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4.00 Credits
A continuation of Arabic 1 with focus on building additional vocabulary, the rules of Arabic grammar, and reading more complex materials. Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) through Al-Kitaab series textbooks will be used to allow students to acquire additional knowledge and understanding in many areas of the Arabic Language. Students in this course are exposed to authentic reading and listening materials that are of more depth and length than those used in Arabic 1. Prerequisite: Arabic 1 or equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on reading and discussion of texts dealing with the literature, arts, geography, history, and culture of the Arabic-speaking world. Review of the linguistic functions and grammar structures of first-year Arabic. The teaching/learning process in this level is proficiency-oriented where emphasis is placed on the functional usage of Arabic. Prerequisite: Arabic 3 or equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
Continuation of Intermediate Arabic with focus on building additional vocabulary, using Arabic-English dictionary, reading and discussion of?Arabic texts dealing with the literature, arts, geography, history, and culture of the Arabic-speaking world. The teaching/learning process in this level is proficiency-oriented where emphasis is placed on the functional usage of Arabic. Prerequisite: Arabic 21 or equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
A continuation of elementary Arabic in which students will acquire additional vocabulary, a more advanced understanding of Arabic grammar, and will write and read more complex materials with comprehension of case system and sentence structure. Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) through Al-Kitaab series textbooks will be used to allow students to acquire additional knowledge and understanding in the structure of the Arabic Language. Students in this course are exposed to authentic reading and listening materials through lectures, discussions, exercises and communicative language activities. Prerequisite: ARAB 2 or equivalent.
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5.00 Credits
Origins of the discipline and its current methodologies. Close textual analysis with writing and discussion. Required of all art history majors, preferably at the end of the sophomore year. Prerequisites: Two ARTH courses, preferably upper-division.
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5.00 Credits
Art and architecture in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to circa A.D 1000. Hiberno-Saxon, Carolingian, and Ottonian art discussed in their respective political, intellectual, and cultural contexts. (5 units)
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4.00 Credits
A two-course sequence focusing on a major theme in human experience and culture over a significant period of time. Courses emphasize either broad global interconnections or the construction of Western culture in its global context. Courses may address art, politics and propaganda, and other topics.
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4.00 Credits
A two-course sequence focusing on a major theme in human experience and culture over a significant period of time. Courses emphasize either broad global interconnections or the construction of Western culture in its global context. Courses may address Art, Power and Propaganda, and other topics.
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5.00 Credits
This course examines cross-cultural artistic encounters between the western world (Europe and the United States) and Asia (India, China, and Japan) from the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, considering the various ways in which art objects and visual culture broadly speaking have been part of cultural exchange between East and West over the past five centuries. Topics to be considered may include: the impact of western realism on traditional Asian art forms; the role of commodities and empire in artistic production; Japonisme and Chinoiserie in 19th century Europe and America; colonial photography; the exhibition of Asian cultures in museums and worlds fairs; issues of cultural identity in Asian modernism; and post-World War II abstract art. A significant portion of the course is devoted to class discussion of scholarly articles. Not open to students who have taken the Cultures and Ideas sequence Contact Zones: Arts East and West. Prerequisite: Minimum of one lower division art history course (ARTH 23 or 26 preferred).
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4.00 Credits
Basic research methods in art history. Foundation course on the Italian Renaissance in which objects will be approached from a cultural and social perspective. Topics of discussion include the patronage and production of art, the visual construction of gender identity, the relationship between art, science, and religion brought about by the humanist study. Formerly ARTH 12.
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