Rutgers lists no prerequisites and positions the class as an introduction, but students must learn a new visual vocabulary and apply it to unfamiliar works.

The official page lists weekly discussion, blog work, essays, a museum review, quizzes, and exams, creating steady asynchronous work.

Fourteen online lessons combine vocabulary, images, readings, discussion, and assignments, with each lesson required before the next.

The course includes a museum review and a hands-on or collaborative project component, though it is not a studio production course.

The published grading includes two quizzes, a midterm, and a final, but essays, discussion, and a museum review together carry substantial weight.

The official objectives focus on visual vocabulary, observation, and comparison rather than quantitative reasoning.

Students must learn and use visual-art terms, but the course also evaluates comparison and interpretation.

The course develops formal and interpretive concepts while grounding them in concrete images and artworks.

Rutgers lists no prerequisites or corequisites.

The official page requires written lectures, vocabulary, readings, and image attention before discussion and assignments.