Course Descriptions

ARAH 5253 - Italian Fifteenth Century Painting I

ARAH 5254 - Italian 16th Century Painting

ARAH 5277 - Italian Renaissance Sculpture I

ARAH 5281 - Dutch Painting in the Golden Age

Surveys the major artists and schools of the United Provinces from about 1580-1680, including Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Vermeer, and Jacob van Ruisdael, seen in the context of Dutch culture and history. Emphasizes the iconographic method of interpreting daily-life genre and landscape, the role of theory in Dutch art, and the character of Dutch realism.



Credits: 3

ARAH 5525 - Topics in Renaissance Art History

ARAH 5559 - New Course in History of Art

ARAH 5575 - Topics in Modern Art History

ARAH 5585 - Topics in the Art of East, South, and Southeast Asia

ARAH 5681 - Museum Studies

ARAH 5751 - Approaches to American Art

Introduces historiography and methodology of American art history from earliest discussions to the present, through an analysis of one particular mode (e.g., portraiture, landscape, genre) over time.



Credits: 3

ARAH 5752 - Representations of Race in American Art

ARAH 5753 - Southern History and Material Culture

Southern History & Material Culture is an intensive graduate-level introduction to the decorative arts, history and material culture of the American South. The four-week course includes a number of lectures, collection studies and workshops by members of the staff of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Old Salem, Inc., the faculty of the University of Virginia, and guest scholars.



Credits: 3

ARAH 5951 - African Art

ARAH 7500 - Research Problems in Ancient Architecture/Archaeology

ARAH 7505 - Research Problems in Ancient Art/ Archaeology

ARAH 7510 - Research Problems in Medieval Architecture

ARAH 7515 - Research Problems Medieval Art

ARAH 7520 - Research Problems in Renaissance/Baroque Architecture

ARAH 7525 - Research Problems in Renaissance/Baroque Art

ARAH 7530 - Research Problems in 18th/19th Century Architecture

ARAH 7535 - Research Problems in 18th/19th Century Art

ARAH 7540 - Research Problems in 20th/21st Century Architecture

ARAH 7545 - Research Problems in 20th/21st Century Art

ARAH 7560 - Research Problems in Architecture Theory, Comparative & Other Topics

ARAH 7565 - Research Problems in Art Theory, Comparative & Other Topics

ARAH 7570 - Research Problems in the Architecture of the Americas

ARAH 7575 - Research Problems in the Art of the Americas

ARAH 7580 - Research Problems in the Architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia

ARAH 7585 - Research Problems in the Art of East, South, and Southeast Asia

ARAH 7590 - Research Problems in the Architecture of Africa or Islam

ARAH 7595 - Research Problems in the Art of Africa or Islam

ARAH 8051 - Theory and Interpretation in the Visual Arts

ARAH 8052 - 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.



Credits: 1

ARAH 8091 - MA Thesis Research

ARAH 8092 - MA Thesis Writing

The MA thesis, up to 50 pages in length, will be prepared under the supervision of the major advisor, reviewed by a three-person committee and defended orally before the end of term.



Credits: 3

ARAH 8095 - Dissertation Proposal

ARAH 8695 - Special Reading Problems

ARAH 8940 - Special Reading Problems in Art

ARAH 8950 - Special Reading Problems

ARAH 8998 - Non-Topical Rsch, Masters Prep

ARAH 8999 - Non-Topical Research, Masters

ARAH 9500 - Seminar in Ancient Architecture/Archaeology

ARAH 9505 - Seminar in Ancient Art/Archaeology

ARAH 9510 - Seminar in Medieval Architecture

ARAH 9515 - Seminar in Medieval Art

ARAH 9520 - Seminar in Renaissance/Baroque Architecture

ARAH 9525 - Seminar in Renaissance/Baroque Art

ARAH 9530 - Seminar in 18th/19th Architecture

ARAH 9535 - Seminar in 18th/19th Art

ARAH 9540 - Seminar in 20th/21st Century Architecture

ARAH 9545 - Seminar in 20th/21st Century Art

ARAH 9560 - Seminar in Architecture Theory, Comparative & Other Topics

ARAH 9565 - Seminar in Art Theory, Comparative & Other Topics

ARAH 9570 - Seminar in the Architecture of the Americas

ARAH 9575 - Seminar in the Art of the Americas

ARAH 9580 - Seminar in the Architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia

ARAH 9585 - Seminar in the Art of East, South, and Southeast Asia

ARAH 9590 - Seminar in the Architecture of Africa or Islam

ARAH 9595 - Seminar in the Art of Africa or Islam

ARAH 9995 - Supervised Research

ARAH 9998 - Non-Topical Rsch,Doctoral Prep

ARAH 9999 - Non-Topical Research, Doctoral

HIAF 5559 - New Course in African History

HIAF 7001 - The History and Historiography of Africa

Taught for graduate students with no previous experience in African history; consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of HIAF 2001, 2002, and weekly discussions devoted to more detailed examination of the technical and interpretive problems in writing African history.



Credits: 3

HIAF 7002 - The History and Historiography of Africa

Taught for graduate students with no previous experience in African history; consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of HIAF 2001, 2002, and weekly discussions devoted to more detailed examination of the technical and interpretive problems in writing African history.



Credits: 3

HIAF 7031 - History and Historiography of North Africa, ca. 1800-Present

Introduces the literature on North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) from the precolonial period to the postcolonial era. An intensive readings and discussion colloquium devoted to the major issues in the region’s political, economic, social, and cultural history, and to the issues raised by colonial historiography.
Prerequisite: HIME 2001, 2002.



Credits: 3

HIAF 7559 - New Course in African History

HIAF 8002 - Graduate Seminar in Modern African History

Graduate seminar introducing research in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of Africa, for students in History as well as in other departments wishing historical framing for their degree work.
Prerequisites: Consultation with instructor.



Credits: 3

HIAF 8011 - African History

HIEA 5151 - Mao and the Chinese Revolution

This course, an advanced reading seminar, provides an in-depth investigation of one of the most significant, yet destructive, revolutions in human history–the Chinese Communist revolution, as well as the person who led the revolution–Mao Zedong.



Credits: 3

HIEA 5559 - New Course in East Asian History

HIEA 7011 - Traditional East Asian History

Offered to graduate students with no previous background in East Asian history. Consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of undergraduate courses on East Asian history and directed readings at an advanced level of the development of the social, political and cultural institutions of East Asia.



Credits: 3

HIEA 7021 - Traditional East Asian History

Offered to graduate students with no previous background in East Asian history. Consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of undergraduate courses on East Asian history and directed readings at an advanced level of the development of the social, political and cultural institutions of East Asia.



Credits: 3

HIEA 7031 - Modern East Asian History

Offered to graduate students with no previous background in modern East Asian history. Consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of undergraduate courses on modern East Asian history and directed readings at an advanced level on the development of the social, political and cultural institutions of East Asia.



Credits: 3

HIEA 7041 - Modern East Asian History

Offered to graduate students with no previous background in modern East Asian history. Consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of undergraduate courses on modern East Asian history and directed readings at an advanced level on the development of the social, political and cultural institutions of East Asia.



Credits: 3

HIEA 7061 - Modern Chinese History

HIEA 7559 - New Course in East Asian History

HIEA 8011 - East Asian History

HIEA 8021 - East Asian History

HIEA 8111 - Traditional Chinese History

Studies documents related to social and political philosophy. Emphasizes translated texts, but some attention will be paid to Chinese texts and the problems of translation.



Credits: 3

HIEA 8211 - Japanese History

Discusses selected issues in the social, political, and economic development of Japan from the Tokugawa period to the present.



Credits: 3

HIEA 8559 - New Course in East Asian History

HIEU 5001 - Dark Age Greece

Examines the structural, political, and conceptual rise of the Greek polis and explores other aspects of the archaeology, art, history, and literature of the ‘iron age’ and early archaic period (1000-600 BC) in Greece.
Prerequisite: HIEU 2031 or equivalent



Credits: 3

HIEU 5011 - Late Archaic Greece

Examines the history of Greece in the late archaic age down to the end of the Persian wars.
Prerequisite: HIEU 2031 or equivalent.



Credits: 3

HIEU 5021 - Greece in the Fifth Century

Examination of the political, diplomatic, and social history of Greece from the end of the Persian Wars in 479 b.c. to the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404/3 b.c. Investigates the origins, course, and importance of the latter war, the major watershed in classical Greek history.
Prerequisite: HIEU 2031 or equivalent.



Credits: 3

HIEU 5031 - Greece in the Fourth Century

Advanced course in Greek history that examines in detail the social and economic history of Greece from the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 b.c. to the defeat of the Greek city-states at Chaeronea in 338.
Prerequisite: HIEU 2041 or equivalent.



Credits: 3

HIEU 5041 - Roman Republic

HIEU 5051 - Roman Empire

HIEU 5061 - Roman Imperialism

Examines Roman transmarine expansion to determine how and why it happened, and what consequences it had, both in Rome and abroad.
Prerequisite: HIEU 2041 or equivalent.



Credits: 3

HIEU 5072 - Modern Theory

For students with previous knowledge of philosophy, political, or sociological theory, or religious studies. Discusses three or four major nineteenth- or twentieth-century theorists in depth.
Prerequisite: One 3000-level course in intellectual history.



Credits: 3

HIEU 5082 - Modernity and History

HIEU 5101 - Early Christian Thought

Intensive consideration of a selected issue, movement or figure in Christian thought of the second through fifth centuries.
Prerequisite: RELC 2050 or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

HIEU 5111 - Early Medieval England

HIEU 5131 - Medieval France

HIEU 5141 - Thucydides

A team-taught course reading Thucydides in ancient Greek, with attention to his style, the structure of his work, its literary qualities, and scholarly controveries about the author. Meets twice a week: one session to read the text together in the Greek, and the other to consider the historical and historiographical issues to which the text gives rise, with readings in modern scholarly literature.



Credits: 3

HIEU 5181 - Historians in the Middle Ages

HIEU 5191 - War and Society in the Middle Ages

A documentary history of warfare in Western Europe from the 9th century to the 16th with a discussion of its effect on the political, economic, social, and religious development of the emerging nation states.



Credits: 3

HIEU 5201 - The Culture of the Renaissance

Surveys the writing of humanists who lived between 1300 and 1600. Topics include the contributions of humanists to the history of education, political theory, religion, gender relations, and artistic theory. Authors include Petrarch, Machiavelli, Thomas More, and Erasmus.
Prerequisite: Undergraduates require instructor permission.



Credits: 3

HIEU 5211 - Early Modern Germany, 1350-1750

Studies late medieval politics, economy, and culture, including the Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and Wars of Religion; pietism and the baroque.



Credits: 3

HIEU 5221 - English Social History, 1550-1800

Provides a survey of major themes in English social history, examining agriculture, rural community structures, demography, urban life, religious, political, and legal practices, popular culture, and relations between men and women.
Prerequisite: undergraduates by instructor permission.



Credits: 3