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Course Schedule for FINE ARTS - Fall 2013
Class
No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
2172 AHIS-102-01 Intro Hist Art West II 1.00 LEC Cadogan,Jean
Gordon,Alden R.		 TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 50
  A survey of the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the present day.
3181 AHIS-236-01 High Renaissan Art Italy 1.00 LEC Cadogan,Jean TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture from the end of the 15th century through the 16th century. Examines the work of the creators of the High Renaissance style, including Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian. The emergence of mannerism in central Italy and its influences on North Italian and Venetian painters will also be explored.
3401 AHIS-244-01 Arch&Urbanism in Span America 1.00 LEC Triff,Kristin A. TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  Following the overthrow of the Aztec and Incan Empires, the Spanish Empire instituted programs of political, religious, and social control throughout Central and South America that permanently altered the cultural and artistic landscape of this region. Beginning with the foundation of the city of Santo Domingo in 1502 and ending with the "mission trail" of churches established by Junipero Serra in 18th-century Spanish California, this course will examine the art, architecture, and urbanism that projected the image of Spain onto the "New World." Other issues to be discussed include the interaction between Spanish and local traditions, symbolic map-making, the emergence of a "Spanish Colonial" sensibility, and the transformations of form and meaning at individual sites over time.
2483 AHIS-258-01 History of the Decorative Arts 1.00 LEC Gordon,Alden R. TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 14
  NOTE: This course fulfills the Art History major requirement for the 17th-18th C.
  This course examines the history of interior architecture and the many types of moveable objects that filled these spaces for both ceremonial and daily use in urban European cultures. While there will be some consideration of the 19th-20th centuries, the main emphasis will be on the 17th and 18th centuries in France, Italy, Germay and Britain. The course will fall into three parts: the study of interior architecture and the uses of interior spaces in palaces and private residences; the history of styles; the history of indivudual crafts, materials, and makers. The course will consider textile and tapestry, furniture, ceramics, metalwork and sculpture, crystal and glass.
3184 AHIS-271-01 The Arts of America 1.00 LEC Curran,Kathleen A. TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  This course examines major trends in painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts in the United States from the colonial period to 1900. Emphasis will be placed on how the arts in the United States reflect the social and cultural history of the 18th and 19th centuries.
2464 AHIS-282-01 20th Cen Avant Garde 1.00 LEC FitzGerald,Michael C. T: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  This course addresses the position of art in European and American society from 1890 to 1945 when the concept of the artist as a rebel and visionary leader defined art's relation to contemporary social, political, and aesthetic issues. The movements of symbolism, expressionism, cubism, dada, and surrealism are discussed. Current exhibitions and the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum are used whenever appropriate.
2329 AHIS-292-01 History of Photography 1.00 LEC FitzGerald,Michael C. W: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 25
  Major developments in European and American photography from 1839 to the present.
1003 AHIS-301-01 Major Sem Art Hist Meth 1.00 SEM Curran,Kathleen A. W: 1:15PM-3:55PM TBA WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 12
  Required of and limited to art history majors, as one of the first courses they take after declaring their major. Studies in the tradition and methodology of art historical research. Readings in classics of the literature of art history; discussions of major issues and meeting with scholars and museum professionals; students will pursue an active research project and present both oral reports and formal written research papers.
3400 AHIS-341-03 Sem in Baroque Art: Caravaggio 1.00 SEM Triff,Kristin A. M: 1:15PM-3:55PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15
  Prerequisite: Art History 102 or 246, or permission of instructor.
  This course will examine the life, work, and legacy of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) within the artistic and historical contexts of the Baroque era. Reviled and revered for his shockingly realistic painting style, along with his famous (but disputed) insistence on painting directly from life rather than from preparatory drawings, Caravaggio was the most influential painter of his time. Topics to be examined include Caravaggio's relationship to Counter-Reformation art and the Inquisition, his controversial religious scenes, themes of violence, eroticism and homoeroticism in his work, his working methods in light of recent technical analyses, his biographers and critical reception, and the works of his followers, or Caravaggisti, in Europe and beyond. This course fulfills the 17th century requirement in art history.
2369 AHIS-399-01 Independent Study 1.00 - 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and program director are required for enrollment.
2441 AHIS-460-01 Tutorial 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  Individual research and reading under the guidance of a department member. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for enrollment. (Hours by arrangement)
2168 AHIS-466-01 Teaching Assistant 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 100
  NOTE: Requires completion of the Special Registration Form, available in the Office of the Registrar.
  Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and program director are required for enrollment.
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