Cultures Minor and the multidisciplinary courses that make the Minor.
