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The
following course is taught every
semester
ARH
106 ART HISTORY SURVEY
3 hours 3 credits
A survey of representative works
of art from prehistoric times to
the present.
The
following courses are taught in
a one-, two-, or three-year rotation.
ARH
104 ASIAN ART
3 hours 3 credits
A survey of the arts of India, China,
and Japan presented in their historical
and cultural context.
ARH
107 THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTIST
3 hours 3 credits
An introduction to African-American
achievements in the visual arts,
especially painting, from Colonial
times to the present.
ARH
108 HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
3 hours 3 credits
A history of the development of photography as an art from its invention in
1839 to the present.
ARH
109 THE HISTORY OF PRINTS
3 hours 3 credits
A history of the printmaking media
from the invention of paper in second
century, A.D., China to the printmaking
renaissance of contemporary America.
ARH 106 suggested
ARH
110 INTRODUCTION TO MUSEUM STUDIES
3 hours 3 credits
An introduction to the aims and
methods of museums and curators
with special emphasis upon study
from original works, connoisseurship,
and exposure to practical training.
ARH 106 suggested.
ARH
114 THE HISTORY OF WOMEN'S ART
3 hours 3 credits
An introduction to art by women
as seen against a background of
shifting social status and mainstream
artistic currents.
ARH
118 AFRICAN ART
3 hours 3 credits
A survey of the arts of sub-Saharan
Africa presented with an emphasis
on social and religious context.
ARH
200 ART OF THE ANCIENT CLASSICAL
WORLD (CRETE, GREECE, AND ROME)
3 hours 3 credits
An introduction to ancient art from
Cycladic figures in the Aegean to
the Parthenon in Athens; from the
frescoes of Pompeii to Christian
basilicas and the fall of Rome.
ARH
204 MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE
3 hours 3 credits
Christian, Jewish, and Islamic art
in Europe and Byzantium; from the
fall of the Jerusalem Temple in
the first century to the flourishing
of Gothic cathedrals in the fourteenth
century. ARH 106 suggested
ARH
205 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART
3 hours 3 credits
A sociocultural study of painting,
sculpture, and architecture in Florence,
Rome, and Venice from 1400-1600.
ARH 106 suggested.
ARH
207 AMERICAN ART
3 hours 3 credits
An introduction to American painting,
sculpture and architecture from
Colonial times to the present.
ARH 106 suggested.
ARH
209 MODERN ART
3 hours 3 credits
An introduction to the various movements
and trends in painting, architecture,
and sculpture from the end of the
nineteenth century to the present.
ARH 106 suggested.
ARH
211 THE ARTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA
3 hours 3 credits
A study of the varied artistic achievements
of Southeast Asian countries from
earliest times to the present. The
arts of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia,
Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam will
be examined in relation to their
historical and cultural context.
ARH
214 PROTO-RENAISSANCE ART IN ITALY
3 hours 3 credits
The painting, sculpture, and architecture
in the North Italian city states
and Rome from circa 1200 to 1400.
ARH
301 DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICAN
ARCHITECTURE
3 hours 3 credits
A study of North American architecture
and the cultural context in which
it was produced from the seventeenth
century to the present. Prerequisite:
ARH 106 or permission of instructor.
ARH
302 NINETEENTH CENTURY EUROPEAN
ART
3 hours 3 credits
An exploration of major movements
in European art from the French
Revolution to 1900. Prerequisite:
ARH 106.
ARH
303 CONTEMPORARY ART AND IDEAS
3 hours 3 credits
Advanced study of a topic in modern
art and the art critical methods
used to interpret it. To keep abreast
of contemporary art developments,
the specific focus of the course
will change from year to year. Prerequisite:
ARH 106 or permission of instructor.
ARH
304 AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN ART SINCE
1945
3 hours 3 credits
This course will introduce major
trends in art post-World War II.
A variety of media will be addressed
- including not only the traditional
visual arts, but mixed genre, performance
art, and conceptual art - and focus
will include European as well as
American phenomena. Social and cultural
context for works of art and the
shifts in style will be emphasized.
Prerequisite: ARH 106 or
209
ARH
306 BAROQUE AND ROCOCO ART
3 hours 3 credits
The painting, sculpture, and architecture of seventeenth and eighteenth century
Europe set in the context of patterns of patronage. ARH 106 suggested.
ARH
310 DIRECTED STUDIO
3 hours 3 credits
Intensive focus on an issue within a particular medium through examination of
works of art, followed by group or individual fabrication of a relevant object. Prerequisite:
Visual Design I or II, ARH 106, or permission of instructor.
ARH
425 INDEPENDENT STUDY I
3 hours 3 credits
By consent of chairperson only.
ARH
426 INDEPENDENT STUDY II
3 hours 3 credits
By consent of chairperson only.
ARH
470 SPECIAL TOPICS IN ART HISTORY
3 hours 3 credits
A close study of selected topics and issues in the history of art taught in seminar
format. Seminar topics have included: Picasso; Sacred Space in Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam; Arts and Crafts Movement; Pleasures of Asia; The Gothic Cathedral;
Impressionism; Women Artists in the Twentieth Century; Jewish Art and Architecture;
Abstract Expressionism; American Architecture; The Apocalypse in Art; Roman Art;
and Portraiture. Prerequisite: ARH 106 or any 200 level course.
ARH
490 INDEPENDENT STUDY I
3 hours 3 credits
By consent of chairperson only.
ARH
498 PRINCIPLES OF RESEARCH
3 hours 3 credits
Required of senior art history majors. Students learn the bibliographical resources
and critical methodologies of the art historian in readings and seminar discussions,
and write a thesis. Senior art history majors. Prerequisite: ARH 106 or
209.
The
following courses are taught intermittently
ARH
103 TRIBAL AND VILLAGE ART
3 hours 3 credits
A survey of the arts of Africa,
Oceania, North and South America,
including works of the Eskimos,
American Indians, and South Sea
Islanders.
ARH
115 MESOAMERICAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN
ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
3 hours 3 credits
A survey of the art, architecture,
and archeology of ancient Mesoamerica
and South America
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