Art History
The Art History Department studies the forms, functions, meanings, and theoretical underpinnings of the visual arts, broadly construed to encompass such activities as performance, construction, and installation as well as painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture. Our department considers works of art in historically and culturally specific ways, situating them within systems of belief, habits of visual literacy, practices of self-formation, social and political ideologies, patterns of sacred and secular discourse, assumptions about intentionality and authority, and currencies of global and transnational exchange. We comprise four collaborative faculty clusters: Ancient Mediterranean and American; Medieval/Renaissance/Baroque; Modern/Contemporary European, American, and African; and Architectural Studies. As a department we strive to introduce students to a rich variety of approaches to art and its study, to model for them analytical and critical thinking, and to encourage lucid writing and thoughtful response. At the graduate level, it is our mission to train students in the methods and practices of the field and to prepare them for advanced, artwork-based, interdisciplinary research with a respect for primary evidence and cultural contexts, past and present, so that they can successfully pursue careers in academic or museum work with benefit for the broader community.
Concentrations
Faculty
- Chair
- Sarah McPhee
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Linda Merrill
- Core
Courses
ARTHIST 100-Level Courses
Introduction to fundamental concepts of art history through 101 representative works of art and architecture produced in Egypt, the Near East, Europe, the Americas, and the Islamic world before 1600. Focus on the formal structure and historical contexts in which the works were made and understood.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Introduction to the fundamental concepts of art history through 102 representative works of art and architecture produced in Europe, Africa, and the U.S. between 1600 and the present day. Focus on the works' formal structure as well as the historical contexts in which they were made and understood.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
An introduction to architecture considering the built environment we experience daily as well as historical buildings and practices. We will study architecture as a process of design, negotiation, construction, and reception and explore critical and social issues of representation and meaning.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Great buildings stand as icons to their cultures: the pyramids, Parthenon, St. Peter's, Center Pompidou. In this course, we explore these and other monuments asking why and how they have driven the development of western architecture from antiquity to contemporary America.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Limited to freshmen and introductory in nature, these seminars may feature discussion, readings, museum visits, and presentations.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- FS
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
ARTHIST 200-Level Courses
This hands-on design studio introduces basic architectural concepts and techniques through making. Regular design presentations and feedback on drawing and modeling projects will teach students rigorous design methodology and how it leads to meaningful contributions to the built environment.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- ARTHIST 103 and (ARTHIST 104 or ART_OX 104) or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
An introduction to drafting, modeling, rendering and animation in which students explore the potential of the computer as an active analytical and design instrument. We take a hands-on approach, focusing on two projects selected according to students' own disciplinary interests.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course introduces students to digital humanities as a way of approaching art history and architecture. DH methods enable new ways of engaging with historical and cultural materials. Students will learn about these techniques by working with digital tools and exploring existing digital projects.
- Credit Hours
- 2
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
An introduction to the art of ancient Egypt from the late Predynastic Period through the Old and Middle Kingdoms to the end of the Second Intermediate Period.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
An introduction to the art of ancient Egypt from the beginning of the New Kingdom to the conquest of Egypt by Rome.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 216
- CHN 216
- ANT 217
Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 216W
- CHN 216W
- ANT 217W
The material culture of the Greek Bronze Age architecture. ceramic, glyptic, sculpture, and metalwork; an investigation of the human activities surrounding these artifacts, the cultural systems in which they operated, the conditions and methods of production use and exchange.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 220
An investigation of ancient Greek art and architecture from its Iron Age beginnings through the legacy of Alexander the Great, concentrating on the creation of monumental stone sculpture and ordered buildings, visual interpretation of Greek mythology, and the interaction of art, ritual and politics.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 221
The Roman genius for cultural assimilation and innovative techniques transformed the art of the ancient Mediterranean. The course investigates major achievements in sculpture, painting, and architecture and their resonances with Roman politics, society, and religion.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 222
Introduction to the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica (lower Mexico and upper Central America), particularly the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec cultures. Includes artworks in jade, ceramic, stone, obsidian, and bone from the Carlos Museum.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Introduction to the art and architecture of ancient Central and South America (Northern and Central Andes) with emphasis on Costa Rica and Peru. Art of various media in the Carlos Museum collection will be featured.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Explores of the world of late antiquity including the Roman mystery cults, arts of the Jews and early Christians. From these diverse beginnings, we will examine the rise of major new cultural centers in Ravenna, Byzantium, the British Isles, and Damascus.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Arts of the Romanesque and Gothic period, including architecture, sculpture, stained glass, and manuscript illumination. Major topics include the revival of monumental sculpture, the cult of relics, the rise of urban centers, and the development of a stone-vaulted architecture.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Medieval architecture revolutionized the building techniques and aesthetic principles employed in the ancient world. These spaces served new practices, worshipers and pilgrims. This course examines how and why these soaring cathedrals, Byzantine churches and Islamic mosques came about.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Innovations in painting and sculpture of Germany and the Low Countries between 1400 and 1600; emphasis on methods of verisimilar imitation, on art as an instrument of soul formation, on the rise of new pictorial genres.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
An introduction to the art and architecture of Italy from the late thirteenth century to the middle of the sixteenth, featuring such artists as Giotto, Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Titian.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
An introduction to the masters who transformed the visual arts in Europe between 1400 and 1600, from the age of Jan van Eyck to that of Michelangelo and his followers.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Painting in Italy, Spain, France, Flanders, Holland, and England to the time of the French Revolution. Emphasis on the production of such artists as Caravaggio, Rubens, Poussin, El Greco, Velasquez, Hals, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Vermeer, Watteau, Fragonard, Boucher, and Greuze.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
The cultural context of selected traditions of European art and architecture, from ancient Mediterranean to eighteenth century, exploring the interplay of culture with historical circumstances. May be repeated when topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
The cultural context of selected traditions of European art and architecture, from ancient Mediterranean to eighteenth century, exploring the interplay of culture with historical circumstances. May be repeated when topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Focused survey of European art from around 1851 to 1900, including works by the Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and Symbolists. Integrates art with the political, philosophical, and cultural currents of the time and examines the evolution of modernism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Focused survey of modern art in Europe with an emphasis on aesthetic, social, and historical dimensions of modernist practices. Movements include Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism. Writings by artists and critics will be considered in relation to the art.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Focused survey of modern art in Europe with an emphasis on aesthetic, social, and historical dimensions of modernist practices. Movements include Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism. Writings by artists and critics will be considered in relation to the art.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Focused survey of avant-garde developments in the visual arts from 1945 to the present, ranging from painting and sculpture to performance and installation. Emphasis will be placed on the critical concepts and the aesthetic, social, and historical implications of these cultural activities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
American painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Colonial, Federal and early Victorian periods. Topics include the work of John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Latrobe, A. J. Downing, William Sidney Mount, and Winslow Homer.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
American painting, sculpture, and architecture of the later Victorian and modern periods. Topics include the work of John Singer Sargent, J. A. M. Whistler, Thomas Eakins, H. H. Richardson, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
A survey of U.S. painting and its context from the colonial period to within two decades of the present. Artists considered include Copley, Peale, Church, Eakins, Whistler, Ryder, O'Keeffe, Hopper, Pollock, Rauschenberg, Rothko, and others.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
An introduction to the history and interpretation of major developments in architectural theory and practice in Europe and the United States from the late nineteenth century to World War II.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Introduces students to the ideas and forms of the built environment from WWII to the present, investigating how buildings and urban spaces of the late 20th - early 21st century were conceived and realized to affect local, and increasingly global, debates about the role of spatial design in society.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
The purpose of this course is to examine African American art and some of the historical and cultural considerations that affected the nature of its developments.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 279
This course focuses on arts linked to the African continent as well as operations of museums. It examines how objects enter museum collections and what information accompanies objects when they arrive at museums. The course does not require previous study of Africa, African arts, or museums.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 282
Focuses on one of several diverse, non-European art historical traditions, such as ancient Egypt, pre-Hispanic Americas, medieval Islam, Oceania, and sub-Saharan Africa. May be repeated for credit when topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Focuses on one of several diverse, non-European art historical traditions, such as ancient Egypt, pre-Hispanic Americas, medieval Islam, Oceania, and sub-Saharan Africa. May be repeated for credit when topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Art and architecture studied on site, in locations other than Atlanta, in Europe, the Americas, Asia, or the African continent. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
ARTHIST 300-Level Courses
Topics could include the treasures of Tutankhamun; images of women in Egyptian art; and the art of New Kingdom Egypt. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Topics could include ancient sanctuaries; early Greece: real and imagined and religious festivals; myth and art in ancient Greece; and Greek architecture. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Topics could include ancient sanctuaries; early Greece: real and imagined and religious festivals; myth and art in ancient Greece; and Greek architecture. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Topics include textiles of the Americas; sculpture and museology; Aztec and Inka art; art and shamanism. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Topics include: Medieval Monumental Stained Glass, Hagiography,and Manuscript Illumination. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
The cathedral is a symbol of the Heavenly Jerusalem, masterpiece of structural engineering, reflection of Scholastic ideals, visual Bible for the illiterate, and house of worship. This course will explore all these aspects in the earliest French monuments that gave birth to Gothic architecture.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
An introduction to the early formative period of Islamic art in the sixth through the thirteenth centuries, drawing upon architecture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, and manuscript illumination.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Topics in Italian or Northern art, ranging from Giotto to Pieter Bruegel. From artistic centers such as Florence, Rome, and Venice, to Bruges, Antwerp, and Haarlem. May be repeated for credit when topic changes up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Topics in Italian or Northern art, ranging from Giotto to Pieter Bruegel. From artistic centers such as Florence, Rome, and Venice, to Bruges, Antwerp, and Haarlem. May be repeated for credit when topic changes up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Traditional genres of African art with a focus on masks and figure sculpture in West and Central African city-states and chiefdoms from 1500 to European colonization. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 355
- AFS 355
Topics could include problems in the study of Rubens; poetics and painting; the Carraci reform of art and its consequences; and problems in the study of Rembrandt. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Examines definitions of fundamental concepts such as innovation, individuality, genius, authorship, copying in Chinese history, but also draws on other cultures as points of comparison. Includes hands-on studies of manuscripts and artifacts from the collections of the Rose Library and Carlos Museum.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 361
Examines definitions of fundamental concepts such as innovation, individuality, genius, authorship, copying in Chinese history, but also draws on other cultures as points of comparison. Includes hands-on studies of manuscripts and artifacts from the collections of the Rose Library and Carlos Museum.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 361W
This course studies Chinese cultural history through the lens of artifacts, including paintings, calligraphies, porcelains, bronzewares, costumes. Methods in archeology, anthropology and literary criticism will be applied to illustrate ideas, tastes and technologies that shape Chinese social life.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 362
This course studies Chinese cultural history through the lens of artifacts, including paintings, calligraphies, porcelains, bronzewares, costumes. Methods in archeology, anthropology and literary criticism will be applied to illustrate ideas, tastes and technologies that shape Chinese social life.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 362W
An exploration of the complex interactions between written texts and the visual arts in Japan from the classical era to the present. Discussion will include prose, poetry, printing, picture scrolls, calligraphy, woodblock prints, and film.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JPN 363
- EAS 363
An exploration of the complex interactions between written texts and the visual arts in Japan from the classical era to the present. Discussion will include prose, poetry, printing, picture scrolls, calligraphy, woodblock prints, and film.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JPN 363W
- EAS 363W
Treatment of the major issues raised by the new genres of art that have resulted from the African experience of European colonization.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAPE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 386
Developments in African American art in the United States in the twentieth century considering the key artists/movement/moments and larger themes in African American society and culture. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Possible topics include Post-Impressionism and its consequences; Matisse & Picasso; Art and Politics between the Wars; Dada and Surrealism; the Avant-Garde; Abstract Art; What is Art?; Theories of Modernism. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Possible topics include Post-Impressionism and its consequences; Matisse & Picasso; Art and Politics between the Wars; Dada and Surrealism; the Avant-Garde; Abstract Art; What is Art?; Theories of Modernism. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Knowledge of Russian is not required. Introduction to interdisciplinary study of 20th-century Russian literature and the visual arts, with focus on issues of art and politics, time, space and identity in symbolist, supermatist, constructivist, socialist realist and post-Soviet "vision". In English.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- RUSS 373
- FILM 375
This course focuses on American art created in the decades surrounding the Civil War (1861-1865), exploring the ways American artists responded to that turbulent era through paintings, sculpture, photography, and popular prints.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course focuses on American art created in the decades surrounding the Civil War (1861-1865), exploring the ways American artists responded to that turbulent era through paintings, sculpture, photography, and popular prints.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Topics could include romanticism in England and the United States, issues in American painting; African diaspora ritual arts; and African American painting and sculpture. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Special topics in Art History. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Special topics in Art History. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Students will explore the principle issues surrounding the care and preservation of art and cultural property, considering materials, deterioration, object history, and treatment.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Through technical investigation of museum objects, students will explore material choice, working process, authenticity, provenance, and restoration history.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Topics could include African art and architecture; colonial and contemporary African art; and arts of ancient Africa. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Advanced seminars dealing with various specialized problems in the history of art from antiquity to modern times, such as individual artists, genres (e.g. portraiture, landscape); themes (e.g. theory, iconography); artistic movements and museum studies. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Supervised participation in museum, gallery, or other art-related activity. Requires approval by the ARTHIST Internship Coordinator. May be repeated, with permission, for up to 12 credit hours. Credit ranges from one (for 50 hrs., or 4 hrs./week) to four (200 hrs., or 14 hrs./week).
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Reading and research projects decided upon between the student and a member of the faculty, with final approval from the chair. May be repeated for credit.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 12
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
ARTHIST 400-Level Courses
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. Permission from instructor required.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. Permission from instructor required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Open to candidates for honors in the senior year who are writing an honors thesis. For requirements and permission, consult the departmental honors coordinator.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Open to candidates for honors in the senior year who are writing an honors thesis. For requirements and permission, consult the departmental honors coordinator.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GER
- XAW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
ARTVIS 100-Level Courses
This course uses the tools/concepts of drawing and printmaking to develop skills in representation and observation. Students will acquire skills with the fundamental of visual observation, and the extrapolation to visual problem solving.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Offered in rotation. Credit, four hours. This course uses the tools and concepts of painting to develop skills in visual thinking. The fundamentals of visual observation and articulation are developed through visual problem solving.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Creative as well as technical problems in these related media are examined; techniques in using cameras, projectors, and video editing equipment.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- HA
- Requisites
- FILM 101 or FILM_OX 101 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- FILM 107
Offered in rotation. Credit, four hours. A course designed to provide a firm grounding in the rudiments of sculptural practice. Students are exposed to an overview of processes, tools, and materials used in sculpture.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course explores historical media and art practices from Prehistory to the Renaissance. Students will study materials, techniques and practices of drawing, painting, print making, sculpture and architecture. Specific projects will be supplemented by readings, presentations and discussion.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This foundation-level course exposes students to historical media and practices that undergird the creation of art objects. Designed as a studio course to complement ARTHIST 102. Strategies and materials of art-making from the late Renaissance through the present day will be explored.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Through a series of practical assignments, students will explore the research and conceptual interests of graphic design. Through these projects, students will learn and employ methodologies of visual communication through creating various graphic design projects in 2-dimensional, digital formats.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Monuments and art collections studied in important cities such as Amsterdam, London, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, and Venice. Details can be obtained from the Art History Department. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Monuments and art collections studied in important cities such as Amsterdam, London, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, and Venice. Details can be obtained from the Art History Department. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Special Topics in Visual Art will be offered as needed as courses and areas of study are added to the Visual Arts Curriculum.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
ARTVIS 200-Level Courses
This course builds on the tools and concepts of drawing and printmaking and expands skills in observation and imagination. This course incorporates intermediate levels of conceptual and aesthetic awareness.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course builds on the tools and concepts of painting. This course incorporates intermediate levels of conceptual and aesthetic awareness, creative problem solving, aesthetics and critical thinking with an emphasis on the 20th and 21st century aesthetic practices.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- This course requires ARTVIS 105 or ARTVIS 104 or equivalent transfer credit as a prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Contemporary sculptural practice is emphasized in both practical and theoretical terms. Students will continue to investigate the relationship of ideas to materials and construction techniques.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- This course requires ARTVIS 109 or equivalent transfer credit as a prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Students will expand upon and surpass the skills and projects from the prerequisite course, ARTVIS120. This class is less software-learning oriented than its precursor, which opens up time for students to focus more on technique and concept, working with iterations, and building a brand.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- ARTVIS 120 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course will introduce and identify a variety of formal and conceptual possibilities within the genre of New Media. Students will create art using sound art, 3-D digital space-making, and video projection.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Monuments and art collections studied in important cities such as Amsterdam, London, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, and Venice. Details can be obtained from the Art History Department. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Monuments and art collections studied in important cities such as Amsterdam, London, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, and Venice. Details can be obtained from the Art History Department. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
ARTVIS 300-Level Courses
This advanced tutorial uses the tools and concepts of drawing and painting to develop skills in research and project development as well as advanced skills in drawing, painting and mixed media.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This advanced tutorial uses the tools and concepts of drawing and painting to develop skills in research and project development. Written documentation, oral presentations, critique skills and studio skills that support independent research are developed.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- This course requires ARTVIS 205 or ARTVIS 105 or ARTVIS 104 or equivalent transfer credit as a prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course focuses on individual student inquiry into advanced sculptural practices utilizing the concepts, histories, practices, and potentialities of the field. Advanced level allows students to assume a greater role in defining the parameters of projects.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- This course requires ARTVIS 209R and ARTVIS 109 or equivalent transfer credit as a prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course explores advanced concepts in painting including new materials, mixed media, and contemporary approaches to space, scale, and installation. Exploration of diverse materials and techniques will be supported by theoretical examination and independent research projects.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This advanced course explores the history, processes, and theories of printmaking. Creative problem-solving supplemented by theoretical examination, written documentation, oral presentation, critical writing skills, and supporting independent research is required.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Students will learn advanced video production techniques and strategies. Additional attention placed on theoretical and conceptual components of video as well as technical. Students will be required to attend screenings and are expected to produce a professional quality, short video.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course will explore the many ways in which contemporary artists engage their practice. Students will begin to situate themselves into the contemporary art landscape through a series of visiting artists and studio visits, writing exercise, and readings / discussion.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course is a multi-disciplinary course that will teach students how to write an art proposal, how to gather field research, and how to talk with experts about important topics. This research will be woven into the process of creating visual models, designs, and drawings.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This class investigates contemporary curatorial practice through total immersion in art and exhibition history. Classes will be structured around the discussion of a compendium of contemporary art texts, show catalogs, reviews, and curatorial statements.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Special Topics in Visual Art will be utilized as we expand our visual arts curriculum or when we have the opportunity of Visiting Artists or Fellows to teach a course of their own design
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Monuments and art collections studied in important cities such as Amsterdam, London, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, and Venice. Details can be obtained from the Art History Department. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Monuments and art collections studied in important cities such as Amsterdam, London, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, and Venice. Details can be obtained from the Art History Department. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GER
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
This course may be repeated for up to 12 credit hours. This individually focused research is only available to advanced students with special projects. Permission of a sponsoring faculty member is required. Topics covered in the regular curriculum cannot be covered under directed study.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
ARTVIS 400-Level Courses
Offered once a year during the fall semester. This capstone course is required of all graduating IVAC co-majors and focuses on professional practices including documentation, research, development of an individual body of work situated in contemporary theory and methodology.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Open to candidates for honors in the senior year who are writing an honors thesis. Candidates are required to have a Three Person Faculty advising committee. For additional requirements and permission, consult the departmental honors coordinator.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Open to candidates for honors in the senior year who are writing an honors thesis. Candidates are required to have a Three Person Faculty advising committee. For additional requirements and permission, consult the departmental honors coordinator.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GER
- XAW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Supervised participation in museum, gallery, or other art-related activity. Requires approval by the ARTHIST Internship Coordinator. May be repeated, with permission, for up to 12 credit hours. Credit ranges from one (for 50 hrs., or 4 hrs./week) to four (200 hrs., or 14 hrs./week).
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 12
- GER
- XA
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None