Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART I: ANTIQUITY TO GOTHIC

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from Antiquity to the 15th century. Cross-list: MDST 111.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART II: RENAISSANCE TO PRESENT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance through the 20th century.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ASIAN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of Asian art from the Neolithic period to the present.

Long Title: CASE STUDIES IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course offers an introduction to the history of Western art and architecture through weekly case studies of some of the most important public and private buildings in antiquity and the Middle Ages: from the Parthenon to a Roman house, Caernarvon Castle to Chartres Cathedral. Topics explored throughout the course include the construction of imperial authority, ritual and the formation of space, and the relationship between structure and design. Cross-list: ARCH 104, MDST 104.

Long Title: KEY MONUMENTS AND ARTISTS OF WESTERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An in-depth look at important moments in the history of European and American art, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Rather than being a comprehensive survey, the course will focus on a limited number of works by leading artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, and architecture.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN ART HISTORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This is an introductory course on African art from the 15th to 20th centuries, ranging from a study of archaeological objects to scuplture and masks from the colonial period and beyond. The course will meet at the Menil Collection: numbering close to 1000 objects, the de Menils' collection includes a range of masks and sculptures from West and Central Africa that allow for a first hand introduction to various cultures on the continent.

Long Title: FOURTEEN ARTWORKS AT THE MFAH

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is designed to provide students with no previous background in art history with an introduction to the discipline through the "in situ" study of 14 works from the permanent collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Some of the topics to be addressed include British aristocratic portraiture, French Impressionist painting, the aesthetic dialogues of Matisse and Picasso, the abstracted sculptures of Brancusi and Calder, and the site-specific installation of Turrell's light tunnel.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSEUM STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: Special topics and new courses, not necessarily to be repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MUSEUM STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history at the introductory level. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CASE STUDIES IN ROMAN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course offers students with little or no background an introduction to Roman art through weekly case studies of some of the most important public and private works. Subjects to be addressed include patronage, visuality, narrative, and style within the changing contexts of republic and empire. Cross-list: CLAS 214.

Long Title: ROME: CITY AND EMPIRE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the history and topography of Rome from its origins to its collapse in Western Europe ca. 500 AD. Emphasis on the development of the city of Rome as the center of an evolving empire, seen through its monuments, buildings, art, and literature. Cross-list: HIST 262.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY: ANCIENT ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Special topics, independent study, and new courses in ancient art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ISTANBUL: LIFE OF AN IMPERIAL CITY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the Ottoman capital and its monuments (15th century - 19th century). Major themes include the Byzantine legacy; imperial patronage; expressions of dynastic legitimacy, power and religion; ceremonial and imperial canon; the European influence; city's representations; leisure and public life.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CHRISTIAN, BYZANTINE AND ISLAMIC ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics, independent study, and new courses in early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CHRISTIAN, BYZANTINE, AND ISLAMIC ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics, independent study, and new courses in early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics, independent study, and new courses in Medieval art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MEDIEVAL ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ART IN CONTEXT: LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will be concerned with the art, architecture, and history of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. We will employ historical texts, literature, and illustrations of works of art, showing how historical documents and sources can illuminate the cultural context of art and architecture. Cross-list: HUMA 108, MDST 108.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN AMERICAN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN NON-WESTERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics and new courses in non-Western art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN NON-WESTERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in non-Western art. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: HISTORY AND AESTHETICS OF FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Introduction to the art and aesthetics of film as an artifact produced within certain social contexts. Includes style, narration, mise-en-scene, editing, sound, and ideology in classical Hollywood cinema, as well as in independent, alternative, nonfiction, and Third World cinemas.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This writing-intensive course will teach students to view films analytically and write film criticism. Each week, students will view a film, read some criticism of that film, and write their own view of the film. Screenings will be taken from important movements in world cinema history. Special emphasis on influential relationships between criticism and film styles. Cross-list: ENGL 275. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FILM THEORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces the student to approaches to understanding and interpreting film as film. It traces the attempts to grasp the new medium in theoretical terms from its origins to the present day. Topics include: montage, mise-en-scene, the gaze, history, psychoanalysis, and feminism. Cross-list: ENGL 286.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics and new course in film and media studies, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in film and media studies. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ART THEORY AND CRITICISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ART THEORY AND CRITICISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MUSEUM INTERN

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: The aim of this course is to provide select students a practicum in museum work accompanied by an introduction to a history of museums, including the varieties of museums, their role in society and significant issues in museums today. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: MUSEUM INTERN PROGRAM II

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: The aim of this course is to provide select students a practicum in museum work accompanied by an introduction to a history of museums, including the varieties of museums, their role in society and significant issues in museums today. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: VESUVIUS' BURIED CITIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Designed to coincide with the MFAH exhibition, "Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption," this course examines the ancient cities buried by Vesuvius in A.D. 79. It addresses the art and architecture within its social and urban contexts and considers methodological and ethical issue related to excavation and preservation of these sites.

Long Title: ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An in-depth examination of the art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia and Persia. Beginning in The Neolithic period, we will examine the development of Near Eastern art and architecture through the study of ancient sites and their associated material culture. GR/UG Equivalent: HART 511. Cross-list: ANTH 331.

Long Title: GREEK ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will present the art and architecture of Greece, Asia Minor, and Southern Italy (Magna Graecia) from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period (ca 2000-30 B.C.). It will consider development of the classical orders in architecture, innovations with painting and sculpture, and the cultural and political significance of art in ancient Greek society. Cross-list: CLAS 312.

Long Title: ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A chronological survey of Roman sculpture, painting, and architecture from its Etruscan beginnings to the late Empire. Art and architecture of Rome and the provinces considered within their larger social, political, and urban contexts. Particular attention given to patronage, the relation between Roman and Greek art, and Rome's position as an artistic center. Cross-list: CLAS 315.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ANCIENT ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will introduce you to the major monumnets of Rome, Pompeii, and Herculaneum. We will focus not only on the history and functions of these monumnets in antiquity but also on how their meaning and representation has changed and evolved in the post-classical world. May 6-24, 2008. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: CLAS 321. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ANCIENT ART ***** Independent study, reading, or special research in ancient art history.

Long Title: THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will consider the period in Roman history between 31 BC and 14 AD, when the emperor Augustus restored stability to the Roman world, oversaw the expansion of the empire, and rebuilt Rome as a capital city. The Age of Augustus witnessed an unparalleled flowering in the literary arts and a revolution in art and architecture whose legacy persists to this day. We will examine in detail the political events and cultural life of this vital time, paying particular attention to the continuity between the late Republic and the Augustan period, Augustus' construction of his public identity, imperial and non-imperial patronage in poetry and the visual arts, and the role of literature, art, and architecture in the formation of Augustan ideology in Rome and in the provinces. The course offers a thorough picture of one of the most significant, yet in some ways most elusive, periods in antiquity. Cross-list: CLAS 320.

Long Title: VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD I

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the arts of architecture of the Islamic world from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions. Explores the development of a visual tradition through its continuities, regional variations, exchanges, and intertextualities. Examines key religious and secular institutions and art forms through their aesthetic and historical contexts. Cross-list: ARCH 331.

Long Title: VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD II

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the architecture, ceramics, textiles, and arts of the book of the Islamic world, from Egypt to India and Central Asia, beginning in the wake of the Mongol conquests and ending with the demise of the Ottoman empire. Focusing on court patronage and production, the course examines key buildings and objects through their aesthetic, cultural, religious, and political contexts. Methodological concerns of the field are addressed through an exploration of such themes as iconoclasm, word and image, and cross-cultural influences. Cross-list: ARCH 332.

Long Title: TEN MONUMENTS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar examines ten key religious and secular buildings of the Islamic world, including some of the most celebrated monuments such as the Taj Mahal, in India, and the Alhambra Palace, in Spain. It covers a wide geographical area that stretches from modern Turkey, Egypt, and Syria, to Iran and India. Each session will alternate lecture and discussion and will focus on one building, exploring it in depth in relation to its aesthetic, cultural, religious, and political contexts. We will examine the formation of a visual vocabulary, its continuities and variations, the complex layers of meanings embedded in these monuments, and will consider questions of patronage, imperial ideology, and cross-cultural encounters and influences. Cross-list: ARCH 328.

Long Title: WHAT IS ISLAMIC ART ?

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar is a critical examination of key themes and issues in Islamic art. Based on readings that focus on specific examples of artistic and architectural production of major landmarks from the 7th to the 18th centuries our discussions will evolve around such questions as: What is Islamic about Islamic art? How and where did art, religion, and politics intersect? To what extent were art and architecture informed by religious principles, practices, and rituals? Can we speak of a distinctive visual language across the Muslim world? We will also explore the role of myth in the construction of cultural heritage, the development of writing the art form of calligraphy, and questions of patronage and imperial ideology. We will revisit long-held assumptions about the nature of Islamic art as iconoclastic and aniconistic, and about the nature and aspect of artistic exchange between the Muslim world and the Latin Christian West, Byzantium, and China. Cross-list: ARCH 325.

Long Title: ART AND EMPIRE: THE OTTOMAN WORLD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course looks at the art and architecture of the Ottoman empire, the longest surviving Muslim empire, from its inception in 1453 until its demise in the 1920s. Based on in-depth studies of religious and secular monuments, objects, and paintings, it examines the roots of Ottoman visual culture, the formation of a canonic style, relations with eastern and western artistic traditions, issues of power and identity in art, systems of patronage, concepts of westernization and Ottoman modernism.

Long Title: CITIES IN MUSLIM MEDITERRANEAN

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar examines the architectural and urban culture of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern and modern periods, and in different contexts including the imperial capital Istanbul and the port cities of Izmir and Salonica. We will begin by investigating questions of cultural legacy and appropriation; building patronage and urban development; court and urban life; in an attempt to address modernity outside European context.

Long Title: STREETS IN URBAN LIFE: PARIS TO ISTANBUL

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This exploration of the street as a focus of urban life in 18th and 19th century. We will look at ways streets functioned as spaces of livelihood, sociability and transgression in cities such as London, Paris, Istanbul, Amsterdam and Cairo.

Long Title: EARLY MEDIEVAL ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Early Medieval Art from the 5th Century to the Romanesque period. This course begins with a study of the art and architecture of the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Lombards, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Franks, and Merovingians, and the transformation of the Roman World through new Germanic, Barbarian, and Christian forces. The second part of the course considers the cultural Renaissance of the Carolingian and Ottonian Periods under rulers such as Charlemagne and Otto III. The last third of the course focuses on themes of pilgrimage, relics, crusades and the emergence of new monumental tradition in art and architecture during the Romanesque Period. Cross-list: MDST 330.

Long Title: GOTHIC ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of the full array of sacred art and architecture produced in the early and high gothic periods in northern Europe. Includes cathedral architecture, sculpture, stained glass, manuscripts, and metalwork studies in relationship to the expansion of royal and Episcopal power. Cross-list: MDST 331.

Long Title: LATE GOTHIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN NORTHERN EUROPE, 1300-1500

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of art and architecture produced in the late gothic period within three distinct settings--the court, the city, and the church. Includes private, public, and religious life as expressed in the objects, architecture, and decoration of the castle and palace, the house, the city hall and hospital, and the chapel and parish church. Cross-list: MDST 332.

Long Title: NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of art in northern Europe from Jan van Eyck to Peter Bruegel.

Long Title: EARLY RENAISSANCE ART IN ITALY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of Italian art and architecture from Giotto to Botticelli, with emphasis on painting and sculpture in the 15th century.

Long Title: THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM IN ITALY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the High Renaissance, with emphasis on its leading masters (e.g., Leonardo, Raphael, Bramante, Michelangelo, and Titian). Includes a study of mannerism, the stylish art produced after the first quarter of the 16th century.

Long Title: MASTERS OF THE BAROQUE ERA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the works of the greatest painters and sculptors in Europe during the Baroque period. Includes Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, Poussin, Claude, and Velazquez.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY I

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides a chronological survey of European architecture, urbanism, and landscape design from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Through focused attention to selected buildings, plans, designs, and theories, the course considers key works and their relationships to differing aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts. Cross-list: ARCH 345.

Long Title: TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will map the terrain of contemporary art as it has developed in the wake of political and theoretical engagements of the 1990's. For many critics, Contemporary Art practice has given way to the worst aspects of spectacular culture losing sight of the political, theoretical, and artistic rigor that characterized the historical and neo-avant-garde.

Long Title: FASCISM, TOTALITARIANISM AND RETURNS TO ORDER

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This introductory seminar will examine the response by artists, architects, critics, and filmmakers to fascism, protofascism, and totalitarianism in Europe from 1905 to 1945. Particular attention will be paid to the differing ways in which authoritarianism becomes manifest in the specific cultural and historical conditions of France, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union, and Spain, and the ways in which antimodernist artistic production in turn responds to this specificity.

Long Title: NINETEENTH CENTURY ART IN EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of the major developments in painting and sculpture from late 18th century neoclassicism and romanticism through realism, impressionism, and post-impressionism. Include architecture, photography, and decorative arts.

Long Title: TWENTIETH CENTURY ART IN EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of major developments in painting and sculpture from the 1880s to the 1940s. Includes impressionism and post-impressionism, expressionism, cubism, abstraction. Dada, and surrealism, with a brief consideration of architecture and photography.

Long Title: ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS (1725-1875)

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will consider the key artistic and architectural movements and styles in Europe from Rocco to Impressionism. We will also look at major theoretical development in those years in art, architecture, and city planning. Finally, we will take into account momentous political developments, especially revolution, and the threat of revolution, which affected and were in turn affected by, cultural production.

Long Title: AGE OF ROMANTICISM IN EUROPE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will consider the emergence and flourishing of Romanticism in the visual arts in Europe. We will consider artists from France, Germany and Britain, including Eugene Delacroix, J.M.W. Turner, John Constable and Caspar David Friedrich. We will combine study of paintings with readings of contemporaneous philosophers and writers, including Hegel and Byron.

Long Title: ART IN THE VANGUARD: VISUAL CULTURE AND RADICAL POLITICS, 1800-2005

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will consider the relationship between visual culture, history and radical politics, looking closely at art as a means of political and ideological resistance and persuasion. Ranging from the 19th to the 21st century, we will consider various strategies of creating politically radical art, looking at the work of Daumier, Courbet, John Heartfield and others. We will also look at the impact of Marxism on art historians, critics and philosophers, including Benjamin, Adorno and Althusser. Finally, we will examine divergent governmental views of art, including the Nazi conception of "Degenerate Art", the fate of modern art in the Soviet Union and the influence of anti-communism on the visual culture of the United States.

Long Title: CONSTABLE AND TURNER

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will explore critical issues surrounding the careers of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, arguably the greatest landscape painters of the early 19th century. We will look at both similarities and differences in the work of these two rivals, while considering their work in the context of great historical change in England.

Long Title: IMPRESSIONISM AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class will explore painting in France from approximately 1865 to 1900. Mixing lectures and classroom discussion, we will focus on individual artists including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Czanne. We will also consider and discuss a set of critical issues surrounding these painters, including the politics of gender and class within the changing urban setting of Paris.

Long Title: ISSUES IN EARLY MODERNISM: FAUVISM TO EXPRESSIONISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe, 1900-1925. We will consider mainstream European formalist modernism in movements like Fauvism and Cubism, considering critical issues around masters including Matisse, Picasso and Mondrain, as well as the continuing figurative tradition in the work of artists like Kirchner and Beckmann.

Long Title: AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATIVE ARTS BEFORE 1900

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Major topics will include the furniture styles of early America, the architecture of colonial cities, the life, thought, and architectural ideas of Thomas Jefferson, urban design and building projects in Washington, D.C., and other U.S. cities, and domestic life and interior design in 19th century America.

Long Title: LATE MODERN ART: 1945 - PRESENT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces the major developments, key figures and significant works of late Modernism. Covering a period from roughly 1945-Present, we will trace modernism's unfolding in the avant-garde practices of the 2nd half of the 20th century. Beginning with the shift from Paris to New York as the cultural center of the avant-garde, the rise of Abstract Expressionism & its divided legacies.

Long Title: STUDIES IN AMERICAN ART FROM THE COLONIAL ERA TO THE ARMORY SHOW

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine a range of topics in U.S. art from the colonial era to circa 1910. Some themes to be addressed include representations of landscapes and their relation to American culture nationalism; social realism vs. modernist abstract images; and representations of gendered subjectivity in American visual culture.

Long Title: GENDER, SUBJECTIVITY, AND THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine a range of subjects within the history, theory, and criticism of photography, including the relationship between commodification, eroticism, and the objectification of the body; and the intersecting issues of mechanical reproduction, authorship, and authenticity in modern and postmodern discourses. Cross-list: SWGS 365.

Long Title: STUDIES IN AMERICAN ART FROM THE 1920S TO THE 1960S

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine a range of topics in American and European art from the 1920s to the 1960s. Our subjects will include the machine aesthetic, cultural nationalism, social realist and regionalist practice, the New York School, and Pop art. Intense methodological reading will accompany visual analysis.

Long Title: STUDIES IN MODERN ART FROM THE 1960S TO THE PRESENT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine a range of topics in American and European art from the 1960s to the present. Our subjects will include Pop art, body and performance art, deconstruction, postmodernism, minimalism, and art in the digital age.

Long Title: SUBJECTIVITY IN MODERN/POSTMODERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Subjects of Desire: Subjectivity in Modern and Postmodern Art and Thought. This course examines the intellectual history of subjectivity and its various representations in modernist and postmodernist aesthetics. In particular, we will consider the intersection of subjectivity and desire by examining the ongoing project of human self-creation through aesthetics, ornament, framing devices, technological apparatuses, and other supplementary objects of desire. Cross-list: SWGS 348.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON BEAUTY AND FRAGMENTATION IN MODERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine literal and symbolic representations of the human body in modern American and European art. Topics addressed will include conceptions of beauty versus subjective fragmentation; the performative nature of social identity; and art history's longstanding preoccupation with the sensuous equivalency of flesh and paint. Cross-list: SWGS 369, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HART 569.

Long Title: CHINESE PAINTING

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines Chinese painting from ancient times to the early twentieth century. Issues of examination include themes, styles, and functions of Chinese painting; the interrelationship between paintings and the intended viewers; regionalism; images and words; foreign elements in Chinese painting. Cross-list: ASIA 371.

Long Title: CHINESE ART AND VISUAL CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course, we will study how various artistic styles developed in historical, social and cultural contexts from the ancient period to the present day. Through the careful examination of architecture, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, ceramics, bronze, and film, students will gain a deeper understanding of Chinese art and visual culture. Cross-list: ASIA 372.

Long Title: METHODOLOGY SEMINAR: WORD AND IMAGE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Art history is the craft of putting images into words. This course explores the question of how words and images intersect in the visual arts. Readings of some key texts on the subject will be followed by a series of case studies concerning specific artistic genres and issues. Topics include: narrative in painting; the frame and the caption; character and face in portraiture; the word as image in calligraphy; and sound and image in film. Through its readings and cases, the course will provide students a focused introduction to art historical theories and methods.

Long Title: ART & RELIGION IN CHINA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This introductory course examines the complex relationship between art and religion in China (4th - 19th centuries). Through an analysis of painting, sculpture, cave temples, steles, manuscripts, talismans, illustrated prints, and primary sources, we will explore the visual, religious and cultural dimensions of Buddhism and Daoism, and the fluid nature of Chinese culture. Cross-list: ASIA 374, RELI 374.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN ART: INDEPENDENCE TO THE PRESENT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course studies the work of leading visual artists working in Latin America during the 19th and 20th centuries. The range and diversity of Latin American art will be emphasized and work in a variety of media will be explored, including mural painting, easel painting, architecture, prints, sculpture, photography, film, installations, and conceptual art. The work will be discussed in terms of contextual historical, political, social, and cultural developments.

Long Title: SURVEY OF AMERICAN FILM AND CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will cover the history of cinema in the U.S. from its origins to the present day. We will examine the development of narrative, the transition to synchronized sound, the classical Hollywood form and style (with detailed analysis of cinematography, editing, mise-en-scene, sound), the rise and fall of the Production Code, film genres and the star system, the emergence of television, the influence of postwar "art cinemas," the origins of the blockbuster, and the status of Hollywood as "global cinema." The relationship between film and culture will be explored through the economics of filmmaking, the role of regulatory institutions, and the controversies surrounding the notorious Birth of a Nation, McCarthyism and the Blacklist, and representations of sex and violence on film. Cross-list: ENGL 373.

Long Title: GRAPHING, COUNTING, FILMING: REPRESENTATION IN SCIENCE AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Cinema originated in the inscription of physiology on film; this was quickly followed by biology and ethnology done by cinematography. This course examines the historical, critical and methodological relations between film as a medium or method of visual investigation and cinema as a site of cultural analysis. Cross-list: ANTH 318.

Long Title: MODALITIES OF CINEMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course we will survey the range of organizing principles in cinema - the differing and combative ways cinema arranges its images and sounds. We will look at classicism, modernism, postmodernism and many other modes. The films will range from early silent pictures, to experimental shorts, to commercial blockbusters.

Long Title: GLOBAL CINEMA

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This course introduces students to cinema as a global enterprise. It explores the relationship between nations, identities, races, concepts, and genres. It inquires into the question of globalization as it relates to the motion picture audience, corporations, and the commerce of ideas. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: ENGL 385.

Long Title: MAPPING GERMAN CULTURE: EUROPEAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Filmmaking has celebrated its first hundred years. Women's contributions were significant and deserve to widen the film canon for all filmgoers. This course will concentrate on films by European women directors, taking into account historical pioneering, cultural identities, aesthetics particularities, gender commitment, subject orientations and post-feminist attempts. Importance will also be given to the contexts and conditions of women's film production. All films subtitled in English. Taught in English with possible FLAC section. Cross-list: GERM 321, HUMA 321, SWGS 358.

Long Title: CULTURAL STUDIES: GLOBAL MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3 OR 4

Description: Examines the relationship between globalization and mass- mediated images and sounds. Looks at global distribution of Hollywood entertainment from early twentieth century onward; reception of Hollywood cinema and television in different national contexts; production of alternative/oppositional film and television by indigenous populations. Case studies of Hollywood, Bollywood, and Hong Kong. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE VISUAL ARTS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of overlapping themes central in the history of art, using texts from Plato to post-modernism. Includes the use of biography, style, connoisseurship, quality, the social basis of art, theories of change in the arts, psychology, iconography, and the modernist canon and post-modern challenges to that canon, as well as race, gender, class, authorship, and audience.

Long Title: PRODUCING FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE: METHODOLOGY AND VISUAL CULTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course we will examine various methodologies used by feminist scholars in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Particular attention will be devoted to the practical application of feminist methodologies in visual culture and the history of art, as well as to interdisciplinary feminist inquiries in science, ethnography, and epistemology. Cross-list: SWGS 391.

Long Title: CONCEPTUAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The first part of the course will examine the conceptual art practices that began in the 1960s, including Bochner, Kosuth, art and language, LeWitt, Hacke, Kelly, and Smithson. The second part of the course will focus on the question of what constitutes a conceptual architecture by interrogating a series of potential practices including: Super Studio, Anchiram, Eisenman, Libesking, Shinohara, Hejduf, Tschumi, and others. Cross-list: ARCH 384, Equivalency: HART 492.

Long Title: AESTHETICS AND HERMENEUTICS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Sacred texts and the visual arts have contributed immeasurably to shaping individual and collective conceptions of the spiritual in modern and postmodern culture. This course will examine a range of aesthetic and hermeneutic traditions, including mystical texts, modernists artworks and related museum exhibitions, in order to consider the ways in which the experiences of reading, writing, and viewing can serve as powerful acts of self-creation. Cross-list: RELI 362.

Long Title: THE SACRED ARTS OF SECULAR MODERNISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines various representations of spirituality and the sacred in modernist & post modernist aesthetics, and their corresponding expressions in historical and comtemporary museum practices. special emphasis will be placed on the outstanding collectionsof the adjacent museum district, the Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Long Title: SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN ART HISTORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics in art history. Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: REPRESENTATION, HEALING, AND THE BODY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course we will examine literal and symbolic representations of the human body in order to explore the relations between the visuality of medicine, corporeality, subjectivity, and healing. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THINKING THROUGH THE IMAGE: THE ART OF METHODOLOGY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar examines a range of methodological strategies that underpin the writing of modern and post modern art history. Some of the intepretive approaches to be examined include formalism, modernism, existentalism, post-modernism, feminism, Marxism, post colonialism, post- structuralism and deconstruction.

Long Title: BAYOU BEND INTERNSHIP

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Internship at Bayou Bend, the American Decorative Arts Center of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Must be a Jameson Fellowship recipient to enroll.

Long Title: BAYOU BEND UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP II

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Internship at Bayou Bend and The American Decorative Arts Center of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Must be a Jameson Fellowship recipient to enroll.

Long Title: HONORS THESIS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Honors thesis project in art history. Students must receive permission of the department faculty prior to enrolling. For additional information, please see Honors Program in the Rice University General Announcements. Department Permission Required.

Long Title: HONORS THESIS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Honors thesis project in art history. Students must receive permission of the department faculty prior to enrolling. For additional information, please see Honors Program in the Rice University General Announcements. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSEUM STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN MUSEUM STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ART AND EMPIRE: ATHENS & ROME

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar that examines the art and architecture of two of antiquity's greatest empires: Athens and Rome. Issues to be addressed include the formation of these cities as imperial capitals, the representation of the conquered, and the roles of Pericles and Augustus in forming imperial ideology.

Long Title: THE QUEST FOR ORIGINALITY IN CLASSICAL ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar examines how modern interests in originality and related desires for original artworks have shaped classical art history. Course considers differences between ancient and modern notions of originality; the degenerative view of Roman art based on the copying of Greek originals; how the modern quest to reconstruct lost originals has impacted the way we see antiquity today. Cross-list: CLAS 416.

Long Title: BURIED CITIES: THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF AKROTIRI, POMPEII, AND HERCULANEUM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of classical antiquity's best preserved cities thanks to volcanic eruptions: the Bronze Age site of Akrotiri and the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Art and architecture will be examined within their larger social and urban contexts. Methodological and ethical issues surrounding the excavation and preservation of these sites will also be considered.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ANCIENT ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ANCIENT ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special work in ancient art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ARTISTIC ENCOUNTERS: EUROPE AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD IN THE EARLY MODERN AND MODERN PERIODS

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar aims to assess the mutual impact of the visual cultures of Europe and the Islamic world through history. Focusing on 15th-19th-century material including architecture, painting, photography, textiles, and sartorial fashion, it examines channels of interaction, forms of influence, and modes of representation in aesthetic, cultural, philosophical, and political terms, and in light of concurrent theoretical debates.

Long Title: THE MAKING OF THE ORIENT

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The Making of the Orient in 18th-20th century Europe focuses on the construction of the image of the Orient in the age of European colonial expansion. Through critical analysis of texts, images, and cultural practices (painting, photography, architecture, city planning, music, fiction, and travel literature) and key theoretical works, this course examines issues of production and codification of knowledge, politics of representation, and identity construction in and beyond the colonial period. Cross-list: ARCH 422.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN EARLY CHRISTIAN, BYZANTINE, AND ISLAMIC ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN EARLY CHRISTIAN, BYZANTINE, AND ISLAMIC ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE OF THE GOTHIC CATHEDRAL FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will focus on one of the most important contributions to the history of western architecture-- the Gothic cathedral. The course will approach the material from a number of different perspectives--the formal and technical development of Gothic architecture; the Medieval architect and the design of Gothic buildings, the social, economic, and political history of "big church" building in the Middle Ages; Gothic architecture as experience and metaphor; and the afterlife of the Gothic cathedral from Vasari to the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Cross-list: MDST 431.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in Medieval art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY: MEDIEVAL ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in Medieval art. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: MDST 439. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: JAN VAN EYCK: PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar and in-depth research on the art and historiography of the early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. Cross-list: MDST 440.

Long Title: BOSCH AND BRUEGEL: A SEMINAR ON THE REPRESENTATION OF THE SACRED AND PROFANE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The obscene, the grotesque, the humorous, and the bizarre were frequently depicted alongside sacred religious scenes, in the margins of Medieval manuscripts, beneath the seats of church canons, or in the periphery of Gothic cathedral facade sculpture. This fantastic world, along with the personifications of the Seven Deadly Sins, were often imagined as the "other" in representations of race, class, and gender. By the sixteenth century, these images had migrated into the center of paintings, especially in the work of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. This course will examine the juxtapositions and complex meanings of sacred and profane imagery within the context of late Medieval and post reformation religious and social life. Cross-list: MDST 451.

Long Title: LEONARDO AND MICHELANGELO

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will offer a look at two of the greatest and most influential artists of all time. Students in this seminar will study the paintings, drawings, sculpture, and architecture of Leonardo and Michelangelo, as well as the philosophical and religious ideas found in their notebooks, letters, poetry, and other writings. There are no prerequisites for the course.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics and new courses in Renaissance and Baroque art, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in Renaissance and Baroque art. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MODELS OF ABSTRACTION

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): HART 351

Description: This course will examine a range of different models of abstract painting and sculpture as they appear throughout the twentieth century. Looking closely at the historical contexts that gave rise to abstraction particular attention will be paid to how apparently similar forms of abstraction can denote very different kinds of meaning.

Long Title: MANET(S) AND MODERNISM(S)

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar considers the pivotal figure of Edouard Manet. Combining a study of paintings from throughout his career, with close readings of primary sources, we will assess the key aspects of his style and subject matter. We will also consider art historical to his work and relationship to modernity.

Long Title: CUBISM AND THE PROBLEM OF FORM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will examine the cultural, social, and artistic context that led to the development of Cubism. Particular attention will be paid to the problem of form and color in the period from 1907 to 1914, as well as the reception of Cubism during the post-world war I "return to order". In addition to the work of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the work of the so-called "Salon Cubists" will be examined (Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Andre Lhote, Henri Le Fauconnier, et al.) along with the work of Henri Matisse, Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Delaunay, Le Corbusier and Amadee Ozenfant.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY I: EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHITECTURAL THEORY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar examines European architecture and architectural theory from Alberti to Semper. Through the detailed consideration of a number of key buildings and theoretical texts, it investigates relationships between theory, design, and themes such as origins, orders, proportion, structure, sensation, character, type, style, and surface. Cross-list: ARCH 485.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics and new courses in 19th and 20th century art. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in modern Art History. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN AMERICAN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in American art. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN NON-WESTERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN NON-WESTERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in non-Western art. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON FILM AUTHORSHIP: THE NEW HOLLYWOOD

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Focuses on issues of authorship in film and television. Presents a structuralist and post-structuralist reading of the films of Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Arthur Penn. Their films will be seen in the context of the social issues of the 1960s through the 1990s.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON DOCUMENTARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Overview of the history of documentary and ethnographic cinema from a worldwide perspective. Includes both canonical and alternative films and film movements with emphasis on the shifting and overlapping boundaries of fiction and nonfiction genres. Cross-list: ANTH 483.

Long Title: GENDER AND HOLLYWOOD CINEMA IN THE 1950S

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines representations of gendered subjectivity in Hollywood cinema during the 1950s. Some of the topics to be addressed include the uneasy relationship between normative domesticity and heterosexual masculinity, issues of voyeurism, and eroticism, and the ongoing conflict between liberated individualism and social conformity in corporate culture and bourgeois society. Cross-list: SWGS 485.

Long Title: STUDIES IN FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics will vary from year to year. Cross-list: ENGL 489.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Special topics and new courses in film and media studies, not necessarily repeated. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in film and media studies. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CONCEPTUAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The first part of the course will examine the conceptual art practices that began in the 1960s, including Bochner, Kosuth, art and language, LeWitt, Haacke, Kelly, and Smithson. The second part of the course will focus on the question of what constitutes a conceptual architecture by interrogating a series of potential practices including: Super Studio, Anchigram, Eisenman, Libeskind, Shinohara, Hejduf, Tschumi, and others. Equivalency: HART 392.

Long Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ART THEORY AND CRITICISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ART THEORY AND CRITICISM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in art history, theory, themes, and criticism. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTERNSHIP PROGRAM I

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: Graduate level course that will provide select students a practicum in museum work accompanied by an introduction to a history of museums, including varieties of museums, their role in society, and significant issues in museums today. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: INTERNSHIP PROGRAM II

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Graduate level course that will provide select students a practicum in museum work accompanied by an introduction to a history of museums, including the varieties of museums, their role in society, and significant issues in museums today. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY II (ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH POSTMODERNITY)

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ISTANBUL - LIFE OF AN IMPERIAL CITY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate Equivalent of HART 220. Additional requirements will include 3 - 7 to 8 page papers. These will include limited research, based on bibliography. The 3 papers will be in lieu of the 1 hours midterm and 1 hour final tests required for the 200 class.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON BEAUTY AND FRAGMENTATION IN MODERN ART

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: SEMINAR ON DOCUMENTARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: Independent study, reading, or special research in film & media studies on the graduate level. Repeatable for Credit.