Undergraduate
5A Introduction to Architecture & Environment (Session B) - Jameson-Ellsmore
5B Introduction to Museum Studies (Session A) - Morris
6B Art Survey II: Renaissance - Baroque (Session B) - Good
6C Art Survey III: Modern - Contemporary (Session A) - Mirzaei
6DS Survey: History of Art in China (Session B) - von Mirbach
6E Survey: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native North America (Session B) - Ogbechie
6K Survey: Islamic Art and Architecture (Session A) - Fathi
6L Playful Spaces: A Cultural History of Games (Session A) - White
107C Renaissance Kunst- and Wunderkammern: The First Museums (Session B) - Meadow
117F Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (Session B) - Garfinkle
136I The City in History (Session A) - Chattopadhyay
5A Introduction to Architecture & Environment (Session B) MTWR 1230-150 SYNCHRONOUS & ASYNCHRONOUS Jameson-Ellsmore
Architecture is the primeval act through which human beings carve out for themselves a place in nature. Initially a means of survival, place-making has developed throughout history into technically advanced and artistically sophisticated architectural designs that intertwine ever closer the man-made world with the natural one. This course introduces basic architectural construction methods, design strategies, and subject specific terminology, discusses various interpretative concepts, and poses questions after universal fundamentals of the multi-faceted and multi-sensory relationships between man, architecture, and nature.
GE: AREA F, WRITING
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5B Introduction to Museum Studies (Session A) MTWR 800-920 SYNCHRONOUS & ASYNCHRONOUS Morris
Designed to introduce students to various aspects of Museum Studies — historical, theoretical, and practical — by examining a range of issues and topics with which the field is engaged.
GE: AREA F
ENROLLMENT BY DISCUSSION SECTION - NOTE: SECTIONS TAUGHT SYNCHRONOUSLY
6B Art Survey II: Renaissance - Baroque (Session B) MTWR 1100-1220 SYNCHRONOUS & ASYNCHRONOUS Good
Renaissance and Baroque art in northern and southern Europe.
GE: AREA E, AREA F, EUROPEAN TRADITIONS, WRITING
ENROLLMENT BY DISCUSSION SECTION - NOTE: SECTIONS TAUGHT ASYNCHRONOUSLY
6C Art Survey III: Modern - Contemporary (Session A) MTWR 1230-150 SYNCHRONOUS Mirzaei
History of Western art from the eighteenth century to the present.
GE: AREA E, AREA F, EUROPEAN TRADITIONS, WRITING
ENROLLMENT BY DISCUSSION SECTION - NOTE: SECTIONS TAUGHT SYNCHRONOUSLY
6DS Survey: History of Art in China (Session B) MTWR 330-450 SYNCHRONOUS von Mirbach
The History of Art in China is a survey course that introduces the major traditions and monuments of Chinese art from Neolithic times to the modern (20th-21st centuries). The course generally follows a chronological trajectory but with a thematic matrix. The first part of the course, from Neolithic to Han (ca. 5000 BC - AD 220) concerns the formation of culture and civilization and covers early pottery and bronze traditions as well as the beginnings of pictorial art. Objects and pictures are placed into their historical, philosophical, and social contexts. The second part of the course focuses on the importation and development of Buddhist art, from ca. AD 200 - 1000. The third part of the course interweaves the painting, calligraphy, and ceramic traditions of imperial China, from the Song dynasty to the near contemporary. Garden design and imperial architecture are also introduced. One of the aspects of the course that will be emphasized is regional diversity and intercultural encounters (India and Central Asia in particular). The title, History of Art in China, as opposed to something like The Arts of China, is intended to convey awareness of the fact art is a conceptual and subjective term and that objects have histories that extend beyond national borders.
GE: AREA F, WORLD CULTURES, WRITING
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6E Survey: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native North America (Session B) MTWR 930-1050 SYNCHRONOUS Ogbechie
This course provides a general introduction to the indigenous and contemporary arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native North America. In these vast locales of human culture, we will study how art provides concrete conceptual and visual structures around which social, political, cultural aesthetic and ritual institutions are constructed. The art object, imbued with several meanings, is essential to the human lifecycle, charged with political, economic and spiritual connotations and instrumental to rituals of birth, death and all the stages of transition in between. In such contexts, art operates within spaces of performance and individual art objects are imbued with multiple meanings. We will investigate the historical nature of different art traditions in these cultures and evaluate specific art forms like painting, sculpture, mural painting, textiles and decorative arts, body adornment, masquerade performances, royal/leadership arts, and sacred, secular and vernacular architecture.
GE: AREA F, WORLD CULTURES
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6K Survey: Islamic Art & Architecture (Session A) MTWR 200-320 SYNCHRONOUS & ASYNCHRONOUS Fathi
This survey examines the art and architecture of the lands under Islamic rule from the 7th to 17th centuries. This course covers various geographies stretching from Spain to India and begins with the emergence of early Islamic art and continues chronologically to include the establishment of three early modern Islamic empires. In this course, students will examine various forms of artistic productions and cultural heritage including the built environment, everyday and ritualistic objects, architectural monuments, paintings, calligraphy, and ceramics. Students will get acquainted with the major artworks and material culture of each historical period. Emphasis will be placed on the contextualization of each artwork in its political, geographical, economic, social, aesthetic, religious, and practical context. The objective of this course is to familiarize students with a variety of art forms and artistic styles that emerged from various geographies and cultural milieus under the overarching category of Islamic art. Students will observe the continuity and mutability of artistic forms through social, political, and cultural perspectives, moving beyond the religious connotations.
GE: AREA F, WORLD CULTURES, WRITING
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6L Playful Spaces: A Cultural History of Games (Session A) MTWR 1100-1220 ASYNCHRONOUS White
This course introduces students to the history of games. It is organized chronologically as a global survey. We study games and the social, political,and economic conditions that support them, as well as the interface between the human player and the imagined world of the game. Taking as its premise that games are artifacts of culture, this course focuses on the visual and spatial practice of games in social context.
GE: AREA E, AREA F, WRITING
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107C Renaissance Kunst- and Wunderkammern: The First Museums (Session B) MTWR 200-320 SYNCHRONOUS & ASYNCHRONOUS Meadow
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
In the sixteenth century, wealthy merchants and powerful princes in Europe began assembling vast collections that aspired to contain all possible knowledge of all possible things. From these remarkably diverse collections—called Kunst- and Wunderkammern (German), studioli (Italian), and curiosity cabinets (English)—arose our modern museums of art, science, history and technology, as well as modern research collections in universities. This course explores these fascinating collections, the purposes that they served and the circumstances in which they were created.
117F Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (Session B) MTWR 1100-1220 ASYNCHRONOUS Garfinkle
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movement in France from 1863 through the first decade of the twentieth century and the advent of Cubism. Includes the work of Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Seurat.
GE: AREA F
136I The City in History (Session A) MTWR 930-1050 SYNCHRONOUS & ASYNCHRONOUS Chattopadhyay
Prerequisite: not open to freshmen.
An historical introduction to the ideas and forms of cities with emphasis on modern urbanism. Examination of social theory to understand the role of industrial capitalism and colonialism in shaping the culture of modern cities, the relationship between the city and the country, the phenomena of class, race and ethnic separation.
GE: AREA E, AREA F