Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 2084 |
AHIS-101-01 |
Intro Hist of Art West I |
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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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. |
| 2292 |
AHIS-103-01 |
Intro to Asian Art |
1.00 |
LEC |
Hatch, Michael |
TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
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. |
| 3071 |
AHIS-109-01 |
Ancient Engineering and Tech |
1.00 |
SEM |
Peers, Max |
TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
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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Cross-listing: ENGR-109-01, CLCV-109-01 |
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This course explores in chronological succession the art and technologies of construction that led to some of the most extensive building programs undertaken by pre-modern states. Through case studies ranging from particular structural elements and technologies (e.g. columns, domes, cranes, catapults) to overall structural systems (e.g. theaters, temples, aqueducts) this class investigates the history of materials, methods, and knowledge behind Greek and Roman innovations, and the role of designed technologies and space in communicating socio-cultural and political identity. Key questions guiding the class are: 1. How does Greek and Roman engineering and technology reflect and communicate environmental factors, technological constraints, and socio-cultural and political identity? 2. How and why did Greco-Roman architectural styles and engineering technologies persist and change over time? 3. What are similarities and differences in human-technology relationships between the Greco-Roman world and modern times? |
| 2282 |
AHIS-218-01 |
Art and Its Markets |
1.00 |
LEC |
Hatch, Michael |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
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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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. |
| 3003 |
AHIS-228-01 |
Women and Modernism |
1.00 |
LEC |
Scanlan, Suzanne |
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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Women and Modernism invites students to explore the central but often underrecognized roles women played in the formation of modernism and modern art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on women as artists, patrons, collectors, and cultural innovators, the course examines how women shaped modern visual and material culture across Europe and the United States. Students will study the work of women artists—including painters, sculptors, photographers, and designers—alongside networks of women who promoted modern art through salons, galleries, publishing, and philanthropy. The course also situates modernism within broader social transformations, paying particular attention to the emergence of feminism, the figure of the “New Woman,” and the intersections of art with fashion and industrial design. |
| 2924 |
AHIS-247-01 |
Renaissance&Baroque Arch&Urban |
1.00 |
LEC |
Triff, Kristin |
MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM |
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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This course explores major trends in Western architecture and urbanism from the emergence of Italian Renaissance architecture and planning to the extensive Baroque palaces at Versailles and elsewhere in absolutist Europe. Topics to be examined include the classical tradition, the influence of patronage, the rise of architecture as a profession, and the legacy of European theory and practice in North and South America during the colonial period. In addition to exploring the relationship between architectural and urban theory and form, this course will examine buildings and cities in the evolving social, political, and religious contexts of the period. |
| 2925 |
AHIS-265-01 |
19th Cent Architecture |
1.00 |
LEC |
Granston, Willie |
MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
Y |
ART
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Enrollment limited to 25 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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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. |
| 2251 |
AHIS-271-01 |
Art & Architecture of the US |
1.00 |
LEC |
Granston, Willie |
MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM |
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. |
| 3034 |
AHIS-280-01 |
Japanese Calligraphy |
1.00 |
SEM |
Izumi, Katsuya |
T: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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GLB1
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: LACS-280-01, JAPN-280-01 |
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In this course, students will learn the history and theories of shodo, or calligraphy, which Japan adopted from China and developed. They will also learn to practice the art form. Reading essays about the art and drawing various Chinese characters, or Japanese kanji, they will be expected to recognize the values of calligraphy works and learn how to appreciate them along with a few important concepts in shodo such as “nothingness” and “emptiness.” Students will be required to practice patiently and repeatedly important basic brushstrokes in order to draw a few of the kanji used in words. This course will also cover ink paintings occasionally, and, near the end of the semester, Japanese kana systems. No previous experience studying Japanese or Chinese characters is required. |
| 2828 |
AHIS-308-01 |
Global Landscape Art |
1.00 |
SEM |
Hatch, Michael |
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 takes a global and cross-cultural view of landscape art in the early modern through contemporary periods. Landscapes often appear to be politically neutral. They offer us escapes to unspoiled places where nature is celebrated- sublime wildernesses, pastoral pasts, and Edenic gardens. Yet in many parts of the world, the rise of landscape art coincided with and contributed to ideologies of expansionism, colonialism, industrialism, and resource extraction. In this class, we wrestle with these contradictions as we consider the global history of landscape art. |
| 2504 |
AHIS-334-01 |
Venetian Color |
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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C- or better in Art History 102 or C- or better in any 200 level AHIS course. |
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From water to mirrors to Murano glass; from the micro-architecture of liturgical objects and Byzantine spoglia to the paintings of Bellini and Titian, the phenomena of color and light in the material culture of medieval and Renaissance Venice will be examined in this seminar. We will focus on artistic practice and technique from the unique standpoint of a mercantile society situated in a lagoon – a society that looked to the East for many of its cultural and material values. |
| 3017 |
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 16 |
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. |
| 2943 |
AHIS-366-01 |
Advanced Architectural Design |
1.00 |
STU |
Rothblatt, Rob |
MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM |
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-343-01 |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Art History 365 or Engineering 342, or permission of instructor. |
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Advanced Design is a second-semester architectural design class that offers an immersion into digital methods of design, 3D computer modelling (Rhino), 3D Printing and laser-cut fabrication. It is intended to help prepare students for careers in architecture-related fields and graduate study by offering them exposure to techniques for making portfolios for submission to employers and graduate programs. Students taking this course will produce projects which are brought to a high level of “portfolio-ready” precision and refinement, including 3D drawings, digital plans and models, etc. Students will also learn the graphics programs (InDesign and others) needed to design high quality portfolios for professional and graduate school use. |
| 1131 |
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. |
| 1132 |
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) |
| 2151 |
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.) |
| 2733 |
CLCV-214-01 |
Greek and Roman Architecture |
1.00 |
LEC |
Peers, Max |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 29 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with ARTHISTORY |
Cross-listing: URST-214-01 |
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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. |
| 2734 |
URST-214-01 |
Greek and Roman Architecture |
1.00 |
LEC |
Peers, Max |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 29 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with ARTHISTORY |
Cross-listing: CLCV-214-01 |
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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. |
| 2940 |
URST-214-02 |
Greek and Roman Architecture |
1.00 |
LEC |
Staff, Trinity |
TBA |
TBA |
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ART
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Enrollment limited to 29 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with ARTHISTORY |
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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. |