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3 courses with the subject AHUM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

AHUM 1399001/11961 M 12:10pm - 2:00pm Sarah bin 4.00 17/20

301m Fayerweather Tyeer

Subject: AHUM
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

AHUM 1400003/10917 M 2:10pm - 4:00pm Seong-Uk Kim 4.00 26/25

411 Kent Hall

Subject: AHUM
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

AHUM 2604001/13791 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm Yi-bang Li 3.00 22/22

832 Schermerhorn Hall Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 171 AHUM UN2800 Arts of Islam, 700-1000 CE. 4.00 points. CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulﬁllment of Global Core Requirement This lecture course offers a comprehensive and chronological overview of the major masterpieces of art and architecture of the Muslim world between circa 700-1000 AD. Topics concerning the rise of Arabic as the ofﬁcial language of the new Muslim Empire and the aesthetic transformation it went from script to calligraphy, the shaping of sacred spaces and liturgical objects, rulers’ iconographies and urban designs, as well as daily-life objects, will be discussed. Mecca, Madina, Jerusalem, Damascus, Fustat (old Cairo), Qayrawan, Cordoba, Baghdad, Samarra, Balkh, Bukhara and early Fatimid Cairo are the t major playgrounds to illustrate particular moments of shifting powers and aesthetic paradigms in the early days of the Muslim empire, suggesting a more differentiate picture of the arts of Islam in the age of imagining a world-wide empire. The past narratives for these regions will be critically presented by both looking at the medieval sources and the modern historiographies for these regions and by highlighting the varied ideologies at play. Taking this critical vein of studying the arts of the early Muslim age, past narratives will be reconsidered, while enhancing our awareness to the complicated, if not sometimes manipulated, processes of giving works of arts meanings and values AHUM UN2901 MASTERPIECES-INDIAN ART # ARCH. 3.00 points. CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulﬁllment of Global Core Requirement Introduction to 2000 years of art on the Indian subcontinent. The course covers the early art of Buddhism, rock-cut architecture of the t Buddhists and Hindus, the development of the Hindu temple, Mughal and Rajput painting and architecture, art of the colonial period, and the emergence of the Modern AHIS UN3101 The Public Monument in Antiquity. 4.00 points. This seminar will focus on the invention of the public monument as a commemorative genre, and the related concepts of time, memory and history in the ancient Near East (west Asia), Egypt, and Greece. Public monuments will be studies in conjunction with ancient texts (in translation) as well as historical criticism, archaeological and art historical theories. The seminar considers ancient monuments in relation to, and in the context of, modern concepts of monuments, history and heritage and the debates surrounding them. The seminar also introduces these methodologies and debates to students THTR UN3156 MODERN ASIAN PERFORMANCE. 4.00 points. This course studies contemporary Asian performance with a focus on modernity, covering most nations on the Asian continent. We will t examine a variety of performance, ranging from dance to revolutionary theatre, from postdramatic staging to translated as well as made- in-Asia musicals. Theoretical questions under discussion include modernity, national/ethnic/gender identity, art and ideology, the Sinophone, global Asias, among others. Fulﬁlls lecture/seminar requirement in Theatre/Drama and Theatre Arts major and minor programs

Subject: AHUM
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

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