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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course explores the role of the museum and gallery curator as well as the curator's responsibilities to the object, the museum, and collectors; and federal and corporate funding.The course includes field trips.Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This in-depth exploration of a specific topic in art history involves students in independent research and field study.Open to students with approval of a faculty member and the director of the Art History program.Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Qualified art history and studio art majors learn museum planning, and organizational and exhibition techniques by working on gallery exhibits at the Walsh Art Gallery in the Regina A.Quick Center for the Arts.In addition, students may be placed in regional art institutions such as historical societies, museums, auction houses, and art galleries for professional internships.These highly selective internship opportunities require permission from the director of internships in the Art History program before registration.Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Required of all art history majors in the fall semester of the junior year.The seminar introduces students to the history of the discipline of Art History.Students learn the different methods and approaches art historians use to study works of art, and apply these approaches through discussion and writing assignments.Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Required of all art history majors in the spring semester of the senior year, this seminar offers rotating topics that reflect the areas of expertise and research among Fairfield's art history faculty members.Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of various cultural aspects of modern China in the 20th century through reading translated fiction as well as films.Students explore topics such as modernity, nationalism, individualism, gender, and cultural identity in the modern cultural-historical context.Also will be discussed are issues particular to fiction and film as representational modes: How do fiction and film narrate history and the complex Chinese experience How have they both been shaped by and contributed to the socio-cultural transformations And how do they represent the increasingly diversified cultural and social landscape of contemporary China This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The course examines the films of major directors contributing to the rise of "New Chinese Cinema" in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong since the mid-1980s.Emphasis is on individual directors' distinctive aesthetics and philosophy in the specific cultural-historical context of film production and reception.Students will study how these films represent history and memory, the relationship between individual and society, woman and gender, and how such films participate in the cultural imagination of China and Chineseness in the global context.The goal will be development of a basic film-critical vocabulary.All films have subtitles, and readings are in Engli sh.This course meets the world diversity requiremen t. Three credit
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students undertake an individualized program of study in consultation with a director from the Asian studies faculty.Three credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This seminar, which is primarily concerned with theoretical and historical issues, examines selected topics concerning Asian cultures, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries along the Asian Pacific Rim.The seminar concentrates on a specific topic within the arts and sciences; enrollment is by permission of the professor.Three credits. Advanced seminars cannot be double-counted for the capstone experience and the six required courses in the junior/senior years.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This two-semester sequence teaches the essentials of phonology, script, structure, and usage, allowing students to acquire the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the standard means of communicating in the Arab world.Teaching is proficiency-based, implying that all activities within the courses are aimed at placing student learners in the context of the native-speaking environment.Four credits per semester.
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