Program Overview

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Art History (ARTH)

Course Descriptions

ARTH 203. Introduction to Art - AH3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
• Description: Introduction to the visual arts, for non-majors, involving analysis, interpretation, and criticism.

ARTH 250. Ancient Through Medieval Art - AH3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
• Description: Survey of arts and architecture from antiquity to the Middle Ages.

ARTH 270. Renaissance Through Modern Art - AH3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
• Description: Survey of art and architecture from the Renaissance to the present.

ARTH 290. Survey of Asian Art - D2, AH3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
• Description: A survey of the major artistic traditions of Asia, primarily China, India, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia from Neolithic times to the turn of the twentieth century.

ARTH 301. History of Graphic Design3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall Only
• Prerequisite(s): BFA Graphic Design Candidacy or faculty consent.
• Description: Seminar course covering the development of graphic design from 1800 to present. Topics include key movements, technologies, ethics, and general issues relating to design theory and criticism.

ARTH 320. Twentieth-Century Art3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: Survey of international art between 1900 and the present.

ARTH 321. Art Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: Survey of international art between 1900 and 1945.

ARTH 322. Pop Art & Fluxus3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: Pop Art & Fluxus investigates the international, historical, and historiographic components of two artistic movements that developed simultaneously in the late 1950s.

ARTH 325. Art Since 19453 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: Survey of international avant-garde art from 1945 to the present.

ARTH 326. International Trends in Contemporary Art3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: Survey of international developments in contemporary art since 1980.

ARTH 327. Art and Social Justice - AH, D13 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: This course investigates how art and artists participate in social change, with a focus on the United States.

ARTH 331. Chinese Art3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: An introduction to important Chinese artistic works and stylistic changes through history and their relationships with Chinese society, culture and visual traditions.

ARTH 335. Twentieth Century Chinese Artists and Architects - D2, AH, WR3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Spring Only
• Description: This course studies twentieth-century Chinese art and architecture through major artists and architects whose work showcases the rethinking of Chinese culture in the modern era and global context.

ARTH 337. Eastern Asia Landscape Art3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: This course explores the traditions of Chinese and Japanese landscape art and design from its beginning phase around the first century until early 20th century.

ARTH 339. Architecture and Gardens in China and Japan3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: This course provides an overview of the built environment in China and Japan, both traditional and modern.

ARTH 341. African Art: A Survey3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall Only
• Description: Examination of African art from the Paleolithic era to contemporary times.

ARTH 342. Special Topics in Art History - WR3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
• Description: An examination of one or more specific areas of Art History.

ARTH 343. African-American Art to 19203 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
• Description: Relationship between African and African-American art from the slave era through the Harlem Renaissance in its aesthetic, social, cultural, and political contexts.

ARTH 344. African-American Art 1920 to Present3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: Relationship between art of the Harlem Renaissance, Black Art of the 1960's and contemporary art in its aesthetic, social, cultural and political contexts.

ARTH 345. History of Drawing and Prints3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: Survey of history of graphic arts, emphasizing ways of interpreting drawings and prints.

ARTH 347. Historic Interiors for Interior Design3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Spring Only
• Prerequisite(s): BFA Interior Design Candidacy or faculty consent.
• Description: The study of building interiors in relation to design, culture, history, furniture and decorative elements.

ARTH 349. Contemporary Trends in African-American Art - WR3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: A survey of contemporary African-American art since the 1960s into current trends today.

ARTH 351. Greek Art and Architecture3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: Survey of art and architecture of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period.

ARTH 353. Roman Art and Architecture3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: A survey of the art and architecture of Italy and the Roman world from the time of the Etruscans through late antiquity.

ARTH 362. Early Medieval Art and Architecture - WR3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: A survey of the art of western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire through the Carolingian Renaissance (4th-10th c.).

ARTH 363. Late Medieval Art and Architecture - WR3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: A survey of Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture.

ARTH 364. Byzantine Art & Architecture3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: An introduction to the world of the Byzantine Empire (6th-15th c.) through an examination of the art and architecture which attest to the creativity and vibrancy of this period.

ARTH 365. Mexican Art and Architecture3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: A survey of Mexican art from the Conquest (1521) to present.

ARTH 367. Islamic Art and Architecture3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: An introduction to the medieval Islamic world (7th-16th c.) through an examination of the art and architecture which attest to the creative vibrancy of this period.

ARTH 371. Italian Renaissance Art I3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
• Description: Art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

ARTH 372. Italian Renaissance Art II3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: Art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance during the sixteenth century.

ARTH 373. Northern Renaissance Art3 Units

• Description: Art and architecture of Northern Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

ARTH 381. Baroque Art3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, and French painting and sculpture of the seventeenth century.

ARTH 391. Nineteenth-Century Art3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: Principal trends in Western painting and sculpture of the nineteenth century.

ARTH 393. Nineteenth-Century Architecture3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: Major movements and figures in American and European architecture from 1750 to World War I.

ARTH 394. Twentieth-Century Architecture - WR3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: Architecture of the United States and Europe from World War I to the present; primary emphasis on major figures and developments before 1975.

ARTH 395. American Art I - WR3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall Odd Years
• Description: A survey of painting, sculpture, architecture in the American colonies and the United States from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century.

ARTH 396. American Art II - WR3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: A survey of the visual arts in the United States since 1900.

ARTH 397. History of Photography3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall Only
• Description: The aesthetic development of photography, with emphasis on U.S. photographers and contemporary issues relevant to the medium.

ARTH 398. History of Landscape Architecture3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: The garden as form and symbol; a general survey of the history of gardens from ancient to the present time, with major emphasis on Italian, French, and English gardens.

ARTH 440. Cooperative Internship in Art History1-3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
• Prerequisite(s): See the College's requirements for cooperative internships in the undergraduate catalog.
• Description: An individually arranged course combining a work experience with a related academic or creative project.

ARTH 501. Advanced History of Graphic Design3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall Only
• Prerequisite(s): BFA Graphic Design Candidacy or faculty consent.
• Description: Seminar course covering the development of graphic design from 1800 to present.

ARTH 521. Special Topics in Modern Art3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Prerequisite(s): One 300-level course in Modern Art or consent of instructor.
• Description: Reconstruction and interpretations of modern artistic aspirations through study of sources and documents by artists, critics and historians.

ARTH 523. History of Performance Art3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): ARTH 270 and ARTH 325; or permission of instructor; or graduate standing.
• Description: History of Performance Art is designed as an advanced upper-level seminar that investigates the international, historical developments in Performance Art after World War II.

ARTH 524. Installation Art3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): ARTH 270 and ARTH 325; or permission of instructor; or graduate standing.
• Description: An advanced exploratory seminar that investigates a contemporary art form as well as a thorny art-historical problem: the term "installation" now functions both as a loose descriptor for a myriad of contemporary artworks (having supplanted terms such as Assemblage and Environment) independent of medium and context, as well as a general and comprehensive art-historical genre, a circumstance that has its own compelling historical development.

ARTH 525. Representations of Trauma in the Visual Arts3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Prerequisite(s): ARTH 270 and ARTH 325; or permission of instructor.
• Description: This seminar examines the changing relationships between trauma and its representation in the twentieth century.

ARTH 526. Studies in Contemporary Art3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): ARTH 320, or ARTH 321, or ARTH 325 or ARTH 326, or permission of the instructor.
• Description: An advanced-level seminar on special topics in contemporary art.

ARTH 531. Studies in Asian Art3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): One 300-level course in Asian Art, or consent of instructor.
• Description: Selected topics that examine the development of art and architecture in the context of the social and cultural history of China and Japan.

ARTH 541. Theories & Methods in the Visual Arts - WR3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall Only
• Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
• Description: An introduction to various art historical and interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that have shaped the understanding, interpretation, and production of visual art and culture in the nineteenth century to the present.

ARTH 542. Special Topics - WR3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
• Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
• Description: An examination of one or more specific areas of Art History not covered in the regular course offerings.

ARTH 543. Independent Study1-3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): Minimum grade point average of 3.0 overall, and minimum grade point average of 3.5 in the department, and at least 18 semester hours credit in the department, or consent of instructor.
• Description: Topic and content to be determined in consultation with instructor.

ARTH 544. Pan-African Art: Form and Content3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
• Description: Similarities and differences in African-American folk art, Caribbean folk art, and traditional African art.

ARTH 547. Introduction to Critical and Curatorial Studies I3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
• Description: An introduction to curatorial practice of the last 30 years.

ARTH 548. Critical and Curatorial Studies II3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): ARTH 547, or CCS 547, or ARTH 647, or CCS 647, or consent of instructor.
• Description: This seminar is structured as a curatorial practicum.

ARTH 549. Contemporary Trends in African-American Art3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): One 300-level art history course or faculty consent.
• Description: Survey of contemporary African American art since the 1960s into current trends today.

ARTH 550. Art History Undergraduate Capstone Seminar - CUE3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
• Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and BA candidacy; or faculty consent.
• Description: The Art History Program's undergraduate capstone seminar evaluates the ability of our majors to conduct original art historical research, frame their investigations in the form of a scholarly abstract, and present their ideas in a "conference paper" following the conventions appropriate to the discipline.

ARTH 551. Studies in Ancient Art3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): ARTH 351, or ARTH 353, or consent of instructor.
• Description: Selected topics in ancient art and architecture.

ARTH 552. Ancient Painting3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): ARTH 351, or ARTH 353, or consent of instructor.
• Description: A study of mural painting from the ancient cultures of Egypt, the Aegean, Greece and Italy.

ARTH 553. Ancient Cities3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): ARTH 351, or ARTH 353, or consent of instructor.
• Description: A study of the development of the city in the Mediterranean region from prehistoric times to the late Roman Empire.

ARTH 561. Studies in Medieval Art3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): One 300-level course in Medieval art or architecture, or consent of instructor.
• Description: Studies in the art and architecture of the Middle Ages emphasizing a synthesis of the arts in a particular period or place.

ARTH 571. Studies in Renaissance Art3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): One 300-level course in Renaissance art, or consent of instructor.
• Description: Study of a major phase of painting or sculpture, fifteenth or sixteenth century, in Italy or Northern Europe, with emphasis on sources and development of style.

ARTH 574. History of Drawing and Prints3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Prerequisite(s): One 300-level course in Art History, or faculty consent.
• Description: Origin and development of woodcut, engraving, etching, aquatint, lithography, and serigraphy; major artists using these techniques.

ARTH 581. Studies in Baroque Art3 Units

• Prerequisite(s): ARTH 381 or consent of instructor.
• Description: Study of one of the leading artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Bernini, Borromini, Tiepolo, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Rubens, or Watteau.

ARTH 593. Special Topics in Modern Architecture3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Prerequisite(s): One 300-level course in Modern architecture, or consent of instructor.
• Description: Principal forms and theories of urban and building design in relation to social forces in modern Europe and America.

ARTH 595. Special Topics in American Art3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
• Prerequisite(s): One 300-level course in American art or architecture, or consent of instructor.
• Description: Studies in American architecture, city planning, decorative arts, painting, or sculpture, from colonial times to present.

ARTH 597. Special Topics in Photographic History3 Units

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
• Description: The aesthetic development of photography, with emphasis on U.S. photographers and contemporary issues relevant to the medium.