About
About
The Critical Visions Certificate Program is a joint endeavor between faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati. The cross-college curriculum teaches students how to effectively combine critical theory and social analysis with art, media, and design practice and has two primary goals:
Increase students' understanding of what is at stake in how we see, including the social and political ramifications of advertising, art, media, popular culture and science, among other dominant and subversive visual forms and visualizing practices.
Develop new artistic, media or design forms and practices that will intervene in dominant ways of seeing and explaining the world.
Reflections about the Program
Yancey, Elissa. 2016. How the University of Cincinnati's Critical Visions Certificate Came to Be & The Value of Transdisciplinary Learning at the University of Cincinnati, hosted on Soundcloud.
Sadre-Orafai, Stephanie, Jordan Tate, Andrew McGrath, and Sso-Rha Kang. 2018. Critical Visions and the Unsteady In-Between. American Anthropologist 120: 153–162. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12998
Sadre-Orafai, Stephanie, and Jordan Tate. 2025. Fickle Winds: Faculty Maintenance, Labor, and the True Cost of Transdisciplinary Initiatives. Global Insights into Transdisciplinary Higher Education Initiatives, edited by Todd Nicewonger and Catherine Amelink, 124–141. Virginia Tech Publishing. https://doi.org/10.21061/transdisciplinary-education [open access]