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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Focus on a single city over time or in a specific historical moment. Looks at art, architecture and/or material culture. Topics vary. Examples: Nineteenth Century Paris; Ancient Pompeii; Florence under the Medici; Mexico City c. 1521.
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3.00 Credits
This course guides students to examines UNESCO world heritage sites through close examination of architectural history and material culture studies. Students will examine life from the distant past and learn to interpret unfamiliar cultures through close examinations of architectural remains, built environments, and material objects.
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3.00 Credits
History of sculpture in the U.S. from the 18th century to the present. Lectures and discussion explore sculptural techniques and production; styles, iconographies, and functions; and cultural issues such as space, iconoclasm, and memory.
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3.00 Credits
Examining history of art, architecture, and archaeology in Asia through critical discussions of objects, sites, built-environment, material culture, and archival texts. Topics include: First Empire's Material Culture, Song-Yuan Paintings, Pax Mongolica Cultural Exchange, Archaeological Sites of India, Buddhist Art and Archaeology of Afghanistan, Temples and Shrines in Asia, among others.
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3.00 Credits
Preexisting views of the Age of Exploration typically focus on European explorers and Eurocentric history. In this course, students learn about the Age of Exploration from the other angle, by examining historical influence of "Asia" on Europe and the world, through the lens of archaeology, art, and architecture. The course also connects history of art and material culture of East Asia to that of Southeast Asia and South Asia, with extension to part of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
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3.00 Credits
Course explores the history of Cairo from its founding to the present, paying attention especially to the nature and form of urban space in relation to architecture, as the background to and index of massive social change through time.
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3.00 Credits
This topic course guides students to examine art and architecture of Africa. Using material culture as evidence. Students will learn to discuss and argue about people, art, and architecture of Africa, especially in relation to the two most important civilizations of the Nile Valley that turned Africa in the ancient time into the world's most foundational hub of culture and knowledge. Topics include: "Ancient Egypt & Nubia: Love and War," "Time and Architecture in Egypt and Nubia," "The Age of Pharaohs: Empires in Ancient Africa," among others.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the art and visual culture of the African diaspora since the 1960s. Topics include the Black Arts Movement in the USA and UK, Abstract Expressionism, the Afri-Cobra movement, recycled stereotypes, installation art and performance art.
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3.00 Credits
A critical race history of blacks as subjects, producers, and theorists of photography. Includes examination of issues, ideas, and creativity with respect to African American and African diasporic photography from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Topics range from portraiture and documentary photography to considerations of race and representation, black consciousness, strategies of resistance and identity formation, class, sex, and gender.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prepare students for ARTH internships, including an understanding of a range of careers in museums and the work required. Students meet once a week, one to three contract hour for week depending on the credits designated for the course in that given semester. Each meeting consists of a combination of discussion, demonstration, and practical lessons. Sessions include: exhibition organization, checklist development, label and catalog writing; expanding the collection through acquisitions; art, specimen, and object handling; collection care, storage, conservation, and working with museum databases; designing gallery installations and online exhibitions. RESTRICTIONS: Students must have at least 45 course credits or more. Students must have already completed at least 6 credits of Art History courses at 200-level or higher.
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