15 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 2500Introduction to Art History3
Credit(s) | $27 Fee This course introduces students to the disciplines of art history theory and methodology through such issues as the roles of tradition and innovation in the production and reception of art; the relation of art to broader intellectual contests; the role of exhibition and commerce in art; the effect of historical oversights and distortions on the development and maintenance of artistic canons; and the change concepts of artist, style, and the definition of art itself. (Fall) [Graded Letter]
ARTH 2730Art History III: Rebirth, Reason, and Regalia3
Credit(s) | $27 Fee A counterpoint of Western artistic traditions from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries against the art of India, China, Japan, and the Americas from roughly the same time. This course will present the conquest of pictorial space that developed in the Renaissance and extended through the Baroque era. It will include forays into the areas of sculpture, architecture, and craft arts and will contrast all this with the very different sensibilities of the selected Eastern cultures and some native New World cultures. (Fall) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $27 Fee An introduction to art from Pacific Cultures and Africa in the modern era, followed by a survey of modern art in Europe and the United States beginning with neoclassicism and French Revolution and continuing through the many subsequent artistic revolutions, noting the impact from the pacific and Africa and the infusion of their motifs into Western images which profoundly influenced the development of modern art. (Spring - Every Other) [Graded Letter]
ARTH 2910History of Experimental Film and Video Art3
Credit(s) | $27 Fee Overview of experimental non-narrative film and video art that covers the period from the early twentieth century to the present day. Discussions will address the medium’s relation to the avantgarde, mainstream film and media, and popular culture. It is a writing-intensive course with additional film screenings. (Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $27 Fee A lecture course focusing on the history of non-western art. Students will come to understand the history and modern-day significance of art from outside the western tradition. (Fall, Spring, Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $27 Fee An overview of contemporary art (1980-present) from around the world with respect to the various local and global contexts in which they were produced and exhibited. (Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $27 Fee A varied topics course to provide students with learning opportunities outside of the standard curriculum. (Fall - Even Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $27 Fee Overview of the history of graphic design, from the ancient civilizations to today. Emphasis on genesis of modern graphic design. The lectures will provide a survey of the major movements of the field from the perspective of the social and political realities from which they developed. A research paper will be assigned incorporating these ideas. (Fall, Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $27 Fee A lecture class designed to give a cultural overview of how photography has affected and influenced the evolution of society. Issues in the photographic medium are addressed from before its invention until its mass existence in modern day society. (Fall - Odd Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $27 Fee Traces the history of art from approximately 1790 through the early years of the twentieth century. Course material emphasizes but is not limited to art of the western world, i.e. Europe and the United States. (Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $27 Fee An overview of visual art and design in the “long” 20th century with an emphasis on the development of modernism and postmodernism in western visual culture. (Fall, Summer) [Graded Letter]
( ARTH 2710 and ARTH 2720 ) or instructor permission -
ARTH 4760American Art3
Credit(s) | $27 Fee A survey of the history of art in North America. Subjects include Native American art; Colonial art; the Luminist, Hudson River and Tonalist schools of landscape; Regionalism and early modernism in America; the New York school; Pop art; street art; feminist art; and a broad variety of trends in and outside of the contemporary art world in the U.S. (Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $9 per credit Fee Advanced individualized instruction and supervised research and writings in art or design history. (Fall, Spring) [Graded Letter] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
