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SUMMER 2026, Undergraduate courses: SESSION A: June 22-JULY 25
An introduction to the history of art production and dissemination at the global scale moving from prehistory to the present. From cave paintings to AI-generated imagery, AHS 007 WORLD ART: IMAGES, ISSUES, AND IDEAS uses the plural histories of art to make sense of the present by considering such issues as the use of artworks as historical documents; the evolving connection between “high art” and popular culture; and the relationship between artist, viewer, artistic tradition, and society.
CRN#: 74447
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 9:00-11:50AM (plus discussion section)
Place: Online Synchronous
Images, especially moving images, surround us, reflect us, affect us, and in some ways make up our world. Artist and author Hito Steyerl has said, “we cannot understand this so-called reality any more without understanding cinema.” As moving images morph once more on account of the nexus of the Internet, mobile technology, and “big data,” what will be the effect on art and our world? This course explores changes in visual art that coincide and intersect with the history of new media — specifically how combinations of images produce meaning in cinema, intermedia, and social media — and what changes this may effect and reflect in ourselves and our society. Although course material is largely historical, one of the primary goals of the course is for students to develop the skills and intellectual curiosity to be critical viewers of contemporary art and visual culture.
CRN#: 70002
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00-11:50AM (plus discussion section)
Place: Online Synchronous
SUMMER 2026 undergraduate, SESSION B: July 27-August 29
Do you use TikToc? Do you watch online streaming shows?
Have you ever thought about videos being “art”?
Do you want to work in video production?
Have you ever seen a video in an art gallery and wondered what it was doing there?
If these questions caught your eye you need to take AHS 136: The History of Video Art this summer. This class looks at the origin of personal video, how it became and art form, and how it impacts
society today. Class will utilize streaming videos and follow an asynchronous format.
CRN#: 74450
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:00-3:50PM (plus discussion section)
Place: Online Synchronous
FALL 2026 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
What happens when we encounter a work of art? Innovative in both scope and method, this lecture explores Western and global art through psychological approaches. Drawing on works from diverse periods, cultures, and media, it examines the conscious and less conscious dimensions of seeing: how vision, attention, memory, emotion, and meaning-making shape both artistic production and reception. Bringing together perspectives from art history, studio art, psychology, biology, comparative literature, philosophy, anthropology, and related fields, the course invites students to reconsider not only what art means, but what art does — and what it teaches us about how perception works.
CRN#: 42226
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00-12:20PM
Place: Watkins 1000
Fall 2026 GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSES