ARTH 390HH – Twentieth Century Art-Honors
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description:
ARTH 400 – Contemporary Art Since 1980
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ARTH-221 ARTH-390. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: This course covers the full global range of recent visual culture since about 1980-from traditional art media (painting, sculpture, illustration, and photography) through innovations involving craft forms (ceramics, glass, weaving, etc.) to electronic and computer-generated images which are revolutionizing graphic design.
ARTH ELECTIV – Art History Elective
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description:
ARTH 340HH – Art of the United States-Honors
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description:
ARTH 360 – Islamic and African Art
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ARTH-220 or ARTH-221. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Introduction to the traditional art forms of Western and Central Asia, North Africa, and Spain while under Islamic rule. The arts of Africa, especially Sub-Saharan, will also be covered by tribe and region.
ARTH 370 – East Asian Art
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ARTH-220 or ARTH-221. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Introduction to the artistic and cultural traditions of Asia (focusing on India, China, Japan) from the bronze age to developments in the 20th century. Course emphasis is on the development of traditional art forms as they evolved within courtly and/or religious (especially […]
ARTH 380 – Nineteenth Century Art
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ARTH-220 or ARTH-221. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Introduction to the paintings and sculptures of European art from just before the French Revolution (Jacques-Louis David, Antonio Canova, and Neoclassicism) to the radical aesthetic changes ushered in by the Symbolists (such as Gauguin, Munch, and Rodin) at the very end of […]
ARTH 390 – Twentieth Century Art
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ARTH-221. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Beginning in the 1890s, this course is a broad overview of the major visual art forms of the twentieth century from the Symbolists to the peaking of Modernism in the 1970s. Painting and sculpture are covered as well as architecture and design, with limited […]
ARTH 221 – Hist of Western Art:Renaiss-Modern
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Historical survey of art focusing on the Early Renaissance, the High Renaissance, Mannerism, the Baroque, Rococo; the 19th century, including Romanticism, Neoclassicism, Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism; movements since 1900, including Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Abstractionism, Surrealism, Modern architecture, and the New York School. Works of art from each period […]
ARTH 220 – Hist of Western Art:Acnt-Medieval
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Historical survey of art focusing on Prehistory; the Ancient Near East and Egypt; the Aegean, Greece, and Rome; Early Christian and Byzantine art; and Early Medieval, Romanesque, and Gothic art. Works of art from each period of civilization are analyzed for individual qualities and compared with previous examples […]
ARTH 340 – Art of the United States
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ARTH-221. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Introduction to the art and architecture in continental U.S. from the time of the first European voyages of discovery up to the Armory Show of 1913. Course explores the role of the visual arts in establishing the new nation’s self identity, in interpreting the […]
ARTH 350 – Native Arts of the Americas
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ARTH-220 or ARTH-221. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Introduction to the artistic and cultural traditions of native peoples in both North America and South America. Attention is placed on the collecting and studying of relevant artifacts and the evolution of competing methods for interpreting them.