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  • ARH 0331: WOMEN,VIOLENCE&HOLLYWD HORROR FILM

    3.00 Credits
    Rosemont College

    Exploring art historical and contemporary feminist film theory, students in this interdisciplinary history of art and women's studies course will discover the roles of women in the horror film genre and its role in popular visual culture. Themes to be examined: women and violence; horror versus sadism; recreational terror and its broader cultural implications. Prerequisite:    One history of art or women’s studies course or with POI.
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  • ARH 0335: WOMEN AND FILM

    3.00 Credits
    Rosemont College

    The issues raised by feminism create new contexts through which to understand human behavior and the functioning of culture. Through the examination of certain films as well as recent psychological, social, and political theories, this course examines current issues in narrative structure and the female subject. Extracurricular work with a women's association or film association is integral to course. Prerequisite:    One history of art course.
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  • ARH 0350: WOMEN AND ART

    3.00 Credits
    Rosemont College

    An investigation of the role of women in art from antiquity to the present, both as objects of gendered representation and as artists. The historical devaluation of the contributions of women to art is examined. Extra curricular work with various local women's agencies is integral to the course. ARH 0175 or ARH 0176 are preparatory but not required courses.
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  • ARH 0352: GUERRILLA GIRLS: FEMINIST ART SINCE 1970

    3.00 Credits
    Rosemont College

    Feminist art emerged within the context of the Women's Liberation movement of the late 1960's and early 1970's. A generation later, this movement calls for reintegration into art's mainstream.This course will examine the works of well known women artists such as Judy Chicago, MiriamSchapiro, Alice Neel, Ana Mendieta, and many others, who have changed the shape of the art world. Political activist groups such as the world renowned, international Gorilla Girls will be studied and interviewed, when possible. ARH 0176 is preparatory but not required.
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  • ARH 0355: SLPG BEAUTIES: NUDE/MOD VIS CULTURE

    3.00 Credits
    Rosemont College

    This course examines the multi dimensional role of the nude in nineteenth and twentieth century art-historically, critically, thematically, and aesthetically. Students critically examine questions such as gender and power, the body as battleground, the body as landscape, art versus pornography, and the objectification and politicization of the nude. Extra curricular work with local women's groups is integral to the course ARH 0176 and/or ARH 0176 are preparatory but not required.
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  • ARH 0370: SISTERS IN ART: REPRSNT VS REALITY

    3.00 Credits
    Rosemont College

    This interdisciplinary history of art and women's studies course focuses on the unique relationship between biological sisters, analyzing the history of cultural constructions of sisters in sacred texts, mythology, fairytales, painting, film, television, and advertising. From Rachel and Leah to Roseanne and Jackie, sisterly relations will be examined with regard to the complicated mixtures of love, envy, hatred, devotion, jealously, dispassion, etc. How have representations of sisterhood reflected/betrayed larger cultural constructs, concerns, an prejudices? Fieldwork at area museums and/or with local women's organizations is integral to this course. Prerequisite:    One course in women’s studies.
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  • ARH 0375: HONOR SEMINAR: THE ARTS OF EGYPT AND NORTH AFRICA FROM THE ANCIENTS THROUGH EARLY CHRISTIANS

    3.00 Credits
    Rosemont College

    This interdisciplinary course will deal with the visual culture, religions, death and other rituals, and cosmologoies of the Ancient Egyptians through the Early Christians of Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Sinai peninsula. The questions and the fields that this course will prove will necessitate sophisticated research, collaborative work, and critical analysis. Students will conduct discussions of a pre arranged image or series of images of their choice and will work in learning groups, in order to involve them in the conversation and to build an interactive scholarly community. Prerequisite:    Students must be honors program participants at sophomore or higher class standing.
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  • ARH 0390: IN YOUR FACE: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM 1945 TO 2000

    3.00 Credits
    Rosemont College

    A study of the dramatic shift in the form and content of visual art from the end of World War II to the present. Within a lecture/discussion format, this course investigates issues of significant artistic and cultural concern beginning with the rise of Abstract Expressionism in the U.S. The course also explores the art of women and other traditionally marginalized cultural groups and the return to figuration in art in the avant garde of the eighties and nineties. ARH 0175, ARH 0176, or ARH 0308 are preparatory but not required courses. Gallery and museum work/research is integral to this course.
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  • ARH 0400: GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM,DADA AND SURREALISM

    3.00 Credits
    Rosemont College

    An investigation of the three movements in early twentieth century art in which artists rejected classical and realistic doctrines and began to respond to materials and procedures of personal artistic activity. Questions of artistic and societal revolt, non objective art, the relationship of the artist to society, and the influence of literature on art are explored. Work/research with area museums is integral to this course, and studio projects may be assigned. ARH 0176 or ARH 0308 are preparatory but not required course.
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  • ARH 0410: SEMINAR: HEAVEN AND EARTH: THE ART OF BYZANTIUM

    3.00 Credits
    Rosemont College

    This course will cover the Art of Byzantium, from its beginnings in the court of Constantine until the invasion of the Turks in the mid fifteenth century: church architecture and mosaic decoration, sculpture, and liturgical arts. Objects featured in the National Gallery of Art exhibition (6 Oct, 2013 - 2 March, 2014) will be central to the discussion of the development of these Byzantine art forms.
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