13 courses with the subject ARTH, 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.
3 sem. hrs. Offered annually, fall semester. A survey of major monuments in the history of art and an overview of their relationships to the cultures that produced them. Emphases on literature, politics, philosophy, religion, or society varies according to the period.
3 sem. hrs. Offered annually, spring semester. A survey of major monuments in the history of art since 1600, and an overview of their relationships to the cultures that produced them. Emphases on literature, politics, philosophy, religion, or society varies according to the period.
3 sem. hrs. Offered alternate years, fall semesters. A survey of art, architecture and other monuments outside the Western tradition and an overview of their relationships to the cultures that produced them. Topics will include the arts of India, China, Japan, Islamic cultures, Africa, Oceania, and native cultures of the Americas.
3 sem. hrs. Offered annually. This class will introduce visual and conceptual expressions from recent decades. Students will examine contexts of contemporary politics, markets and aesthetics, and will be introduced to theoretical concepts in order to understand expressions of identity, globalization, technology and postmodernism among other principles. 112 CO URSES
3 sem. hrs. Offered alternate years. This course explores a range of critical approaches to the photographic image as we examine major developments in the legacy of the medium.
3 sem. hrs. Offered alternate years, fall semesters. A survey of European and American art from 1750 to the present.
3 sem. hrs. Offered as needed. May be repeated for credit. In-depth study of a selected topic in art history. Past topics have included Latin American Arts, Shaping Sacred Spaces: Italy 1200-1680, Art and Commerce, Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Survey of Baroque Art, and Islamic Art in the Mediterranean.
2-4 sem. hrs. Offered as needed. May be repeated for credit. Graded: S/U. Individually arranged participation in the work of an institution devoted to the visual arts, such as museums, galleries, or libraries.
3 sem. hrs. Grounded in a discussion of artistic practice from 1945 to the present, this course explores visual responses to loss, trauma, and cultural catastrophe. We will consider how artistic traces of suffering offer insight into ruptures so painful that they linger beyond the limitations of linear narrative and along the fringes of cognition. One of our central objectives will be to explore the ways that works of art can draw us closer into the ungraspable darkness of trauma, into losses that remain unknowable and unspeakable. This class is structured to bring together disparate works of art - including film, photography, video, sculpture, painting, performance art, the graphic arts, the book arts, and curatorial practice - as a means of exploring the possibilities and limits of representation: the ways that the camera frames fractures of pain with a snap and a flash, the ways that each brushstroke can carry with it the marks of loss, the ways that performance can re-enact the psychological practices of working through suffering. This course engages not only with the intersections between different visual strategies, but also between divergent legacies of loss. We will aim to bring together works of art that merge to frame questions about the collisions between cultural catastrophe and familial loss, the overlaps between unthinkable devastation and more ordinary forms of suffering. CO UR S E S 113
1 sem. hr. Offered as needed. May be repeated for credit. In-depth study of an area of special interest. Topic determined jointly by a faculty member and student(s) in consultation. Meets weekly for one hour.
1-3 sem. hrs. Offered every semester. May be repeated for credit. These courses are available for students who have demonstrated an ability to work without close supervision. Student(s) and faculty members develop the course together on a relevant topic.
2 sem. hrs. Offered as needed, fall semester. A research seminar leading to the development of students’ individual research priorities, bibliography, and thesis proposal.
2 sem. hrs. Offered as needed, spring semester. A research paper and presentation on a topic approved by the instructor.
Source: Wells College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
