18 courses with the subject AHST, 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.
AHST 101Art, Design & Moving Image I3
45.0 hours 100 level undergraduate course The Ancient World and Middle Ages remain a mystery in many ways, but their inhabitants still whisper to us through early forms of writing, ceremonial objects, and storied stain-glass windows. In this introductory course, students will explore how contemporary design, fine arts, and even moving images find roots among the deserted caves and vaulted ceilings of centuries past. The course begins in Europe and includes global perspectives from The Near East, India, China, and Africa. Students will explore a diverse body of makers; a breadth of religious architecture; and art historians whose range of critical perspectives will help emerging creatives raise thought-provoking questions about the art and architecture of the distant past as well as their own respective practices. This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 100 level undergraduate course Renaissance Humanism emerged in fourteenth-century Florence and continues to influence the study of art and architecture today. This course introduces students to the emergence of humanism in the early Renaissance and the artistic and intellectual traditions that arose subsequently, such as Baroque art and European and American modernism. Students will investigate a diverse range of artists, designers, and art historians; encounter familiar favorites through a new lens; and learn about underrepresented critics and makers. In addition, students will have the opportunity to study the advent of photography and the moving image to explore the increasingly blurred boundaries of media in contemporary art. The works addressed not only call into question long-held beliefs and traditions, but establish new lines of inquiry for emerging creatives. This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 200 level undergraduate course This course will examine European art and architecture from c.1450 to 1600, while exploring the historical context of the Renaissance. Students will investigate how the period’s visual and material culture both communicated and affected the religious, social, and political values of contemporary artists, patrons, and viewers. In addition, they will consider the developments of trade and travel with the New World, Asia,Africa, and the Middle East, and they will analyze the effects of these interactions on the artistic cultureof Renaissance Europe. Topics may include: the works of Leonardo, Botticelli, and Michelangelo, among others; cultural centers like Florence, Rome, and Venice; Eurocentrism; the Egyptian Renaissance; or the Silk Road. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 200 level undergraduate course This course invites you to explore an art history topic. At its core, this class engages big questions about how cultures and historical moments shape creative work, why contexts and moments give art its significance, and what complex relationships play out between forms, functions, and value systems. We will approach course topics as tools for making connections between critical, historically-informed perspectives and creative work in ways that can feed directly your art-making. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course may be repeated for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course In this course, students will explore the history of queer art across time and geographies. They will consider what constitutes “queer art” by examining the most ancient depictions of non-conformative genders and sexualities to the most contemporary. Working within and against the traditional art historical canon, this course will use a queer lens to study a vast array of artworks, from Archaic Greek pottery, to Modern Japanese Ukioy-e prints, to contemporary American self-portraiture, in order to shine a light onto the queer narrative that is already threaded throughout human (art) history. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course Since this nation’s birth, artists of African descent have helped define what it is to be an American. This course outlines the major movements and enduring themes in the history of African American art from the Colonial period to the present day. Students will analyze how intersecting circumstances frame the context for Black artistic production and consider connections to African traditions as well as contributions to the canon of mainstream American art. Topics may include: craft; the landscape genre; the Harlem Renaissance; imagining black futurism; the Black Arts Movement; infusion of Pan-African artistry within the African Diaspora; the impact of Hip-Hop on fashion; and cross-sections between “Post-Black” and “Woke Black” cultural representations. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course For centuries, works of art have been deemed offensive for moral or religious reasons, among others, and thus altered, destroyed, or suppressed. Censorship can be severe and often entails restricting audiences, revoking necessary funding, or closing exhibitions as well as fining, imprisoning, or harassing creators. The purpose of this course is to understand the principles on which censorship rests and to investigate the implications of canceling or effacing an exhibition or an artist’s work. Students will have the opportunity to explore complex issues regarding the censored work of a diverse array of artists: what constitutes censorship; under what circumstances might censorship be justified; should different criteria be applied to potentially controversial art versus the art displayed in art galleries and museums; how have ideas about censorship changed over time? Artists and exhibitions may range from feminist Anita Steckel’s Fight Censorship Group to the Sensation Exhibition or to more recent discussions of censorship in the work of contemporary artists like Kara Walker. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course In this course, students will interrogate the ideological factors that led to the effacement of women artists in art history. The groundbreaking work of feminist art historians will show students how gendered assessments of art have caused the neglect of women artists. We may touch on some familiar favorites, like Artemisia Gentileschi or Berthe Morisot, to learn about the obstacles women artists faced. In addition, we will come to understand why, despite significant accomplishments in their respective lifetimes, historical accounts of them pale in comparison to their male counterparts. The course will also engage in invigorating discussions about some of the leading artists of our time, such as Judy Chicago, Shirin Neshat, or Amy Sherald. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 300 level undergraduate course This course examines the rich history of African art and architecture from antiquities to the present day. There will be a particular focus on how African art from the continent and throughout the Diaspora has been misrepresented due to looting, trivialized as a mere curiosity by peripheral audiences, and underestimated by critiques grounded in Western standards. To explore this complicated history, students will learn how diverse populations faced external and internal factors that challenged the longevity of unique creative processes, performative expressions, and traditional practices. In so doing, students will become acquainted with African geography and political history as they investigate perennial themes including: the impact of regional empires and kingdoms on economics, religious beliefs, gendered roles, and cultural representations; as well as how cultural contacts and transactional relationships, from imperialism to colonization, problematize access to natural resources and foster global isolationism. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
45 hours 300 level undergraduate course The production of various art forms created by, for, and about Latin American people continues to inform international views of once Spanish colonized lands within South-, Meso-, North- America and the Caribbean. This course provides a unique insight into the complex issues that impact las comunidades espanoles depending on geographical location. By investigating a variety of artistic media, students will explore topics that challenge and dispel notions about the Latin American cultural monolith rooted in conflicting narratives about indigeneity, language, gendered roles, eco-systems, migration, Catholicism, census projections, colorism, civil unrest, and more. Students will develop an awareness of the numerous artistic expressions used to address these topics as well as an appreciation for the ways that artists and their art forms help reframe Latin American identity as a cultural dynamo. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
undefined hours 300 level undergraduate course This course invites you to explore an art history topic. At its core, this class engages big questions about how cultures and historical moments shape creative work, why contexts and moments give art its significance, and what complex relationships play out between forms, functions, and value systems. We will approach course topics as tools for making connections between critical, historically-informed perspectives and creative work in ways that can feed directly your art-making. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course may be repeated for credit.
45.0 hours 400 level undergraduate course In the eighteenth century, the Enlightenment sparked revolutions on both sides of the Atlantic. Artistic patronage thus shifted and the role of the artist changed drastically. Throughout the nineteenth century, industrialization dominated urban centers, once fledgling republics established nations, the slave trade became illegal, and women’s suffrage movements began to organize. In this course, students will consider how artists responded to these rapid socio-political changes and revolutionized art by engaging with their contemporary circumstances. We will explore the work of familiar favorites as well as relatively unknown artists working in various media-painting, sculpture, photography, and illustration-to investigate how they subverted pictorial conventions to offer a modern visual language. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
45 hours 400 level undergraduate course In this course, students will examine art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries beginning with the advent of modernism (Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism), through postmodernism (Appropriation Art, Installation Art, Conceptual Art, Performance Art), and ending with more recent styles and movements in art (Public Art, Socially Engaged Art, Art and Globalization, New Media), which have inspired numerous attempts at characterization. In tandem with a close attention to the visual elements of selected works of art and the manner of their making, students will engage with important texts that situate the works within their historical, political, and social context. These textual investigations will also allow students to encounter, chart, and critique the diverse methodologies and theoretical foundations employed by art historians. Throughout this course, students will identify sites of omission in the art-historical narrative, try to understand the factors that orchestrate(d) and reinforce(d) these omissions, and make attempts at restoration. Crucially, this course will encourage lively and informed debate about the current state of the art world, including art’s role in activism and the necessity of decolonizing both the art-history curriculum and the art museum. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
45.0 hours 400 level undergraduate course The art and architecture of Asia, Africa, Central and South America, and the South Pacific region offers a thought-provoking history. In this course, you will have the opportunity to investigate how artistic and architectural traditions emerge and flourish across cultures and how they respond to religious ideals, societal beliefs, and political strife or stability. A hypostyle hall, an image of the Buddha, or the temples of Teotihuacan teach us not only about the people who lived among them but how art and architecture helped to foster and shape their worldview. We will also make connections to contemporary artists. You may, for example, compare ancient Japanese temples to Christo and Jean-Claude’s The Gates or see how political uncertainty informs the work of Doris Salcedo. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
undefined hours 400 level undergraduate course This course invites you to explore an art history topic. At its core, this class engages big questions about how cultures and historical moments shape creative work, why contexts and moments give art its significance, and what complex relationships play out between forms, functions, and value systems. We will approach course topics as tools for making connections between critical, historically-informed perspectives and creative work in ways that can feed directly your art-making. Prerequisites WRIT*102 or WRIT*102H This course may be repeated for credit.
undefined hours 400 level undergraduate course An internship in art history affords students a professional opportunity in an arts institution, such as a gallery or a museum. Depending on the institution and position, students may catalog materials, promote exhibitions, research artists, or mount shows under the guidance of a mentor. The process also provides students the experience of presenting professional materials and building a career-oriented network. Internship application materials should be completed in consultation with the Art History Minor advisor. This course can fulfill critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
undefined hours 500 level graduate course This course invites you to explore an art history topic. At its core, this class engages big questions about how cultures and historical moments shape creative work, why contexts and moments give art its significance, and what complex relationships play out between forms, functions, and value systems. We will approach course topics as tools for making connections between critical, historically-informed perspectives and creative work in ways that can feed directly your art-making. Prerequisites Completion of any AHST course This course may be repeated for credit. This course can fulfill critical studies elective or general elective requirement.
45 hours 600 level graduate course The art and architecture of Asia, Africa, Central and South America, and the South Pacific region offer a thought-provoking history. In this course, you will have the opportunity to investigate how artistic and architectural traditions emerge and flourish across cultures and how they respond to religious ideals, societal beliefs, and political strife or stability. A hypostyle hall, an image of the Buddha, or the temples of Teotihuacan teach us not only about the people who lived among them but how art and architecture helped to foster and shape their worldview. We will also make connections to contemporary artists. You may, for example, compare ancient Japanese temples to Christo and Jean-Claude’s The Gates or see how political uncertainty informs the work of Doris Salcedo. This course is not repeatable for credit. This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
