Graduate Courses: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Note: Non-Art majors may not register for Art History (ARTH) courses except with the written permission of the instructor and the School of Art graduate advisor.

Non-Art majors may take no more than nine (9) semester credit hours of coursework in Art and/or Art History.

Department of Art

 

Courses: Art History (ARTH)

6301: Critical Theory

Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor. Survey of the major concepts and methods employed in the analysis of art practice.

6302: Contemporary Art Criticism
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor. Reading, writing and analysis of contemporary art criticism.

6310: Greek Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art or art history, or consent of instructor. The art and architecture of Ancient Greece and the Aegean World.

6311: Roman Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor. The art and architecture of Rome through the Republic and Empire periods.

6314: Artists, Art-Making and Patronage in Medieval Europe
Cr. 3. (3-0).  European Arts in the Middle Ages: professional lives of artists, art-making and art patronage.

6315: Italian Gothic Art and Patrona
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor. Italian art of the 13th and 14th centuries and the role of the art patron.

6319: Readings in 19th Century Photography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor. Study of the practice and theory of 19th Century Photography.

6320: Readings in Twentieth and Twenty First Century Photography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art or art history, or consent of the instructor.  Study of the practice and theory of twentieth and twenty-first century photography.

6321: Northern Renaissance Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). German and Netherlandish art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

6322: 17th Century Dutch Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor. The rich artistic production of Holland's "Golden Age of art," including history, painting, genre, portraiture, landscape and still life.  Rembrandt, Vermeer and many other artists.

6323: Seminar on Rembrandt
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor. The work and legacy of the most important artist in the 17th Century Holland, Rembrandt van Rijin, through readings, class discussion and research.

6324: Landscape in Western Traditions
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor. Landscape as a subject in European and American art from Antiquity to the present.

6331: Contemporary Painting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor. Painting since 1945 with an emphasis on the past two decades.

6340: Pre-Columbian Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor. Art and architecture of the Aztec, Maya and their predecessors.

6341: The Human Body in Non-Western Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or art history, or consent of the instructor. Representation of the human body in the artistic traditions of Africa, Oceania and the Pre-Columbian Americas.

6373: Readings in 19th Century Photography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or art history, or consent of the instructor. Study of the practice and theory of the 19th Century Photography.

6374: Readings in 20th Century Photography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or art history, or consent of the instructor. Study of the practice and theory of the 20th Century Photographers.

6386: Professional Practice
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art or consent of instructor. Business practices, grant applications, and residency and exhibition opportunities for the working artist including strategies for Curriculum Vitae, proposal and portfolio presentation.

6394: Selected Topics in Art History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of instructor. Will be identified by a specific title each time it is offered. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

6395: Selected Topics in Critical Theory and Criticism
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor. Selected topics in theory and criticism from modernism to the present. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

6399: Master's Thesis
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art history, and 18 hours of graduate level art history.

7310: Italian Gothic Images and Society
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art history, or consent of instructor. Explores the relationship between images and visual and social cultures in 14th Century Italy. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor

7320: Dutch Art in Houston
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art history, or consent of instructor. Explores Dutch art in public and private collections in the Houston area.

7321: Problems in Dutch Genre Painting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art history, or consent of instructor. Examines themes and interpretive problems in Dutch genre painting. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.

7330: Issues in Avant-garde and Kitsch
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art history, or consent of instructor. Explores tension between high art  and mass culture from the 1940's to the present, especially in the context of museum exhibitions, advertising, marketing and art criticism. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.

7331: Text and Image
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art history, or consent of instructor. Examines the interaction of text and image in visual culture, including its use by avant-garde artists, advertisers, curators and art historians.

7340: Non-Western Objects & History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art history, or consent of instructor. Intensive study with readings and discussions of a major theme or issue in the study of non-Western art, focusing on local collections. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.

7341: Ancient Sculptural Traditions of Veracruz
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art history, or consent of instructor. Examines the tradition of stone sculpture in Classic Veracruz, Mexico (c. A.D. 100-1000) with focus on sculptural form, object function and historiography.

7390: Seminar in Curatorial Issues and Practice
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art or art history, or consent of instructor. History of art institutions and issues of display. Required for all first-year art history graduate students.

7391: Graduate Art History Seminar
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art history and ARTH 3699 or consent of faculty area coordinator. Group discussions and critique of students' on-going thesis projects. Required for all art history graduate students in their final year.

7392: Seminar on Exhibition Preparation and Design
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art history, or consent of instructor. Selection of works and design of an actual or virtual exhibit of artifacts and/or student works.

7393: Art History and Internship
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art history, 9 semester hours in graduate art history and coordinator approval. Internship at museum, arts institution or organization under supervision of relevant arts professional. May be repeated for credit with approval of art history area coordinator

7394: Selected Topics in Art History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of instructor. Will be identified by a specific title each time it is offered. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

7395: Selected Topics in Contemporary Theory and Practice
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor. Selected topics in theory and criticsm, with an emphasis on the issues that inform and/or influence contemporary analysis and production. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

7398: Independent Graduate Study in Art History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art and consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit.

7399: Master's Thesis
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: graduate standing in art hisotry, and ARTH 6399.

Catalog Publish Date: January 14, 2013
This Page Last Updated: November 29, 2012