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3.00 Credits
An introduction to basic standard classical modern Arabic as used all over the Arab world in books, mass media, official records, and documents, etc. The course pays special attention to pronunciation, calligraphy, sentence structure, and vocabulary. It aims at developing the student's ability to hear, comprehend, read, write, and speak Arabic. Basic grammar is introduced all along the course.
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Addresses selected issues in the history of visual arts. Emphasis is place on visual literacy: teaching students how to speak, write, and think about art. Course content includes a variety of historical periods and deals with visual media such as painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic arts, photography, and film. Prerequisites: Not open to art majors
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3.00 Credits
Introduces characteristic art forms of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas in order to deepen understanding of those arts' cultural, religious, and aesthetic values. Studies selected examples of architecture, sculpture, painting, pottery, textiles, mask-making, and other crafts.
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Study the major movements in painting, sculpture, and architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Western Europe, England, and the United States. Prerequisites: Not open to art majors
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major movements, individuals and issues in visual art, from its origins in the cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux through its continuation into the present. Emphasis on acquiring visual literacy in reading,analyzing, and understanding art. Emphasis on seeing and concepts, not chronology. This course is not open to non-art majors.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major movements and individuals in photography and film, from its origins in the nineteenth century and its culmination in the twentieth century. Prerequisites: Not open to art majors
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Surveys the visual arts from time of the Ice Age caves to the great Gothic cathedrals in Europe both as expressions of past civilizations and as the heritage of contemporary art in Western cultures.
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3.00 Credits
Presents an overview of art and architecture in the Western world, from the time of Renaissance masters such as Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo in Italy and Durer in northern Europe, to the era of the great Romantic masters such as David in France and Goya in Spain.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the art and architecture of the cultures that built the first cities, nation-state, and writing systems in the Western world. Studies the awe-inspiring building, fabulous tombs, magnificent sculptures and paintings, and rich mythologies from the times of the first pharaohs and kings up to the time of the appearance of Islam. Prerequisite: One course in art history (ARTH 101 or ARTH 399)
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3.00 Credits
Studies the history of art from the religious conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great in the fourth century up to the first stages of the Renaissance in Western Europe and the collapse of the Byzantine Empire in Eastern Europe. Prerequisites: ARTH 101 or ARTH 110
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