Visual Studies 101 provides an introduction to a variety of approaches to understanding the nature of seeing, with attention to its physiological, environmental and cultural bases. As part of this introduction, the course will attempt to compare and contrast the way that artists, art historians, philosophers, and scientists consider the same broad set of issues. The course will typically be co-taught by two faculty whose expertise represents two different approaches, and whose lectures will attempt to make explicit connections between different styles of intellectual endeavor. In this sense, the course is a microcosm of the Visual Studies major.