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2001-2003


Courses: Art History (ARTH)
College: Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

1380:1381: History of Art I, II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1303. Required of all art majors. First semester: from the ancient world to the Gothic period. Second semester: from the Renaissance to the present.

2380: Introduction to North American Indian Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1303. North American Indian art from the Rio Grande River to the Arctic region, from pre-history to present with emphasis on social history, religion, symbols and materials/techniques.

2381: Classical Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. Minoan, Mycenaean, Greek, and Roman art.

2382: Medieval Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380: 1381 or consent of instructor. Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic art.

2383: Renaissance Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. Proto-Renaissance through Mannerist art.

2386: Nineteenth Century Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. Romanticism through Post-Impressionism in Europe and America.

2387: Twentieth Century Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. Style Nouveau through contemporary art.

2388: Primitive Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380: 1381 or consent of instructor. Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

2398: Special Problems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor.

3310: Ancient Egyptian Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. The art and architecture of Egypt during the time of the Pharaohs.

3311: Greek and Roman Art
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. The art and architecture of Ancient Greece and the Aegean World and of Rome through the Republic and Empire periods.

3312: Precolumbian Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ARTH 1380and 1381 or consent of instructor. Art and architecture of the Aztec, Maya and their predecessors.

3314: Latin American Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. Art and architecture of Latin America from the appearance of the Spanish to the present.

3315: Native American Art 1900 to Present
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite:ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. Native American fine art since 1900, including painting, sculpture, photography and film.

3316: American Women Artists
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. American women artists, 19th century to the present, and introduction to feminist art history.

3378: History of Nineteenth Century Photography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. From the invention of photography to 1900.

3379: History of Twentieth Century Photography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. The history of photography from 1900 to the present.

3381: Italian Renaissance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. Italian art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

3382: Northern Renaissance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. German and Netherlandish art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

3383: Baroque Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380: 1381 or consent of instructor. Seventeenth century Western art, sculpture, and architecture.

3384: Rococo Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. Eighteenth century Western art, sculpture, and architecture.

3385: Nineteenth Century Painting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. From neoclassicism through symbolism.

3386: Twentieth Century Painting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. From Fauvism and Expressionism to the present.

3387:3388: American Art I, II
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0 each). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. First semester: colonial art and architecture through the Civil War. Second semester: later nineteenth century to 1945.

3390: Greek Art (formerly 3380)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. The arts of Greece from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period.

3391: Roman Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. The art and architecture of Rome from the Republic to Constantine.

3394: Selected Topics in Art History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.

4198: 4298: 4398: Special Problems
Cr. 1-3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: ARTH 1380 and 1381 and consent of instructor.

4310: The Human Body in Non-Western Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of the instructor. Representation of the human body in the artistic traditions of Africa, Oceania and the Precolumbian Americas.

4312: The Harlem Renaissance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of the instructor. Arts of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920s and 30s.

4375: Theories of Creativity
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380: 1381. Analysis of the arts creative process through studying relevant theories of Freud, Jung, Gardner, and others, and specific examples of creativity among artists in various media.

4376: Seminar on Picasso
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380: 1381 and three additional semester hours of Art History, or consent of instructor. An in-depth study of the art of Picasso through extensive readings, class discussion, and research.

4377: Anglo-American Decorative Arts
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. Survey of furniture and other decorative arts from seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. Emphasis on Anglo-American tradition, including French and other European influences.

4378: History of Twentieth Century Sculpture
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381. Sculpture from Rodin to the present.

4379: Art Since 1945
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381. Examination of the visual arts since World War II.

4380: Dutch Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. Dutch art from the Renaissance to the Baroque period including the age of Rembrandt.

4381: Studies in Iconography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 and six semester hours of 2000-level courses, or consent of instructor. History of the content of the visual arts.

4382: Pre-Columbian Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. History of the arts in Latin America before Columbus.

4383: Contemporary Painting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. Painting since 1945 with an emphasis on the past two decades.

4384: Symbolism
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381. Late nineteenth century art in the Symbolist spirit.

4385: Expressionism
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381. Expressionist art of the early twentieth century.

4386: The Bauhaus
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381. Art and design of the Bauhaus School of 1919 to 1933.

4388: Methods in Art History Research
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381. Methodology of research in art history and the development of historical writing.

4389: Museum Methodology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: 20 semester hours of studio art or 15 semester hours of art history. May be repeated with consent of instructor. Introduction to the functions, methodology, and techniques of museums.

4390: Romantic Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. The visual arts of the romantic period in their cultural and intellectual context.

4393: Dada and Surrealism
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. Art of the Dada and surrealist movements in intellectual and social contexts.

4394: Selected Topics in Art History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.


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