Courses for Art and Art History 1 COURSES FOR ART AND ART HISTORY ARH352 Early Christian Byzantine Art Art History Courses Hours 3 ARH151 Intro to Visual Arts FA This course focuses on major monuments of painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as wider visual culture, produced in the Early Hours 3 Christian West and the Byzantine Empire 312-1453 CE. Attention will Not applicable to the studio or art history majors or minors. Introduction be paid to major styles/developments with reference to relevant social, to the appreciation of art through an examination of the nature, themes, political, religious, historical and technical issues. and purposes of art, the exploration of visual arts media and methods; Prerequisite(s): ARH 252 and a survey of art history and artistic masterpieces. ARH354 Art of South and Southeast Asia Fine Arts Hours 3 ARH252 Survey of Art I This course examines the vibrant and diverse art and visual culture of FA South and Southeast Asia through the art, architecture, and material Hours 3 culture associated with the current geopolitical states of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, and Survey of major examples of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Philippines. the prehistoric through the medieval periods. Prerequisite(s): 3 Hours of 200-level Art History courses Fine Arts ARH355 The Art of Imperial China ARH253 Survey Of Art II W FA Hours 3 Hours 3 This course will examine the varied traditions and genres of art and Survey of major examples of painting, sculpture, and architecture from architecture produced in China during its important imperial era from the Renaissance through the modern periods. the Tang to Qing dynasties (7th century to late 19th century). Writing Fine Arts proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with the skill normally required of an upper-division ARH254 Survey Of Art III student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the student FA performs in other areas of the course. Hours 3 Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200 or 300 level Art History courses Survey of major examples of painting, sculpture, and the applied arts of Writing India, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. ARH356 Art of Japan Fine Arts Hours 3 ARH291 Special Projects This course will examine the varied traditions and genres of Japanese art Hours 3 from the Asuka period to the Meiji period (6th to early 20th century). This number is used for special projects determined by the instructor Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of 200/300 level Art History courses or by or for independent research projects proposed by students. In the latter permission of the instructor. case, the project must be approved by a sponsoring faculty member and the department chairperson. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 hours. ARH357 Prints and Print Culture of East Asia W ARH350 Roman Art Hours 3 Hours 3 This course surveys the architecture, painting, and sculpture of Ancient This course will examine the rich traditions and varied genres of prints Italy and the lands of the Roman Empire from the earliest record of the and print production in East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan) from around Etruscans to the death of Constantine the Great in 337 CE. Lectures, the ninth century to the present time. Writing proficiency is required for a readings, and classroom discussion focus on the socio-political, passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with the skill technological, and religious contexts of Etruscan and Roman material normally required of an upper-division student will not earn a passing culture. grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the course. Prerequisite(s): ARH 252 Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200-level Art History courses ARH351 Ancient Art Hours 3 Writing A survey of the contributions of Egypt, Greece, and Rome to the development of Western architecture, sculpture, and painting. Prerequisite(s): ARH 252 2 Courses for Art and Art History ARH360 Early Medieval Art ARH368 Early Renaissance Art Hours 3 Hours 3 This course focuses on major monuments of painting, sculpture, and This course provides students with a survey of painting, sculpture architecture, as well as wider visual culture, produced in Western Europe and architecture during the early Italian Renaissance in major city between 500-1150 CE. Beginning with backward glances at Roman centers, concentrating on knowledge of major monuments and artists. traditions, special attention is focused on works of art representative Attention will be focused on fourteenth-century traditions, fifteenth- of major styles/developments during the focus period with reference to century developments, and major themes important to study of the period relevant social, political, religious, historical and technical issues. (technical innovations, the inheritance and influence of antiquity, the status of the artist, religious and political symbolism, the requirements of Prerequisite(s): ARH 252 patrons and the market, and the impact of social conditions and historical ARH361 Late Medieval Art events). W Prerequisite(s): ARH 253 Hours 3 ARH369 Later Italian Renaissance Art This course examines the wealth of visual and material cultures of Hours 3 Europe and the broader Mediterranean from roughly 1200-1450. Materials This course provides students with a survey of painting, sculpture and considered will include sculpture, architecture, painting and manuscripts, architecture in the later Italian Renaissance (c. 1480-1580) in major city as well as metal work and enamels, ivories, textiles, and portable objects centers, concentrating on knowledge of major monuments and artists. from both European and non-Western cultures. Objects and monuments Beginning with backward glances at the fifteenth century, attention will be explored within their relevant social, political, religious, cultural and will be focused on sixteenth-century developments and major themes historical contexts. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in important to study of the period (including Mannerism, the status of this course. A student who does not write with the skill normally required the artist, and the impact of religious change on works of art), thus of an upper-division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how encouraging students to have a long-range view of the traditions behind well the student performs in other areas of the course. the focus works. Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200 level Art History courses or permission of Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200 level Art History courses or permission of the instructor. the instructor. Writing ARH371 Baroque Art South Europe ARH363 Masterpieces Of Spanish Art W Hours 3 Hours 3 Selected monuments of peninsular Spanish art from the prehistoric This course provides a survey of Southern Baroque painting, architecture, period to the contemporary period. and sculpture, focusing primarily on Italian and Spanish art produced ARH365 Northern Renaissance Art between 1600-1700. A variety of genres are addressed including Christian Hours 3 and mythological works, portraiture, still-life, and landscape. Issues This course provides students with a survey of painting, sculpture and considered include the impact of the Counter Reformation on artistic architecture produced in Northern Europe (France, Flanders, Germany, production; patronage; gender; classicism and naturalism; and the status England) between 1350 and 1600, concentrating on knowledge of of artists. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this major monuments and artists. Beginning with backward glances at the course. A student who does not write with the skill normally required of fourteenth century, attention will be focused on developments and major an upper-division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how themes important to study of the period (including relations between well the student performs in other areas of the course. North and South, the status of the artist, and the impact of religious Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200 level Art History courses or permission of change on works of art), thus encouraging students to have a long-range the instructor view of the traditions behind the focus works. Writing Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of 200 level Art History courses or permission of ARH373 Baroque Art North Europe the instructor Hours 3 ARH367 Art Patronage Florence Survey of the art of 17th-century Belgium, Holland, and France. Hours 3 Prerequisite(s): 6 Hours of 200 Level Art History Classes Survey of the art of Florence emphasizing the artists and the patrons, such as the religious orders, guilds, and private families who created the ARH374 Art of the American South Renaissance style in painting, sculpture, and architecture. Hours 3 Painting, sculpture, and decorative arts from the colonial period to the twentieth century. Prerequisite(s): ARH 253 Courses for Art and Art History 3 ARH375 Nineteenth Century Art ARH385 Early 20th Century Art Hours 3 W Painting and sculpture from the Neoclassical through the Post- Hours 3 Impressionist periods. This course examines many different examples of painting, architecture, Prerequisite(s): ARH 253 photography and sculpture that served to define modernism in European and American art. We will follow the development of those aesthetics ARH376 American Architecture associated with modernity from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth Hours 3 century (c. 1939). This course is meant to familiarize students with major American architecture from the colonial period to the 20th century. movements, concepts, and styles, and also to help them develop an ARH377 American Art before 1815 understanding of how these movements relate to one another within W a larger cultural and historical context. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with Hours 3 the skill normally required of an upper-division student will not earn a A study of American Art and visual and material culture before 1815.