History of Art (ARTH)Arts and Sciences
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Classes
ARTH 1100
Course Description
This lecture course introduces students to the History of Art as a global and interdisciplinary field. Team-taught by a selection of professors from the department, in collaboration with members of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: SHUM 1100
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 122
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Anderson, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Anderson, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Anderson, B
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Anderson, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Anderson, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 1173
Course Description
How does one capture the likeness of an individual? What purposes do portraits serve, and by which criteria may they be judged? Are there aspects of a person that elude representation? We will pose these ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 164
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Anderson, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ARTH 1174
Course Description
Like the right Instagram filter, writing can change the way a photograph impacts its viewer. This course touches on some of photography's key histories and concerns to improve the way students write with ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 189
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Pavlenko, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ARTH 2200
Course Description
Why are the most famous ancient Greek vases found in Italy? What was the "worlds' first computer" used for? What can a brick tell us about still standing Roman buildings? What is "classical" about all ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARKEO 2700, CLASS 2700
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G24
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Alexandridis, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Alexandridis, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Alexandridis, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 3250
Course Description
Introduction and training in dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) and its applications in archaeology, art history, climate and environment through lab work and participation in ongoing research projects ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: ARKEO 3090, ARKEO 6755, CLASS 3750, CLASS 6755, MEDVL 3750
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Manning, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 3565
Course Description
This course surveys the artistic and architectural traditions of Latin America during the period of Spanish colonial rule (ca. 1520s-1820s). It will center primarily on visual cultures of the viceroyalties ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6563, LATA 3565, VISST 3565
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Cohen-Aponte, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 3650
Course Description
In this course, we will examine the role of electronic and digital technologies in the arts of the late 20th and 21st centuries with emphasis on Europe and North America. Beginning with the cybernetically ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6653, INFO 3660, STS 3650, VISST 3650
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Fernandez, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 3850
Course Description
The arts of Southeast Asia are studied in their social context, since in traditional societies creative processes are often mapped on the sequence of events that compose human lives. We will be looking ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6850, ASIAN 3350, MEDVL 3850, MEDVL 6850, VISST 3696
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
McGowan, K
- W Johnson Museum 2L41 lecture rm
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
McGowan, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 4101
Course Description
Works of art have always engendered political, social, and cultural meanings. This seminar presents an introduction to the methods used by art historians and the objects and ideas that constitute ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6101, VISST 4101
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Alexandridis, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 4110
Course Description
Topic Fall 2022: Commerce, Currencies, and Commodities: Reconfiguring the Archive view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6010
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Commerce, Currencies, and Commodities
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Johnson Museum 2B07 study glry
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
McGowan, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 4153
Course Description
Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6153, FGSS 4153, FGSS 6153, VISST 4153
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Fernandez, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 4171
Course Description
An examination and analysis of the major trends in art from Neoclassicism and Romanticism through Post Impressionism and the dawn of the twentieth century. Lectures and readings will concentrate on the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Washington, DC
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Denker, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Taught in Washington, DC. This is part of the Cornell in Washington program.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 4545
Course Description
Topic for Fall 2022: Tutorial. The history of photography as an art has been mostly on the page, not on the wall. This course refocuses the standard museum and gallery history of photography back to the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6545
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: Tutorial
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 4556
Course Description
Exploring a genealogy of Latinx, Afro-Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Chicana/o/x theorizations of modernity and identity, the course asks, what is the decolonial? Is it a space between the colonial and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4556, ARTH 6556, ENGL 4556, ENGL 6565, LSP 4556, LSP 6565, VISST 4556
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Johnson Museum 2B07 study glry
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Cohen-Aponte, A
Rickard, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 4673
Course Description
Collaborations among and between Asian and Asian American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have sought to redefine kinship by exploring the politics of belonging, generational ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 4673, AAS 6673, ARTH 6673, ASIAN 4467, ASIAN 6667, FGSS 4673, FGSS 6673, SHUM 4673, SHUM 6673, VISST 4673, VISST 6673
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 201
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Lee, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 4720
Course Description
During Europe's colonial era, the modern museum emerged as a site of cultural and scientific authority. This course investigates the history of imperial collections and collectors, with a focus on Britain ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6720, BSOC 4634, HIST 4634, HIST 6634, STS 4634, STS 6634
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Morrill Hall 423
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Ratcliff, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 4991
Course Description
Individual investigation and discussion of special topics not covered in the regular course offerings, by arrangement with a member of the department. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
ARTH 4998
Course Description
A course for senior Art History majors working on honors theses, with selected reading, research projects, etc., under the supervision of a member of the History of Art faculty. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
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4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
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4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
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4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
ARTH 5991
Course Description
Individual investigation and discussion of special topics not covered in the regular course offerings, by arrangement with a member of the department. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ARTH 5993
Course Description
Individual investigation and discussion of special topics not covered in the regular course offerings, by arrangement with a member of the department. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ARTH 6000
Course Description
This seminar introduces graduate students to a range of methodologies and approaches to teaching and researching topics in art history and visual studies. Each week, a member of the faculty will present ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Dadi, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 6010
Course Description
Topic Fall 2022: Commerce, Currencies, and Commodities: Reconfiguring the Archive view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4110
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Commerce, Currencies, and Commodities
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Johnson Museum 2B07 study glry
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
McGowan, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 6101
Course Description
Works of art have always engendered political, social, and cultural meanings. This seminar presents an introduction to the methods used by art historians and the objects and ideas that constitute ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4101, VISST 4101
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Alexandridis, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 6153
Course Description
Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4153, FGSS 4153, FGSS 6153, VISST 4153
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Fernandez, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 6545
Course Description
Topic 2022: Tutorial. The history of photography as an art has been mostly on the page, not on the wall. This course refocuses the standard museum and gallery history of photography back to the book. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4545
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: Tutorial
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 6556
Course Description
Exploring a genealogy of Latinx, Afro-Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Chicana/o/x theorizations of modernity and identity, the course asks, what is the decolonial? Is it a space between the colonial and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4556, ARTH 4556, ENGL 4556, ENGL 6565, LSP 4556, LSP 6565, VISST 4556
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Johnson Museum 2B07 study glry
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Cohen-Aponte, A
Rickard, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 6563
Course Description
This course surveys the artistic and architectural traditions of Latin America during the period of Spanish colonial rule (ca. 1520s-1820s). It will center primarily on visual cultures of the viceroyalties ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3565, LATA 3565, VISST 3565
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Cohen-Aponte, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 6653
Course Description
In this course, we will examine the role of electronic and digital technologies in the arts of the late 20th and 21st centuries with emphasis on Europe and North America. Beginning with the cybernetically ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3650, INFO 3660, STS 3650, VISST 3650
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Fernandez, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Department Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 6673
Course Description
Collaborations among and between Asian and Asian American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have sought to redefine kinship by exploring the politics of belonging, generational ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 4673, AAS 6673, ARTH 4673, ASIAN 4467, ASIAN 6667, FGSS 4673, FGSS 6673, SHUM 4673, SHUM 6673, VISST 4673, VISST 6673
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 201
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Lee, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 6720
Course Description
For description, see STS 4634. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4720, BSOC 4634, HIST 4634, HIST 6634, STS 4634, STS 6634
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Morrill Hall 423
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Ratcliff, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 6850
Course Description
The arts of Southeast Asia are studied in their social context, since in traditional societies creative processes are often mapped on the sequence of events that compose human lives. We will be looking ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3850, ASIAN 3350, MEDVL 3850, MEDVL 6850, VISST 3696
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G22
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
McGowan, K
- W Johnson Museum 2L41 lecture rm
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
McGowan, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person