23 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.
ARTH 1110Art Appreciation3
This course introduces students to the visual arts. Through analysis and creation, students learn about the form, content and context of art, as well as the creative and design processes involved. It will enrich the student’s awareness and understanding of visual art forms from around the world and the cultures that create them.
This course is an introduction to and a general survey of major works of art and architecture in a global context from prehistory to the fourteenth century.
This course is designed to familiarize the student with the development of the art in ancient Egypt, beginning with prehistoric Egypt, and concluding with Egypt under the Romans. Sculpture, architecture, painting, jewelry and other crafts will be studied. The modern rediscovery of Egypt by the West, and the growth of Egyptology will be discussed.
A historical survey of the art and architecture of the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome. This course will familiarize the student with how, developing from earlier cultures, the Greeks and Romans created an artistic and engineering vocabulary of such a refinement and practicality that is still in use today.
A survey of the art and architecture produced during the Medieval era focusing on the Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic styles. Stylistic changes will be explored against the backdrop of cultural transformations. Attention will be directed at the cross-cultural fertilization between European and non-European cultures.
This course will survey the artistic achievements of Italian and Northern European artists working between 1400 and 1550 during the period known as the Renaissance. Students will explore the major examples of art and architecture and develop an understanding of the complex cross-cultural and social-historical contexts.
This course explores the history and current practices of art history as it emphasizes the global context in which art historians understand and study art history today. The relevance of art history beyond the classroom will be emphasized.
Analytical viewing of exemplar works contextualizes major genres, artistic movements, theories, and national cinemas, in a broader history of the moving image. Highlighting the work of significant creative contributors fosters appreciation for the medium as an art form.
This course explores the historical development of American art starting with pre-contact Native North American art and ending with Abstraction. The course provides a complex narrative of the art and artists in North America, including fine art, folk art, popular art, and mass culture and the built environments in which these works circulate.
This course will investigate artworks created by African American visual artists and consider how Black artists are situated in the framework of American art as a whole. Students will be introduced to African American art and artists, from art and design in the Colonial era to African American art in the new millennium.
This course explores the major artistic traditions of East Asia from prehistory to the present. Works of art and architecture from India, China, and Japan are considered in relationship to their social-historical contexts.
This course introduces students to photographers, photographs, readings, theory, and criticism from the history of photography. The course also covers the development of photography as a process and as art, and looks at related artists, movements, various cultural perspectives, and styles of photography.
This course explores the development of Modern Art, especially the painting, sculpture, photography, design, and architecture associated with modernism. The course tracks the global expansion of modernism by analyzing ways that visual artists conceptualized the period.
This course examines the history of art in a global context from the 1950s to the present with an emphasis on understanding examples of global contemporary art within their specific socio-historical contexts. The course explores the ways in which the period is marked by dramatic changes in art and society.
The course is designed to encourage students to understand the interaction between art and society. Among topics to be discussed are the social meaning of art, institutionalization of art, art market politics, social position of the artist, social structure and style changes, and art as a purveyor of social change.
This course focuses on women as the subject and creators of art as well as their role as patrons, curators, and collectors, with a particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. The course also explores the development of debates within feminist approaches to art history.
This course introduces students to the broad field of museum work, including the history and theory of museums, museum governance, audiences, and current topics in the profession. Specific topics include museum administration, interpretation, collection management, and community engagement.
An advanced level discussion-based seminar course on a faculty-selected topic in the history of Modern art and architecture. Topics and class format will vary depending on faculty interest.
An advanced level discussion-based seminar course on a faculty-selected topic in the history of Contemporary art and architecture. Topics and class format will vary depending on faculty interest.
This course is a seminar-style course in which students explore the theoretical concerns that inform and shape artistic production and dialogue in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Students will learn how to apply contemporary theory to contemporary art.
Students gain professional experience in facets of interpretation (curation, research, writing), collection care (registration, preparation), or community engagement (education, communication) in a museum, collection, or gallery setting. Students gain practical skills by solving problems requiring real world solutions.
