Courses: Art History (ARTH)

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

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. An HFAC fine arts course. Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic art.

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

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

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

2388: Primitive Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380: 1381 or consent of instructor. An HFAC fine arts course. 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.

3378: History of Nineteenth Century Photography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. An HFAC fine arts course. 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. An HFAC fine arts course. The history of photography from 1900 to the present.

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

3382: Northern Renaissance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. An HFAC fine arts course. 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. An HFAC fine arts course. Seventeenth century Western art, sculpture, and architecture.

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

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

3386: Twentieth Century Painting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. An HFAC fine arts course. 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. An HFAC fine arts course. First semester: colonial art and architecture through the Civil War. Second semester: later nineteenth century to 1945.

3389: Italian Gothic Art and Patronage
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. Italian art of the 13th and 14th centuries and the role of the art patron.

3390: Greek Art (formerly 3380)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. An HFAC fine arts course. 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. An HFAC fine arts course. 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. 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.

4375: Theories of Creativity
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380: 1381. An HFAC fine arts course. 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 HFAC fine arts course. 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. An HFAC fine arts course. 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. An HFAC fine arts course. 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. An HFAC fine arts course. 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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