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Undergraduate Record 2007-2008 [ARCHIVED RECORD]
Course Descriptions
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Architectural History |
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AR H 590 - Historic Preservation Theory and Practice
Surveys the history of preservation, focusing on the changing nature of its ideals and practice. Preservation is discussed in the context of cultural history and the changing relationship between existing buildings and landscapes, and attitudes toward history, memory, and invented tradition. (Y)
Credits: 3
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AR H 592 - Community History Workshop
An in-depth historical analysis of the architecture, urban form, and planning of a selected community. Focuses on the historical significance of the built landscape as an element in, and an expression of, the social and cultural life of the community. (Y)
Credits: 3
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AR H 594 - Community Public History Seminar
Explores a variety of approaches to conveying the architectural and cultural history of a community to a diverse public constituency. Builds upon the analysis developed in AR H 592 (Community History Workshop). Analyzes the preservation implications of the work undertaken in collaboration with students in the preservation studio. (Y)
Credits: 3
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AR H 599 - Independent Studies in Architectural History
Advanced work on independent research topics by individual students. Departmental approval of the topic is required. (SI)
Credits: 3
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Architecture |
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ARCH 101 - Lessons of the Lawn
The study of architecture as a speculation on origins is located at the conjunctive core of any liberal arts curriculum and serves as the physical armature and conceptual foundation of the University. This course is concerned with the contemporary imagination, attempting to make the discipline of architecture meaningful to a wide range of citizens in its public obligation to be constructive and optimistic in the most profoundly ethical, pragmatic, and magical of terms. (Y)
Credits: 4
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ARCH 102 - Lessons in Making
Introduces the aspects of design considered fundamental to an understanding and interpretation of architecture and the visual arts. Introduces drawing and presentation skills, and develops the precision and facility necessary for visual communication. (Y)
Credits: 4
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ARCH 201 - Introduction to Architectural Design
The 2nd year introductory architectural design studios explore comprehensive and foundational design principles, skill sets, and critical thinking. The material covered through the fall and spring semesters is presented through a series of lectures, projects, exercises, workshops, symposia and reviews which involve the beginning design student in the thoughtful application of fundamental design principles, foundational techniques of representation and fabrication and comprehensive critical design strategies. These courses foster the development of the beginning design student’s design methodology founded on thoughtful, creative, ethical and rigorous work practices in service of exploring meaningful formal and spatial propositions. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: ARCH 101, 102
Credits: 6
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ARCH 202 - Introduction to Architectural Design
The 2nd year introductory architectural design studios explore comprehensive and foundational design principles, skill sets, and critical thinking. The material covered through the fall and spring semesters is presented through a series of lectures, projects, exercises, workshops, symposia and reviews which involve the beginning design student in the thoughtful application of fundamental design principles, foundational techniques of representation and fabrication and comprehensive critical design strategies. These courses foster the development of the beginning design student’s design methodology founded on thoughtful, creative, ethical and rigorous work practices in service of exploring meaningful formal and spatial propositions. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: ARCH 201
Credits: 6
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ARCH 268 - Lessons of the City
This course explores the relationship between cultural values and urban form, introducing students to a body of literature and projects examining the various historical, social, political, regulatory, economic and physical conditions, which influence the design of cities. Through lecture, selected reading, class discussion, individual and group projects, and field trips this class examines the history, theories, and practices that have influenced the development of cities from antiquity to the present. Much of the discussion is on the evolution of the American city; using a field trips as a means to explore first hand urban environments (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 301 - Architectural Design
Analyzes architectural design conceptualization and synthesis; the relationship of building, site, and basic technology as determinants in architectural form; and the integration of various disciplines and concerns in the design of a complete building. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: ARCH 202.
Credits: 6
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ARCH 302 - Architectural Design
Analyzes architectural design conceptualization and synthesis; the relationship of building, site, and basic technology as determinants in architectural form; and the integration of various disciplines and concerns in the design of a complete building. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: ARCH 301.
Credits: 6
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ARCH 312 - Architectural Theory and Ethics
Architectural theory acts as a critical discourse parallel to practice—as its conscience and provocation. Buildings, landscapes, and manifestos by architects are scrutinized for significant, recurring themes using methods from aesthetics, philosophy, and criticism. This course relies upon reading, writing, and argument to develop an analytic approach that bridges the gap between architectural knowledge and other forms of knowledge. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: AR H 101 and 102.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 314 - Design Themes of Great Cities
This course discusses the design qualities of the world’s great cities. Each session focuses on the defining characteristics of different cities such as their natural settings, public spaces, transportation systems, types of buildings, and everyday details. (F)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 323 - Building and Climate
Examines the role of design in mediating between dynamic climatic forces such as wind, energy and light and the human response to the environment. Weaving discussions of fundamental principles with case studies and illustrative exercises, the course focuses on the design of the boundary between the internal and external environments. (Y)
Credits: 4
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ARCH 324 - Introduction to Structural Design
A first course in structures for undergraduates to develop analytic and critical skills through both mathematical and visual investigation. Topics include statics, mechanics of materials, computer-based structural analysis, and the design and behavior of basic structural elements and systems. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Equivalent college-level physics.
Credits: 4
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ARCH 326 - Building Matters
Explores and evaluates the properties of basic building materials and construction assemblies. Introduces building construction from a variety of viewpoints, with emphasis on ecological thinking in architectural decision-making. Students will analyze and critique materials and construction systems, and how they correspond to aesthetic, technical, financial and ethical issues. (Y)
Credits: 4
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ARCH 401 - Architectural Design
Explores architectural design problems of complex programs and intermediate scale, emphasizing circulation, formal intent, and specialized technology in both historic and contemporary urban contexts. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: ARCH 302.
Credits: 6
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ARCH 402 - Architectural Design
Explores architectural design problems of complex programs and intermediate scale, emphasizing circulation, formal intent, and specialized technology in both historic and contemporary urban contexts. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: ARCH 401.
Credits: 6
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ARCH 444 - Digital Moviemaking and Animation
Explores the simulation of architecture, urban design, and environmental design through movie-making. Examines parallels between the treatment of motion in movies and the treatment of motion in design. These parallels include how film makers and designers treat the space-time continuum, 3-D depth, movement, lighting, and montage. Further examines movie-making as a medium for design exploration, architectural aesthetic expression, and critical analysis of design. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: ARCH 541/542 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 482 - Teaching Experience
Selected students lead a seminar (of 8 to 10 younger students each) for “Lessons of the Lawn” and “Lessons in Making.” All student assistants attend class lectures (for a second time) and then meet with their seminar groups weekly, leading discussions of topics and questions raised by the instructor. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 500 - Vicenza Program
Summer study abroad in Vicenza, Italy. Students will be introduced to Italian culture through the study of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning. Both the formal ideals as well as the constructed reality of these three subjects will be studied through critical observation and documentation of universal conditions and critical junctures. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 511 - Design Approaches to Existing Sites
Explores various approaches by designers to the contexts of their work. Examines buildings, urban infrastructure, and landscape interventions, and includes lectures, discussions, and presentations by visitors and students. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 517 - New Urban Housing
The class attempts to give students an introduction to the design issues associated with high-density urban housing. This area was a focus of experimentation for the first generation of modern architects. Today, pressures from urban sprawl and concerns for sustainable patterns of living have renewed the need to find ways of making modern urban neighborhoods. Issues of innovation and continuity need to be explored. This seminar will discuss the history of modern housing and explore a range of contemporary architectural projects, built and unbuilt.(Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 521 - Advanced Architectural Detailing
An exploration of the life of details in building. Examines the ways in which technical decisions are made, and focuses on details and constructions within particular regional contexts. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 529 - Constructing Weather
Focuses on the wild energies of sun, wind, water and earth. Students learn to perceive and to represent these “invisible” energies, and then to invent the means through which architecture can be conceived in concert with them. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 530 - Evaluating Eco-MOD
The seminar focuses on the evaluation of the ecological, prefabricated and affordable housing units. The students in the seminar work individually or in small teams to analyze the prototypical homes by: assessing the environmental impact of the design and the fabrication of them; designing and installing a building monitoring system; creating a post occupancy evaluation survey for the occupants; assessing the positioning of the ecoMOD homes in the modular housing and affordable housing markets; assessing the affordability of the units; assessing the viability of integrating the homes into other neighborhoods in the area; creating a business and marketing plan for taking the project to scale; and preparing a collective final report that synthesizes the research of the entire evaluation team. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 536 - Concepts in Architecture Detailing
An exploration of the life of details in building. Examines the ways in which technical decisions are made, and focuses on details and constructions within particular regional contexts. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 540 - Experimental Technologies
Covering theory to practice, the course is an introduction to the use of digital technologies for the analysis, simulation and visualization of space, time and processes on cultural sites. The course focuses on the use of computer technologies for the visualization, exploration and analysis of natural and built environments (broad enough to include issues and methodologies of interest to architects, landscape architects, archaeologists and architectural historians). Topics are explored through class lectures on the theory and application of computational/visualization technology, guest lectures, example projects, field trips to project site and exercises examining emergent issues. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 541 - CAAD 3D Modeling & Visualization
A comprehensive course in three-dimensional computer aided design and visualization methods used in architecture and landscape architecture. The class explores design worlds that are made accessible through computer-based media. Lectures provide a theoretical framework for computer-aided design, describe current methods, and speculate on advanced methods. Workshop exercises focus on computer-based 3-D geometrical modeling, including photo-realistic and abstract methods of rendering, materials simulation, texture mapping, reflection mapping, image processing, color theory and manipulation, photomontage, lighting, animation, and combined media applications. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 542 - Computer Animation: Design in Motion
An exploration of moviemaking through exercises in computer animation. Approximately five independently developed short animations constitute the work of the semester, culminating in a one- to five-minute long final movie project. It is anticipated that an interdisciplinary group of students admitted to the seminar will bring perspectives from across the visual and design arts. Movie projects may range in creative subject areas. Built and landscape architectural places may be experienced according to our own changing eye point of view, the transformation of light and objects, as well as the movement of other people. Story telling, whether by means of simple character animation or more complex scene description, may related to these contextual aspects of either real or imagined environments. This subject is more exclusively focused than ARCH 545 on animation as a means to creative moviemaking. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 545 - Digital Moviemaking and Animation
Visual storytelling is the basis for making movies in this hands-on production oriented class. The technology of both computer graphics animation and digital video production are explored. Themes may incorporate short character studies or visual narratives related to the built and natural environment, such as its observable symbols and images, the process of physical and conceptual assembly, transformations of light and form, spatial or formal composition, the movement of people and objects, and similar phenomena that vary over time. Students have the option to use either computer graphics animation or video production. The links between perception, representation, and design are examined within both a historical and a contemporary critical framework. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: ARCH 541/542 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ARCH 547 - Information Space
We live in a world rich with information. This course concentrates on the identity and role of information in our environs: in the buildings and cities that we inhabit and in the evolving networks and World Wide Web that are increasingly a part of our daily lives. The course looks practically and theoretically at how we build information, why, and how we use and populate it in our world. In both the physical and digital realms we study language, graphics, and urban form as `Information Space`, and look for ways to build new architectures that use information well. The course uses web design technology as a vehicle to explore these themes.(Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 548 - Computables of Architectural Design
Explores the quantitative basis and geometrical order of forms occurring in nature and architecture. Covers instructions, exercises, and examples of coding in a programming language during the first two thirds of the term. Students develop a case study in design methods that extends a CAD system as the basis for a computational project in the last third of the term. Programming knowledge is not assumed; class pace is individually adapted for students with previous experience. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 549 - CNC Fabrication
This is a seminar about computation and the physical making of architecture. The course centers on student research into computer-controlled modeling and fabrication through hands-on use of CNC machines and advanced CAD technologies. The course focuses on the making of objects, parts, and systems at real-world, real-material scales and on the invention of strategies that link geometric form and computation with fabrication and material processing. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 550 - InfoLab: Laboratory for Visualizing Information
The design process has become an essential filter of all types of information. Due to contemporary forms of communication and media, this process has now been charged with the task of gathering, filtering, comprehending, processing, interpreting, forming and representing information in a clear and coherent manner. This laboratory seeks to introduce its participants to various modes of forming and representing information, qualifying, quantifying and visualizing it with the ultimate goal of familiarizing themselves with contemporary representational techniques and creating new visualization tools. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 551 - Photography and Digital Media
This course seeks to give students the ability to conceive and create digital photographic imagery with control and sophistication. Topics include fundamentals of photography, color theory, digital control of visual qualities, and methods of image montage for both still images and short animations. Methods include production and presentation for both printed hard copy and for the World Wide Web. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 554 - Drawing and Composition
Seeks to develop an increased desire for architectural exploration and discovery by providing instruction in architectural graphic notation, analytical drawing, and free hand sketching. Focuses on the ability of architectural drawing conventions and techniques to expand our understanding of natural and built form, in context. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 556 - Drawing and Sketching
This course will cover the fundamentals of drawing with a focus on the human figure. It will address line, tone volume, space, scale, proportion and artistic expression. The analysis of human form will also be applied to rendering still-life, buildings, interiors and landscapes. Various wet and dry media will be introduced to illustrate the drawing objectives. An emphasis on “process” will direct the momentum of this course. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 557 - Drawings and Collages
In this course we make collages, drawings, and mixed media projects. Rather than distinguishing collage and drawing as separate categories, we explore their exciting in-between territory. We make plane (and plain) images: configurations of relatively stable, still marks on two-dimensional surfaces. We use traditional drawing methods (graphite, colored pencil or ink on paper) as well as more unusual tools and materials (sidewalk chalk, earth, trash, recycled materials). Through brief weekly readings and discussions we explore the relationship between aesthetics and ethics—between “good forms” and forms that in some way contribute or allude to the “common good.” (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 558 - Painting and Public Art
In this course we make paintings and mixed media projects. We stress the process rather then the artistic product and, like artist Sol LeWitt, define painting “as an activity on a flat plane.” We make plane (and plain) images: configurations of relatively stable, still marks on two-dimensional surfaces. We use traditional methods (watercolor or ink on paper, acrylics on canvas) as well as more unusual tools and materials (sidewalk chalk, earth, trash, recycled materials). Through weekly readings and discussions we explore the relationship between aesthetics and ethics—between “good forms” and forms that in some way contribute or allude to the “common good.” (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 559 - Diagram and Detail
A seminar that focuses on the development of inventive means of representing, through the diagram, the explicit and implicit relationships between idea and form at all levels: from city to material assembly. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 562 - Robotic Ecologies
The seminar will explore recent advances in the interdisciplinary fields of architecture, landscape and urbanism, where design research has intersected with the advanced sciences to produce entirely new modes of thinking, designing and building. We will explore the promise of robotics to productively intermesh and interact with the complex ecologies of our physical environment. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 563 - Design of Cities
Cities are physical artifacts that are experienced psychologically and socially. This course investigates the theories surrounding these processes to reach an understanding of humanistic urban design intentions. Experiential realities are explored through case studies, readings, and mapping exercises. (Y)
Credits: 2
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ARCH 566 - Design and Leadership
The aim of this course is to give students a fundamental and practical understanding of leadership and the role that design plays in exercising leadership and mobilizing the resources of a group. This is a course designed for students currently being educated in the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. The purpose is to increase significantly one’s individual capacity to sustain the demands of leadership and to strengthen considerably one’s individual ability to exercise both leadership and authority within in the larger arena of public life. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 567 - Theories and Practices of Modern American Urbanism
Explores the design and transformation of the American urban landscape. Encourages a broad understanding of the many forces that determined the shape and form of our cities and towns, and helps students to develop more detailed and critical models of urban analysis. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 570 - Some Assembly Required: Research and Development
This course functions as research and development seminar – the research and development initiatives will consist of three distinct and critically interdependent phases: first, case study analysis and interpretation; secondly, development of issue-specific project proposal; and thirdly, innovative advancement of research topic. In consultation with the course instructor, each research initiative focuses on a specific topic of building construction. Building materials, fabrication technologies, components, assemblies and systems are all potential areas of investigation. It is important to note that although the course emphasizes that each student’s investigation find its locus in a specific aspect of building construction – i.e. hybrid material composition, component fabrication processes, cladding assembly sequencing, mechanical system distribution or site staging – the research is also required to speculate on how overall building systems would be affected by the innovation of a specific material, fabrication process, component assembly, or system integration. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 574 - Depth of Surface
Construction systems and material selection must be a generative process not a reactive application. What are the possibilities for the Depth of Surface to exploit the tension between internal criteria and external forces & context?
The fundamental issues of buildability must be driven by a sense of ‘what do you want to see?’ as well as the pragmatic - with the detail reinforcing, not diluting, the whole. How can overall composition, form, performance and structure of building envelope come together (via detail) within a specific conceptual context? (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARCH 575 - Some Assembly Required: Design Build
The course focuses on the study of modern fabrication practices in the context of design/build projects. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 101 - History of Art I
A survey of the great monuments of art and architecture from their beginnings in caves through the arts of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, Byzantium, the Islamic world, and medieval western Europe. The course attempts to make art accessible to students with no background in the subject, and it explains the ways in which painting, sculpture, and architecture are related to mythology, religion, politics, literature, and daily life. The course serves as a visual introduction to the history of the West. (Y)
Credits: 4
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ARTH 102 - History of Art II
Studies the history and interpretation of architecture, sculpture and painting from 1400 to the present. (S)
Credits: 4
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ARTH 209 - Sacred Sites
Examines the art and architecture of ten religious sites around the world focusing on ritual, culture, and history as well as the artistic characteristics of each site. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 211 - Art of the Ancient Near East and Prehistoric Europe
Studies the art of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Aegean, and prehistoric Europe, from the sixth to the second millennium b.c. Examines the emergence of a special role for the arts in ancient religion. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 213 - Greek Art
The painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Greeks, from the Dark Ages through the Hellenistic period. Works are studied in their social, political, and religious contexts. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 214 - Etruscan and Roman Art
Studies the painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy and the Roman Empire from the time of the Etruscans to Constantine the Great. Emphasizes the political and social role of art in ancient Rome, the dissolution of classical art, and the formation of medieval art. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 215 - Introduction to Classical Archaeology
Introduces the history, theory, and field techniques of classical archaeology. Major sites of the Bronze Age (Troy, Mycenae) as well as Greek and Roman cities and sanctuaries (e.g., Athens, Olympia, Pompeii) illustrate important themes in Greek and Roman culture and the nature of archaeological data. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 221 - Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Studies the art of the early Church in East and West and its subsequent development in the East under the aegis of Byzantium. Includes the influence of theological, liturgical and political factors on the artistic expression of Eastern Christian spirituality. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 222 - Medieval Art in Western Europe
Studies the arts in Western Europe from the Hiberno-Saxon period up to, and including, the age of the great Gothic cathedrals. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 231 - Italian Renaissance Art
Studies painting, architecture, and sculpture in Italy from the close of the Middle Ages through the sixteenth century. Focuses on the work of major artists such as Giotto, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. Detailed discussion of the social, political, and cultural background of the arts. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 232 - High Renaissance and Mannerist Art
Studies the painting, architecture, and sculpture or the sixteenth century, emphasizing the works of major artists, such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, and Titian. Detailed discussion of the social, political, and cultural background of the arts. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 236 - Painting and Graphics of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in Northern Europe
Surveys major developments in painting and graphics in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Netherlands and Germany. Includes the rise of Netherlandish naturalism and the origins of woodcut and engraving. Explores the effects of humanist taste on sixteenth-century painting and the iconographic consequences of the Reformation. Emphasizes the work of major artists, such as Van Eyck, Van der Weyden, Dürer, Bosch, and Bruegel. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 241 - Baroque Art in Europe
Studies the painting, sculpture, and architecture of the seventeenth century in Italy, the Low Countries, France, and Spain. Focuses on Caravaggio, Bernini, Velazquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Poussin. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 251 - Eighteenth-Century European Art
Surveys European painting and sculpture from the late Baroque period to Neo-Classicism. Emphasizes the artistic careers of major figures and on the larger social, political, and cultural contexts of their work. Artists include Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Chardin, Falconet, Pigalle, Greuze, Batoni, Rusconi, Hogarth, Gainsborough, and Reynolds. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 252 - Art of Revolutionary Europe
Surveys European painting and sculpture from the last decades of the Ancien Regime to the liberal revolutions of 1848. Major artists, such as David, Canova, Ingres, Constable, Turner, Gericault, Delacroix, Friedrich, Goya, Corot, and Thorvaldsen are examined in their political, economic, social, spiritual, and aesthetic contexts. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 255 - Impressionism and Post Impressionism
Surveys modernist movements in European art during the second half of the nineteenth century. Major themes include the establishment of modernity as a cultural ideal, the development of the avant-garde, and the genesis of the concept of abstraction. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 256 - Modern Art, 1900-1945
A survey of major artistic movements in Europe and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century: Fauvism and Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, the School of Paris, Dada and Surrealism, the Russian avant-garde, modernist trends in America. Painting, sculpture, photography, and the functional arts are discussed. (Y)
Credits: 4
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ARTH 257 - The History of Photography
General survey of the photographic medium from 1839 to the present. Emphasizes the technical, aesthetic, and critical issues particular to the medium. (IR)
Credits: 4
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ARTH 261 - American Art
Studies the development of American art in its cultural context from the seventeenth century to World War II. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 267 - American Modernism
American Modernism is a survey of American art in the first half of the 20th century. The course will address the arrival of modern art in America, the situation of the American artist in relation to European art, and an American public, and the question of the American art. (O)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 268 - Art Since 1945
Surveys art production and theory in the U.S. and Europe since World War II. Relationships between artistic practice and critical theory are stressed in an examination of movements ranging from abstract expressionism to neo-geo. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 270 - Buddhist Art from India to Japan
Surveys the Buddhist sculpture, architecture and painting of India, China and Japan. Considers aspects of history and religious doctrine. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 271 - East Asian Art
Introduces the artistic traditions of China, Korea, and Japan, from prehistoric times to the modern era. Surveys major monuments and the fundamental concepts behind their creation, and examines artistic form in relation to society, individuals, technology, and ideas. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 275 - The Arts of India
The class is an overview of Indian sculpture, architecture, and painting from the Third Millennium BC to the 18th century AD and includes works from Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Islamic traditions. (O)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 281 - Arts of the Islamic World
The class is an overview of art made in the service of Islam in the Central Islamic Lands, Egypt, North Africa, Spain, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 312 - Greek Vase Painting
Survey of the major styles, techniques, and painters of Greek vases produced in the Archaic and Classical periods (c. 700-350 b.c.). Emphasizes themes of myth and daily life, the relationship of vases to other ancient arts, the legacy of form and decoration in the arts of later periods, such as 18th century England, and comparisons with other cultures, such as the Native American southwest. (E)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: any course in Art History, Anthropology, Classics or History.
Credits: 3
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ARTH 313 - Art and Poetry in Classical Greece
Study of the major themes in Greek sculpture and painting of the fifth century, including mythological narrative, cult practices, banqueting, and athletics. In order to view these themes in the context of classical Greek culture, the course seeks out shared structures of response and feeling in contemporary poetry; including readings in translation in Anakreon, Pindar, Aischylos, Sophokles, and Euripides. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 315 - The Greek City
Study of the Greek city from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. The course focuses on such themes as city planning, public buildings and houses, gender distinctions, the relationship between city and territory, and the nature of the polis. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 316 - Roman Architecture
Study of the history of Roman architecture from the Republic to the late empire with special emphasis on the evolution of urban architecture in Rome. Also considered are Roman villas, Roman landscape architecture, the cities of Pompeii and Ostia, major sites of the Roman provinces, and the architectural and archaeological field methods used in dealing with ancient architecture. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 317 - Pompeii
Explores the life, art, architecture, urban development, religion, economy, and daily life of the famous Roman city destroyed in the cataclysmic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in a.d. 79. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 322 - Age of Cathedrals
Examination of art, architecture, religion and ritual at selected medieval abbeys and cathedrals in France, England and Italy from the late 12th to early 14th centuries. Sites include the Abbey of St. Denis, Canterbury Cathedral, Chartres Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, the Sainte-Chapelle, Westminster Abbey, the Cathedral of Siena, and the Cathedral of Florence. Students should have experience (preferably at college level) in analyzing historical issues. (Y)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 331 - Gender and Art in Renaissance Italy
Examines how notions of gender shaped the production, patronage, and fruition of the visual arts in Italy between 1350 and 1600. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: A previous course in art history or gender studies.
Credits: 3
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ARTH 333 - Renaissance Art and Literature
Examines the interrelations between literature and the visual arts in Italy from 1300 to 1600. The writings of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio and their followers are analyzed in relation to the painting, sculpture, and architecture of Giotto, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Raphael, and Michelangelo, among others. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 334 - Leonardo da Vinci
An analysis of Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings, drawings, and notes, giving special attention to his writings and drawings on human anatomy, the theory of light and shade, color theory, and pictorial composition. His work is considered in relation to the works of fellow artists such as Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo as well as within the context of Renaissance investigation of the natural world. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: One course in the humanities.
Credits: 3
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ARTH 335Z - Renaissance Art on Site
Firsthand, direct knowledge of Renaissance art and architecture through an intensive program of on-site visits in Florence and Rome. The course aims to provide a deeper understanding of the specificity of images and sites—that is, their materials, texture, scale, size, proportions, colors, and volumes. It also aims to instill a full sense of the importance of the original location for the understanding and interpretation of Renaissance art. (J)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ARTH 337 - Michelangelo and His Time
Analyzes the work of Michelangelo in sculpture, painting and architecture in relation to his contemporaries in Italy and the North. The class focuses on the close investigation of his preparatory drawings, letters, poems and documents. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: One course in the history of art beyond the level of ARTH 101 and 102
Credits: 3
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ARTH 342 - Rembrandt
Study of the life and work of the great Dutch seventeenth-century master. Topics include Rembrandt’s interpretation of the Bible and the nature of his religious convictions, his relationship to classical and Renaissance culture, his rivalry with Rubens, and the expressive purposes of his distinctive techniques in painting, drawing, and etching. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 353 - British Art: Tudors through Victoria
Surveys English (British) painting, sculpture, and printmaking from the reign of Henry VII Tudor (1485) to the death of Queen Victoria (1901). Major artists such as Holbein, Mor, Mytens, Rubens, van Dyck, Lely, Kneller, Hogarth, Rysbrack, Roubilliac, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Rowlandson, Flaxman, Lawrence, Constable, Turner, Landseer, the Pre-Raphaelites and Alma-Taddema are examined in their political, social, economic, spiritual, and aesthetic contexts. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: At least one post-medieval art history course is recommended.
Credits: 3
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ARTH 362 - Material Life in Early America
Studies American domestic environments (architecture, landscapes, rural and urban settings) and decorative arts (furniture, silver, ceramics, and glass) in relation to their social, cultural, and historical contexts from European settlement to 1825. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: At least one course in either American art or early American history or literature is recommended.
Credits: 3
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ARTH 367 - New York School
The New York School focuses on the background, development, and dissemination of abstract expressionism, beginning with an examination of the place and politics of the artist in America in the depression era. The slide lectures and required readings examine the social and intellectual groundings of the subjects of abstract painting in the 1940s and the development of an international art scene in New York in the 1950s. (E)
Credits: 4
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ARTH 371 - Chinese Art
The course is a survey of the major epochs of Chinese art from pre-historic to the modern period. The course intends to familiarize students with the important artistic traditions developed in China: ceramics, bronzes, funerary art and ritual, Buddhist art, painting, and garden architecture. It seeks to understand artistic form in relation to technology, political and religious beliefs, and social and historical contexts, with focus on the role of the state or individuals as patrons of the arts. It also introduces the major philosophic and religious traditions—Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism—that have shaped cultural and aesthetic ideals, Chinese art theories, and the writings of leading scholars. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 372 - Japanese Art
Introduces the arts and culture of Japan. Focuses on key monuments and artistic traditions that have played central roles in Japanese art and society. Analyzes how artists, architects, and patrons expressed their ideals in visual terms. Examines sculptures, paintings, and decorative objects and their underlying artistic and cultural values. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 383 - African Art
Studies Africa’s chief forms of visual art from prehistoric times to the present. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 385 - Women in American Art
Analyzes the roles played by women both as visual artists and as the subjects of representation in American art from the colonial period to the present. Explores the changing cultural context and institutions that support or inhibit women’s artistic activity and help to shape their public presentation. Some background in either art history or women’s studies is desirable. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ARTH 401 - Art History: Theory and Practice
This course introduces art history majors to the basic tools and methods of art historical research, and to the theoretical and historical questions of art historical interpretation. The course will survey a number of current approaches to the explanation and interpretation of works of art, and briefly address the history of art history. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Major or minor in art history.
Credits: 4
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ARTH 491 - Undergraduate Seminar in the History of Art
Subject varies with the instructor, who may decide to focus attention either on a particular period, artist, or theme, or on the broader question of the aims and methods of art history. Subject is announced prior to each registration period. Representative subjects include the life and art of Pompeii, Roman painting and mosaics, history and connoisseurship of baroque prints, art and politics in revolutionary Europe, Picasso and painting, and problems in American art and culture. (S)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ARTH 497 - Undergraduate Thesis
A thesis of approximately 50 written pages is researched and written during the fall and spring semesters by art history majors in their fourth year who have been accepted into the department’s Distinguished Majors Program. (S)
Credits: 6
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ARTH 498 - Undergraduate Thesis
A thesis of approximately 50 written pages is researched and written during the fall and spring semesters by art history majors in their fourth year who have been accepted into the department’s Distinguished Majors Program. (S)
Credits: 6
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ARTH 501 - Library Methodology in the Visual Arts
Required for all entering graduate students. Introduces the bibliography of the visual arts including architecture, archaeology, painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts. Specific research and reference publications are analyzed in terms of their scope, special features, and applications to meeting research and information needs. (Y)
Credits: 1
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ARTH 516 - Roman Architecture
Surveys Roman architecture in Italy and the Roman Empire from the Republic to Constantine, emphasizing developments in the city of Rome. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ARTH 518 - Roman Imperial Art and Architecture I
Studies Roman sculpture, painting, architecture and minor arts from Augustus to Trajan. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ARTH 519 - Roman Imperial Art and Architecture II
Studies Roman sculpture, mosaics, architecture and minor arts from Trajan to Constantine. (IR)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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