Class No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
2212 |
AHIS-101-01 |
Intro Hist of Art West I |
1.00 |
LEC |
Scanlan, Suzanne |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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A survey of the history of art and architecture from the Paleolithic period to the Middle Ages, examining objects in their cultural, historical, and artistic contexts. |
2978 |
AHIS-103-01 |
Intro to Asian Art |
1.00 |
LEC |
Hatch, Michael |
TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM |
TBA |
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GLB1
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course surveys 5,000 years of East Asian history and culture through the close analysis of 40 primary artworks. Classes are generally presented in chronological order, and provide a selection of major and minor artistic traditions from China, Korea, and Japan from pre-history to the 21st century. Each class focuses on two objects, and will emphasize the connection between close looking and big ideas, including transcultural exchange, religion, materiality, empire, class, and globalism. As such, this course addresses the basic contribution of art history to the humanities by demonstrating how individual art objects provide evidence for arguments about the cultures of the past. |
2918 |
AHIS-218-01 |
Art and Its Markets |
1.00 |
LEC |
Hatch, Michael |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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The sale of artwork, both contemporary and classical, comprises one of the most fascinating luxury markets in today's economy. It behaves more unpredictably than almost any other market. Many of its goods are non-fungible, and it often requires academic expertise. In this class, students approach art history from a market perspective, addressing topics such as patronage, market diversification, looting, NFTs, and the historical development of the auction house, museum, and gallery systems. Examples are taken from global sources. Students will visit auctions and galleries in New York and will write proposals for the acquisition of actual artworks to nearby museums. As such, this course offers a chance for students to build practical experience with galleries, auction houses, and museums. |
2919 |
AHIS-222-01 |
The Renaissance Embodied |
1.00 |
LEC |
Scanlan, Suzanne |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Renaissance depictions of the body range from idealized nudes to decaying, and sometimes ambulatory, corpses. In Europe, artists dissected human cadavers and, for the first time since antiquity, reflected the use of living models in their workshops and studios. In this course, we examine works that embodied early modern ideas about power and dependence, race and class, gender and sexuality, death and disease, the marginalized and the fantastic. Focusing on the artist's studio and early modern practice, we consider a diverse set of bodies as they were represented in paintings, sculpture, drawings, decorative arts, books and prints in relation to contemporary spiritual, political, and social concerns. We also consider ways that artists today incorporate Renaissance models and methods into their studio practice and work. |
2740 |
AHIS-271-01 |
Art & Architecture of the US |
1.00 |
LEC |
Granston, Willie |
TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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The course examines major trends in American painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts from pre-colonial times to the early 20th century. Lectures and discussions consider artistic production and meaning, and situate artworks, objects, and buildings within social and cultural frameworks. Topics include Native American arts and material culture, colonial portraiture and architecture, and the development of American artistic output in the Federal period. Themes of politics, race, and understandings of the American landscape will be discussed alongside paintings, material culture, and architecture of the 19th century. This class will situate artworks, buildings, and objects within discussions of class, social hierarchies, and disenfranchisement, and will also consider the interpretation and presentation of these items in public settings like museums and exhibitions. |
2356 |
AHIS-283-01 |
Contemporary Art |
1.00 |
LEC |
FitzGerald, Michael |
T: 6:30PM-9:00PM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Following the Second World War, artists transformed the avant-garde tradition of their European predecessors to establish a dialogue with the mass media and consumer culture that has resulted in a wide array of artistic movements. Issues ranging from multiculturalism and gender to modernism and postmodernism will be addressed through the movements of abstract expressionism, pop, minimalism, neo-expressionism and appropriation in the diverse media of video, performance, and photography, as well as painting and sculpture. Current exhibitions and criticism are integral to the course. |
3023 |
AHIS-286-01 |
Modrn Architectur:1900-Present |
1.00 |
LEC |
Granston, Willie |
TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course surveys broad developments in architecture, design, and urban planning as they relate to social, political, and cultural changes between roughly 1900 and the present. With a focus on Western Europe and America, topics include Viennese Modernism, the legacy of the Arts and Crafts movement, the Bauhaus, the International Style, the birth of Modernism, Brutalism, Postmodernism, and the architecture of the recent past. Close attention will be given to figures including Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Robert Venturi, and Frank Gehry, but the class will also include discussion of important practitioners who have historically been omitted from architectural studies. |
2742 |
AHIS-292-01 |
History of Photography |
1.00 |
LEC |
FitzGerald, Michael |
W: 6:30PM-9:00PM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Major developments in European and American photography from 1839 to the present. |
2917 |
AHIS-307-01 |
Architecture of Leisure |
1.00 |
SEM |
Granston, Willie |
M: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This seminar considers how architecture and the built environment have been used to facilitate and satisfy American expectations of recreation and leisure. Through close-reading and discussion of primary and secondary sources, lectures, field trips, and class activities, this class will analyze buildings and landscapes as means of understanding social values and cultural beliefs at various times. Topics will include conceptions of nature, the evolution of specific building types, like hotels, the development of specific architectural styles, like the Shingle Style, and the changing beliefs relating to material choices. Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, this class will also consider how race and socioeconomic status impacted architectural decisions and the lived experience as it related to this landscape of leisure. |
2903 |
AHIS-341-01 |
The Baroque Festival: Art&Auth |
1.00 |
SEM |
Scanlan, Suzanne |
W: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Art History 102. |
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This course will explore the complex relationships between art, architecture, politics, and theater in seventeenth-century Europe. During this period, Europe's civil, religious, and economic upheavals provoked increasingly elaborate and inflexible ideologies among its secular and religious rulers, yet the art and architecture of this period is among the most innovative and varied in Western culture. By combining politics and art, baroque festivals explored--and frequently altered--the seemingly opposed conventions of each. Students are encouraged to pursue class presentations and final projects that address a similarly broad range of related themes. |
2275 |
AHIS-364-01 |
Architectural Drawing |
1.00 |
LEC |
Rothblatt, Rob |
W: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: ENGR-341-01 |
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A conceptual and practical introduction to the varied types of architectural drawings used to describe and perceive buildings. Tailored for liberal arts students, topics include geometry vs perception, freehand drawings, foreshortening, drafting measured drawings, understanding plans and sections, 3D parallel projection drawings, and setting up basic perspective views Students study and analyze inspiring drawings and buildings from their related classes, whether Art History, Engineering or Urban Studies. The class is taught as a hands-on studio course. This class serves as a prerequisite for AHIS 365/ENGR 342. |
1697 |
AHIS-365-01 |
Elements -Architectural Design |
1.00 |
LEC |
Rothblatt, Rob |
M: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: ENGR-342-01 |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Art History 364. |
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Echoing the curriculum in Architecture Schools but tailored for liberal arts students in a studio setting, this class teaches the basics of architectural design and language. Through sketches, hardline drawings, and model-making, students explore the fundamental principles of hierarchy, proportion, space, light, surface, order, rhythm, contrast, tectonics, craftsmanship and technique. This course includes a series of pedagogically stepped abstract projects, adding complexity and dimensions, understanding and building upon what is successful in each project, culminating with a project exploring and adding the critical concepts of site, context and program. This class is recommended for those who might consider graduate study in architecture. |
1148 |
AHIS-399-01 |
Independent Study |
1.00 - 2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
ART
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and program director are required for enrollment. |
1149 |
AHIS-466-01 |
Teaching Assistant |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin.
(0.5 - 1 course credit) |
2492 |
AHIS-497-01 |
Senior Thesis |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
ART
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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An individual tutorial to prepare an extended paper on a topic in art history. An oral presentation of a summary of the paper will be delivered in the spring term. Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor and program director are required for enrollment in this course. (1 course credit to be completed in one semester.) |
2698 |
CLCV-214-01 |
Greek and Roman Architecture |
1.00 |
LEC |
Risser, Martha |
TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 29 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with ARTHISTORY |
Cross-listing: URST-214-01 |
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NOTE: 4 seats reserved for Classical Studies majors, 3 for first-years, 2 AHIS majors. |
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An examination of building materials and methods used in the construction of domestic, civic, and religious buildings of the Greek and Roman worlds. Topics of discussion include ways in which functions of buildings influenced their forms; comparative studies of the works of individual architects; architectural adaptations to local topography; propaganda purposes of architecture; and ancient opinions and accounts of architecture, including selections from the works of Plautus, Vitruvius, and Pliny the Elder; and Latin inscriptions. We will then compare written accounts to archaeological evidence. Students in LATN 314 will read some of the material in Latin, whereas all of the reading for CLCV 214 will be in English. |
2700 |
CLCV-308-01 |
Archaeology of Greek Religion |
1.00 |
SEM |
Risser, Martha |
TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with ARTHISTORY, RELG |
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NOTE: 4 seats reserved for Classical Studies majors, for AHIS majors, 4 RELG majors. |
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This course examines the material evidence for ancient Greek religion, cults, and rituals; methods of approaching ancient religion and analyzing cult practices through art, architecture, and artifacts; exploration of votive, sacrificial, and feasting practices; distinctions between sacred and civic space in ancient Greece; differences between urban, extra-urban, rural, and panhellenic sanctuaries; the role of the city in establishing, maintaining, and supporting religious places and practices. There are no pre-requisites for this course. |
2693 |
RELG-321-01 |
Buddhist Materiality |
1.00 |
SEM |
Kerekes, Susanne |
MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM |
TBA |
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GLB2
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with ANTH, ARTHISTORY |
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If Buddhism preaches non-attachment, what is “Buddhist materiality”? Shouldn’t Buddhists be free of material things? Or, rather, who says they should be?In this course, we take Buddhist “stuff” seriously. Students are encouraged to look beyond modernist ideals of Buddhism as a “rational tradition” of only monks, manuscripts, and mindfulness. To do this, we must decolonialize Buddhism. Then, we consider the agency of nonhumans, not just of humans (i.e., we cover theories of Material Religion). Students will engage in object analysis and close-looking of Buddhist art objects and spirits. Things act upon us, and we(re)act upon them. They shape identity, create meaning, and maintain relationships. Things are never just things. They help us understand what people do in Buddhism, not just what they believe. |
2699 |
URST-214-01 |
Greek and Roman Architecture |
1.00 |
LEC |
Risser, Martha |
TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 29 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with ARTHISTORY |
Cross-listing: CLCV-214-01 |
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NOTE: 4 seats reserved for Urban Studies majors, 2 for first-years, 2 for AHIS majors. |
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An examination of building materials and methods used in the construction of domestic, civic, and religious buildings of the Greek and Roman worlds. Topics of discussion include ways in which functions of buildings influenced their forms; comparative studies of the works of individual architects; architectural adaptations to local topography; propaganda purposes of architecture; and ancient opinions and accounts of architecture, including selections from the works of Plautus, Vitruvius, and Pliny the Elder; and Latin inscriptions. We will then compare written accounts to archaeological evidence. Students in LATN 314 will read some of the material in Latin, whereas all of the reading for CLCV 214 will be in English. |