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Course Listing for FINE ARTS - Fall 2025 (ALL: 09/02/2025 - 12/17/2025)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
2188 AHIS-102-01 Intro Hist Art West II 1.00 LEC FitzGerald, Michael
Triff, Kristin		 TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 49 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  A survey of the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the present day.
3202 AHIS-205-01 East Asian Art, Now to 1850 1.00 LEC Hatch, Michael TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA GLB1  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course investigates modern and contemporary artists and art movements in East Asia by moving backward in time from the present to the mid-nineteenth century, when China, Korea, and Japan were forced into global trade arrangements by foreign powers. A backward-looking structure acknowledges our presentism but is still guided by the implicit question, how did the arts of China, Korea, and Japan as we know them today come to be? What role does East Asian identity play in the global contemporary art world? Which forms did modernism take in China, Japan, Korea, and the diaspora? How were traditionalist and modernist movements intertwined? Key concepts will include post-colonialism, Marxism, nationalism, socialism, gender, ethnicity, modernism, traditionalism, post-modernism, diaspora, etc.
2911 AHIS-219-01 Medieval, Ren Women & Art 1.00 LEC Scanlan, Suzanne MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course looks at images made by female artists and artisans, as well as works commissioned by and for women, between the Medieval and Renaissance periods (c 1100-1600). As recent scholarship shows, daughters, wives and sisters were integral members of artists' workshops, producing paintings, sculpture, prints and household furnishings. Female patrons - from queens and duchesses to nuns and widows - commissioned grand buildings and public memorials as well as small decorative items. Here, we discuss women from various social classes and their contributions to the visual and material culture of Europe across five centuries. Along with art making and patronage, we will also consider gift giving and bequests as modes of consolidating wealth and security among women.
2912 AHIS-220-01 Baroque Rome 1.00 LEC Scanlan, Suzanne MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  In this course, we examine art and architecture in Rome from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 18th century, a dynamic period that shaped much of the fabric of the city as we know it today. While analyzing urbanism, structural design, sculpture, and painting by many of the well-known artists of the period (Caravaggio, Bernini, Borromini, Artemisia, Pietro da Cortona), we also discuss commemoration of the ritual and ceremonial life of the city as portrayed in engravings, drawings, printed books and the decorative arts. We round out our critical exploration of Baroque Rome by viewing documentary and feature films that engage with this fascinating period
2910 AHIS-224-01 Understanding Architecture 1.00 LEC Granston, Willie TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course introduces a range of approaches to understand architecture in an historical perspective. Focusing on European and American architecture from 1400 to the present, lectures and discussions will consider how architects have approached the built environment at various times in both urban and rural settings. Lectures and class discussions will discuss ways that buildings, gardens, landscapes, and urban plans have been shaped by cultural values, social beliefs, political and technological developments, rubrics of art, and responses to nature. In addition to situating architecture within historical perspectives, this class provides students with the tools to begin analyzing, understanding, and decoding the landscapes and environments that we inhabit today.
3216 AHIS-241-01 Classical Ideals 1.00 LEC Risser, Martha TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with WMGS Cross-listing: CLCV-241-01
  Examine the roots of modern beauty standards by digging into the history of the “classical ideal”, down to its origins in Greek and Roman representations of the human body. Social status and beauty seem always to have been correlated; how are nudity and clothing, the athletic ideal, gender and sexuality, and racialized ideals of beauty implicated in portrayals of the bodies of social actors and symbolic bodies? Even character and emotion were portrayed as physically embodied. We’ll analyze classical sculpture, painting, and other arts, supported by readings from studies in the history of art, critical approaches to conceptions of the human form, ancient medical texts, and Greek and Roman poetry.
3177 AHIS-265-01 19th Cent Architecture 1.00 LEC Granston, Willie TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course examines architecture, design, and urban developments in Europe and America between roughly 1750 and 1900. Contextualized with topics including social and cultural change, politics, and technological developments, themes considered in this course will include the revival of historical styles such as the Greek and the Gothic, and their application to modern contexts; the rise of new building types, such as museums, railroad stations, prisons, and skyscrapers; the emergence of modern capitals such as Berlin, New York, London, and Paris; and the development of the professions of architecture and urban planning.
1714 AHIS-301-01 Major Sem Art Hist Meth 1.00 SEM FitzGerald, Michael W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Required of and limited to art history majors, as one of the first courses they take after declaring their major. Studies in the tradition and methodology of art historical research. Readings in classics of the literature of art history; discussions of major issues and meeting with scholars and museum professionals; students will pursue an active research project and present both oral reports and formal written research papers.
3178 AHIS-341-01 Sem in Baroque Art: Caravaggio 1.00 SEM Triff, Kristin M: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Prerequisite: C- or better in Art History 102 or 246, or permission of instructor.
  This course will examine the life, work, and legacy of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) within the artistic and historical contexts of the Baroque era. Reviled and revered for his shockingly realistic painting style, along with his famous (but disputed) insistence on painting directly from life rather than from preparatory drawings, Caravaggio was the most influential painter of his time. Topics to be examined include Caravaggio's relationship to Counter-Reformation art and the Inquisition, his controversial religious scenes, themes of violence, eroticism and homoeroticism in his work, his working methods in light of recent technical analyses, his biographers and critical reception, and the works of his followers, or Caravaggisti, in Europe and beyond.
3203 AHIS-361-01 Seminar on Impressionism 1.00 SEM O'Donnell, Oliver T: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA Y ART  
  Enrollment limited to 6 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This hands-on seminar meets at the Hill-Stead museum in Farmington to discuss the museum's major collection of Impressionist art in the context of recent scholarship on artists including Manet, Monet, Degas, Cassatt and Whistler and the role of collecting in American society ca. 1900. The seminar will take advantage of the location in a historic house and the physical proximity of major art works by staging discussions in front of works in the collection. As a culminating assignment, students will have the opportunity to assist on curatorial research and planning for a future exhibition and to develop a public facing presentation for museum visitors.
1014 AHIS-364-01 Architectural Drawing 1.00 LEC Rothblatt, Rob W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: ENGR-341-01
  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.
1490 AHIS-399-01 Independent Study 1.00 - 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  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.
1397 AHIS-466-01 Teaching Assistant 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Requires completion of the Special Registration Form, available in the Office of the Registrar.
  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)
2484 AHIS-497-01 Senior Thesis 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  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.)
3214 CLCV-218-01 Archaeology of the Holy Land 1.00 LEC Risser, Martha TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA GLB1  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with ARTHISTORY, HIST, JWST, RELG Cross-listing: LATN-318-01
  Through a survey of arts, architecture, material remains, and written accounts, this course traces the complex past of a region regarded as Holy Land by people of several major religions. We will evaluate incongruities between written texts and physical evidence; the contentious political and religious agendas that affected studies of these lands; and evidence for the ancient societies, cultures, economies, religions, and politics that contributed to shaping the modern Middle East.
3434 LATN-218-01 Archaeology of the Holy Land 1.00 LEC Cancelled GLB1  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with ARTHISTORY, HIST, JWST, RELG
  Through a survey of arts, architecture, material remains, and written accounts, this course traces the complex past of a region regarded as Holy Land by people of several major religions. We will evaluate incongruities between written texts and physical evidence; the contentious political and religious agendas that affected studies of these lands; and evidence for the ancient societies, cultures, economies, religions, and politics that contributed to shaping the modern Middle East.