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Undergraduate Art History

2015 Fall Term

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3 Units

SURVEY OF WESTERN ART - ANCIENT TO MEDIEVAL (GA)

ARTHIST 201

An investigation of major works of art in painting, sculpture, architecture, and minor related arts from prehistoric times to the late middle ages. Emphasis on the relationship between art and culture. Students develop skills in artistic analysis. Slide illustrated.


3 Units

SURVEY OF WESTERN ART - RENAISSANCE TO 1900 (GA)

ARTHIST 202

An investigation of major works in painting, sculpture, architecture, and related arts from the early Italian Renaissance to 1900. Students develop skills in artistic analysis and an understanding of the discipline of art history. Slide illustrated.


3 Units

INTRODUCTION TO MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART (GA)

ARTHIST 203

This course is designed to allow for a thematic approach to the study of art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Course material will explore the art, artists, and theory related to modern and contemporary art.


3 Units

ART OF THE 19TH CENTURY (GA)

ARTHIST 316

This course is designed to allow for a thematic approach to the unique art and art historical circumstances which existed in Europe and America from the mid-eighteenth century through the end of the nineteenth century. Course material may focus on particular topics and issues specific to the time period and various art historical movements, such as the rococo, the Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism.


3 Units

MODERN ARCHITECTURE (GA)

ARTHIST 317

This course explores the tensions between historicism and modernism in domestic, commerical in domestic, commercial and civic architectural solutions from the mid-19th century to 1960. Emphasis is placed on 'master architects' in Europe and the United States, urban planning and architectural utopias.


3 Units

MODERN ART (GA)

ARTHIST 318

This course is designed to allow for a thematic approach to the study of art in the first half of the twentieth century. Course material will explore the art, artists, and theory related to modern art.


1-3 Units

SPECIAL STUDIES

ARTHIST 496

Variable topics. Group activity. Not offered regularly in the curriculum but offered on topics selected on the basis of timeliness, need, and interest, and generally in the format of regularly scheduled Catalog offerings. Repeatable.


1-6 Units

INDEPENDENT STUDY

ARTHIST 498

Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member. Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credits in major/degree.

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