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ARTS 444 - Mona Lisa to Romeo and Juliet: An Introduction to Renaissance Culture
Credits:
4.00
What made Renaissance culture tick: who were the pivotal
personalities (writers and politicians as well as
artists); which are the most typical and which the least
typical works produced in Italy and elsewhere throughout
Europe? How did viewers think about the art of their time,
and in particular how did they respond to the new mass
medium of printed images? How connected is our present
artistic culture to that of five hundred years ago? When
did the Renaissance acquire its fame? Students consider
connections between the English and the Italian
Renaissances, comparing, for instance, Michelangelo and
Shakespeare. Readings include sixteenth-century historical
and literary sources as well as art historical essays.
Writing intensive.
ARTS 455 - Introduction to Architecture
Credits:
4.00
Study of architectural graphics, design theories, form
determinants, and the architect in society. Includes case
study projects. Lab.
ARTS 480 - Introduction to Art History
Credits:
4.00
Analysis of the central forms and meanings of art history
through intensive study of selected artists and monuments.
Includes works of architecture, sculpture, painting, and
the graphic arts. Topics will vary but might include the
Parthenon, Chartres Cathedral, Michelangelo's Sistine
Chapel ceiling, Rembrandt's self-portraits, Monet's
landscapes, Picasso's Guernica, Frank Lloyd Wright's
Falling water, Georgia O'Keeffe's abstractions, ukiyo-e
prints, and Benin sculpture.
ARTS 480W - Introduction to Art History
Credits:
4.00
Analysis of the central forms and meanings of art history
through intensive study of selected artists and monuments.
Includes works of architecture, sculpture, painting, and
the graphic arts. Topics will vary but might include the
Parthenon, Chartres Cathedral, Michelangelo's Sistine
Chapel ceiling, Rembrandt's self-portraits, Monet's
landscapes, Picasso's Guernica, Frank Lloyd Wright's
Falling water, Georgia O'Keeffe's abstractions, ukiyo-e
prints, and Benin sculpture. Writing intensive.
ARTS 487 - Twentieth Century Europe
Credits:
4.00
This course examines the extraordinary transformations that
have swept across Europe in the past century in relation
to their impact on art, architecture, photography, film,
theatre, and literature. The course structure reflects the
interdisciplinary quality of the field of cultural studies
in that we examine a range of issues that challenge
traditional departmental boundaries. Readings, films
viewings, and class discussions focus on specific
historical events, such as World War I, World War II, the
Holocaust, the Cold War, and Post colonialism, in relation
to specific cultural movements, such as expressionism,
futurism, surrealism, and existentialism, that have
contributed to Europe's identity formation.
ARTS 487H - Honors/Twentieth Century Europe
Credits:
4.00
This course examines the extraordinary transformations that
have swept across Europe in the past century in relation
to their impact on art, architecture, photography, film,
theatre, and literature. The course structure reflects the
interdisciplinary quality of the field of cultural studies
in that we examine a range of issues that challenge
traditional departmental boundaries. Readings, films
viewings, and class discussions focus on specific
historical events, such as World War I, World War II, the
Holocaust, the Cold War, and Post colonialism, in relation
to specific cultural movements, such as expressionism,
futurism, surrealism, and existentialism, that have
contributed to Europe's identity formation. Writing
intensive.
ARTS 501 - Ceramics
Credits:
4.00
Theory and practice of basic ceramics; includes all
methods of basic construction, decoration, glazing, and
kiln firing. Emphasis on each individual's perceptual
development. Special fee. Lab.
ARTS 525 - Woodworking
Credits:
4.00
Theory and application of basic woodworking principles;
design concepts, primarily utilitarian, applied to shaping
a mass, constructing volumetric and line/plane forms; use
of a complete range of hand, portable powered, and
stationary powered tools. Special fee. Lab.
ARTS 532 - Introductory Drawing
Credits:
4.00
Students deal primarily with observational perspective
problems (still life, architectural interiors, landscape,
etc.), utilizing a full range of drawing materials. Lab.
ARTS 532H - Honors/Introductory Drawing
Credits:
4.00
Students deal primarily with observational perspective
problems (still life, architectural interiors, landscape,
etc.), utilizing a full range of drawing materials. Lab.
ARTS 536 - Introduction to Printmaking: Intaglio
Credits:
4.00
Study of intaglio printmaking techniques, including
etching, dry point, and engraving. Prereq: ARTS 532 or
permission. Special fee. Lab.
ARTS 537 - Introduction to Printmaking: Lithography
Credits:
4.00
Study of lithographic processes on stone and aluminum
plate. Prereq: ARTS 532 or permission. Special fee. Lab.
ARTS 544 - Water Media I
Credits:
4.00
Transparent and opaque water color. Prereq: ARTS 546.
Lab.
ARTS 546 - Introductory Painting
Credits:
4.00
Use of the still life and the figure. Color, value,
composition, and some art history. Slide lectures.
Prereq: ARTS 532. Lab.
ARTS 551 - Photography
Credits:
4.00
Introduction to theory and practice of black and white
photography as an expressive medium. Students provide
their own cameras. Prereq: any studio art course or
permission. Lab. Special fee.
ARTS 552 - Digital Photography
Credits:
4.00
Students are introduced to the basic principles and
applications of digital photography as a medium, and a
skill-set. Students work in color becoming acquainted with
the concepts of camera hardware, computer hardware and
software related to digital image acquisition,
manipulation, and output, including scanning, masking,
layering, retouching, and archival printing. Students are
required to have a digital camera (point and shoot or
DSLR). Special fee.
ARTS 567 - Introductory Sculpture
Credits:
4.00
Theory and practice of designing three-dimensional
compositions using a series of progressive assignments to
develop a practical understanding of visual elements,
including line, form, space, mass, and plane. Special fee.
Lab.
ARTS 570 - Art of the Ancient World
Credits:
4.00
Architecture, sculpture, and painting in the ancient
Mediterranean world. Following an analysis of Paleolithic
cave painting, the course surveys the beginnings of Western
art and civilization in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Minoan
Crete. Detailed examination of archaic and classical forms
and ideas in Greek art; the course ends with the
transformation and decline of classical ideas in imperial
Rome.
ARTS 571 - Art of the Middle Ages
Credits:
4.00
Architecture, sculpture, and painting in medieval Europe.
Beginning with Early Christian art, the course examines
the interplay between classical traditions and the more
abstract forms and ideas that emerged at the end of the
Roman Empire and then flourished in Byzantine and early
medieval art. Special attention to the development of the
Romanesque and Gothic forms and meanings in the high
medieval civilization of the 12th and 13th centuries.
ARTS 572 - Art of the Age of Humanism
Credits:
4.00
European painting, sculpture, and architecture from the
15th to the 17th centuries. The course focuses on the
revolutionary character of early Renaissance art in Italy
and the Netherlands and the heroic age of High Renaissance
classicism that followed around 1500. Examines the
subsequent crisis of 16th-century Mannerism and realism,
and the ruptures and continuities underlying the diverse
forms and meanings of Baroque art in the following century.
ARTS #573 - Art of the Modern World
Credits:
4.00
Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe and
America from the French Revolution to the present. Surveys
the rapidly changing currents and countercurrents in modern
art, including Neo-classism and Romanticism, Realism and
Impressionism, the Cubist revolution, and various forms of
20th century abstraction. In addition to the individual
artists ans movements, discussion of the cultural upheavals
that have driven modernism's pervasive sense of crisis and
pursuit of the "new."
ARTS 574 - Introduction to Architectural History
Credits:
4.00
A survey of the chief and representative buildings from
the entire history of architecture. Analysis of buildings
with regard to structure, form, and symbolic content,
concentrating on major works such as the pyramids, the
Roman Pantheon, the Gothic cathedral, the Renaissance
palace, the Baroque church, and the modern skyscraper.
ARTS 574W - Architectural History
Credits:
4.00
A survey of the chief and representative buildings from the
entire history of architecture. Analysis of buildings with
regard to structure, form, and symbolic content,
concentrating on major works such as the pyramids, the
Roman Pantheon, the Gothic cathedral, the Renaissance
palace, the Baroque church, and the modern skyscraper.
Writing intensive.
ARTS #585 - History of Islamic Art
Credits:
4.00
This course examines the main monuments and issues in the
history of Islamic art. It is intended as a general
introduction to the field and no prior knowledge is
required. Although the course focuses on the period between
the rise of Islam and the Mongol invasions, students will
be encouraged to explore later periods of Islamic art in
their papers. Particular attention will be paid to
patronage, form, and legislation of pilgrimage sites, and
other forms of sacred architecture. (Also offered as HIST
600.)
ARTS 598 - Sophomore Seminar
Credits:
4.00
Encourages experimentation by integrating verbal and
plastic understandings through readings, discussions,
studio work. Field trips. Prereq: two art history courses
and two studio arts courses.
ARTS 600 - Internship
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Election to take an internship in the following areas
within the Department of Art and Art History: (600A)
Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Photography, Sculpture,
Woodworking, Ceramics, and Graphic Design; (600B) Art
History; (600C) Architecture; and (600D) Museum Work.
Cannot be used to satisfy one of three electives in the
Studio B.F.A. Program and one of the two electives in the
Studio B.A. Program. In art history, it can be taken as an
elective above the 11-course major requirement. May be
repeated up to 8 credits. Prereq: permission.
ARTS 601 - Ceramics Workshop
Credits:
4.00
Application of new ceramic materials and techniques, with
emphasis on ideas and their expression through form and
content. Experimentation encouraged. May be repeated for a
maximum of 12 credits. Prereq: ARTS 501. Special fee. Lab.
ARTS #608 - Arts and American Society: Women Writers and Artists, 1850-Present
Credits:
4.00
Team-taught course studying the impact of gender
definitions on the lives and works of selected American
artists. Considers lesser-known figures such as Fannie
Fern, Lilly Martin Spencer, and Mary Hallock Foote, as well
as better-known artists such as Willa Cather and Georgia
O'Keeffe. Prereq: permission or one of the following: WS
401, HIST 566, ENGL 585, 586, 685, 785, or a 600-level art
history course. (Also offered as AMST 608, ENGL 608, HIST
608, and HUMA 608.) Studio art majors who take this course
for major credit will not receive major credit for ARTS
610. Writing intensive.
ARTS 625 - Wood/Furniture Design Workshop
Credits:
4.00
Design and construction of the major furniture forms,
using a broad range of techniques (including lamination,
bending, and molding) to execute a series of concept areas
relevant to furniture. May be repeated for a maximum of 12
credits. Prereq: ARTS 525. Special fee. Lab.
ARTS 632 - Intermediate Drawing
Credits:
4.00
Focuses on three major topics: 1) linear perspective, 2)
anatomical and/or structural aspects of the human figure,
and 3) special materials (painterly and/or mixed media).
Outside assignments encourage original thinking about image
making. Prereq: ARTS 532. Lab.
ARTS 633 - Life Drawing
Credits:
4.00
A continuation of the more formal aesthetic issues
introduced in introductory and intermediate drawing with
an emphasis on drawing the human figure from life. Prereq:
ARTS 632. Lab.
ARTS 636 - Printmaking Workshop
Credits:
4.00
Emphasis on development of the individual's imagery in
lithography and/or intaglio, including an introduction to
multicolor printmaking. May be repeated for a maximum of 12
credits. Prereq: ARTS 536 and/or ARTS 537. Lab.
ARTS 645 - Water Media II
Credits:
4.00
Continuation of ARTS 544; introduction to other
water-based media. Prereq: ARTS 544. Lab.
ARTS 646 - Intermediate Painting
Credits:
4.00
More complex issues of the visual language. Still life
and the figure continue as dominant subject matter. Slide
lectures. May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.
Prereq: ARTS 546. Lab.
ARTS 651 - Photography Workshop
Credits:
4.00
Individualized projects involving creative methods,
including color, manipulative, and documentary techniques.
Students provide their own cameras. Prereq: ARTS 552
Digital Photography. May be repeated for a maximum of 12
credits. Lab. Special fee.
ARTS 654 - 17th and 18th Century American Architecture
Credits:
4.00
Chief architectural styles and significant buildings from
the European colonization to the birth of the American
republic. A study of religious, public, and domestic
architecture and of the settlement patterns of the Spanish,
French, Dutch, and English colonies, culminating in the
revolutionary classicism of the new republic. Typical works
include the California mission church, the New Orleans
raised cottage, the Dutch farm house of the Hudson Valley,
the plantations of Virginia, and the Boston State House.
Field trips. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history
course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 655 - Early Modern Architecture: Revolution to World War I
Credits:
4.00
Chief architectural styles and significant buildings in
Europe and America from the visionary Neoclassicists of
the late eighteenth century and the revival styles of the
Victorian era to the birth and proliferation of the
skyscraper. A study of the religious, public, commercial,
and domestic architecture and of town planning during the
rise of the modern nation-state and market capitalism.
Typical works include the University of Virginia campus,
the Houses of Parliament, the Eiffel Tower, the Chicago
skyscraper, and Prairie House of Frank Lloyd Wright. Field
trips. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course.
Writing intensive.
ARTS 656 - Contemporary Architecture: The Buildings of Our Times
Credits:
4.00
Chief architectural styles and significant buildings in
Europe and America from the International Style and Frank
Lloyd Wright to the rise of postmodernism. A study of 20th
century religious, public, commercial, and domestic
architecture and of town planning that emphasizes the
important formal, technological, and theoretical
developments of high modernism and its aftermath. Typical
works include the Bauhaus, Wright's Fallingwater, Le
Corbusier's visionary town plans, the Air Force Academy,
and Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Field trips.
Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course. Writing
intensive.
ARTS 667 - Sculpture Workshop
Credits:
4.00
Design and production of sculpture focusing on various
materials and techniques and how they relate to
composition and content. Emphasis on understanding visual
language while developing an individual style. May be
repeated for a maximum of 12 credits. Prereq: ARTS 567.
Special fee. Lab.
ARTS 674 - Greek Art
Credits:
4.00
Greek art and architecture from the Bronze Age
civilizations of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece to the
late classical period of the 4th century B.C. Emphasis on
the interplay of narrative and abstraction in the
development of a distinctively Greek aesthetic
consciousness, on the forms of art and thought in the
Archaic Period, and on the flowering of the classical style
in the 5th century B.C. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art
history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 675 - Roman Art
Credits:
4.00
Art and architecture in the ancient Mediterranean world
from Alexander the Great to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Emphasis on the interplay between the Greek and Etruscan
traditions between public and private in Roman life and
art, and the breakdown of classical ideals in the late
empire. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course.
Writing intensive.
ARTS 677 - Early Medieval Art
Credits:
4.00
Development of Christian art from 300 to 1000 A.D. Study
of the formulation of a new visual language via the
intersection of Mediterranean and northern European
traditions. Major focus on early Christian catacombs,
Byzantine mosaics, insular manuscripts, and Carolingian
imperial art. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history
course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 678 - Romanesque and Gothic Art
Credits:
4.00
The culmination of medieval artistic development through
examination of major architectural monuments and their
sculptural programs, as well as important centers of
manuscript illumination. The period from the year 1000 A.D.
through the beginnings of the Renaissance in the early 15th
century will be stressed. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level
art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 679 - Northern Renaissance Art I
Credits:
4.00
Painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and manuscript
illumination in France, Germany, and the Netherlands in
the 14th and 15th centuries. Emphasis on the development
of the traditions of Northern naturalism and the emergence
in 15th-century Flanders of a distinct Renaissance
consciousness, which runs parallel to contemporary trends
in Italy. Major figures include the Limbourg brothers,
Claus Sluter, Jan van Eyck, and Hugo van der Goes. Prereq:
one 400- or 500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 680 - Northern Renaissance Art II
Credits:
4.00
Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts in Germany and the
Netherlands in the 16th century. Emphasis on the
encounter of the Northern tradition with the classical and
humanistic culture of the Italian Renaissance and on the
impact of the Protestant Reformation. Major figures
include Bosch, Durer, Holbein, and Bruegel. Prereq: one
400- or 500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 681 - Early Renaissance Art in Italy
Credits:
4.00
Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Italy during the
14th and 15th centuries. The emergence of Renaissance
style in the art of such masters as Giotto, Masaccio,
Donatello, Bellini, and Piero della Francesca. Attention
is also given to the broad cultural developments to which
they belong. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history
course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 682 - High Renaissance and Mannerist Art in Italy
Credits:
4.00
Continuation of ARTS 681. Primary focus on the formation
of High Renaissance classicism in the art of Leonardo,
Michelangelo, Raphael, Bramante, and Titian. Attention is
also given to the subsequent crisis of the classical ideal
in 16th-century mannerism. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level
art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 683 - Baroque Art in Southern Europe
Credits:
4.00
Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Italy, France,
and Spain during the 17th century. Emphasis on the
diverse and innovative character of art in this period of
crisis between the Renaissance and the modern era.
Intensive analysis of the works of such major masters as
Bernini, Caravaggio, Poussin, and Velazquez. Prereq: one
400- or 500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 684 - Baroque Art in Northern Europe
Credits:
4.00
Dutch and Flemish painting in the 17th century.
Examination of such major figures as Rubens, Rembrandt,
Van Dyck, and Vermeer. Attention is also given to the
development of the genres and to the many little masters
who practiced them. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art
history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS #685 - Graphic Art of the Renaissance and Baroque Periods
Credits:
4.00
The availability of paper and the invention of the
printing press made it possible for drawings and prints to
become fundamental elements in the western artistic
tradition. Prints have been called major instigators of the
production of secular art and of overtly experimental art.
They were the first art made with an elite but relatively
broad class of collectors in mind, and--in different
examples--the first art that could be owned even by the
poor. Examination of anonymous works, works by artists
famous only as printmakers, and the printed work by or
after Mantegna, Durer, Lucas van Leyden, Raphael,
Michaelangelo, Bruegel, and Rembrandt, as well as drawings
of the period. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history
course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 686 - Neo-Classicism to Romanticism
Credits:
4.00
European painting and sculpture in its socio-political
context, with emphasis on the relation of idea to image,
from David and the French Revolution to the romantic
landscapes of Friedrich and Runge, and the romantic-classic
debate involving Delacroix and Ingres. Prereq: one 400- or
500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 687 - Realism and Impressionism
Credits:
4.00
Focus on the political, cultural, and physical changes in
Paris in the second half of the 19th century and their
relation to Impressionism. Work of Courbet, Millet, Monet,
Manet, Degas, Cassatt, Morisot, Renior, Cezanne, van Gogh,
Seurat, and others examined in the context of the rise of
landscape painting and the establishment of the avant-garde
in the visual arts. Concentration on the great collections
of the Harvard University Art Museums and the Boston Museum
Fine Arts. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history
course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 688 - 20th Century Art I
Credits:
4.00
An examination of European and American art from symbolism
to surrealism. Focuses on art and theory from the 1890s
to World War II in relation to the political, social, and
scientific upheavals of the era. Particular emphasis will
be placed on Gauguin in the South Seas, Rodin and modernist
sculpture, Matisse and expressionism, Picasso and cubism,
Kandinsky and the Russian constructivists, Hoch and dada
photomontage, O'Keefe and American modernism, and Dali and
Freud. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course.
Writing intensive.
ARTS 689 - 20th Century Art II
Credits:
4.00
Examines abstract expressionism as a framework for
analyzing art since World War II. Focus on "Action
Painting" and Color Field Painting, minimalism and
conceptual art, pop art, earthworks and sited sculpture,
new image painting, post-modernism, and related critical
theory. Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course.
Writing intensive.
ARTS #690 - Women Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Credits:
4.00
Examination of the works of women artists of the past two
centuries. After considering current scholarship related
to some of the theoretical issues involved in studying art
by women, the works of women artists from the Middle Ages
through the early 19th century will be surveyed briefly.
Focus will then shift to works by women artists of the past
150 years and their relationship to and impact on major
movements in modern art. Prereq: one art history and
another appropriate course. Writing intensive.
ARTS #691 - A History of Venetian Art
Credits:
4.00
The artistic culture of Venice from Byzantine times
through Tiepolo and Canaletto. Course emphasis will be on
Renaissance Venice, including topics such as the reclining
female nude, the courtesan portrait, and the origins of
landscape painting. Artists to be studied include Bellini,
Giorgione, Titian, and Palladio. Prereq: one 400- or
500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 692 - History of Photography
Credits:
4.00
History of the photograph from its origins in the
aesthetic and technological context of the early 19th
century to the present. Lectures and discussions on such
topics as the impact of early photography on painting,
19th-century landscape and travel photography,
pictorialism, abstract photography, the photograph as
metaphor, photojournalism and the interpretation of war,
and postmodernism and photography. Critical reading of
texts by Beaudelaire, Benjamin, Barthes, Sontag, and
Sekula. Open to all majors; no prereq. Writing intensive.
ARTS 693 - American Art
Credits:
4.00
A chronological survey of American painting and sculpture
from the European colonization to the New York Armory Show
of 1913, with emphasis on portraiture, narrative,
still-life, and landscape painting. Examination of
stylistic and thematic developments from the Puritan and
Georgian New England portrait, the heroic narrative of the
Revolutionary era, the romantic landscape to the realism of
the post-Civil War era and the birth of modernism. Typical
works include Copley's Portrait of Paul Revere, Cole's
Course of Empire, Homer's Fog Warning, Cassatt's At the
Opera, and Eakin's Max Schmitt in a Single Scull. Prereq:
one 400- or 500-level art history course. Writing intensive.
ARTS 695 - Special Problems in the Visual Arts
Credits:
4.00
Topics and prerequisites to be announced before
registration. May be repeated with permission of the
instructor. Lab.
ARTS 695I - Problems in Visual Arts/Italy
Credits:
4.00
Part of the ITAL 685/686 study abroad program held in
Italy.
Co-requisites:
ARTS 697 - Topics in Asian Art
Credits:
4.00
A thematic study of the major artistic achievements in
India, China, and/or Japan from pre-history to the
twentieth century. Works of art in various media, including
painting, sculpture, ceramics, calligraphy, prints,
architecture, and gardens, will be examined in relation to
philosophical concepts and to their cultural/historical
contexts. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
Prereq: one 400- or 500-level art history course or
permission of the instructor. Writing intensive.
ARTS 700H - Honors Seminar
Credits:
4.00 or 8.00
Requires successful completion of a written thesis
supervised by two faculty advisers (one each from studio
and art history faculty) to be reviewed by members of the
department honors committee. The art history thesis will
involve an original problem in art history and the studio
art thesis will examine the student's own work. Honors
students only.
ARTS #725 - Wood Multiples
Credits:
4.00
Development and construction of prototype furniture
designs intended for more than one-of-a-kind production;
jig and production strategies. (Offered concurrent to
I.W.F.-sponsored biennial National Student Furniture Design
Competition.) Prereq: ARTS 625 (4 credits.). Lab. Special
fee.
ARTS 732 - Advanced Drawing
Credits:
4.00
Treatment of more complex compositional problems;
application of a broader range of solutions to pictorial
problems to reinforce and expand individual concepts of
image and technique. May be repeated for a maximum of 12
credits. Prereq: ARTS 633. Lab.
ARTS 746 - Advanced Painting
Credits:
4.00
Development of a higher degree of technical skill to
handle more advanced conceptual problems. Class
assignments may be more individually directed. May be
repeated for a maximum of 12 credits. Prereq: ARTS 646 (8
credits).
ARTS 791 - Art Education (Elementary)
Credits:
4.00
Children's creative growth as revealed through their
visual expression. Development of elementary art
education programs with emphasis on objectives, methods,
materials and techniques to foster creativity. Suggested
prereq: EDUC 500.
ARTS 792 - Art Education (Secondary)
Credits:
4.00
The creative process in the visual arts in relation to the
development and skills of middle and high school students
in the public schools; mechanics of beginning and
maintaining a secondary art program; exploring resources
for art education programs on the secondary level.
Suggested prereq: EDUC 500.
ARTS 795 - Methods of Art History
Credits:
4.00
Essential bibliography and the methodology of research;
the variety of approaches to art historical scholarship.
Readings, discussion, and projects in connoisseurship,
iconography, and other art historical methods. Open to
advanced students with a strong art history background.
Required for art history majors. It is strongly recommended
that students take this course in their junior year. Prereq
(for non-art history majors): permission. (Usually offered
fall semester only.) Writing intensive.
ARTS 796 - Independent Study in the Visual Arts
Credits:
1.00 to 8.00
A) Photography; B) Sculpture; C) Drawing; D) Painting; E)
Printmaking; F) Water Media; G) Architectural Design; H)
Curatorial Assistant; I) Painting in Italy; J) Ceramics; K)
Wood Design; L) Art History. Open to highly qualified
juniors and seniors who have completed the advanced level
courses in the chosen medium. May be repeated to a total of
8 credits. Prereq: permission of department chairperson and
supervising faculty member or members. Special fee on some
sections.
ARTS 798 - Seminar/Senior Thesis
Credits:
4.00 to 8.00
Readings and discussions oriented toward the intellectual
premises of art. Culminates in mounting an exhibition of
the student's work. Required of all students in the B.F.A
program. Other advanced students may elect with
instructor's permission. A year-long course; an IA grade
(continuous course) will be given at the end of the first
semester. Lab. Variable credit; may be repeated to a total
of 8 credits. B.F.A. majors must take 8 credits total.
ARTS 799 - Seminar in Art History
Credits:
4.00
Topics and prerequisites to be announced before
registration May be repeated with permission of
instructor. Writing intensive.