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ARTH 175 - Introduction to Art History from Prehistory Through The Middle Ages (3). |
Description: Survey of art and architecture in the major civilizations of Egypt, the Ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, Medieval Europe, India, China, Japan, and Africa.
Notes: Offered in fall and spring.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Global Perspective, Historical Perspective, Humanities and Arts |
ARTH 175H - Introd Art His Prehistory Thro |
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 176 - Introduction to Art History from the Renaissance to the Present (3). |
Description: Survey of art and architecture in Western Civilizations, from the Renaissance to the present.
Notes: Offered in fall and spring.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Historical Perspective, Humanities and Arts |
ARTH 176H - Introd Art Hist Renaissance To |
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Historical Perspective, Humanities and Arts |
ARTH 199 - General Art History Elective |
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 299 - General Art History Elective |
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 340 - Internship Education Experience (3:1:3). |
Description: An internship education experience to provide training for the Art History major in a professional environment. A maximum of 6 hours of internship education may be applied toward the Bachelor of Arts degree.
Notes: Offered in spring and as needed.
Prerequisites: ARTH 175 and ARTH 176 or special permission of the Chair of Fine Arts.
3.000 Credit hours 1.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Practicum/Cooperative edu Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 341 - Art of Ancient Greece and Rome (3). |
Description: Study of the art and architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome from the Aegean through the Late Roman Empire.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
Prerequisites: ARTH 175 or permission of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Historical Perspective, Humanities and Arts |
ARTH 341H - Art Ancient Greece and Rome |
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 342 - Early Medieval Art (3). |
Description: Study of the art and architecture of Europe from the Early Christian through Byzantine, Islamic, Celtic, Viking, Carolingian and Ottonian periods.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
Prerequisites: ARTH 175 or permission of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Historical Perspective, Humanities and Arts |
ARTH 343 - High and Late Medieval Art (3). |
Description: Study of the art and architecture of Europe from the Romanesque through Byzantine, Islamic and Gothic periods.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
Prerequisites: ARTH 175 or permission of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Historical Perspective, Humanities and Arts |
ARTH 344 - Italian Renaissance Art (3). |
Description: Study of the art and architecture of Italy from 1200 through 1600.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
Prerequisites: ARTH 176 or permission of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 345 - Northern European Renaissance Art (3). |
Description: Study of the art and architecture of Northern Europe from 1300 through 1600.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
Prerequisites: ARTH176 or permission of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 345H - Northern European Renaissance Art (3). |
Description: Study of the art and architecture of Northern Europe from 1300 through 1600.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
Prerequisites: ARTH176 or permission of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 346 - Baroque and Rococo Art (3). |
Description: Study of the art and architecture of the Baroque and Rococo periods from 1600 through 1800.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
Prerequisites: ARTH176 or permission of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Historical Perspective |
ARTH 347 - Neoclassicism and Romantic Art (3). |
Description: Study of the art and architecture of European and American Neoclassicism and Romanticism from 1750 through 1850.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
Prerequisites: ARTH176 or permission of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 348 - Modernism (3). |
Description: Study of the art and architecture of Europe and America from 1850 through 1960.
Notes: Offered once a year.
Prerequisites: ARTH176 or permission of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 348H - Modernism |
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 349 - History of Graphic Design and Illustration (3). |
Description: Focus on the history and evolution of style, technology, processes, and environmental factors that have affected applied visual design and illustration. Specific emphasis on design in Western culture.
Notes: Students may not receive credit for both ARTH 384 and VCOM 374. Offered once every two years. Cross-listed with VCOM 374. Offered periodically.
Prerequisites: ARTH 176.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 350 - The History of Photography (3). |
Description: This course surveys the history of photography from its technical origins up to contemporary times, tracing its perception as a purely mechanical or documentary process in the early 19th century, through its elevation to the status of 'fine art' today. Class discussions on topics related to the course material and guest lectures by practicing photographers will be included as time permits.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
Prerequisites: ARTH 176.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 351 - Arts of Africa (3). |
Description: A survey of the visual arts and architecture of Africa from prehistoric times to the present, with an emphasis on placing the arts within their social and cultural context.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 352 - Arts of the Americas (3). |
Description: A survey of the visual arts and architecture made of ancient Mesoamerica and the Native American cultures of North America, with an emphasis on placing the arts within their social and cultural context.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 352H - Arts of the Americas (3) |
Description: A survey of the visual arts and architecture made of ancient Mesoamerica and the Native American cultures of North America, with an emphasis on placing the arts within their social and cultural context.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 353 - Arts of Oceania (3). |
Description: Study of the art and architecture of Oceania, including Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia and Aboriginal Australia from prehistoric times to the present, with an emphasis on placing the arts within their social and cultural context.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 354 - Arts of India (3). |
Description: Study of the art and architecture of India from prehistoric times to the present, with an emphasis on placing the arts within their social and cultural context.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 355 - Arts of China (3). |
Description: Study of the art and architecture of China from prehistoric times to the present, with an emphasis on placing the arts within their social and cultural context.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 356 - Arts of Japan (3). |
Description: Study of the art and architecture of Japan from prehistoric times to the present, with an emphasis on placing the arts within their social and cultural context.
Notes: Offered once every two years.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 380 - The Rise of Modernism |
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Art and Design Department |
ARTH 380H - The Rise of Modernism |
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Art and Design Department |
ARTH 381 - Transgender and Non-Binary Art Histories |
Description: A survey of the visual arts and architecture of Africa from pre-historic times to the present, with an emphasis on placing the arts within their social and cultural context.
Notes: Offered once per year.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Global Perspective, Historical Perspective, Humanities and Arts |
ARTH 381H - Arts of Africa |
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 399 - General Art History Elective |
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 450H - Honors:Select Top Art History |
Approved Titles:
Thesis
Renaissance Revival
Bonheur, Laurencin & Ringgold
3.000 Credit hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 451 - Art History Methods (3). |
Description: Study of the methods, research techniques, literature, and resources used in art historical inquiry and writing.
Notes: Offered in fall and spring.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture, Seminar/Recitation Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 452 - Women in Art (3). |
Description: Consideration of the images of women portrayed through art. The impact of feminism on art, and contributions of women artists, designers, and architects to the history of art.
Notes: Offered in fall and spring.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture, Seminar/Recitation Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Humanities and Arts |
ARTH 453 - Art of the Book (3:2:2). |
Description: Study of the history, materials and methods of the creation of the book in its many forms from antiquity through the present.
Notes: Lab fee: $35. Offered once every two years.
Prerequisites: ARTH 175 or 176 or permission of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 2.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture/Lab-Clinical Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Humanities and Arts |
ARTH 454 - Contemporary Art and Criticism (3). |
Description: An intensive writing course on the art, art theory and criticism in Europe and America from 1960 to the present.
Notes: Intensive Writing Course. Offered every semester.
Prerequisites: ARTH 175, 176, CRTW 201.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture, Seminar/Recitation Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Intensive Writing |
ARTH 480 - Special Topics in Art History (3). |
Description: Study of a special problem in the history of art from antiquity to modern times, such as the individual artist, genre, theme, artistic movement or museum studies.
Notes: Offered on demand.
Prerequisites: ARTH 175 and 176 or permission of the instructor.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Historical Perspective, Humanities and Arts |
ARTH 480H - Special Topics in Art History |
Approved Titles:
Film Genres:The Western Revisite
The Self Portrait
Ideas in Art
Contemporary Art -1960 Present
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 481 - Special Topics in Art History |
Approved Titles:
Gender Issues in Art
Women's Art Trad Around World
Women in Film
Exhibition Publication
Egyptian Arman Period Art
The Work of Marc Chagall
Michelangelo
Renaissance Rivals:Michelango
Hist of Graphic Design & Illust
Museum Research on Fold Art
Study of Art in Chiete, Italy
Travel/Study Art/Arch in Rome
The Art of the Book
Bernini & the Borghese Family
Curatorial Study
Surrealism
Iconography
Art of Greece
Research on Contemp Public Sculp
Contemporary Art-1960-Present
Art & Thought of Ancient Greece
Inside Outsider Art
Book Illstratn 19th-20th Century
Contemporary Book Artists
Early Modernist Women Artists
Art of the City:20th C Architecture & Urban Models
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Historical Perspective, Humanities and Arts |
ARTH 482 - Special Topics in Art History |
Approved Titles:
Iconography
History of Design Technologies
Films of Orson Welles
Modern Art
Fabric Sculpture
Marriage Rituals:Med & Ren Italy
Michelangelo
Gothic Architecture & Reg Diff
Arts of China, Japan, India
Research of Regional Arth
Arts & Theatre
Art History Study in Nyc
Baroque Art of Spain & Portugal
Art of the Book
Baroque and Rococo Art
Insid Outsider Art
Bonheur, Laurencin & Ringgold
Aesthetics, Theory, & Criticism
Medieval Art
Byzantine Mosaics
African Art and the Parisian Avant-Garde
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department Course Attributes: Historical Perspective, Humanities and Arts |
ARTH 483 - Special Topics in Non-Western Art (3). |
Description: Specialized study in one or more of the following: Art and Architecture of Africa, the South Pacific, North American Indian, Japan, China, India, Caribbean and Latin American and Native Americans of the Americas.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 484 - Special Top in Non-Western Art |
Approved Titles:
Iconography
Directed Readings in Indian Art
African Masquerades
Arts of Oceania
Arts of China, Japan, India
Arts of Africa, Oceania, America
Non-Western Arth/Tibet
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 485 - Special Top in Non-Western Art |
Approved Titles:
Arts of China Japan and India
African Textiles
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 485H - Special Top in Non-Western Art |
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 580 - Special Topics in Art History (3). |
Description: Extends individual opportunities for study of Art History beyond existing departmental curriculum limits.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture, Seminar/Recitation Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 680 - Graduate Art History (3) (3). |
Description: Graduate art history study for scholarly research and discussion of specific issues; i.e. prehistoric art, ancient art, classical art, medieval art, Renaissance art, modern art, interior design, photography, etc.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 681 - Graduate Art History |
Approved Titles:
Art & Aesthetics in West Africa
Art & Architecture of Japan
20th Century Art & Beyond
Arts of Oceania
Medieval Art
Design History
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 682 - Graduate Research in Art History and Visual Culture |
Description: An opportunity for graduate students to engage in intensive independent study, reading, and research in art history and visual culture under the guidance of a member of the art history faculty. Requires approval of Instructor and Department Chair.
Notes: May be repeatable for a total of 9 credits.
3.000 Credit hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 683 - Seminar in Aesthetics, Theory and Criticism of Art (3). |
Description: An advanced, detailed study of selected topics in aesthetics, art theory and criticism in a seminar situation.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
3.000 Credit hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Seminar/Recitation Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 690 - Special Topics in Art History (3) (3) (3). |
Description: Extends individual opportunities for study in art history beyond existing departmental curriculum limits.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Prerequisites: Permission of chair, Department of Art and Design.
3.000 Credit hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 691 - Special Topics in Art History |
Approved Titles:
Ephemeral Sculpture
Arts of Niger
Paul Klee
Arts of Oceania
Contemporary Women's Art
Art of the Book
Arts of the Americas
Theme of Transfmatn Abstract Art
Baroque Art of Spain & Portugal
History of Jewelry
3.000 Credit hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research, Lecture Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 692 - Special Topics in Art History |
Approved Titles:
Films of Orson Welles
Aesthetics, Theory, Criticism
Exhibition Catalog Design
North European Art
Modernism & Craft:Albers,Bah,Bmt
Crusader Art
3.000 Credit hours 0.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Independent Study/Research Fine Arts Department |
ARTH 699 - Art History Elective |
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture Fine Arts Department |