Current and Future Course Offerings – Department of the History of Art

Please consult the online course catalog for cross-listed courses and full course information.

FALL 2026 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

AHS 006/ Introduction to Art and Psychology

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

AHS 008/ Modern Western Visual Culture

CRN#: 39794
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 12:30-1:50PM
Place: Watkins 1000

AHS 025/ Art of Mesoamerica

CRN#: 41956
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 11:00-12:20PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

AHS 171/ Art in 17th Century Europe

CRN#: 42108
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30-10:50AM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

AHS 180/ Modern European Art I: Nineteenth Century

CRN#: 42407
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30-1:50PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

AHS 182/ Visual Art and Visual Theory After 1945

CRN#: 40352
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 9:30-10:50AM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

AHS 192/ Junior-Senior Seminar

CRN#: 10037
Meetings: Wednesday, 2:00-4:50PM
Place: Arts Seminar Room 333

Fall 2026 GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSES

AHS 251A/ Proseminar in Historiography

CRN#: 10044
Meetings: Tuesday, 2:00PM-4:50PM
Place: Arts Seminar Room, 333

AHS 260/ Seminar in Latin American Art

CRN#: 42109
Meetings: Monday, 2:00PM-4:50PM
Place: Arts Seminar Room, 333

AHS 280/ Seminar in Research, Critical Analysis and Thesis Writing

CRN#: 10045
Meetings: Thursday, 2:00PM-4:50PM
Place: Arts Seminar Room, 333

WiNTER 2027 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

AHS 010S/ Topics in Art and Architectural History

CRN#: 61015
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00-3:20PM
Place: Arts Screening Room, 335

AHS 015/ Arts of Asia

CRN#: 61022
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30-1:50PM
Place: Watkins 1000

AHS 021/ Introduction to Architecture

CRN#: 60778
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00-12:20PM
Place: Watkins 1000

AHS 113/ Art of 16th-Century Mexico

CRN#: 60992
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 12:20-1:50PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

AHS 117/ Visual Culture of the Incas

CRN#: 61203
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 5:00-6:20PM
Place: Watkins 1350

AHS 137/ History of Experimental Film

CRN#: 60993
Meetings: Monday and Wednesday, 2:00-3:20PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

AHS 173/ Rococo to Revolution: Art in 18th-Century Europe

CRN#: 61191
Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30-1:50PM
Place: Arts Screening Room 335

WINTER 2027 GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSES

AHS 251B/ Proseminar in Methodology

CRN#: 30042
Meetings: Monday, 9:30AM-12:20PM
Place: Arts Seminar Room, 333

AHS 267/ Seminar in Asian Art

CRN#: 61037
Meetings: Wednesday, 9:30AM-12:20PM
Place: Arts Seminar Room, 333

AHS 284/ Seminar in Contemporary Art

CRN#: 59474
Meetings: Monday, 1:30-4:20PM
Place: Arts Seminar Room, 333