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Classes
ARTH 1152
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWGoldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Ehrlich, V
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
ARTH 1153
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRGoldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Anderson, B
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
ARTH 1154
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRGoldwin Smith Hall G19
Instructors
Ryan, H
Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
ARTH 2000
Course Description
This course will introduce you to the field of Visual Studies. Visual Studies seeks to define and improve our visual relationship to nature and culture after the modern surge in technology and knowledge. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2000, COML 2000, VISST 2000
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRGoldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Moisey, A
ARTH 2019
Course Description
Borrowing its title from a formulation of Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, and beginning from the "forays of demoralization" instigated by the Dadas, who bequeathed to surrealism the precious ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2200, ROMS 2200, VISST 2190
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWFStimson Hall 206
Instructors
Maxwell, B
ARTH 2101
Course Description
This course explores Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) knowledge and its application across the disciplines and through time. In particular, it offers a glimpse into Cornell's local indigenous culture ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AIS 2100, AMST 2108
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRWarren Hall B02
Instructors
Rickard, J
ARTH 2200
Course Description
Why did the Gorgon turn people into stone? Did Cleopatra really have such a big nose? Did the Romans make wax death masks? Should the British Museum return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece? Come and explore ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARKEO 2700, CLASS 2700
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRGoldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Platt, V
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WGoldwin Smith Hall G19
Instructors
Platt, V
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- FGoldwin Smith Hall G19
Instructors
Platt, V
ARTH 2600
Course Description
Considers modern art in a historical and cultural context, from painting associated with the French Revolution through American pop art. The emphasis is on major movements and artists: Neo-Classicism (David), ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRGoldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
Instructors
Bernstock, J
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WGoldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Bernstock, J
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Meeting Pattern
- WGoldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Bernstock, J
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WGoldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Bernstock, J
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WGoldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Bernstock, J
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- FGoldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Bernstock, J
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- FGoldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Bernstock, J
ARTH 3010
Course Description
Who are 'the poor' in the United States? Who are the largest recipients of federal welfare and entitlement spending? Why is there an unprecedented simultaneous increase in wealth and poverty in the United ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3010, VISST 3010
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TROlive Tjaden Hall 407
Instructors
Gaskins, B
ARTH 3440
Course Description
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael transformed the art of their time. Leonardo was an extraordinary thinker, scientist, and engineer as well as artist. Michelangelo invented grandiose projects for ambitious ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: VISST 3443
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWWhite Hall 110
Instructors
Lazzaro, C
ARTH 3510
Course Description
This course is a survey of the visual art and material cultural traditions of sub-Saharan Africa. It aims at investigating the different forms of visual artistic traditions in relation to their historical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 3501
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWAfricana Ctr 111
Instructors
Hassan, S
ARTH 3600
Course Description
This course discusses new art practices since the 1960s. Although numerous artistic experiments took place during the first half of the twentieth century, it was with the declining importance of modernist ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: VISST 3600
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRGoldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Dadi, I
ARTH 3765
Course Description
This course traces the exchanges between spectacular entertainments and avant-garde art that shaped late nineteenth-century European visual culture, and gave rise to collective spectatorship transgressing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 3765, VISST 3765
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRGoldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Meixner, L
ARTH 3820
Course Description
As an island nation east of the Asian continent, Japan developed a unique culture that reflects both continental and indigenous characteristics. This course examines pre- and post-contact with continental ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3381
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRGoldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Pan, A
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.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TWashington, DC
Instructors
Denker, E
Additional Information
Taught in Washington DC.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 4351
Course Description
Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4351, ARKEO 6351, ARTH 6351, CLASS 4752, CLASS 7752, MEDVL 4351, MEDVL 6351, NES 4351, NES 6351
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Section Topic
Topic: Ravenna
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MGoldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Anderson, B
Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 4577
Course Description
The aim of this course is to present a map of theories and artistic strategies in order to better understand the validity of the anachronism and obsolescence in today's culture. During recent years, artists ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4006, SHUM 4507, VISST 4577
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- RA D White House 110
Instructors
Hernandez Navarro, M
ARTH 4604
Course Description
This course evaluates the immense popularity of 17th-century Dutch artists Rembrandt and Vermeer. Together these two great exponents of the Golden Age span three-quarters of their century, from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6604, VISST 4604
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- RGoldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Pincus, L
ARTH 4642
Course Description
The goal of this course is to investigate in-depth the principles of aesthetics and philosophy of African visual arts. The course will offer a critical survey of the different writings and the growing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6506, ASRC 4406, ASRC 6506
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MAfricana Ctr B07
Instructors
Hassan, S
ARTH 4748
Course Description
Classical literature has bequeathed us the names of many celebrated Greek artists, from Pheidias, who made the colossal statue of Olympian Zeus, to Apelles, the court painter of Alexander the Great. Strikingly, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4748, ARTH 6748, CLASS 4748, CLASS 7748
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- FGoldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Platt, V
Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 4754
Course Description
This seminar provides a higher-level general introduction to, and survey of, contemporary theories, methods, and approaches in the archaeology of the Mediterranean world. Rather than focusing on a specific ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4254, ANTHR 7254, ARKEO 4254, ARKEO 7254, ARTH 6754, CLASS 4754, CLASS 7754, NES 4654, NES 7654
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- RGoldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Manning, S
ARTH 4761
Course Description
Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4306, AMST 6761, ARTH 6761, VISST 4761
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
Section Topic
Topic: Mass Culture in the Great Depression
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WGoldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Meixner, L
Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 4816
Course Description
China, a cultural giant of East Asia, made a passive entrance into modernity. With the advent of Western and American colonialism and imperialism, coupled with recent successes in westernization by the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6816, ASIAN 4473, ASIAN 6673
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TGoldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Pan, A
ARTH 4992
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.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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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)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
ARTH 4999
Course Description
The student under faculty direction prepares a senior thesis. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
ARTH 5992
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.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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)
Regular Academic Session.
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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)
Regular Academic Session.
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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)
Regular Academic Session.
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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)
Regular Academic Session.
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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)
Regular Academic Session.
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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)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ARTH 5994
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.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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)
Regular Academic Session.
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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)
Regular Academic Session.
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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)
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)
Regular Academic Session.
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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)
Regular Academic Session.
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1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ARTH 6351
Course Description
Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4351, ARKEO 6351, ARTH 4351, CLASS 4752, CLASS 7752, MEDVL 4351, MEDVL 6351, NES 4351, NES 6351
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Section Topic
Topic: Ravenna
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MGoldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Anderson, B
Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 6506
Course Description
The goal of this course is to investigate in-depth the principles of aesthetics and philosophy of African visual arts. The course will offer a critical survey of the different writings and the growing ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4642, ASRC 4406, ASRC 6506
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MAfricana Ctr B07
Instructors
Hassan, S
ARTH 6560
Course Description
This course investigates the emergence of aesthetics as its own philosophical discipline at the end of the eighteenth century. In a first phase, we will examine the rationalist articulation of aesthetics ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 6560, PHIL 6951
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MOlin Library 403
Instructors
Gilgen, P
ARTH 6604
Course Description
This course evaluates the immense popularity of 17th-century Dutch artists Rembrandt and Vermeer. Together these two great exponents of the Golden Age span three-quarters of their century, from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4604, VISST 4604
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- RGoldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Pincus, L
ARTH 6748
Course Description
Classical literature has bequeathed us the names of many celebrated Greek artists, from Pheidias, who made the colossal statue of Olympian Zeus, to Apelles, the court painter of Alexander the Great. Strikingly, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4748, ARTH 4748, CLASS 4748, CLASS 7748
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- FGoldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Platt, V
ARTH 6754
Course Description
This seminar provides a higher-level general introduction to, and survey of, contemporary theories, methods, and approaches in the archaeology of the Mediterranean world. Rather than focusing on a specific ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4254, ANTHR 7254, ARKEO 4254, ARKEO 7254, ARTH 4754, CLASS 4754, CLASS 7754, NES 4654, NES 7654
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- RGoldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Manning, S
ARTH 6761
Course Description
Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4306, AMST 6761, ARTH 4761, VISST 4761
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
Section Topic
Topic: Mass Culture in the Great Depression
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WGoldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Meixner, L
Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 6816
Course Description
China, a cultural giant of East Asia, made a passive entrance into modernity. With the advent of Western and American colonialism and imperialism, coupled with recent successes in westernization by the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4816, ASIAN 4473, ASIAN 6673
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TGoldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Pan, A