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Departmental Honors |
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upper-level Art History courses are eligible for
departmental honors. Information on additional
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The
courses listed here are in addition to the
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Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Degree
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Introduction to Western Art I: From Greece to the Renaissance (3 credits) |
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Teaches the skills needed for an informed approach to art and architecture by introducing the salient concepts, techniques, and developments of Western Art. Studies works from ancient Greece, Rome, and the European Middle Ages in their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Includes visits to museums and monuments in and around Paris. |
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Introduction to Western Art II: From the Renaissance to the Present (3 credits) |
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Continues the study of the most significant monuments of Western painting, sculpture, and architecture, from the Renaissance to the 20th Century. Emphasizes historical context, continuity, and critical analysis. Includes direct contact with works of art in Parisian museums. |
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Media Analysis (3 credits) |
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Begins with the formal
analysis of newspaper writing, advertisements and logos, and moves
on to key elements of film language and narrative analysis of films,
advertising and video. Examines the processes by which media
products are differentiated and attributed value, and how they are
deployed to form taste. Considers these in relation to various
cultural and political contexts. |
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Films and Their Meanings (3 credits) |
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Students begin with an analysis of basic elements of film language
(signs, codes, syntax). They study the technology, economics and
politics of the film industry as it has developed in the United
States and Europe. In the latter half of the course they will
investigate the impact of television, video, computers and digital
media in the history of cinema. |
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The Museum as Medium (3 credits) |
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In the Age of Enlightenment, the classification and
organization of facts and objects gave birth to the concept of the modern
‘museum’. This course investigates the construction and communication of
national, cultural, and community identities through the medium of the
contemporary museum, where material culture is exhibited to express narratives
that evoke particular definitions and interpretations of history and values.
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Europe and Cities: The Modern City (3 credits) |
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Studies the foundations of the 19th and 20th century city, examining the cultural dynamics of key European cities. Uses film and other texts to question and explore urban modernity. |
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Choose eight of the following courses (24
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AH206 |
Putting It in Prints |
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AH218 |
Art and the Market |
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AH350_359 |
Topics in 17th and 18th Century Art [AH353: Princes and Patrons: Art
Collecting and Patronage in the 17th-Century Europe] |
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Society and Spectacle: Painting, Photography, and Film in Germany and Russia between the Two Wars |
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AH317 |
History of Photography |
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PL_AH374 |
The Philosophy of Aesthetics |
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CM306 |
Color as Communication |
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CM352 |
Rhetoric and Persuasion, Visual and Verbal |
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CM375 |
Media
Aesthetics |
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CM362 |
Media Semiotics |
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AN_CM349 |
Media and Ethnography |
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CM_GS353 |
Media and Gender |
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CM_GS304 |
Communicating Fashion |
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CL302 |
Word & Image: Literature and the Visual Arts |
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ES105 |
Europe and Cities: The Italian Renaissance |
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ES200 |
Approaches to Culture: Frames, Practices, and Objects |
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ES_HI317 |
Mediterranean Urban Culture: The Islamic City: History, Spaces, and
Visual Culture |
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Topics: The Film Culture of Europe's Cities |
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FM275 |
Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film I: From Méliès through the Hollywood Studio Era and World War II |
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FM276 |
Introduction to the History and Analysis of Narrative Film II: From 1945 to the Present |
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FM292 |
Film Genres and Topics:
Women and Film |
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FM327 |
Film Theory and Criticism |
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GS_PY208 |
Gender-Identity, Homosexuality, and the Cinema: A Psychoanalytic Approach |
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GS_HI213 |
Women in Paris: History and Art |
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GS_HI314 |
Art, Culture, and Gender in the Italian Renaissance |
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Sex,
Politics, and Culture II: Women Artists in European History |
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The Power of Images in Western History |
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Women in the French Renaissance: From Joan of Arc to Catherine de' Medici |
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VC 400 SENIOR THESIS OR SENIOR PROJECT:
Interdisciplinary in nature, linking an art historical issue to at least one
other discipline. |
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General electives to total
120 credits can be chosen from any other degree program in the
university. See
AUP Catalog for details. |
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