ARH 1100 SURVEY OF WESTERN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Four hours. An introduction to painting, sculpture, and architecture from prehistory to the present in the context of social, cultural, religious, and political history. Gen Ed: SW (Glb, Aw); FA (In)
ARH 2700 THE CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
Four hours. Prerequisites: ARH 1100, ART 1020, ART 1131, and sophomore standing. Art Theory and Practice is a sophomore seminar course designed to provide a survey of contemporary theory and practice from the artist’s perspective and to prepare the student for portfolio development. Students will explore specific directions and methods of contemporary art practice, will engage in art making as an aspect of their exploration of contemporary media, will discuss health hazards associated with making art, and will prepare a curriculum vita and portfolio representing themselves as contemporary artists. Gen Ed: FA (In)
ARH 3710 ANCIENT ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Four hours. Prerequisite: ARH 1100. An introduction to painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Ancient Mediterranean in the context of social, cultural, religious, and political history. Gen Ed: FA (In)
ARH 3720 MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Four hours. Prerequisite: ARH 1100. An introduction to painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Medieval period in the context of social, cultural, religious, and political history. Gen Ed: FA (In)
ARH 3740 RENAISSANCE ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Four hours. Prerequisite: ARH 1100. An introduction to painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Renaissance period in the context of social, cultural, religious, and political history. Gen Ed: FA (In)
ARH 3750 BAROQUE ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Four hours. Prerequisite: ARH 1100. An introduction to painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Baroque period in the context of social, cultural, religious, and political history. Gen Ed: FA (In)
ARH 3770 EIGHTEENTH-AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Four hours. Prerequisite: ARH 1100. A period-survey of European and American painting, sculpture, and architecture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the context of social, cultural, religious, and political history. Gen Ed: FA (In)
ARH 3780 TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Four hours. Prerequisite: ARH 1100. A period-survey of European and American painting, sculpture, and architecture of the twentieth century in the context of social, cultural, religious, and political history. Gen Ed: FA (In)
ARH 4790 CONTEMPORARY ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Four hours. Prerequisites: ARH 1100 and standing as a junior or senior; additionally, ARH 378 is highly recommended, but is not required. An introduction to painting, sculpture, architecture, and new media from mid-twentieth-century minimalism to the present in the context of contemporary social, cultural, religious, and political history. This course has extensive writing and oral presentation components. Gen Ed: SW (Glb, Aw), FA (In)
ARH 4960-4961 ART HISTORY INTERNSHIP
Four hours. Prerequisites: ARH 1100 and permission of supervising faculty. This course is intended to provide supervised, on-the-job training during one or more the last three semesters of a student’s studies. Following departmental internship guidelines and in coordination with the supervising faculty member, the student will secure an internship assignment that will provide an appropriate learning experience in his or her field of concentration. Summer field experiences are encouraged. Most Art History internships are in museum or gallery settings.
ARH 4999 ART HISTORY SENIOR THESIS
Four hours. Prerequisites: Senior standing in the Department of Art and Art History, ARH 1100, an ARH period-survey course at the 3000-level or higher, permission of a thesis advisor, and successful completion of coursework that satisfies Effective Communication SLOs A and B. This is the capstone course for the B.A. in Art History, and is designed to prepare one to do scholarly writing about art history and make a scholarly slide- or digital-image-presentation, whether in preparation for graduate school or for other life activities. The course may be taken by non-majors who wish to have this research and writing experience. In this course, the student will write a twenty-page research paper of the type commonly assigned in graduate art history courses. This course will be deemed to be cross-listed with any upper-division period-survey course taught during the same semester. The student will register for ARH 4999, will be responsible for attending a chosen period-survey course, and will complete the exams and other projects of that period-survey—except for the research paper required for the period-survey. Instead of the research paper required for the period-survey, in consultation with a faculty member chosen to be the thesis advisor, the student will select for his or her senior thesis a topic that is related to the content of the period-survey. The student will undertake and complete the research and writing of the thesis in consultation with the thesis advisor. In addition to the thesis paper, the student will give a ten- to fifteen-minute presentation on the subject of the thesis paper to the students and faculty of the Department of Art and Art History at one of the departmental critiques. The thesis advisor will assign the final grade. Four hours credit will be given for this course, and four hours credit will be given separately for the period-survey course. Gen Ed: Ql, EC-C