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SPRING 2023 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

AHS 007/World Art: Images, Issues & Ideas

Course Flyer AHS 007 Spring 23This course is an introduction to the artistic achievements of the world’s cultures and to the ways in which they can be viewed. It provides students with a sound understanding of major art works from all ages and corners of the world, and the theoretical concepts and historical circumstances to which they owe their existence. We ask questions such as: What is art? What is an artist? How has their perception changed over time? What is an image? Why does art exist? What is ‘world art’? Why do we study art history?

CRN#: 72211
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30PM – 1:50PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

AHS 008/Modern Western Visual Culture

CRN#: 72205
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 5:00PM – 6:20PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

AHS 015/Arts of Asia

CRN#: 72205
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 9:30AM – 10:50AM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

AHS 017C/History of Western Art: Baroque to Modern

AHS 017C Spring 23 Course FlyerIn this course we’ll survey the visual arts of Europe and America from 1600 through the present. We’ll consider the religious and political roles of art, the rise of secular imagery, the increased role of women in the arts, the impact of popular culture and photography, and study other new media in the visual arts.

CRN#: 50008
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30AM – 10:50AM
Place: Watkins 1000

AHS 140/Arts of the Silk Road

CRN#: 72209
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 2:00PM – 3:20PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

AHS 176/Twentieth-Century Photography, 1900-1960

AHS 176 Spring 23 Course FlyerEuropean and American photography in the twentieth century veered wildly from mythic landscape to politically charged satire; from gritty realism to abstracted form. This course offers critical analysis of the key figures, theoretical debates and artistic movements of the period–beginning with pictorialism and ending with the rise of street photography– with emphasis on photography as the central mediator of modern experience.

CRN#: 72355
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30PM-4:50PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

AHS 180/Modern European Art: Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1789-1914

AHS 180 Spring 23 Course FlyerThis 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#: 72200
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 11:00AM – 12:20PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

AHS 182/Visual Art and Visual Theory After 1945

CRN#: 68490
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00AM – 12:20PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

SPRING 2023 GRADUATE LEVEL COURSES

AHS 260/Seminar in Latin American Art

The Art and Architecture of Tenochtitlan and Mexico City
AHS 260 Spring 23 Course FlyerThis graduate seminar provides an introduction to the art and architecture of ancient to contemporary Mexico through a case study of Mexico City (formerly Tenochtitlan). Beginning with the ancestral cities of Tula and Teotihuacan, continuing through the Spanish invasion and defeat of Aztec Tenochtitlan in 1521, and concluding with the legacy of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, and Olympics, we will examine the criteria inhabitants and historians use to define a “city.” The tension between antiquity and modernity, global and local identities, colonialism and resistance, and the relationship between art and community formation will be major themes. Special emphasis will be placed on the development of the skills of critical writing and visual analysis through discussion and short writing assignments. Readings from a range of sources (manifestos, dialogues, literary essays, newspaper articles) add a complementary focus to our analysis of the city.

CRN#: 72215
Meetings: Thursday, 9:30AM – 12:20PM
Place: ARTS 333

AHS 273/Renaissance Art

CRN#: 69906
Meetings: Monday, 3:00PM – 5:50PM
Place: ARTS 333

SUMMER 2023 A UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

AHS 007/World Art: Images, Issues & Ideas

CRN#: 74447
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 10:00AM – 12:50PM
Place: Online Synchronous

AHS 136/History of Video Art

CRN#: 74450
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 1:00PM – 3:50PM
Place: Online Synchronous

SUMMER B 2023 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

AHS 020/Introduction to Media Art

CRN#: 70002
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:00PM – 3:50PM
Place: Online Synchronous

AHS 165/Women Artists in Renaissance Europe

CRN#: 74454
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00AM – 11:50AM
Place: Online Synchronous

AHS 180/Modern European Art I

CRN#: 74454
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 10:00AM – 12:50PM
Place: Online Synchronous