Graduate Courses for Art History & Archaeology (ARTH)

Schedule of Classes: Fall | Winter | Spring | Summer
(Only current and next semester available)

ARTH 407 Art and Archaeology of Mosaics (3 credits)
Mosaic pavements in their archaeological, art historical, and architectural context from circa 300 B.C. through circa A.D. 700.

ARTH 418 Special Problems in Italian Renaissance Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.
Focus upon aspects of painting, sculpture, and architecture of Renaissance.

ARTH 426 Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture in Northern Europe (3 credits)
Sculpture in France, Germany, England, and the Low Countries from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century.

ARTH 444 British Painting, Hogarth to the Pre-Raphaelites (3 credits)
A survey of British painting focusing on the establishment of a strong native school in the genres of history painting, narrative subjects, portraiture, sporting art, and landscape.

ARTH 452 Between East and West: Modernism in East and Central Europe (3 credits)
Explores the modernist movements of Eastern and Central Europe, beginning with Russia, circa 1861.

ARTH 457 History of Photography (3 credits)
History of photography as art from its inception in 1839 to the present.

ARTH 462 Twentieth-Century Black American Art (3 credits)
Formerly ARTH474.
The visual arts of Black Americans in the twentieth century, including crafts and decorative arts.

ARTH 466 Feminist Perspectives on Women in Art (3 credits)
Also offered as WMST466. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ARTH466 or WMST466.
Principal focus on European and American women artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, in the context of the new scholarship on women.

ARTH 485 Chinese Painting (3 credits)
Formerly ARTH490.
Chinese painting history from the second century B.C. through the twentieth century, covering cultural, stylistic and theoretical aspects.

ARTH 486 Japanese Painting (3 credits)
Formerly ARTH495.
Japanese painting from the sixth through the nineteenth century, including Buddhist icon painting, narrative scrolls, and Zen-related ink painting.

ARTH 488 Colloquium in Art History (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs.
Colloquium to investigate a specific topic in depth.

ARTH 489 Special Topics in Art History (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs.

ARTH 494 Archaeological Theories, Methods, and Practice (3 credits)
45 semester hours. Formerly ARTH484.
An examination of the theories, methods, and practices of New and Old World archaeology.

ARTH 496 Methods of Art History and Archaeology (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. For ARTH majors only.
Methods of research and criticism applied to typical art-historical/ archaeological problems, familiarizing the student with bibliography and other research tools. Introduction to the historiography of art history and archaeology, surveying the principal theories, encouraging methodological debates within the discipline. Course for majors who intend to go on to graduate school.

ARTH 498 Directed Studies in Art History I (2-3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable if content differs. Junior standing.

ARTH 499 Honors Thesis (1-6 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.

ARTH 608 Studies in Ancient Art and Archaeology (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 609 Studies in Late Roman, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 618 Studies in Medieval Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 619 Studies in Italian Renaissance Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 628 Studies in Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Northern European Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 629 Studies in Sixteenth-Century Northern European Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 638 Studies in Seventeenth-Century Southern European Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 639 Studies in Seventeenth-Century Northern European Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 648 Studies in Eighteenth-Century European Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 649 Studies in Nineteenth-Century European Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 658 Studies in American Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 659 Studies in Twentieth-Century Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 668 Studies in Latin American Art and Archaeology (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 669 Studies in African Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 678 Studies in Chinese Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 679 Studies in Japanese Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 689 Selected Topics in Art History (1-3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits.

ARTH 692 Methods of Art History (3 credits)
Methods of research and criticism applied to typical art-historical problems; bibliography and other research tools.

ARTH 699 Special Topics in Art History (3 credits)
Prerequisite: consent of department head or instructor.

ARTH 708 Seminar in Ancient Art and Archaeology (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 709 Seminar in Late Roman, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 718 Seminar in Medieval Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 719 Seminar in Italian Renaissance Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 728 Seminar in Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Northern European Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 729 Seminar in Sixteenth-Century Northern European Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 738 Seminar in Seventeenth-Century Southern European Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 739 Seminar in Seventeenth-Century Northern European Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 748 Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 749 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century European Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 758 Seminar in American Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 759 Seminar in Twentieth-Century Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 768 Seminar in Latin American Art and Archaeology (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 769 Seminar in African Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 778 Seminar in Chinese Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 779 Seminar in Japanese Art (3 credits)
Repeatable to 9 credits each in the Master's and Ph.D. programs.

ARTH 789 Selected Topics in Art History (1-3 credits)
9 semester hours.

ARTH 798 Directed Graduate Studies in Art History (3 credits)

ARTH 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6 credits)

ARTH 898 Pre-Candidacy Research (1-8 credits)

ARTH 899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8 credits)