上汽集团的视觉与批判研究文学硕士课程融合了学术，工作室和混合研究实践。它是为希望对外观，视觉图像的产生，流通和影响进行学术性和创造性研究的学生而设计的。芝加哥艺术学院（SAIC）的视觉与批判研究文学硕士（MA）课程旨在为对视觉图像，物体的制作，传播和影响的学术研究和创造性研究感兴趣的学生设计，经验和做法。以视觉为出发点，学生使用多种批判性调查方法来研究视觉现象与其历史，学科和社会环境之间的相互作用。
SAIC's Master of Arts (MA) in Visual and Critical Studies program integrates scholarly, studio, and hybrid research practices. It is designed for students who wish to pursue a scholarly and creative investigation of practices of looking and the production, circulation, and impact of visual images<br>The Master of Arts (MA) in Visual and Critical Studies program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is designed for students interested in the scholarly and creative investigation of the production, dissemination, and impact of visual images, objects, experiences, and practices. With the visual as a starting point, students use multiple methods of critical investigation to study the interactions between visual phenomena and their historical, disciplinary, and social contexts.<br><br>Through immersive research intertwined with studio practice, writing, or both, students explore ways of seeing and representing social, cultural, and visual phenomena. The curriculum balances topic-based seminars, independent work with advisors, and electives to create a singularly interdisciplinary course of study.<br><br>At the heart of the Master of Arts degree in Visual and Critical Studies is a core structure of visual theory surrounded by a flexible curriculum in which students, guided by SAIC faculty advisors, design their own course sequence to match their interests. The Visual and Critical Studies program aims to redefine disciplinary practices, and explores interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and post-disciplinary thinking and making.<br><br>Each year artists, curators, and scholars participate in critiques of MAVCS student work. This opportunity enables students to understand their production in a broader context.<br><br>Depending on students research interests, the final thesis may be a written work of criticism, a creative writing project, a body of work presented in a gallery during the annual student-run exhibition, or a hybrid-platform production. Graduate students also organize an annual symposium to share their research in a professional context.