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Spring 2022 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
CRN#: 50008
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30AM – 10:50AM
Place: Watkins 1000
This interdisciplinary lecture course examines the multifaceted field of ‘art and technology’ from aesthetic, institutional, and social perspectives across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. By studying how artists and engineers collaborate, we will learn how emergent technologies — from the photograph and phonograph to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the blockchain — are made meaningful through creative engineering and artistic experimentation. In addition to close formal analysis and interpretation of technological artworks, we will critically examine the social and political impacts of media and technology by asking why artists and engineers collaborate, and how their works intersect with global networks of commercial and political power. We will also discuss how media cultures of the past can help us to understand our present world — and how technological cultures of the future (including their capacity for equity and social justice) are affected by our choices today.
CRN#: 70356
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 9:30AM – 10:50AM
Place: ARTS 335
CRN#: 69894
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 11:00AM – 12:20PM
Place: Watkins 1000
How do artists conceive of themselves and their public persona? How does their self-perception reflect in works of art? Which myths and legends are behind the notions of what an artist is? And how do artists and theoreticians work with or against them? In ad- dressing these and other important question of what artistic identity meant and how it was performed and represented in different time periods in the Western world, the seminar serves as an introduction to core concepts of artistic thinking and production. Ideas
of creativity, artistic skill, and the role of self-fashioning in portraiture will be discussed. Through a close reading of texts and images, you will be introduced to strategies of (self-) promotion and mythmaking as well as their affirmation and deconstruction in later interpretations. The seminar will familiarize you with different text genres (biographical and autobiographical writings, psychoanalytical interpretations. key texts in the history of art), and it will cover a range of different art forms (sculpture, painting, photography, film, body art, artists’ books). The goal is to develop your individual skills in the analysis of different types of texts together with a formal analysis of significant works of art, to sharpen your understanding of different historical and intellectual contexts, and to deepen your insight in the history of artistic identities.
CRN#: 70370
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30PM – 1:50PM
Place: ARTS 335
CRN#: 68490
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00AM – 12:20PM
Place: ARTS 335
CRN#: 60057
Meetings: Monday, 1:00PM – 3:50PM
Place: ARTS 335
spring 2022 GRADUATE LEVEL COURSES
CRN#: 69906
Meetings: Thursday, 3:00PM – 5:50PM
Place: ARTS 333

CRN#: 70371
Meetings: Wednesday, 2:00PM – 4:50PM
Place: ARTS 333
An introduction to artistic achievements of global cultures and ways in which they can be viewed. Considers such issues as the use of artworks as historical documents; connections between art and popular culture; and the relationship between artist, viewer, artistic tradition, and society.
CRN#: 74447
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 10:00AM – 12:50PM
Place: Online Synchronous Class
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: Monday and Wednesday, 1:00PM – 3:50PM
Place: Online Synchronous Class
The story of Renaissance art has long been shaped around the lives and works of famous men, from Leonardo da Vinci to Michelangelo Buonarroti. While women have practiced as artists across all media from antiquity onward, only very recently have they begun to reappear in our accounts — both popular and scholarly — of the era. Figures such as Sofonisba Anguissola and Artemisia Gentileschi, for example, have gradually reemerged in public consciousness through blockbuster exhibitions, films and even graphic novels!
In this course we will examine European women artists working between 1400 and 1650. Our primary focus will be Italy and the Netherlands, with comparative material drawn from England, Germany and other sites in Europe. Through a series of case studies we will explore how historical context, conceptions of gender and cultural attitudes towards women conditioned their experiences and artistic practices during this period. Among other topics, we will discuss: the main spaces of production where women worked—courts, convents and cities; how these artists navigated networks of patronage, marketing and gift exchange to build their careers; the achievements of women in particular genres of painting like portraiture and still-life, but also across a wide variety of other mediums such as needlework and printing; and the reasons for women’s omission from the canon of Renaissance art history. Ultimately, putting women artists and issues of gender back into the picture greatly enriches our understanding of this fascinating period.
CRN#: 74454
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00AM-11:50AM
Place: Online Synchronous Class
SUMMER 2022, SESSION B (July 25-august 27)

to develop the skills and intellectual curiosity to be critical viewers of contemporary art and visual culture.
CRN#: 70002
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:00PM – 3:50PM
Place: Online Synchronous Class
This course will study European art from French Revolution to the outbreak of the First World War. We will examine how artists responded to the political, social, and industrial revolutions occurring across Europe, and the emergence of a new Modern art. Topics covered will be Neoclassicism, Realism, Romanticism, Impressionism and Post Impressionism, architecture, sculpture and decorative art.
CRN#: 74009
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 10:00AM – 12:50PM
Place: Online Synchronous Class
FALL 2022 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
CRN#: 33949
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00PM – 3:20PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335
CRN#: 10008
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00AM – 12:20PM
Place: Watkins 1000
CRN#: 33950
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00AM – 12:20PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335
Ancient Mesoamerica (today’s Central America, Mexico, and the Southwest United States) boasted some of the world’s largest cities, expansive trade routes, and complex systems of writing. Beginning with the Olmec in 1500 BCE, turning to the Maya and Teotihuacan, and ending with the fall of the Aztec Empire in 1521, this course examines how Mesoamerican cultures used art and architecture to craft a distinctive visual identity, forge sprawling empires and powerful city-states, and communicate with the gods. From ball courts to pyramids, and jade to feathers, the art and architecture of Mesoamerica tell a vivid story of cross-cultural exchange and artistic innovation. Through close analysis of objects, architectural plans, and historical texts, students will hone the ability to write cogently about what they see, as well as describe the place of Latin American antiquity in the crafting of modern political and social identities.
CRN#: 33951
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 9:30AM-10:50AM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335
CRN#: 33952
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 3:30PM – 4:50PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335
CRN#: 33953
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30PM – 1:50PM
Place: Arts 335
CRN#: 33954
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 12:30PM – 1:50PM
Place: Arts 335
CRN#: 10037
Meetings: Monday, 2:00PM – 4:50PM
Place: Arts 333
Fall 2022 GRADUATE LEVEL COURSES
CRN#: 10044
Meetings: Thursday, 2:00PM – 4:50PM
Place: ARTS 333
CRN#: 34047
Meetings: Wednesday, 2:00PM – 4:50PM
Place: ARTS 333
CRN#: 10045
Meetings: Monday, 11:00AM – 1:50PM
Place: ARTS 333