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Course Listing for FINE ARTS - Fall 2024 (ALL: 09/03/2024 - 12/18/2024)

Class No.	Course ID	Title	Credits	Type	Instructor(s)	Days:Times	Location	Permission Required	Dist
2256	AHIS-102-01	Intro Hist Art West II	1.00	LEC	Cadogan, Jean Gordon, Alden	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.
3300	AHIS-219-01	Medieval, Ren Women & Art	1.00	LEC	Scanlan, Suzanne	MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM	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.
3301	AHIS-220-01	Baroque Rome	1.00	LEC	Scanlan, Suzanne	MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM	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
3299	AHIS-224-01	Understanding Architecture	1.00	LEC	Granston, Willie	TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM	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.
3081	AHIS-226-01	Drinking & Dining in Antiquity	1.00	SEM	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-227-01
		The act of eating and drinking in self-defining social groups preoccupied ancient Greek and Roman societies in ways that modern societies have inherited—although the forms of these gatherings have changed. We will study the history of banqueting in the ancient Mediterranean world, from communal feasts at religious festivals to the private Greek symposion and Roman convivium. Through artistic representations, architectural remains, archaeological finds, and literary texts, we’ll explore what kind of food and drink was consumed at these banquets, and what was offered to the dead at their tombs; the origins of reclining to dine and this custom’s social implications, and how culinary and dining practices can serve as a lens for recognizing codes of gender, otherness, status, and power in a culture.
3191	AHIS-236-01	High Renaissan Art Italy	1.00	LEC	Cadogan, Jean	TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM	TBA		ART
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture from the end of the 15th century through the 16th century. Examines the work of the creators of the High Renaissance style, including Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian. The emergence of mannerism in central Italy and its influences on North Italian and Venetian painters will also be explored.
2360	AHIS-261-01	19th-Cent Painting & Sculpture	1.00	LEC	Gordon, Alden	TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA		ART
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		A study of European painting and sculpture from the Romanticism of the late 18th century to the emergence of new directions at the end of the 19th century. The course is adapted each year to take advantage of major exhibitions. Museum visits and extensive readings will be integral to the makeup of the course.
3125	AHIS-265-01	19th Cent Architecture	1.00	LEC	Granston, Willie	TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM	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.
3263	AHIS-280-01	Japanese Calligraphy	1.00	SEM	Izumi, Katsuya	T: 1:30PM-4:10PM	TBA		GLB1
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: LACS-280-01, JAPN-280-01
		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.
2176	AHIS-282-01	20th Cen Avant Garde	1.00	LEC	FitzGerald, Michael	T: 6:30PM-9:00PM	TBA		ART
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		This course addresses the position of art in European and American society from 1890 to 1945 when the concept of the artist as a rebel and visionary leader defined art's relation to contemporary social, political, and aesthetic issues. The movements of symbolism, expressionism, cubism, dada, and surrealism are discussed. Current exhibitions and the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum are used whenever appropriate.
1741	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.
3298	AHIS-308-01	Global Landscape Art	1.00	SEM	Hatch, Michael	M: 1:30PM-4:10PM	TBA		ART
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		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.
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
		NOTE: Classroom location is AAC 131/134
		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.
1501	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.
1407	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)
2810	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.)