2020-2021 CORCORAN ART HISTORY GRADUATE ART HISTORY HANDBOOK Academic Schedule **Due to COVID-19, Academic Calendar Is Subject to Change
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2020-2021 CORCORAN ART HISTORY GRADUATE ART HISTORY HANDBOOK Academic Schedule **Due to COVID-19, Academic Calendar is subject to change. See gwu.edu/academic-calendar** Fall 2020 Orientation (Online via Webex) Thursday, August 27 @ 2:00 pm Classes begin Monday, August 31 Labor Day (no classes) Monday, September 7 Deadline to submit Qualifying Paper readers' names to DGS along with Annotated Bibliography and QP outline to both First Reader and DGS* Monday, September 14 Language Exam (optional) Week of September 18 Fall Break (no classes) Friday, October 9 AU-GW Annual Art History Graduate Symposium (Online) Saturday, October 24 First draft of Qualifying Paper due* Monday, November 2 Spring Registration mid-November Thanksgiving Break (no classes) Wednesday-Saturday, November 25-28 Designated Friday Tuesday, December 8 Last Day of Classes/End of Semester Saturday, December 12 Final Examinations Monday, December 14 - Tuesday, December 22 Spring 2021 Classes Begin Monday, January 11 MLK Day (no classes) Monday, January 18 Deadline to submit 300-word QP abstract to First Reader and DGS Thursday, January 21 Presidents’ Day (no classes) Monday, February 15 Qualifying Papers due* Thursday, March 11 Spring Break (no classes) Monday-Saturday, March 15-20 Last Day of Classes Monday, April 26 Make-Up/Reading Days Tuesday, April 27 Designated Monday Wednesday, April 28 Make-Up/Reading Days Thursday, April 29 – Friday, April 30 Final Examinations Monday, May 3 – Tuesday, May 11 Commencement Weekend Thursday-Sunday, May 13-16 Spring Degree Conferral Sunday, May 16 *Second-year students only COVER IMAGE: Claude Monet Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son 1875 oil on canvas Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon 1 Art History Program Corcoran School of the Arts & Design Smith Hall of Art, 801 22nd Street NW Washington, D.C. 20052 202.994.6085 (phone) FULL-TIME ART HISTORY FACULTY David Bjelajac, Professor of Art History, American Art Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [email protected] Smith 113; 202-994-7093 Alexander Dumbadze, Associate Professor of Art History, Contemporary Art Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin [email protected] Smith 110; 202-994-6306 Director of Undergraduate Studies: Art History Philip Jacks, Professor of Art History, Italian Renaissance & Baroque, Modern Architecture Ph.D. University of Chicago [email protected] Smith 106D; 202-994-0241 Lisa Lipinski, Assistant Professor of Art History, Modern & Contemporary Art Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin [email protected] Smith 107; 202-994-1248 Cristin McKniGht Sethi, Assistant Professor of Art History, South Asian Art Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Smith 106B; 202-994-7656 Mika Natif, Associate Professor of Art History, Islamic & Medieval Art Ph.D. New York University [email protected] Smith 109; 202-994-8548 Bibiana Obler, Associate Professor of Art History, Modern Art Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Smith 108; 202-994-4839 Lilien F. Robinson, Professor of Art History, Nineteenth-Century European Art Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University [email protected] Smith 112; 202-994-7094 Director of Graduate Studies: Art History Barbara Von BarGhahn, Professor of Art History, Northern European, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Art Ph.D. New York University [email protected] Smith 106A; 202-994-8653 Program Chair 2 ART HISTORY FACULTY: SERVICE TO STUDENTS Director of Graduate Studies: Professor Lilien Robinson [email protected] Support: General advising inquiries and student assistance, degree requirement and progress, GA coordinator. Assistant Director of Graduate Studies: Professor Cristin McKnight Sethi [email protected] Support: DegreeMap support, assists in student success, coordinates and supports Qualifying Papers. ProGram Chair Professor Barbara von Barghahn [email protected] Support: General student support and programmatic questions/support 3 PART-TIME ART HISTORY FACULTY Christiane Joost-GauGier Ph.D. Harvard University [email protected] Alan Wallach Ph.D. Columbia University [email protected] Susan Arensberg Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University [email protected] Gillian Elliott Ph.D. University of Texas-Austin [email protected] Katherine Markoski Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University [email protected] Divya Kumar-Dumas Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania [email protected] Rachel Pollack Ph.D. University of Maryland [email protected] Lynn Matheny Ph.D. UCLA [email protected] ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Andy Johnson, Program Administrator, Art History & Director, Gallery 102 [email protected] // [email protected] Smith 101A; 202-994-6085 Paul Reuther, Visual Resources Specialist [email protected] Smith 111; 202-994-8656 4 Academic ReQuirements and Options The Master of Arts degree in Art History offers students a curriculum that covers a range of historical, theoretical, geographic, and transcultural topics. For some students, the Master of Arts degree is a terminal degree in preparation for curatorial or education careers in galleries and museums; for others, it is preparation to enter a Ph.D. program elsewhere. All students receive training that hones their critical analysis, research, and writing skills. They additionally have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the study of diverse creative practices and visual material, and to take advantage of the many opportunities to experience and study works of art first-hand at the various museums and galleries in the Washington, D.C. area. Combined BA with a major in Art History/Master of Arts in the field of Art History The combined BA/MA program offers undergraduate Art History majors excelling in their studies the opportunity to advance to graduate level coursework in their senior year and enter the MA program upon graduation. During the fall semester of their senior year students must take the art historiography seminar (CAH 6258). During the spring semester, students must take 6 credits of graduate art history course work. Courses The MA is a thirty-six credit hour program. Graduate courses are numbered at the 6000-level. As many as two courses (six credits) may, with the approval of the Director of Graduate Studies and the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, be taken outside the program, in another department at GW, or at another university in the Washington area. Typically full-time students take three courses (nine credits) per semester. During the first semester all students must take historiography (CAH 6258). MA students must take classes in 5 of the following 7 categories: Ancient; Medieval/Islamic World; Renaissance/Baroque; 18th-19th Century; Modern/Contemporary; Asian; and Pre- Columbian/Latin American/African. LanGuaGe Exam Foreign language proficiency is not required for the Master's degree. However, students have the option to take an examination in one of the following foreign languages: Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Persian, Portuguese or Spanish. Language exams are administered and graded within the Art History program and consist of the following. Students are given a passage in the language of their choice (Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Persian, Portuguese, or Spanish). The subject of the passage will be some aspect of art history. Accompanying the passage will be a question sheet; after reading the passage, students will answer the questions. The exam is intended to simulate the way in which we use scholarly materials. Students may be asked to produce a translation of an excerpt. Dictionaries are allowed, as long as there is no danger of cheating (i.e. electronic dictionaries may be allowed at the discretion of the proctor; non-electronic dictionaries preferred). The time limit is three hours. 5 Language Classes Advanced language skills are often indispensable for serious art-historical work. Even if students pass the language exams, they may want to pursue further study in those languages or others. In addition to taking classes at GW, students can profit from a host of other resources Washington has to offer, including those listed below. • Global Languages Network (http://www.thegln.org/) offers many language classes at GW for free. • Alliance Française (http://www.francedc.org/French-Classes.aspx) offers French languages classes. • Goethe Institut (http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/lrn/enindex.htm) offers German language classes. • Graduate School USA (http://graduateschool.edu/) offers several different language classes. • International Language Institute (http://ilidc.com/) offers several different language classes. Museum TraininG Concentration Master of Arts in the field of art history with a concentration in museum training is identical to the MA in art history with one exception: students serve two museum internships for six of their thirty- six required credit hours. The internships are served in the second year of study, after, that is, the completion of eighteen credit hours. Internship forms for supervisors are available online here. QualifyinG Paper Students must successfully complete one qualifying paper. A first draft is due in the fall of the second year, after completion of 18 credits; the final draft is due the following spring. Part-time students will submit one qualifying paper at date set in consultation with the graduate advisor. Qualifying papers are typically based on seminar papers and revised as publishable work; all qualifying papers are judged by a panel of faculty members. Guidelines for the qualifying paper are available online here. 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