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Course Criteria
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
P: Any 300-level course in art history or consent of instructor.Major European painters and artistic movements, particularly in France, with some coverage of the United States. Focus on cultural and intellectual milieu of each artist.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
P: A341, A342, or permission of the instructor. European artists and art movements of the first part of the twentieth century: Matisse, Picasso, cubism, and futurism, German expressionism, Dada, constructivism, the Bauhaus. Focus primarily on painting with some attention to sculpture, architecture, and design, with emphasis on the central concepts of modernism and the avant-garde.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys twentieth-century photography as a medium of art and communication. Considers portraiture, landscape, still life, the nude, conceptual photography, the social documentary tradition, the magazine picture story, fashion, advertising, and war photography. Examines the impact of postmodern theories on photographic practice and the understanding of photography.
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4.00 Credits
P: A341, A342, or consent of instructor. History of art in the United States from the colonial period to the eve of the CivilWar.
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4.00 Credits
P: A341, A342, or consent of instructor. History of art in the United States from the end of the CivilWar to the turn of the twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
Focus on crime reporting in America, addressing the question of whether or not themedia distort the picture of crime. In particular, this course explores themassmedia treatment of African Americans in the coverage of crime.
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4.00 Credits
P: A342 or A442. Painting, sculpture, and architecture 1925 C1970. Main emphasis will be on American developments, including necessary historic background from the 154 Fine Arts Armory Show to migration of surrealism, abstract expressionism, op, pop, minimal, and kinetic art. A world view of architecture will cover such topics as international style and new brutalism.
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3.00 Credits
P: A350 and A351, or permission of instructor. The capstone course in the major. Early readings and discussions invite critical reflection on the design of interdisciplinary work, its motives, and the standards of coherence and of evidence that may govern its evaluation. Students develop a senior project, which may take the form of a traditional senior thesis or of a substantial video essay,Web site, multimedia project, performance piece, installation, etc. Students pursuing creative projects (e.g., a fictional film as opposed to a video documentary) must complement their creative work with considerable critical reflection on its purpose, stakes, design, and limits.
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3.00 Credits
P: Calculus, PHYS P301 or equivalent. Application of basic physical principles to investigation of the solar system, stars, and the MilkyWay galaxy.
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3.00 Credits
P: A451. For honors students only. Students develop and write an honors thesis under the direction of an American studies faculty member. An oral examination of the thesis is conducted by three faculty members. American Studies Program 41
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