NOTE: Only courses passed with a minimum grade of `C' will satisfy prerequisite requirements for subsequent courses in the Department of Art and Art History.

1000 (VP) Introduction to Art. Cr. 4
Forms and functions of art; uses of art; roles of the artist; iconography and symbols. (T)

1110 (VP) Survey of Art History: Ancient through Medieval. Cr. 3-4
Offered for four credits only to Honors students. Survey of traditions and major developments in visual expression in the West, prehistory through Medieval period. Art studied in context of its cultures; techniques of visual analysis. (T)

1120 (VP) Renaissance through Modern Art Survey. Cr. 3-4
Offered for four credits to Honors students only. Traditions and developments in visual expression in the West, Renaissance through twentieth century. Art in context of its cultures; techniques of visual analysis. (T)

3070 Art and Archeology of Ancient Egypt. Cr. 3 An introduction to the history and development of Egyptian artistic style in architecture, sculpture, painting and the applied arts; historical, social and religious background. (I)

3240 Mythology in Greek Art. Cr. 3 Mythology as subject matter of statues, wall paintings, temple decorations, and vase painting of ancient Greece. (I)

3410 Monasticism and the Arts in the Middle Ages. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110. Monasticism as a driving force in medieval culture; art and architecture produced by and for Christian religious communities, A.D. 300-1400. (I)

3470 Islamic Art and Architecture. Cr. 3
Survey of art and architecture of Islam from its origins in the seventh century to the Ottoman Empire. (I)

3700 Modern Art for the Studio Artist. Cr. 3
Prereq: one 1000-level art history course. Introduction for studio art majors: ideas and styles of modern art. The gap between those who make art and those who write about it. Access to the discipline of art history through tracing the origins of a variety of contemporary art practices. (Y)

3750 African American Art. (AFS 3750) Cr. 3
Prereq: one 1000-level Art History course. Introduction to African American art from the colonial period to the present, with emphasis on the U.S. and some attention to South and Central America and the Caribbean. (Y)

3800 Arts of Africa. Cr. 3
Selected sub-Saharan African arts including body aesthetics, decorative arts, figurative wood sculpture, masking traditions, royal or kingdom arts, and domestic-sacred architecture. (Y)

3820 North American Indian Art. Cr. 3
Survey of the visual arts of North American Indian cultures. (I)

5010 Alternative Media. Cr. 3
Exploration of media not normally dealt with in courses on modernism: such as video, performance, installations, and computer technologies. (I)

5090 (WI) Theory and Methods of Art Historical Research. Cr. 3
Prereq: consent of instructor. Introduction to the methods of research in art history. History of the discipline's methodology examined through selected readings. (I)

5210 Hellenistic Art. Cr. 3 Sculpture, painting and architecture of the Greek world from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. (I)

5250 Ancient Rome. Cr. 3 Development of Rome into an imperial capital. Design, function and political significance of public monuments in the city. (I)

 

5260 Classical Greek Art. Cr. 3 Greek painting, sculpture and architecture of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Emphasis on decorative programs of temples and cult statues. (I)

 

5270 Roman Painting and Sculpture. Cr. 3 Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Painting and sculpture of the Roman Republic and Empire, and their cultural context. (I)

5300 Early Christian Art and Architecture. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Art and architecture of the Mediterranean and Western Europe, A.D. 200-700. Formation and development of distinctive Christian tradition in context of the later Roman world. Emphasis on interaction between pagan, Christian and Jewish traditions. (B)

5310 The Ancient City of Athens. Cr. 3 The history of Athens as an urban center in antiquity. Public monuments, buildings and landscape as reflecting the city's aspirations and fortunes. (I)

5320 Neoclassical Architecture in Britain. Cr. 3 Interest in Classical antiquity as shown in English architecture of the seventeenth century. Domestic, state and religious architecture, urban planning, garden design and landscape architecture, in contexts of political and social developments. (I)

5330 Constantinople in the Sixth Century. Cr. 3
Art and architecture of Constantinople in the Sixth Century. (I)

5350 Byzantine Art and Architecture. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110, A H 1120. Art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire, A.D. 700-1453. Formation and development of a distinct Christian representational and architectural tradition in the context of Orthodox Christianity. Secular traditions considered in light of traditions of Hellenism. (Y)

5400 Art and Architecture of the Early Middle Ages. Cr. 3
Art and architecture in Western Europe from the Dark Ages through the twelfth century. (I)

5450 Art and Architecture in the High Middle Ages. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Art and architecture in western Europe,1050-1250. Development of Romanesque and Gothic styles in architecture, painting, and sculpture. (I)

5500 Early Renaissance in Italy. Cr. 3
Art and architecture from Giotto to Botticelli; transformation of late medieval art prior to Black Death, classical revival in Florence; North Italian artists such as the Bellinis and Mantegna. (B)

5510 High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy. Cr. 3
The art of Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, and their contemporaries. (I)

5530 Northern European Painting in the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Centuries. Cr. 3
Northern painting from its sources in the Franco-Flemish manuscript tradition and Bohemian schools to the great masters of the fifteenth century. (B)

5550 Flemish and German Painting in the Sixteenth Century. Cr. 3
Development of Flemish and German painting from 1475 to 1600, with emphasis on the art of Bosch, Breugel, Durer, Grunewald and Holbein. (B)

5700 Nineteenth Century European Painting. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Major styles, developments and masters.
(B)

5710 Trends in Nineteenth Century Art. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)

5715 Modernism: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Origins of Modernism in the mid-nineteenth century; avant-garde art in Europe and the U.S. from 1850 to 1950; theories of Modernism in the visual arts. (B)

5720 Twentieth Century Art. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. European and American paintings, sculpture, and new media surveyed from 1900 to present. (B)

5735 Art 1900-1945. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. European and American avant-garde art, Dada and Surrealism, the interwar period, and Abstract Expressionism. (B)

5745 Art Since 1945. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. European and American art from the postwar period through movements including conceptualism, minimalism, and post-modernism. (B)

5750 Contemporary American Art. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Major developments in American painting and sculpture from the Armory Show to the 1970s. (I)

5770 Paris in the Nineteenth Century. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1120. Social and economic change in nineteenth century Paris; impact on art from Romantics to Post-Impressionists. Reading in major works of literature and history. Dawn of modernism in painting. (B)

5780 Topics in Twentieth-Century Art. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)

5790 History of Photography. Cr. 3
Prereq: one 1000-level art history course or above, or consent of instructor. Technical, aesthetic and historical development of the art of photography from its invention to the present. (B)

5820 Precolumbian Art of South and Central America. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Lecture-survey of art and architecture produced by the Precolumbian civilizations of Peru, Central America and Mexico, including the traditions of Chavin, Tiahuanaco, Inca, Maya, Olmec, Teotihuacan, Toltec and Aztec. (B)

5890 Museums in Art History. Cr. 3
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. The development and function of the art museum from 300 B.C.E. to the present with emphasis on the museum's role in the institutionalization of art history, collection and criticism. (B)

5990 Directed Study. Cr. 1-3
Prereq: consent of instructor. Open only to art history majors. Supervised advanced reading and research in the history of art. (F,W)

5993 (WI) Writing Intensive Course in Fine Arts. Cr. 0
Prereq: junior standing, satisfaction of English Proficiency Requirement, completion of A H 1110, 1120 and one other A H course at 2000-level or above; coreq: A H course at 3000-level or above. Offered for S and U grades only. No degree credit. Required for all majors. (F,W)

5997 Seminar. Cr. 3
Prereq: junior standing or above; A H 1110, 1120. Readings, discussion, and research paper on special topics in art history; topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. Graduate students undertake research paper in addition to other assignments. (Y)

6730 Contemporary Theory and the Visual Arts. Cr. 3
Undergrad. prereq: consent of instructor. Methodological application of post-structuralist critical theory to the study of art and art history.
(Y)