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.

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.

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 for majors. (Su) 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

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.

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

() 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.

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

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 201IA for majors, no pre-requisite for non majors. () 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

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

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

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

() 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.

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

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA for majors. () 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

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

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

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

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

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA and ARTH 201IA. () 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

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

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA for majors. () 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

ARTH 410  Medieval Art: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA for majors. () 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.”

ARTH 421  Late Gothic Painting: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 201IA. () Offered as needed based on student demand. This course will deal with the development of Gothic painting in Italy and its subsequent influence on the Northern tradition of painting in the Netherlands and Germany. Major masters include Giotto, Jan van Eyck, Bosch, Grunewald, Durer, and Bruegel

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 201IA. () 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

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

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 201IA. () 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

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

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 201IA. () 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

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

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 201IA. () 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

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

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 201IA. () 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

ARTH 441  Art Now: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 200IA or ARTH 201IA. () 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

ARTH 451  Contemporary Art: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 201IA. () 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

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

PREREQUISITE: ARTH 201IA. () 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.