Course Description: Introduction to the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean world, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

Course Description: Christian, Barbarian, Moslem, and Classical traditions in European Art from the 4th through the 16th centuries.

Course Description: Introduction to visual analysis through study of western art 1600-present, examining major artists and movements from Europe to North America. Study of the relationship of art and artists to political, religious, social change, and to changes in ideology, patronage, audience.

Course Description: Introduction to major forms and trends in the arts, architecture, and material culture of Asia from the Neolithic to the contemporary emphasizing the visual manifestation of secular and religious ideas and ideals.

Course Description: Introduction to the art and architecture of the Islamic world including the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and South Asia, from the 7th century CE to the 20th century.

Course Description: Development of visual literacy for an increasingly visual world; critical analyses focusing on the widest variety of visual imagery: the fine arts across media and eras of world culture, television, film, and advertising. Intended for a diverse spectrum of audiences.

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Course Description: Development of architecture and urban design; how form, space, order are conceived and used across eras and cultures. Examines the function and organization of space, technological problems of construction, visual qualities of architecture, and social issues connected to architecture.

Course Description: Directed group study.

Course Description: Special study for undergraduates.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

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Course Description: Methods of art historical research and analysis, and general issues in critical thought. Writing skills appropriate to a range of art-historical exposition.

Prerequisite(s): Prior completion of two upper-division Art History (AHI) courses recommended.

Course Description: Museum theory and practice. Mission of the museum to collect, preserve and educate. Museum administrative structure and the role of the curator. Visitor engagement, ethics of display, interpretation and content production.

Course Description: Curate an exhibition. Development of exhibition proposal, object selection and installation, design, lighting, creation of exhibition text and promotional material. Production of a public display for a campus museum or elsewhere.

Course Description: Evolution of museums in the western world from the "cabinet of curiosities" of 16th-century Europe to the modern "art center." Changing motives behind collecting, exhibiting, and interpretation of objects. Attention to museums' historical legacies and continuing philosophical dilemmas.

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Course Description: Study of human rights as they relate to art, architecture, and cultural heritage. Examines museums, art collections, and cultural-heritage management, their relation to the cultural prerogatives of communities and indigenous groups, and protection of cultural heritage during war and conflict.

Course Description: Politics of public art. Role of contemporary artists, public monuments, urban spaces, the movie industry, photography, propaganda art, and comics in construction of political ideologies and collective identities.

Course Description: Relationship between space and sexuality. Sexual metaphors in art and architecture, gender identity formation via images and space. Diverse intersections of sexuality and art history.

Course Description: The institution of the museum in the context of modernity, nationalism, (post) colonialism, and the society of spectacle. Designed to bring art objects of the Manetti Shrem collection, global art history, and foundational critical theory together in a meaningful and experimental way.

Course Description: Interpretation of the natural world in the western world 1600-1900, with perspectives on the present; landscape painting, ideology of picturesque and sublime, landscape art and travel, reshaping the land as art; dialogues between art and science; nature as national identity.

Course Description: Study of forms and symbols in historic and contemporary masterpieces.

Prerequisite(s): ART 005 or 007 recommended.

Course Description: Traditional arts and crafts of subsaharan Africa from prehistoric times to the present; the relationships among art, nature, cycles of life, and religion; art as expression of power; sculpture and culture in West and Central Africa; Colonialism and collecting.

Course Description: Artistic developments of the ancient New World. Interpretations of art and architecture in relation to religious ideologies, social structures, and political paradigms in Peru, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mesoamerica.

Course Description: Traditional arts of aboriginal Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia, as seen in their cultural contexts. Prehistoric art of Europe and the Near East.

Course Description: A historical survey of the development of the language of symbolism and iconography in Hinduism.

Prerequisite(s): RST 068 Hinduism or RST 069 Hindu Mythology recommended, but not required.

Course Description: Comparative history of architecture and symbolism of the Hindu Temple in India, Southeast Asia and the United States. Attention to the temple as expression of religious knowledge, political authority, and cultural heritage through the lens of colonialism and postcolonialism.

Course Description: Introduction to the urban history of the Islamic world. Critical study of the historiography of the Islamic city, development of urban form, institutions and rituals, and analysis of selected themes.

Prerequisite(s): AHI 001E recommended.

Course Description: Critical study of the arts of the luxury book in the pre-modern Islamic world. Representation in Islam, the relationship of word and image, the discipline of calligraphy, aesthetics and representation in Persianate painting.

Prerequisite(s): Prior completion of AHI 001E recommended.

Course Description: A historical survey of Buddhist art in relation to the development of Buddhist doctrine and philosophy.

Course Description: Survey of Indian popular religious art in prints, trade labels, comics and photographs.

Course Description: Thematic and chronological examination of 3000 years of Chinese art and culture from Neolithic through Tang Dynasty (10th c. CE). Study of ceremonial and secular objects manifesting folk beliefs and belief systems of ancestor worship, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism.

Course Description: Thematic and chronological examination of Chinese painting and culture from the Tang Dynasty (7th century CE) through the early 20th century. Issues considered include political art (made to support or protest regimes), art and the market, art and individual expression.

Course Description: Topics in Chinese Art History, 13th-19th century. Study of issues pertaining to self and society; gender and gendering; religion and philosophy; political engagement and protest; economy and the market; the effects created by periods of transition on visual expression.

Course Description: Forms of modern and avant-garde expression from China's industrialization to the 21st century. Interactions of art and politics, individual and state, art for the free market versus art for the state, expressions of modernity; China on the world stage.

Course Description: Japan’s painting, architecture, decorative arts, and print heritage, ancient times to the 20th century in literary, political, intellectual, and spiritual contexts; impact of Japanese art on the West and the West’s transformative impact upon Japan’s opening in the 19th century.

Course Description: Transformation in architecture and urban form in Paris, London, and Vienna in the context of varying social, political, and economic systems as well as very different cultural traditions, concentrating on the years 1830-1914.

Course Description: Examination of the origin and development of the major monuments of Greek art and architecture from the 8th century to the mid-5th century B.C.

Course Description: Study of the art and architecture of later Classical and Hellenistic Greece, from the mid-5th century to the 1st century B.C.

Course Description: Art and architecture of Rome and the Roman Empire, from the founding of Rome through the 4th century C.E.

Course Description: Architecture and urban development in the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome. Special emphasis on the social structure of the ancient city as expressed in its architecture, and on the interaction between local traditions and the impact of Greco-Roman urbanism.

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Course Description: Term paper or gallery studies and review. Painting, sculpture and architecture of the early Christian era and Byzantine Empire: through the later Roman Empire in the West and to the final capture of Constantinople in the East.

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Course Description: Term paper or gallery studies and review. Painting, sculpture and architecture of western Europe in the early medieval era: from the rise of the barbarian kingdoms through the 12th century.

Course Description: Term paper or gallery studies and review. Painting, sculpture and architecture in northern Europe from the 12th through the 15th centuries.

Course Description: Artistic culture of Western and Central Europe c. 1350-1600. Topics include the development of "realism" in portraiture and landscape, prints and print culture, urbanism, science and the exotic, anti-religious artworks, religious attacks on art, contacts with Renaissance Italy.

Course Description: Artists of the 15th century, with a focus on Florence; Donatello and Masaccio through Botticelli, in their artistic, architectural, and cultural setting; the impact of Humanism and the rebirth of classical learning.

Course Description: High Renaissance and Mannerism in 16th-century Italy: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian in their artistic and cultural settings, Florence, Rome, and Venice; the architecture of Bramante, Michelangelo, and Palladio.

Course Description: Painting, sculpture and graphic arts in the 17th century, including such artists as Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velázquez in their political and social context.

Course Description: European design culture between 1710 and 1780, including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, furniture, metalwork, and ceramics. Concentration on the arts in France and Germany, but in dialogue with art from China, India, the Middle East, and the Americas. Ornamentation and decoration as critical concepts in art history.

Course Description: Art and architecture of Latin America since Spanish arrival in the New World to the present. Visual, spatial, and material practices (painting, sculpture, urban form, cartography, and film, among others) from North and South America. How art and architecture shape and define colonial encounters and negotiations, religious and cultural exchange, conceptions of race and gender, and notions of nationalism and globalism.

Course Description: British painting in relation to the position of women in society and the rise of the middle-class art market. Topics covered Hogarth and popular culture, Queen Victoria and the female gaze, and Pre-Raphaelite artists and collectors.

Course Description: Emergence of modernism in Europe from the late l8th century to the middle of the l9th century. Major artistic events viewed against a revolutionary backdrop of changing attitudes toward identity, race, and gender.

Prerequisite(s): Prior completion of AHI 001C recommended.

Course Description: Innovations of Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and Symbolists in relation to social changes. Assessment of role of dealers and critics, myth of the artist-genius, and gender relations in French art and culture of the late 1800s.

Prerequisite(s): Prior completion of AHI 001C recommended.

Course Description: Development of modern art in France, its social context, and its transnational aspects. Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism are considered in relation to secessionist movements, the formation of other artistic groups, new forms of patronage, and new audiences.

Course Description: Major movements in architecture of the 20th century in Europe and America. Formal innovations are examined within the social, political, and economic circumstances in which they emerged.

Prerequisite(s): Prior completion of AHI 025 recommended.

Course Description: Social, cultural, aesthetic, and theoretical development for artists and their audiences in the context of larger issues like the Mexican, Russian and German revolutions, WWI, the Depression, WWII, etc., and a critical-theoretical inquiry into questions of modernism, modernity, and avant-gardism.

Course Description: Development of new media and aesthetics in the context of such cultural and political phenomena as the New Left, feminism, and globalization; investigation of the critical-theoretical questions of neo avant-gardism, postmodernism, and postmodernity.

Course Description: Introduction to world architecture and urban design since circa 1966. Relation of influential styles, buildings, and architects to postmodern debates and to cultural, economic, technological and environmental change.

Course Description: American domestic architecture and its responsiveness to changes in daily life from Colonial times to the 1960s. Vernacular developments, effects of different socioeconomic conditions, and women's role in shaping the home receive special attention.

Course Description: Major movements from colonial times to the present. The role of buildings in a changing American society, the interplay of styles with technologies of construction, relationship between American and European developments and evolution of the architectural and planning professions.

Course Description: Major movements in American art from the 17th-century English-speaking colonies to the onset of World War I.

Course Description: Social, cultural, aesthetic and technical developments in the history of photography including patronage and reception, commercial, scientific, political and artistic applications, and a critical-theoretical inquiry into photography's impact on the social category "art" and the history of subjectivity.

Course Description: Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing; significant training in Art History recommended; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing; significant training in Art History recommended; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing; significant training in Art History recommended; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing; significant training in Art History recommended; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing; significant training in Art History recommended; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing; significant training in Art History recommended; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing; significant training in Art History recommended; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing; significant training in Art History recommended; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing; significant training in Art History recommended; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing; significant training in Art History recommended, or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in art, architecture, or material culture. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing.

Prerequisite(s): Art History major, minor, or other significant training in Art History recommended.

Course Description: Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue in the history of collecting, including individual and institutional collecting practices.

Prerequisite(s): Art History major, minor, or other significant training in Art History recommended.

Course Description: Supervised program of internships at professional art institutions such as museums, galleries, and art archives including collections of slides and photographs.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Course Description: Research and initial drafting of a senior thesis paper in a scholarly area of Art History, under supervision of Art History faculty advisor.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; a minimum GPA of 3.7 and completion of one undergraduate seminar in Art History (AHI 190A-L).

Course Description: Final writing of a senior thesis paper in a scholarly area of Art History, under supervision of Art History faculty advisor.

Prerequisite(s): AHI 194HA A- or better; consent of instructor.

Course Description: Directed group study.

Course Description: Special study for advanced undergraduates.

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Course Description: Close study of selected recent developments in interpretive methodology used by art historians and other analysts of visual culture and the place of those developments within art history's history and in the larger field of social, cultural and historical analysis.

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Course Description: Development of the research, writing, and editing skills necessary for producing publishable work. Focus on reference tools used by art historians and the mechanics of scholarship, from question framing and organization of ideas to writing clear, effective prose.

Course Description: Meeting concurrently with AHI 200B, the colloquium provides a structured, supportive environment for second-year Art History graduate students drafting masters' theses. Offers a forum for technical discussions, discussion of writing/editing procedures, and peer review of writing in progress.

Prerequisite(s): AHI 200B; taken by all Art History M.A. students in their first year.

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Course Description: Issues accompanying the evolution and function of museums from cabinets of curiosities in 16th-century Europe to modern art centers. Examination of divergent motives behind collecting, exhibiting, and interpretation of objects. Investigation of museums' historical legacies and continuing philosophical dilemmas.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate status in art history or an allied field.

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Course Description: Major topics in art historical research, emphasizing special methods of investigation, and of historical and critical analysis.

Course Description: Selected areas of special study in classical art of the Greek and Roman tradition.

Course Description: Selected areas of special study in Chinese Art.

Course Description: Selected areas of special study in medieval art from Early Christian to late Gothic.

Course Description: Selected areas of special study in Italian art from the 14th to the 16th century.

Course Description: Selected areas of special study in the relationship between visual culture and gender in Europe and America from 1750 to present.

Course Description: Exploration of selected topics in European and American architectural history with concentration on the Modern Period.

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Course Description: Special research seminar in the theory or methods of Art History, or in a period of Art History. Topic varies depending on the interests of the instructor or students.

Course Description: Supervised internship at professional art or cultural institution including museum, galleries, archives, government offices, visual resources libraries, etc.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; graduate student.

Course Description: Directed group study.

Course Description: Individual study.

Course Description: Designed for teaching assistants with emphasis on problems and procedures encountered by teachers of undergraduate art history.

Course Description: Teaching assistant training practicum.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.

Course Description: Approved for graduate degree credit. History of exhibition methods in private and public collections. Comparisons of different types of museums and their exhibition problems. Lighting and techniques of display with emphasis on actual design. Experimentation with unusual presentation forms.