ARTH 101
INTRODUCTION TO ART
Understanding major developments, structures and institutions of the history of art. Lectures with discussion sections.

ARTH 102
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ART
Understanding the language of art history and criticism and its relation to contemporary art, art institutions and the broader field of visual culture.

ARTH 103
INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE
Understanding built environments: space, structures, settlements, landscapes; major monuments and contemporary issues.

ARTH 104
INTRODUCTION TO ART/ARCHITECTURE OF THE ASIAN WORLD
Explores visual culture and the built environment at the different points and sites of the intersection of culture and power networks in the Eastern Hemisphere, including India, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Asian diasporas.

ARTH 225
RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE
A survey of Renaissance and Baroque art in Europe and its impact on cultural production in Africa and the Americas in the early modern era. Emphasis is placed on stylistic developments, workshop methods, iconography, patronage and the social functions of art from the 14th through early 18th centuries.

ARTH 252
AMERICAN ART AND SOCIETY 1930-1960
Organized around three moments or conjunctures: The Moment of Documentary, 1933-1939; The Radical Retreat, 1939-1947; and The American Century, 1947-1960. In a period of intense crises and conflicts, new types of governmental policies attempted to negotiate threatening social conditions, the cultural and political economy were recast and "American" culture emerged into a period of political conformity and global hegemony.

ARTH 254
CONSTRUCTS OF MODERNISM
Examination of the historically important concepts of modernity, modernism and avant-garde as objects of critical study within the visual cultures of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

ARTH 276
MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
International survey of architecture and urbanism from late 18th century to post-Modernism of 1970s. Major architects, stylistic trends, building types and structural systems discussed to evaluate modern built environment. First half of course covers period to Art Nouveau (c. 1900); second half, 20th century.
Offered every other year

ARTH 279
CULTURE, DWELLINGS AND DESIGN
Explores the question of how culture affects the design and use of dwellings in different regions of the world. Within a cross-cultural framework, examines recent methods of cultural analysis as applied to the study of housing and design and discusses contesting theories for the explanation of dwelling form.

ARTH 280
HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Introduction to problems in theory, analysis and history of photography. Nature of camera apparatus and photographic meaning; development of photography as the basis of a picture industry; growth of photographic records and documentary evidence, recent emergence of new forms of critical practice. Woven into course is study of the institutional and discursive orders in which photographies function and produce meaning.
offered every other year.

ARTH 281 and 286 A-Z
TOPICS IN ART HISTORY
Intensive study of particular pre-18th century themes and problems determined in advance. May be repeated for credit if different topic offered.

ARTH 282-283 A-Z
TOPICS IN ART HISTORY
Intensive study of particular pre-18th-century themes and problems determined in advance. May be repeated for credit if different topic offered.
2 cr.

ARTH 284 and 285 A-Z
TOPICS IN ART HISTORY
An intensive study of particular post-18th-century themes and problems determined in advance. May be repeated for credit if different topic offered.
2 cr.

ARTH 287, 288 and 289 A-Z
TOPICS IN ART HISTORY
An intensive study of particular post-18th-century themes and problems determined in advance. May be repeated for credit if different topic offered.

ARTH 325
RELIGION AND IMAGES ACROSS THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
Study of imagery in religious devotion, 1300 through present. Cross-cultural perspective (Italy; the Low Countries; England; France; Spain; Spanish colonial Americas; Africa; Asia). Material includes miraculous images and representations of miraculous events (weeping statues; sightings of Mary; stigmata on the bodies of the faithful).

ARTH 330
MEDIEVAL CULT OF SAINTS
History, distribution, art and architecture of the cult of saints. Illustrated manuscripts, reliquary shrines, stained glass displayed in new churches to attract pilgrims to towns such as Vezelay, Sainte-Foy, Monte Cassino and Canterbury, among others.

ARTH 352
INTERMEDIATE WORLD OF AFRICAN ART
Exploration of cultural and artistic issues in the works of 20th century African and African diasporic artists as shaped by major historical events in Africa, Canada, Caribbean, South America and the United States. Prerequisite: ARTH 111 or 221.

ARTH 355
IMPRESSIONISM/POST-IMPRESSIONISM
The developments and critiques of works that came to be termed under the problematic rubrics of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, within the context of the changing urban and political environments of the 1860s through 1900. Although works from Spain, Germany and South America are examined, emphasis is placed on Western European trends exploring figures such as Manet, Cassatt, Morisot, Monet, Van Gogh and Seurat.

ARTH 370
READING THE CITY
Cities are spatial and architectural representations of social life, and different cultures, economies, histories and places produce different forms and images of the city. But cities are themselves also represented in different cultural forms - in novels, films, scholarship and the visual arts. Consideration of a wide range of issues prompted by contemporary city writings from a range of disciplines. In addressing discourses on the city, the different sessions tell us something of the cities themselves, their cultures and their spaces, as well as the conditions in which they exist.

ARTH 381 and 386 A-Z
TOPICS IN ART HISTORY
An intensive study of particular pre-18th-century themes and problems determined in advance. May be repeated for credit if different topic offered.

ARTH 382 and 383 A-Z
TOPICS IN ART HISTORY
An intensive study of particular pre-18th-century themes and problems determined in advance. May be repeated for credit if different topic offered.
2 cr.

ARTH 384 and 385 A-Z
TOPICS IN ART HISTORY
An intensive study of particular post-18th-century themes and problems determined in advance. May be repeated for credit if different topic offered.
2 cr.

ARTH 387, 388 and 389 A-Z
TOPICS IN ART HISTORY
Intensive study of particular post-18th-century themes and problems determined in advance. May be repeated for credit if different topic offered.

ARTH 397
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Tutorial study of special problems that meets needs of advanced students. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
var. cr.

ARTH 430-489
ADVANCED STUDIES IN ART HISTORY
These courses are restricted in scope, require specialized knowledge and have specific course prerequisites depending on the subject.

ARTH 492
UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY INTERNSHIP
"Hands-on" internships for qualified students in aspects of gallery operations including assistant editor of gallery newsletter, docent, cataloging assistant, assistant on projects related to permanent collection, public relations, audience development, exhibition design and installation. Interns work on a specific project or assist with daily operations. Admission only by petition to the department; pre-registration interview required.
var. cr.

ARTH 493
LOCAL INSTITUTION INTERNSHIP
Museum experience gained through cataloging projects. Specific work contracts developed between the student and museum staff member for each internship. Admission only by petition to the department; pre-registration interview required.
var. cr.

ARTH 495
ART HISTORY INTERNSHIP
Student's primary responsibility is to assist the editor (member of the art history faculty) of the Art History Newsletter with a variety of tasks related to this publication (e.g., creating topics for articles; researching information for producing drafts of articles; working with University Publications Office on production-related tasks, such as layout and visuals; and creating mailing lists and distribution).
var. cr.

ARTH 496
THEORY AND METHODS
Discussion of major approaches to art history, past and present, through reading and analysis of critical theory and selected major historical studies. Required of majors, open to others with consent of instructor.

ARTH 498-499
SENIOR HONORS
For students whose primary goal is graduate study in art history and who wish to write a thesis in an area of art history. Must be taken for two semesters, for total of eight credit hours. Available only to art history majors with 3.5 cumulative average in art history, plus accepted proposal and recommendation of a faculty member.