Art History Course Offerings

This course will study introductory topics and themes that are not covered by Art History's other 100-level course. Typical offerings are: Global Objects, Race and Ethnicity in Art, Artistic Rivalries, Decolonizing the Arts.
Credits: 4

This course covers the visual history of monstrous representation from Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century, using targeted readings accompanied by the representations of monsters in the history of art and film.
Credits: 3

African American artists from 1850 through to early 21st century. The work of these artists will be contextualized by connecting each artist and movement in its historical period. The course content includes discussions of the social and political issues of the day including American imperialism, fairs and world expositions, the Works Progress Administration, Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement and more. Connecting art, artists and their histories expands and enhances our understanding of history in art.
Credits: 4

A survey of the history of architecture, painting, and sculpture from the prehistoric through the gothic periods. The course includes an introduction to the process of art historical analysis.
Credits: 4

A survey of visual culture with the emphasis on the history of architecture, painting, and sculpture from the Renaissance through the Rococo Period. Looking at the early modern period and the start of modernity the course explores how colonial expansion informed art production on the European, Asian and North and South American continents. The course includes an introduction to the process of art historical analysis.
Credits: 4

A survey of visual culture with the emphasis on the history of architecture, painting, and sculpture from Neo-Classism to Contemporary Period worldwide. The course looks how the ideas of Enlightenment informed the production and exchange of visual culture. The course includes the Western tradition, Asian and European artistic, African and Latin American art production of the 19th and 20th centuries. We will talk about Global modernisms and further pluralist arts of the 20th and 21st century.
Credits: 4

Visual Culture studies the construction of the visual in art, media, technology and everyday life. Students learn the tools of visual analysis; investigate how visual depictions such as YouTube and advertising structures convey ideologies; and study the institutional, economic, political, and social and market factors in the making of contemporary visual culture.
Credits: 4

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Credits: 0-4

Credits: 1-12

This course is intended to be an introduction to the development of art within a religious context. The material covered will trace religious thought from the Greco-Roman world to the end of the Romanesque stage of art in Western Europe. The course will cover, Greece (Archaic to Hellenistic), Rome (through the Roman conquest of Jerusalem), the emergence of Christianity and its conflicts with Rome, the development of the Byzantine world, the development of Islam and the conflicts, the increase of migrations from Scandinavia and the Germanic areas, Celtic culture and the history of the Crusades. Offered on a two-year rotation
Credits: 3

This course surveys Western European art in Italy, Spain, France, Germany and the Netherlands from the beginning of the Renaissance at the papal Court in Avignon to its fruition in Fifteenth Century Florentine humanism. Connections between art and the changing role of the family, the development of nation-states, the increased importance and power of women in society and the new educational curriculum will be explored.
Credits: 4

This course studies the lives of works of art in times of war as they are traded, lost, destroyed, altered and given new significance. Global, political events that have affected the works of art in Greece, Africa, China, India, the Middle East, and Western Europe are included for study in the course.
Credits: 3

This course will study topics and themes that are not covered by Art History's other courses. Typical offerings are: Exhibiting Communities, Art of Asia, Soviet Union in Still and Moving Image, Art in Film.
Credits: 4

A study of how artists responded to social, cultural, and religious upheavals that led to the industrial revolution and the development of the modern city. Movements include: neo-classicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism and post-impressionism, with special attention to the rise of new media like photography, new techniques like painting outdoors directly from nature, and the increasing presence of women artists.
Credits: 4

A historical survey of the art and architecture of the United States from the Colonial period to the present.
Credits: 4

This course covers the art of Latin American from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century and Latino Art in the United States. Course discussion will focus on social issues of politics, religion, gender, ethnicity, race and issues of connected to the creation of artistic centers in the Americas. Prerequisites: ARTH 172 or ARTH 173. Not offered on a regular basis
Credits: 3

The study of artistic responses to modernism's utopian visions and the devastation of two world wars. Major art movements include: Primitivism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, the Bauhaus and Abstract Expressionism; artists include: Matisse, Picasso, Duchamp, Dali, Magritte, Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Pollock.
Credits: 4

Credits: 1-6

Credits: 1-12

A survey of the age of the High Renaissance of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Giorgione and Durer, which gave way to the Mannerism of Pontormo, Bronzino, Rosso, el Greco and the School of Fontainebleau. Emphasis will be placed on artistic issues concerning technique, style, artistic originality and invention, theory and the role of the artist in society.
Credits: 4

Spanning most of the twentieth century and the early part of the twenty first we will examine cultural and transcultural exchanges that played pivotal role in formation of modern and contemporary art. We will use various methodologies including post-colonial and feminist to understand how the mechanism of power and colonialism had influenced production and consumption of art. We will concentrate on the most recent processes brought to the forefront by globalization such as international Biennale especially those taking place in Asia, proliferation of the contemporary art museums, and influence of globalization on the art market.
Credits: 4

This course is intended to acquaint students with museum practices and theory, approaches to scholarly research, business and curatorial practices, connected professional organizations and national and international issues faced by museums. Aspects of display design, museum education, transport of work, as well as study of different types of museums is included in the course content.
Credits: 4

Credits: 0-6

This is a year-long independent study project, of which Part I is a Directed Study (ARTH 399), with ARTH 393 being Part II towards completion of the Senior Thesis. This year-long project is optional and is reserved for advanced students and is not necessary for the fulfillment of the requirements of the Major. Offered by individual arrangement.
Credits: 3-6

Credits: 1-6

An opportunity for motivated students to conduct independent research in an area of interest while working with a faculty member on an individual basis. (1 to 3 semester hours). Prerequisites: Enrollment by advisement and by written permission of instructor and department chairperson. Offered by individual arrangement
Credits: 1-6

This course will study an artist or artists or major issues in the history of art. Typical offerings are Michelangelo, Picasso and Matisse, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and Women and Art.
Credits: 4

This course covers selected special topics in the art of Latin America from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century and Latino Art in the United States. Course discussion will focus on social issues of politics, religion, gender, ethnicity, race and issues of connected to the creation of artistic centers in the Americas.
Credits: 4

This course will look at gender as a process of creation of images and image making in the history of western art from antiquity to the present, emphasizing modern and contemporary art The course will examine the works and lives of artists from a gender and/or transgender perspective and the social conditions that have affected the definition and manifestation of gender and its role in creativity and in the careers of individual artists. In addition, the course will explore the challenges that the gender issues have posed to subject matter and content for works of western art. In so doing, the methodologies of art history will be employed.
Credits: 4

This course is intended to acquaint students with museum practices and theory, approaches to scholarly research, business and curatorial practices, connected professional organizations and national and international issues faced by museums. Aspects of display design, museum education, transport of work, as well as study of different types of museums is included in the course content.
Credits: 4

A seminar on the art of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. The Baroque was an era of artistic diversity and religious change that ushered in the Modern Era. Here, Baroque art will be explored within the societal and religious controversies that gave it aesthetic and ideological purpose.
Credits: 4

A study of the history of art history as a discipline and an analysis of diverse art, historical methodologies and theories. Intensive reading and writing, with stress on research skills, writing techniques, oral presentations and class discussion. Graduate school and career options will be explored.
Credits: 4

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Credits: 1-6

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Credits: 0-6