Examines the production and consumption of art and architecture in the ancient world. Geographic focus may vary, e.g. Greece from the Persian War to the Age of Alexander, Han China, Fourth Dynasty Egypt, etc. Addresses the concept of 'Classical' art, and the exclusionary use of this term.
Offered as needed.

Addresses the production and consumption of art in late fifteenth and early sixteenth century Italy, focusing primarily on works of art commissioned by the popes and powerful families such as the Medici. Examines working practices and shared aesthetic values among artists, and generally pivots around a single artist, e.g. Raphael.
Offered as needed.

Provides an introduction to the concept of modernism in the visual arts, and its alignment with conditions of modernity in the late nineteenth and early-to-mid twentieth century Europe, America and Japan. Encompasses avant garde movements in the plastic arts and architecture. Geographic and temporal focus may vary.
Offered as needed.

A survey of art made in cultural centers of Europe and North America from the late 1950s to the 2000s. Explores the ways in which modernism in the plastic arts was challenged and transformed after World War II, and examines the subsequent emergence of postmodernism as a critical framework.
Offered as needed.

Explores aspects of the formation and use of spaces, from architectural and urban environments to ritual space and site-specific art. Geographic and temporal focus varies; potential topics may include the study of individual cities across time or in given periods, local domestic architecture, the careers of individual architects, garden design, and land art. May be repeated for degree credit for a maximum of 8 credits with instructor’s permission. 
Offered as needed.

Topics of current interest in art history. May be repeated for degree credit for a maximum of 12 credits.
Offered as needed.

Examines the ways in which art, and concepts of art, figured in the world views of Ancient Greek, Hellenistic and Roman societies, stressing environmental factors. Case studies include issues such as the persistence of Greek myth in Roman art and the impact of peripatetic philosophy on fourth-century Greek art.
Offered as needed.

Explores the ways in which choice and treatment of artistic subjects, approaches to the practice of art making, and critical responses to the arts in sixteenth-century Italy reveal divergences from hegemonic attitudes to gender and sexuality, and sexual acts, in the contemporary world.
Offered as needed.

Explores the role that artistic practices have played in the formation and maintenance of national, ethnic, cultural, spiritual, sexual, and gender identities. Geographic and temporal focus varies. Course may be repeated for degree credit with permission. 
Prerequisite: ARTH 102 or by permission. 
Offered as needed.

Examines the ways in which art and architectural practice and theory, and the circulation and exhibition of art, have responded critically or accommodated themselves to changing political patterns in the first half of the twentieth century. Geographic focus may vary between Western Europe and the USSR, North America and Japan.
Offered as needed.

An exploration of artistic engagements with modernist architecture and the contemporary city, in both fine art and film, and an introduction to the history of avant-garde architecture and urbanism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing especially on skepticism concerning modernist urbanism.
Offered as needed.

Topics of current interest in the study of Art History and Visual Culture such as Art and Memory, Women Artists, Contemporary Architectural Theory, Architecture and Urbanism, History of Italian Gardens, Sacred Mountains, and Design for Film and Television. May be repeated for degree credit given a different topic.
Offered as needed.