ARTH - Art: Art History

ARTH 200IA  Art of World Civilization I: 4 Credits (3 Lec, 1 Other)

(F) This course examines a richly diverse set of cultural case studies drawn from Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Mediterranean across an expansive timeline that begins with prehistoric art and ends with the Medieval period. The course focuses on an understanding of art as the nonverbal expression of universal cultural concepts.

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1. Demonstrate proficient knowledge of significant art and architectural developments through clearly written essays, class presentations and completed exams
2. Identify, discuss, compare and contrast art/architecture from the major cultural traditions covered
3. Analyze, evaluate and interpret artistic styles and cultural values projected through art and architecture using art historical language and methodologies

ARTH 201IA  Art of World Civilization II: 4 Credits (3 Lec, 1 Other)

(Sp) This course examines diverse works of art and architecture drawn from Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas incorporating the latest research and methodologies beginning with Renaissance and ending with 20th century art worldwide.

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1. Demonstrate proficient knowledge of significant art and architectural developments through clearly written essays, class presentations and completed exams
2. Identify, discuss, compare and contrast art/architecture from the major cultural traditions covered
3. Analyze, evaluate and interpret artistic styles and cultural values projected through art and architecture using art historical language and methodologies

ARTH 290R  Undergraduate Research: 1-6 Credits (1-6 Other)

() As needed, rarely if ever offered. Directed undergraduate research which may culminate in a written work or other creative project. Course will address responsible conduct of research.
Repeatable up to 6 credits.

ARTH 291  Special Topics: 1-4 Credits ()

ARTH 302  Survey of Ancient Art: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) No prerequisites for non majors. This course is a thematic survey that examines the art and architecture of ancient civilizations belonging to the kingdoms of the Hellenistic Age. The emphasis is on how the era was shaped by a dynamic fluidity of ideas and people as Greek culture spread, through contact and exchange, from the Eastern Mediterranean to Asia

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1. Communicate a synchronic knowledge of the contextual underpinning of culturally diverse group of civilizations, including the Greek, Romans, and Egyptians in period under examination in terms of the social, political and religious history shaping the material culture produced by each of these societies;
2. Assess and explain structuralist and post-structural art historical methodologies as determined by the subject under examination, with a particular emphasis on theories related to diffusion, colonial and post-colonial studies;
3. Examine, analyze, and investigate subject matter utilizing comparative cultural studies and formal analysis;
4. Produce academic-appropriate writing on all levels, including grammar, syntax, vocabulary and analytical content, in long-format essays (exams) and short papers.

ARTH 310  Art and Architecture of Ancient Mesoamerica: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

(Su) A comparative survey that will examine the art and architecture of selected cultures of Mesoamerica, Central America and South America, commonly grouped under the designation of New World civilizations. The material presented will focus on the Aztecs and Maya of Mesoamerica (southern Mexico and northern Central America) and the Incas of Central Andes of South America.

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1. Demonstrate a diachronic knowledge of the material culture (paintings, architecture, epigraphy, textiles, ceramics, metalwork and urban planning) of the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inka civilizations with a concentration on the period between 1500 BCE and l 000 CE;
2. Demonstrate a synchronic knowledge of the contextual underpinning of these civilizations, i.e. the social, political and religious history shaping the material culture produced by each of these societies;
3. Assess and explain structuralist and post-structural art historical methodologies as determined by the subject under examination, with a particular emphasis on theories related to diffusion, colonial, and post-colonial studies;
4. Examine, analyze, and investigate subject matter utilizing comparative cultural studies and formal analysis;
5. Produce academic-appropriate writing on all levels, including grammar, syntax, vocabulary and analytical content, in long-format essays (exams) and short papers.

ARTH 312  History of Decorative Arts: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) Offered as needed based on student demand. This course introduces students to the history of material objects and their built environments in Western Europe and the United States from the early 17th century through the early 20th century. The first half of the course covers material and techniques prevalent in the early modern era; the second half engages with debates on the impact of manufacture and machine processes

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1. Identify early modern and modern decorative art forms, styles, and themes.
2. Analyze materials, labor, and/or machinery involved in the creation of fashionable furnishings and interiors for the consumer.
3. Identify essential relationships between behavior and environment, consumption and identity, machinery and commerce, necessary for navigating our rapidly expanding and diversified consumer culture.

ARTH 323  History of Printmaking: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) This course examines the history of printmaking in Western Europe and the United Stated Offered as needed based on student demand. From the early fifteenth to the early twentieth century. Prints are examined as vehicles for reproduction, political protest and social change

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1. Identify early modern and modern print media, subjects, styles, and themes.
2. Analyze prints as efficient vehicles for communicating about important issues of religious, political, social, and economic change to the masses.
3. Critique the ways in which art historians go about gathering evidence and forming an argument and apply these approaches in your own original essay.

ARTH 342  Modern Art: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 201IA. () Offered as needed based on student demand. This lecture course examines the defining moments in the development of European and American art of the modern era, from the 1730s through to 1940. The course includes Fauvism and Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, the School of Paris, Dada and Surrealism, the Russian avant-garde, modernist trends in America. Painting, sculpture, photography, and the functional arts are discussed

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1. Identify the various styles, content, media, and contexts for the visual arts from the late 18th century through early 20th century.
2. Identify major artistic movements, important artists, patrons, schools, and techniques.
3. Describe how contemporary works of art relate to and reflect the political, social, religious, and economic trends of today.
4. Analyze and compare a variety of historical interpretations of works of modern art

ARTH 343  Modern Art in Italy: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA and ARTH 201IA. (Sp) ARTH 343 will use the resources of Italy’s modern and contemporary art museums supplemented by classroom lectures to offer an overview of the major movements of Modern art in Italy. Through the lectures and through their assignments, students in this course will examine in-depth the specific historical and political context of Italian art in the Modern era, mid-18th c. to the present

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1. Identify and describe key movements in the art history of Modern Italy.
2. Apply basic tenants of "social art history" including political and institution-based analyses of images and texts made in Modern Italy.
3. Analyze objects of fine art uses disciplinary standards of visual and historical analysis, especially w/r/to the relationship between Ancient and Modern Italian art.
4. Develop an accurate timeline based on a thematic concern, identified by the student, that runs throughout the history of Modern Italian Art from the Renaissance to the present.
5. Compare modern and contemporary uses of the classical past with one another and with original classical precedents.

ARTH 360  History of Asian Art and Architecture: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) Offered as needed based on student demand. This course offers students a broad exposure to art and architecture produced mainly in China, but also in India, Korea, and Japan from the Neolithic times through the modern era (ca. 4500 BCE. to 1912 C.E.). The course includes the formation of civilizations, the spread of Buddhism, painterly and printmaking traditions and current cultural issues

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1. Identify materials, subjects, styles, and concepts displayed in art galleries and museums or reproduced in books and on the Internet.
2. Analyze the relationship between art and religion or philosophy.
3. Evaluate the formal and conceptual approaches of Chinese artists in relation to Indian, Korean, and Japanese artists.

ARTH 375  Roman, Etruscan, Greek Art in Italy: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA for majors. (Sp) Offered as needed based on student demand. No prerequisites for non majors. This course is a thematic survey of art and architecture on the Italic Peninsula between 600BCE and 100BCE with a focus on intercultural traffic and the dynamic exchange of ideas among three groups: the Greeks, the Etruscans, and the Romans

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1. Demonstrate knowledge of the technical vocabulary and art historical terminology as it relates to the production and reception of Roman fresco and mosaic.
2. Analyze primary historical sources in the context of ancient Roman domestic decorative systems in terms of fabrication, function, and value.
3. Communicate how fresco and mosaic decoration in public and religious spaces functioned in terms of context and reception in the period of their creation.
4. Produce academic-appropriate writing on all levels, including grammar, syntax, vocabulary and analytical content, in long-format essays (exams) and short papers, and papers written for class presentation on-site.

ARTH 391  Special Topics: 1-4 Credits (1-4 Other)

Offered as needed based on student demand.
Repeatable up to 12 credits.

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1. Special Topics: Student learning outcomes vary.

ARTH 400  Art and Architecture of Egypt: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA for majors. No prerequisites for non majors. This lecture-based course is an exploration of the art and architecture of ancient Egypt from the Neolithic period (5000-3100 B.C.E.) to the era of Roman rule in the first through fifth centuries CE. Due to the nature of the surviving material, the emphasis will be on the ideas and attitudes about the relationship between humans and divinities, the cult of the ruler/king, and funerary cult and the afterlife

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1. Demonstrate proficient knowledge of Art & Architecture of Egypt's historical issues through a final written thesis.
2. Intelligently discuss art and architecture from the major Egyptian traditions and the cultures that produced them
3. Analyze the stylistic characteristics of Art Architecture of Egypt using appropriate terminology
4. Analyze the social, political, historical and religious contexts of the Art Architecture of Egypt

ARTH 402  Greek Art and Architecture: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) Offered as needed based on student demand. No prerequisites for non majors. This lecture-based course examines the art and architecture of ancient Greece civilization including the Aegean Bronze Age antecedents of Hellenic art belonging to Cycladic and Minoan cultures beginning in 3000 BCE, the earliest recognizable origins in the late Bronze Age of Mycenaean Greece, and concluding with the wide-spread dissemination of Greek material culture after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE

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1. Identify features of Greek art and literature that have influenced western culture in general and continue to influence contemporary art and literature;
2. Communicate a synchronic knowledge of the contextual underpinning of culturally diverse group of civilizations, including the Aegean Bronze Age, the Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic and Classical periods of ancient Greece in terms of the social, political and religious history shaping the material culture produced by each of these societies;
3. Examine, analyze, and investigate subject matter utilizing comparative cultural studies and formal analysis;
4. Produce academic-appropriate writing on all levels, including grammar, syntax, vocabulary and analytical content, in long-format essays (exams) and short papers.

ARTH 406  Roman Art and Architecture: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) Offered as needed based on student demand. No prerequisites for non majors. This lecture-based course looks at the public and private art and architecture of ancient Rome. The study encompasses the Etruscan and Republican foundations-cultural, political and artistic-of Rome and then moves on to the period when emperors ruled and the borders of the empire at its height ranged from Britain to North Africa. The course is arranged as a chronological survey moving from the earliest archaeological evidence of settlement on the hills of Rome in the 10 century BCE to the reign of the emperor Constantine in the fourth century CE

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1. Communicate a synchronic knowledge of the contextual underpinning of Roman culture from the Iron Age to the Imperial periods, i.e. the social, political and religious history shaping the material culture produced by each of these societies;
2. Assess and explain structuralist and post-structural art historical methodologies as determined by the subject with Roman art and architecture under examination, with a particular emphasis on theories related to diffusion, colonial and post-colonial studies;
3. Examine, analyze, and investigate Roman art and architecture utilizing comparative cultural studies with contemporary ancient Mediterranean cultures.
4. Produce academic-appropriate writing on all levels, including grammar, syntax, vocabulary and analytical content, in long-format essays (exams) and short papers.

ARTH 410  Medieval Art: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) Offered as needed based on student demand. No prerequisites for non majors. This lecture-based course examines the art and architecture of western Europe between 500-1500, a period rich with contact and exchange among cultures including Roman, Insular, and Viking. Art historical periods include the Late Antique, Romanesque, and Gothic, across the timeline there will be an exploration of the diverse range of material culture contained under the term “medieval.”

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1. Communicate a synchronic knowledge of the contextual underpinning of culturally diverse group of civilizations, including the Romans of Late Antiquity, the Islamic Caliphates of Spain, and the Anglo-Saxons and Normans of the British Isles in terms of the social, political and religious history shaping the material culture produced by each of these societies;
2. Assess and explain structuralist and post-structural art historical methodologies as determined by the subject under examination, with a particular emphasis on theories related to diffusion, colonial and post-colonial studies;\\n\\n
3. Examine, analyze, and investigate subject matter utilizing comparative cultural studies and formal analysis;
4. Produce academic-appropriate writing on all levels, including grammar, syntax, vocabulary and analytical content, in long-format essays (exams) and short papers.\\n\\n

ARTH 422  Early Renaissance to 15th Century Art: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 201IA. () Offered as needed based on student demand. A study of painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy in the 15th century. Major artists include Donatello, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca and Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Giorgione

ARTH 424  High Renaissance and Mannerism: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 201IA. () Offered as needed based on student demand. This course is a study of the high renaissance in Rome, Florence and Venice, and the reactions to this in the style of mannerism. Major artists include Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Pontormo and Titian

ARTH 426  Baroque Art in Italy and Southern Europe, 1600-1700: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) Offered as needed based on student demand. This lecture based course provides a history of painting, sculpture, and architecture produced in Italian states and Southern Europe during the 17th century. Emphasis is placed on major artists and stylistic trends as well as the various social, political and religious contexts for viewing art. Artists include Carracci, Caravaggio, Velazquez, Rubens and Lebrun and styles include classicism and naturalism

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1. Identify seventeenth-century materials, subjects, styles and themes displayed in art galleries and museums or reproduced in books and on the Internet.
2. Analyze the relationship between art and politics and the roles of patrons and artists as disseminators of political, social, and religious ideology.
3. Evaluate the formal and conceptual approaches of Italian artists in relation to those of Spanish, Flemish, and French artists.
4. Analyze and critique the ways art historians go about gathering evidence, formulating an argument, and presenting it in a convincing way.

ARTH 427  Baroque Art in the Netherlands: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) Offered as needed based on student demand. This course offers students a history of painting in the Republic of the Netherlands and its colonies, the East and West Indies, between 1585 and 1700. Emphasis is placed on major artists like Vermeer and Rembrandt as well as the economic, social, political and religious contexts for viewing art

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1. Identify Dutch painting styles, subjects, and themes displayed in galleries and museums or reproduced in books or on the Internet
2. Analyze the relationship between art making and data gathering in early modern Europe
3. Evaluate the formal and conceptual approaches of Dutch artists in relation to the socio-political standing of old aristocrats, new merchants, and colonial subjects.
4. Analyze and critique the ways in which art historians go about assembling data and formulating an argument.

ARTH 430  19th Century Art: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) Offered as needed, based on student demand. This course examines painting produced in France and its “cultural satellites” Britain, Spain, and the German States throughout the 1800s, with a specific concern for the dialectic between art making and the modern world. It will explore all the major stylistic trends - Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism - and artists who shaped public consciousness of the momentous changes around them

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1. Identify nineteenth-century painting styles, subjects, and themes displayed in art galleries and museums or reproduced in books and on the Internet.
2. Analyze the relationship between art and politics and the roles of European artists as agents of political, social, and religious validation and resistance.
3. Evaluate the formal and conceptual approaches of French artists in relation to those of British, Spanish, and German artists, of academic artists in relation to avant-garde artists.
4. Analyze and critique the ways in which art historians go about gathering evidence in the field and constructing an argument in writing.

ARTH 432  Art in the Age of Revolution: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation ) Offered as needed based on student demand. This course examines painting and sculpture produced in France, Britain, and the United States in the second half of the eighteenth century, with a general concern for the emerging dialectic between art making and industrial and political revolt around the key dates of 1776, 1780, and 1789. Major art styles include the Rococo, the Cult of Sensibility, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism

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1. Identify eighteenth-century subjects, styles, and themes displayed in galleries and museums or reproduced in books and on the Internet
2. Analyze the formal and conceptual approaches of French artists in relation to those of British and American artists
3. Articulate connections between art and politics, society, and religion during a time of revolution.
4. Critique the ways in which art historians go about gathering evidence and forming an argument and apply these approaches in their own original essay.

ARTH 435  Art of the United States: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) Offered as needed based on student demand. This course will examine U.S. painting, sculpture and architecture from the time of Europe settlement to 1918 with emphasis on cross-cultural encounters

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1. analyze major movements and significant producers of American Art from 1600-1918.
2. apply basic tenants of "new art history" including race-, gender- and class-based analyses of images and texts.
3. demonstrate historical writing skills.
4. apply basic visual and historical analysis to objects of fine art as well as objects that belong to the larger realm of "material culture," including decorative and functional objects.

ARTH 441  Art Now: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) Offered as needed based on student demand. Art Now is designed as a discussion-based course surveying the most recent trends in contemporary art, focusing in particular on developments that have occurred within the art world of the last fifteen years

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1. Demonstrate historical writing skills.
2. Distinguish between multiple strands of artistic practice since 1995, as well as new developments in the logistical and ideological structure of the art world.
3. Analyze major movements and significant producers of global art from 1993-present

ARTH 451  Contemporary Art: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) Offered as needed based on student demand. This course will focus on issues in contemporary painting, sculpture, and related radical art forms. Students are responsible for discussions of assigned readings and presentations of research projects

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1. Explain the key theories and historical context of contemporary art.
2. Present multiple interpretations of artworks.
3. Apply knowledge of contemporary art to write a critical analysis of a particular piece of art.
4. Identify, analyze, and discuss key artists and concepts associated with contemporary art practice in both written and verbal form
5. Analyze works of art applying multiple interpretations from art critics and historians.

ARTH 460  Contemporary Art & Ecology: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA, ARTH 201IA for majors only. (Rotation) Offered as needed based on student demand. This discussion course will examine the themes and movements in ecological art since 1945. Its primary focus will be on the historiography of land art, and the relationship between nature and technology. Students are responsible for discussions of assigned readings, quizzes and field study

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1. Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the scientific, political, and cultural contexts in which works of ecological art were made.
2. Students will apply several bodies of theory pertaining to notions of "nature," "system," and "ecology" to contemporary works of ecological art.
3. Students will be able to distinguish between multiple strands of ecological practice since 1945, including but not limited to systems aesthetics, post- humanist art and site-specific earthworks.

ARTH 461  Art and Social Activism: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA or ARTH 201IA. () Offered as needed based on student demand. This seminar will sketch a history of alternative art practices and spaces since the 1960's. It will address the redefinition of public art

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1. Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the scientific, political, and cultural contexts in which works of public art were made.
2. Students will apply several bodies of theory pertaining to notions of a "public" and "public service" to contemporary works of activist public art.
3. Students will be able to distinguish between multiple strands of activist practice since 1945,including but not limited to public sculpture, new genre public art and relational aesthetics.

ARTH 491  Special Topics: 1-4 Credits (1-4 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: Course prerequisites as determined for each offering. Offered as needed based on student demand. Courses not required in any curriculum for which there is a particular one-time need, or given on a trial basis to determine acceptability and demand before requesting a regular course number
Repeatable up to 12 credits.

ARTH 492  Independent Study: 1-3 Credits (1-3 Other)

PREREQUISITE: Junior standing, consent of instructor, and approval of the director. (F, Sp) Directed research and study on an individual basis
Repeatable up to 6 credits.

ARTH 494  Seminar: 1 Credits (1 Other)

() Offered as needed, very rarely. Topics offered at the upper division level which are not covered in regular courses. Students participate in preparing and presenting discussion material.
Repeatable up to 4 credits.

ARTH 495  Field Study: 2-5 Credits (2-5 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTZ 109RA, ARTZ 110RA or ARTH 201IA, or consent of instructor. (F, Sp, Su) Offered as part of study abroad course. Course will allow students to study at an off-campus location such as a foreign country under the direction of art faculty member. Includes preparatory meetings, several hours per day of discussion on site, and writing or creative project which assimilates direct experience and research
Repeatable up to 6 credits.

ARTH 498  Internship: 2-12 Credits (2-12 Other)

PREREQUISITE: Junior standing, consent of instructor, and approval of the director. () Offered as needed based on student demand. An individualized assignment arranged with an agency, business, or other organization to provide guided experience in the field
Repeatable up to 12 credits.

ARTH 499R  Senior Thesis: Art History: 3 Credits (3 Other)

(F, Sp) Senior capstone course. Directed undergraduate research/creative activity which may culminate in a research paper, undergraduate thesis paper, or undergraduate thesis exhibition. Course will address responsible conduct of research.
Repeatable up to 12 credits.

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1. Demonstrate effective communication skills with faculty, fellow students, and the general public.
2. Act as thinkers and problem solvers to construct and execute an appropriate research process in order to frame and propose a solution for an open-ended research problem in the history of art that meets disciplinary standards. \\n
3. Deploy evidence from primary and secondary sources to understand and frame a problem and to offer potential research solutions by incorporating newfound evidence into a revised understanding of a specialised field within the history of art. \\n\\n
4. Deliver findings according to the standards of the discipline and of scholarly publishing
5. Consider the perspectives of multiple historical stakeholders in organizing art historical arguments in the present day.
6. Synthesize knowledge of myriad periods and geographic areas of art history in the study of a specialized topic of the author’s choosing.

ARTH 501  Pedagogy and Professionalism: 2 Credits (2 Other)

(F) This graduate seminar provides students with the skills necessary for becoming an effective instructor and dedicated researcher in an educational environment.

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1. Identify, compare, and analyze current standards, approaches, and techniques employed in teaching art history to museum visitors and college students
2. Identify, compare, and analyze current standards, approaches, and techniques employed in presenting art historical research in a scholarly forum
3. Communicate a thematic lesson to a gallery or classroom audience and the composition of an original research presentation for an art history symposium
4. Prepare for the art history job market by composing a professional curriculum vitae.

ARTH 506  Methods and Critical Theories: 3 Credits (3 Other)

(F) This seminar will probe the genesis of foundational concepts like quality, authenticity, style, and iconography as well as explore discursive links to allied fields such as feminism, psychoanalysis, and post-colonialism.

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1. Analyze and compare methods and theories commonly employed by art historians in the advancement of research
2. Distinguish between empirical and critical approaches to art and culture found in the latest discourse
3. Identify, interpret, and critique a body of scholarship useful to their future area of specialization
4. Generate an original research project, to create and defend a thesis and argument, that engages with current discourse and applies methods and theories.

ARTH 512  Etruscan Art: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

() Offered as needed based on student demand. The course focuses on the art and architecture produced by an important Italic civilization, the Etruscans, as well as their Iron Age ancestors, Villanovan civilization. The approach is contextual, with an examination of the social, economic, religious factors surrounding their artistic developments.

ARTH 532  Portraiture and Identity: 3 Credits (3 Other)

() Offered as needed based on student demand. This graduate course will explore how portrait images have promoted a range of identities for sitters from the Renaissance through the Modern Era. It will consider them as strategies for communicating political and social values to various viewing constituencies.

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1. Analyze early modern portraits as vehicles for promoting notions of the artist’s trace and the patron’s authority and to differentiate French, British, Dutch and American approaches to identity construction.
2. Apply a variety of theories—formal, contextual, empirical, iconographic, structuralist, Marxist, feminist, post-colonial—to the interpretation of portraits.
3. Critique the ways in which art historians go about gathering evidence and forming an argument about portraiture.
4. Generate original research (in the form of a catalogue entry, presentation, and/or paper) that engages with current discourse and applied theories on portraiture.

ARTH 535  Origins of the Modern Art Museum: 3 Credits (3 Other)

PREREQUISITE: Graduate Standing This graduate seminar explores how the first public institutions grappled with the problem of determining what constitutes "great art", what conditions are most favorable to its display, and what kinds of information should be relayed to the "public". () Offered as needed based on student demand. This course traces the development of the museum from the royal treasury of the Renaissance to the public institution of the modern era and introduces students to a range of issues and topics with which museums are engaged

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1. Analyze and compare systems of knowledge and standards of quality in art commonly employed by professors and curators in the advancement of scholarly discourse and public education;
2. Distinguish between empirical and critical approaches to art and culture found in recent discourse on private collections and public museums;
3. Generate original research projects, create and defend a theses and arguments that engage with current discourse and apply viable methods and theories;
4. Analyze and elucidate works of art in the form of catalog entries and/or exhibition placards.

ARTH 536  Topics in Modern Art History: 3 Credits (3 Other)

ARTH 536 Topics in Modern Art is designed to develop a deep understanding of a particular topic or contemporary issue in the field of the history of Modern Art.
Repeatable up to 3 credits.

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1. Be able to critically read and contribute to research and scholarship about a topic in the history of Modern Art. ;
2. Identify scholarly historical resources on topics in the history of Modern Art. ;
3. Apply methodological techniques appropriate to the study of Modern Art
4. Write cogently on selected aspects of art studied, evaluating diverse opinions and conflicting accounts.
5. Analyze primary texts (literature and writings about art over the decades) in relation to selected images, artifacts, and buildings.
6. Explain the defining formal, stylistic, and technical characteristics of images, objects, and architecture using appropriate specialized terminology.

ARTH 537  Topics in American Art: 3 Credits (3 Other)

Selected topics in the art of America from the colonial period to the present, including folk art, craft, modern art, post-modern architecture, monuments, popular art and culture.
Repeatable up to 3 credits.

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1. Be able to critically read and contribute to research and scholarship about a topic in the history of American Art.
2. Identify scholarly historical resources on topics in the history of American Art.
3. Apply methodological techniques appropriate to the study of American Art
4. Write cogently on selected aspects of American Art, evaluating diverse opinions and conflicting accounts.
5. Analyze primary texts (literature and writings about art over the decades) in relation to selected images, artifacts, and buildings.
6. Explain the defining formal, stylistic, and technical characteristics of images, objects, and architecture using appropriate specialized terminology.

ARTH 538  Constructions of Gender & Sexuality in Art: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

(Sp) This course will examine art that engages themes related to feminism, gender, and sexuality. With attention to the intersections of class, nationality, and disability, the class will address key historical events, movements, and cultural shifts.

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1. Explain what theory is and develop the ability to read theoretical writings critically
2. Explain how theories of gender and sexuality connect to larger feminist frameworks of activist and aesthetic practice and apply them to case studies.
3. Conduct research using appropriate scholarly and other evaluated sources
4. Write appropriately to gender and sexuality methodology of the field of art history.
5. Integrate primary and secondary sources seamlessly and appropriately into prose writing.
6. Demonstrate, at an advanced level of competence, rhetorically effective writing for audiences of women and gender studies, and art historical scholarship,
7. Conduct reasoned arguments regarding women and gender studies, and art historical scholarship.
8. Contribute an original piece of research or scholarship that adds to the existing knowledge in the field of gender and sexuality studies in the arts.\\n

ARTH 555  Critical Terms in Art History: 3 Credits (3 Other)

() Offered as needed based on student demand. This is a seminar designed for candidates for the master's degree in art history to expose them to a gamut of issues and approaches to research in the history of art, with particular emphasis on recent concepts and theories pertaining to modern and contemporary art.

ARTH 575  Professional Paper and Project: 1-4 Credits (1-4 Other)

PREREQUISITE: Graduate standing. () Offered as needed based on student demand. A research or professional paper or project dealing with a topic in the field. The topic must have been mutually agreed upon by the student and his or her major advisor and graduate committee
Repeatable up to 6 credits.

ARTH 588  Professional Development: 1-3 Credits (1-3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: Graduate standing, teaching experience and/or current employment in a school organization, consent of instructor and Dean of Graduate Studies. () Offered as needed based on student demand. Courses offered on a one-time basis to fulfill professional development needs of in service educators. A specific focus is given to each course which is appropriately subtitled
Repeatable up to 3 credits.

ARTH 590  Master's Thesis: 1-10 Credits (1-10 Other)

PREREQUISITE: Master's standing
Repeatable up to 15 credits.

ARTH 591  Special Topics: 1-4 Credits (4 Lec, 4 Other)

PREREQUISITE: Upper division courses and others as determined for each offering. Offered as needed based on student demand. Courses not required in any curriculum for which there is a particular one time need, or given on a trial basis to determine acceptability and demand before requesting a regular course number
Repeatable up to 12 credits.

ARTH 592  Independent Study: 1-3 Credits (1-3 Other)

PREREQUISITE: Graduate standing, consent of instructor, and Dean of Graduate Studies. () Offered as needed based on student demand. Directed research and study on an individual basis
Repeatable up to 6 credits.