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

Any TCCN equivalents are indicated in square brackets [ ].

ARTH 1300: Ways of Seeing: Art and Our Visual World
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1303. Examination of our visual world and the various ways in which that world has been analyzed and valued. May not be applied to a major or minor in art history or art.

ARTH 1380: Art and Society: Prehistoric to Gothic
[TCCN—ARTS 1303]
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1303. Required for art and art history majors. Art and its relationships to society in and for which it was made from the ancient world to the Gothic period.

ARTH 1381: Art and Society: Renaissance to Modern
[TCCN—ARTS 1304:]
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1303. Required for art and art history majors. Art and its relationship to society in and for which it was made from the Renaissance to the present.

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

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

ARTH 2384: Baroque Art (formerly ARTH 3383)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. Seventeenth century Western art and architecture.

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

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

ARTH 2388: Survey of the Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1303. Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in their historical context.

ARTH 2389: Modern and Contemporary Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. Avant-Garde art from 1863 through the 20th Century.

ARTH 2394: Selected Topics in Art History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

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

ARTH 3301: Critical Theory
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: junior standing and ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. Readings and discussion of the major concepts and methods employed in the analysis of art practice.

ARTH 3302: Contemporary Art Criticism
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: junior standing and ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor .Reading, writing, and analysis of contemporary art criticism.

ARTH 3311: Greek 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.

ARTH 3312: Pre-Columbian Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380, 1381, and ENGL 1304 or consent of instructor. Art and architecture of the Aztec, Maya and their predecessors.

ARTH 3313: Roman Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. Art and architecture of Rome through the Republic and Empire periods.

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

ARTH 3315: History of Prints in the West
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. History of prints, major printmakers and various functions of prints in the West  from the Late Middle Ages to the present.

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

ARTH 3317: Ancient Near Eastern Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. Art and architecture of Mesopotamia from its beginnings to the Persian period.

ARTH 3335: Surrealism and Its Legacies
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. Surrealism and its influence on American art and mass culture.

ARTH 3336: Postmodernism
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. Postmodern art and theory, from antecedents in the 1960s, through postmodern decades of the 1970s and 1980s.

ARTH 3376: Representations of Gender
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. Analysis of the shifting conventions and iconography of representing gender, from early pre-Greek ART through contemporary late 20th century art.

ARTH 3377: Landscape in Western Tradition
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. Landscape as a subject in European and American art from Antiquity to the present.

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

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

ARTH 3380: 17th Century Dutch Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of 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.

ARTH 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.

ARTH 3387: American Art I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. Colonial and nineteenth century American art.

ARTH 3388: American Art II
Cr. 3. (3-0 ). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. Twentieth and twenty-first century American art.

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

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

ARTH 3395: Selected Topics in Critical Theory and Criticism
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ARTH 3301 or 3302, or consent of instructor. Readings and discussion of topics in theory and criticism from modernism to the present. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 3396: Selected Topics in Critical Studies in Film and Video
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: junior standing and ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 3399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

ARTH 4198: Independent Study
Cr. 1 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: ARTH 1380 and 1381, and consent of instructor.

ARTH 4298: Independent Study
Cr. 2 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: ARTH 1380 and 1381, and consent of instructor.

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

ARTH 4311: Artists, Art-Making and Patronage in Medieval Europe
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. European Arts in the Middle Ages: professional lives of artists, art-making and art patronage.

ARTH 4314: Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 and six additional hours of art history or equivalent background in Medieval Studies. Medieval illuminated manuscripts with emphasis on book types and their audiences.

ARTH 4315: Reading Medieval Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 and six additional hours of art history or equivalent background in Medieval Studies. Current strategies in Medieval art history scholarship.

ARTH 4319: Readings in Nineteenth Century Photography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ART 3375, 3376, and 3377, or consent of instructor. Practice and theory of nineteenth century photography.

ARTH 4320: Readings in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Photography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ART 3375, 3376, and 3377, or consent of instructor. Practice and theory of twentieth century and twenty-first century photography.

ARTH 4375: Theories of Creativity
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 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.

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

ARTH 4381: Seminar on Rembrandt
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380, 1381, and six additional hours of art history or consent of instructor. The work and legacy of the most important artist in 17th century Holland, Rembrandt van Rijn, through readings, class discussion, and research.

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

ARTH 4385: Senior Seminar in Art History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: major in art history and twenty-four semester hours in art history, which must include ARTH 4388 or consent of instructor. Extensive readings, class discussion and research on a specific art historical subject. Topics may vary. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.

ARTH 4388: Methods of Art History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: major in art history, ARTH 1380, 1381, and six additional hours of art history, or consent of instructor. Readings, class discussions, and research on methodological issues in art history and the historical development of the discipline.

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

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

ARTH 4395: Selected Topics in Contemporary Theory and Practice
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ARTH 3301 or 3302, or consent of instructor. Readings and discussion of topics in theory and criticism from modernism to the present. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

ARTH 4398: Independent Study
Cr. 3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: ARTH 1380 and 1381, and consent of instructor.

ARTH 4399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

 

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Catalog Publish Date: August 22, 2012
This Page Last Updated: April 16, 2013