DEGREE PROGRAMS | MINOR

ART HISTORY

MINOR curriculum | courses

ART 100 HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Contributions of artists to the development of photography and their use of the camera as an expressive medium. Emphasis on major figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 3 credits.

ART 401 ART HISTORY, I
Survey of Western art and architecture from prehistoric times through the Middle Ages. This course will familiarize students with basic artistic principles and vocabulary, introduce them to specific examples of art and architecture, and discuss the historical and social context from which this work emerged. This survey course is intended to provide the background to take more advanced art history courses as well as the ability to critically assess works of art by placing them into the proper historical context. May fulfill the fine arts general education requirement. 3 credits.

ART 402 ART HISTORY, II
Survey of Western art and architecture from the Proto-Renaissance through the 20th century. This course will familiarize students with basic artistic principles and vocabulary, introduce them to specific examples of art and architecture, and discuss the historical and social context from which this work emerged. This survey course is intended to provide the background to take more advanced art history courses as well as the ability to critically assess works of art by placing them into the proper historical context. May fulfill the fine arts general education requirement. 3 credits.

ART 405 HONORS ART HISTORY
Readings and projects on the Italian Renaissance, northern Europe, and later European Art through the 18th century as well as non-Western art presented in seminar format. Fulfills fine arts general education requirements. Will count as a general fine arts elective for non-majors, as an art history core-elective for art majors. 3 credits.

ART 412 MODERN ART
This course covers developments in art and visual culture from ca. 1860 to the mid-20th century covering artistic developments such as Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. This course will put the work of these artists into a broader cultural, historical, social, and political context and examine various discourses that shaped the art of the twentieth century such as Modernism, the impact of modern technology and science, primitivism, and colonialism, and the two World Wars. 3 credits.

ART 413 ART SINCE 1960
This course covers developments in art and visual culture from the mid-20th century to the present covering artistic developments such as Neo-Dada, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Feminism, Postmodernism, and Multiculturalism. This course will put the work of these artists into a broader cultural, historical, social and political context. We will examine various discourses that shaped the art of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, i.e., the impact of the mass media, the Cold War, the rise of the civil rights movement and the women's liberation movement, and the increasing globalization of culture. 3 credits.

19TH-CENTURY ART
This course will introduce students to major developments in art and architecture from ca. 1780 to 1880 covering developments from Neo-Classicism to Impressionism. This course will put the work of these artists into a broader cultural , historical, social, and political context and examine various discourses that shaped the art of the 19th-century such as the impact of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution,  the classical revival, the rise of Romanticism,  the encounter of new cultures, industrialization and urbanization, the impact of photography, and the emergence of the avant-garde. 3 credits.

ART 419 WOMEN IN ART
This course will offer an introduction to the role played by women as creators, patrons, and subject of art, from the Middle Ages to the present. It will examine the artistic as well as social, political, economic contexts in and against which women artists had to work and how that context impacted the art they have created. 3 credits.

ART 421 RENAISSANCE ART
Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Renaissance Italy. Offered in Italy. 3 credits.

ART 422 AMERICAN ART
Painting, sculpture, and architecture in America from the Colonial period to the present. 3 credits.

ART 423 ISSUES IN ART HISTORY
In-depth examination of special topics through the study of primary and secondary sources, extensive class discussions, and independent research projects. Topics change each semester. 3 credits. Prerequisites: ART 401, 402, or permission of instructor. 3 credits.

ART 492 SPECIAL TOPICS IN ART
Current developments in Art. 3-6 credits.

ART 454 NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE AND ART (See ENG 454)
Works by Native American writers and artists and from oral tradition. 3 credits.