2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Offerings
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ARAB 201 - Intermediate Arabic I
Prerequisite, for ARAB 201, completion of ARAB 102 , or equivalent, or consent of instructor. For ARAB 202 , completion of ARAB 201, or consent of instructor. Conversation, concepts of grammar in review, composition, cultural, and literary readings. (Offered every year.) 3, 3 credits
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ARAB 202 - Intermediate Arabic II
Prerequisite, for ARAB 201 , completion of ARAB 102 , or equivalent, or consent of instructor. For ARAB 202, completion of ARAB 201 , or consent of instructor. Conversation, concepts of grammar in review, composition, cultural, and literary readings. (Offered every year.) 3, 3 credits
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ARAB 299 - Individual Study
Prerequisites, freshman or sophomore standing only and consent of instructor. For students who wish to pursue a special area of study not included in the curriculum. To enroll in individual study and research, students must complete the individual study and research form (available from the Office of the University Registrar) and obtain the signatures of the department chair of the course and course instructor. Students should spend 40 to 50 hours in instruction and research for each credit of individual study. May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) 1-6 credits
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ARAB 301 - The Language and Culture of the Arab World: A Contemporary Perspective
Prerequisite, ARAB 201 , or equivalent proficiency, or consent of instructor. Exercises in modern standard and colloquial Arabic conversation and composition. Discussions are based on contemporary issues, activities and periodicals as well as the historical content that has influenced the language and culture of a major world civilization. Topical issues of significance to the Arab World and Arab Americans. Presentation of films and other video and audio material along with the printed media. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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ARAB 399 - Individual Study
Designed to meet specific needs of superior students, providing them with in-depth study of a specific area. Course content is chosen in conference between instructor and student. May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) 1-6 credits
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ART 115 - Foundation Course in Ceramics
Introduction to the technology, history, and theory of the ceramic arts. Students will learn basic hand building, wheel throwing, glazing, firing, and the vocabulary applicable to the construction of ceramic pottery and sculpture. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 116 - Ceramics: Form and Surface
An introduction to the materiality of clay and an array of foundational forming and firing processes pertaining to the ceramics medium. Projects will apply hand-building, wheel throwing, casting, glazing and firing methods in explorations of vessel, figurative, abstract and installation work. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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ART 117 - Ceramics of China, Korea and Japan
A foundation course in ceramics that examines the aesthetics, technology, history, cultures and practice of China, Korea and Japan in relation to artistic expression using the clay medium. Students learn how to make ceramic works directly inspired by the contributions to the field, from the originators of ceramics practices. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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ART 120 - Photographic Imaging
In this course students acquire the technical skills and learn the formal qualities essential to producing black and white photographs. Emphasis is placed on basic camera and darkroom techniques and the exploration of the history and theory of photography combined with a discussion of the photographic image as it relates to contemporary and historical artistic practice. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 121 - Digital Imaging
Prerequisite, art, or art history, or graphic design major, or minor. An introduction to digital media as a means of artistic expression and conceptualization. Students will be instructed in digital imaging techniques including compositing and appropriation. Students will work with time-based media, such as video and sound, and learn how to use the web as a means of distribution. This course familiarizes students with the interfaces of commonly used digital media programs, including Photoshop and Final Cut. $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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ART 122 - Objects and Space
Prerequisite, art, or art history, or graphic design major, or minor. An introduction to fundamentals of design, materiality, creating templates and presentation of sculptural objects and packaging. Fabrication methods in a variety of materials (wood, metal, plaster, found objects) will be explored. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 123 - Painting and Mark Making
An exploration highlighting the materiality of paint and physicality of mark making. Students are introduced to composition, representation, color theory, glazing, figuration and abstraction. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 124 - Drawing and Planning
An examination of the variety of ways drawing is utilized in various mediums (painting, design, sculpture, video) and as a tool for understanding fundamental formal principles such as, line, value, perspective, composition, and representation. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 125 - Introduction to New Genres
In this course students will examine the production and theory of New Genres art works. New Genres includes ‘non-traditional’ media and processes in the field of contemporary art, such as: performance art, video art, site-specific works, and installation art. Students will be introduced to the techniques and theories of making art in each of these areas through a series of exercises and projects. The course will also look at the history of these types of artmaking, as well as past and current artists working in similar ways. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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ART 195 - Art and Text
Required of all freshman art majors this course provides students with the vocabulary for talking and writing about the visual arts, with the goal of making them active viewers and producers of visual culture. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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ART 199 - Individual Study
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-6 credits
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ART 203 - Intermediate Sculpture
Prerequisite, ART 122 . Students build on the formal and technical foundations of Objects and Space to develop an understanding of, and comfort with, the full breadth of Sculptural Practice today. New materials and technologies are investigated. Assignments given are of a conceptual (rather than formal) nature, and students are encouraged to push the boundaries of what can be considered sculpture. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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ART 211 - Introduction to Life Drawing
Students develop basic drawing skills and visual awareness through drawing from models. Line quality, textural character, proportion, and chiaroscuro are emphasized using such media as charcoal, pencil, powdered graphite, ink, and conte crayon. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 214 - Intermediate Painting
Prerequisite, ART 123 , or consent of instructor. The course develops increased sophistication in the use of a variety of painting mediums including acrylics, oils, and mixed media. The emphasis is on contemporary painting and strives to move students toward individual directions in form and content via instruction in technique in a variety of painting materials and exposure to the work of influential contemporary painters, art critics and theoreticians. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 215 - Intermediate Ceramics
Prerequisite, ART 115 , or ART 116 , or consent of instructor. Continued exploration in ceramics working in variety of fabrication and glazing methods including wheel throwing, hand building, slip casting, mold making, glaze formulation, and kiln firing. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 229 - Experimental Course
Art Department experimental courses are designed to offer additional opportunities to explore areas and subjects of special interest. Course titles, Prerequisites, and credits may vary. Some courses require student lab fees. Specific course details will be listed in the course schedule. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) ½-4 credits
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ART 290 - Independent Internship
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. For students majoring in art, art history, and graphic design. The internship positions will offer actual working experience in art, art history, graphic studios, and advertising agencies. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) ½-3 credits
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ART 291 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in their discipline which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope. P/NP or letter grade option with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
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ART 296 - Contemporary Gallery Practice
This class will offer an examination of contemporary curatorial practices, gallery exhibition planning and strategies, portfolio preparation, interpreting contemporary criticism, and navigating the LA and Southern California contemporary galleries and institutions. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. May be repeated for credit. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 299 - Individual Study
Prerequisites, freshman, or sophomore standing only and consent of instructor. For students who wish to pursue a special area of study not included in the curriculum. To enroll in individual study and research, students must complete the individual study and research form (available from the Office of the University Registrar) and obtain the signatures of the department chair of the course and course instructor. Students should spend 40 to 50 hours in instruction and research for each credit of individual study. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-6 credits
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ART 300 - Advanced Photography
Prerequisites, ART 120 and art or art history or graphic design major or minor or consent of instructor. In this course students acquire the technical skills and learn the formal qualities essential to producing black and white photographs. Emphasis is placed on medium and large format cameras and darkroom techniques and the exploration of the history and theory of photography combined with a discussion of the photographic image as it relates to contemporary and historical artistic practice. Letter grade. May be repeated for credit. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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ART 301 - Oil Painting
Prerequisite, ART 123 . This course will introduce the technical methods of working with oil paint, including traditional grisaille and glazing, the wipe out method, blending, lean to fat, impasto and texture, and mixing glazing mediums. As an extension of the skills developed in Painting and Mark Making students will be encouraged to work more independently, emphasizing the importance of creativity and independent thinking. Instruction will include slide presentations, critiques, readings, written statements that introduce visual examples from art history, and contemporary artists working in oils. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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ART 303 - Experimental Photography
Prerequisites, ART 120 and art or art history or graphic design major or minor or consent of instructor. Laboratory and lecture course in theory, techniques, and esthetics of experimental photography. Advanced work in photographic technique with emphasis given to color printing. This course is designed to allow students the flexibility to explore new methods of photographic production, while working from a strong conceptual foundation. Letter grade. May be repeated for credit. Fee: $100. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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ART 307 - Witnessing Landscape
Prerequisite, ART 120 . This is a photographic travel course that will change geographic location each time it is offered. This course will begin by distinguishing between land and landscape; exploring capital influences and political power structures. Students will focus on the power of framing, and the consequences of light and “time” on the earth. Students will be required to do a pre-departure assignment that will be for the benefit of all students traveling for this course - based on the unique geographic, political and/or atmospheric qualities of the region we will be visiting. There will be several visits to a variety of historic sites, significant geological areas, and communities. Students will produce a photographic body of work based on their research conducted prior to leaving Chapman. Upon return the students will be given one week for post production work. Letter grade. May be repeated for credit. Fee: TBD. (Offered interterm, alternate years.) 3 credits
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ART 308 - Hybrid Painting
Prerequisite, ART 123 . The course develops increased sophistication in the use of a variety of painting mediums including acrylics, oils, gouaches and mixed media. The emphasis is on contemporary painting and strives to move students toward individual directions in form and content via instruction in technique in a variety of painting materials and exposure to the work of influential contemporary painters, art critics and theoreticians. May be repeated for credit. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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ART 311 - Life Drawing
Prerequisite, ART 211 . Working from nude models, students refine visual skills, techniques, and interpretative powers. Media include charcoal, pastels, ink, oil stick, wax, conte crayon, and pencil. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 312 - Advanced Painting: Oils
Prerequisite, ART 123 . This course provides an investigation into the many technical possibilities of working with oil paints, emphasizing the importance of creativity and personal expression at an upper division level. Students will build on knowledge and techniques mastered in beginning and intermediate painting and move towards a more critical dialogue around studio work through an awareness of art history, traditional and contemporary. Students are encouraged to pursue personal directions. May be repeated for credit. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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ART 313 - Advanced Sculpture
Prerequisite, ART 122 . Students refine skills and learn new techniques as they design and construct sculptures in a variety of materials. May be repeated for credit. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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ART 315 - Advanced Ceramics
Prerequisite, ART 115 , or ART 116 . Continued emphasis on wheel throwing, hand building, glaze experimentation, and kiln firing. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 318 - Advanced Drawing
Advanced Drawing is an intensive course that focuses on aspects of contemporary drawing. It seeks to expand a notion of drawing from its traditional foundational role (where drawing exists in service of representation, or as “sketch” for an artwork in another medium) to a fully realized and complete medium unto itself. Students will explore different notions of drawing through experimentation and focused exercises, and will expand their technical and theoretical understanding of the medium. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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ART 321 - Topics in Photography
Prerequisites, ART 120 , or consent of instructor, and art, or art history, or graphic design, or studio art major, or art minor. Lecture and laboratory course in theory, techniques, and esthetics of photography. Advanced work in photography with emphasis given to a single contemporary topic or approach. May be repeated for credit if a different topic. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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ART 322 - Photography and Contemporary Art
Prerequisites, ART 120 , ART 121 , and art, or art history, or graphic design, or studio art major, or minor, or consent of instructor. Laboratory and lecture course in theory, techniques, and aesthetics of fine art photography with an emphasis on artwork produced since 1990 and expanding beyond basic black and white photographic printing. Students must have access to a working 35mm camera. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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ART 323 - Digital Photography
Prerequisite, ART 120 . An advanced studio course with an emphasis on the theory and production of art utilizing digital photographic processing and printing. Students should have some experience with the Macintosh computer and have access to a digital or 35mm camera. Letter grade. Fee: $75. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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ART 324 - Video Art
Prerequisites, ART 121 , or consent of instructor, and art, or film studies, or graphic design major, or art, digital imaging and design, or graphic design minor. An advanced studio course with an emphasis on contemporary media theory and the production of art utilizing video. The course will include basic and advanced production techniques. A series of screenings, readings and discussions will examine video art in relation to contemporary art and culture. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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ART 325 - Advanced New Genres
Prerequisites ART 195 , ART 121 , ART 125 , and art major, or minor. This is an advanced studio course in which students will be engaged in making New Genres artworks with a focus on how contemporary theories and trends are informing the creation of artworks non-traditional media such as: performance, video, sound art, installation, social media, social practice, digital media, etc. New Genres encompass philosophical and discursive approaches in art, to include the tropes of social justice, identity politics, spirituality and metaphysics, institutional critique, collaboration, and more. Students will be expected to develop a portfolio of strong and innovative New Genres projects throughout this course. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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ART 329 - Experimental Course
Art Department experimental courses are designed to offer additional opportunities to explore areas and subjects of special interest. Course titles, Prerequisites, and credits may vary. Some courses require student lab fees. Specific course details will be listed in the course schedule. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) ½-4 credits
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ART 344 - Performance Art
Prerequisite, ART 325 , or consent of instructor. This course will offer an in depth study of the theory and practice of performance art. With the idea that the body is a medium to be used as a tool for creating contemporary art, students will explore a variety of approaches to making and viewing performance art. This course will look at the history and theory of performance art, as it is distinguished from dance, theater, or other body-related actions. Students will devise their own individual and group performance art pieces, to be performed in the classroom and at site-specific venues. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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ART 350 - Teaching the Visual Arts
This course explores the art of learning and teaching through visual art. Students will be introduced to the styles of learning and how this understanding benefits everyone. Students will begin viewing themselves as artists and slowly that information will be communicated as teacher. All styles of art from drawing to performance and installation will be explored. A portfolio of lessons and lesson plans will be created, preparing students for interviews specifically in education, but valuable for all occupations. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 384A - Concepts in Contemporary Art: Intersection of Art and Science
Advanced studio art course with emphasis given to a single contemporary topic, approach or theme. Students may work in any medium as they engage with rotating topics such as interdisciplinary, curatorial, collaboration and installation practices. Themes are designed to familiarize students with topics that have relevance to contemporary art and culture. Students will explore the ways visual systems of representation in art can intersect with contemporary science by interacting with designers and engineers working on the current projects at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Fee: $100. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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ART 384B - Concepts in Contemporary Art: Installation
Advanced studio art course with emphasis given to a single contemporary topic, approach or theme. Students may work in any medium as they engage with rotating topics such as Interdisciplinary, curatorial, collaboration and installation practices. Themes are designed to familiarize students with topics that have relevance to contemporary art and culture. Fee: $75. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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ART 384C - Concepts in Contemporary Art: Art and Spirituality
Advanced studio art course with emphasis given to a single contemporary topic, approach or theme. Students may work in any medium as they engage with rotating topics such as Interdisciplinary, curatorial, collaboration and installation practices. Themes are designed to familiarize students with topics that have relevance to contemporary art and culture. Fee: $75. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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ART 384D - Concepts in Contemporary Art: Collaborative Practices
Advanced studio art course with emphasis given to a single contemporary topic, approach or theme. Students may work in any medium as they engage with rotating topics such as Interdisciplinary, curatorial, collaboration and installation practices. Themes are designed to familiarize students with topics that have relevance to contemporary art and culture. Fee: $75. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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ART 384E - Concepts in Contemporary Art: Curatorial Practices
Advanced studio art course with emphasis given to a single contemporary topic, approach or theme. Students may work in any medium as they engage with rotating topics such as Interdisciplinary, curatorial, collaboration and installation practices. Themes are designed to familiarize students with topics that have relevance to contemporary art and culture. Fee: $75. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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ART 384F - Concepts in Contemporary Art: Interdisciplinary Practices
Advanced studio art course with emphasis given to a single contemporary topic, approach or theme. Students may work in any medium as they engage with rotating topics such as Interdisciplinary, curatorial, collaboration and installation practices. Themes are designed to familiarize students with topics that have relevance to contemporary art and culture. Fee: $75. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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ART 384G - Concepts in Contemporary Art: The Origins of Art and Science
Advanced studio art course with emphasis given to a single contemporary topic, approach or theme. Students may work in any medium as they engage with rotating topics such as Interdisciplinary, curatorial, collaboration and installation practices. Themes are designed to familiarize students with topics that have relevance to contemporary art and culture. Fee: $75. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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ART 387 - The Origins of Art and Science: the Rise and Influence of Alchemy, Anatomy, Machines, and Astronomical Discoveries in Art of the Italian Renaissance
The course will look at the historical intersections of art and science and the contents of museums in Florence, Milan, Venice, and nearby cities. Students will study and explore various institutions, workshops, artists and scientists as the basis for creating their own work and partner with Studio Art Center International for studio time and space. May be repeated for credit. Fee: TBD. (Offered interterm, alternate years.) 3 credits
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ART 388 - Feminist Field Studies
An on-site travel course that takes place in and around a 19th century chateau in the Picardie region of rural Northern France. Embedded in the neo-feminist laboratory at the Centre Pompadour, this course is a hands-on, participatory field studies course that examines and builds contemporary feminist theory and pedagogy. Drawing upon the rich history of second wave feminism and French feminist theory, students will engage in contemporary consciousness-raising and community-building activities, using the physical and metaphorical context of the chateau to examine and deconstruct ideas of domesticity, nourishment, care-taking, and community engagement. Using the ‘house’ as a literal and metaphoric context, students will have the opportunity to use the chateau as their studio, and will work through a three-part collaborative workshop series that uses the house as a metaphor for individual and communal learning. Students will develop an individual theory and pedagogy of feminism, and will conclude by developing a creative project that outlines this theory. Letter grade. May be repeated for credit. Fee: TBD. (Offered summer.) 3 credits
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ART 389 - International Contemporary Art in Berlin and Venice
This course will examine and implement practices, trends, and theories in contemporary art in Berlin, Germany, and Venice, Italy. Working with local artists, art professionals, and academics, and doing on-site research at the Venice Biennale exhibition, students will learn the history, structure, and strategies of contemporary art production from artists from around the world. In Berlin, students will experience the flourishing alternative art scene that has developed there since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Berlin is home to one of the most vibrant and diverse communities of contemporary artists in the world. May be repeated for credit. Fee: TBD. (Offered summer, alternate years.) 3 credits
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ART 390 - Independent Internship
Prerequisites, junior, or senior standing, and consent of instructor. For students majoring in art, art history and graphic design. The internship positions will offer actual working experience in art, art history and graphic studios and advertising agencies. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) ½-3 credits
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ART 399 - Individual Study and Research
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-6 credits
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ART 410 - Special Studies in Art
Prerequisites, advanced-level courses in the area of concern, consent of instructor. For advanced students, this class is designed to encourage greater depth and independence in a chosen field. The topic of study must be agreed on with the supervising faculty member. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
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ART 410A - Special Studies in Ceramics
Prerequisite, ART 315 . This course is designed to promote greater depth and independence in the study and practice relevant to conceptual and technical development of ceramic art at an advanced level. Some sections of ART 410A may be offered along with ART 315 , Advanced Ceramics. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. May be repeated for credit. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
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ART 429 - Experimental Course
Art Department experimental courses are designed to offer additional opportunities to explore areas and subjects of special interest. Course titles, Prerequisites, and credits may vary. Some courses require student lab fees. Specific course details will be listed in the course schedule. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) ½-4 credits
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ART 460 - 19th and 20th Century French Art (Cannes)
This survey of French painters examines movements and individual artists, emphasizing impressionists and artists of the School of Paris, many of whom lived and painted on the Riviera. Students visit local museums containing their works. Seminars taught in English. This course meets 3½ hours a week for 12 weeks (42 hours). When taught in French, this seminar is ART 461 . (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 461 - 19th and 20th Century French Art (Cannes)
This survey of French painters examines movements and individual artists, emphasizing impressionists and artists of the School of Paris, many of whom lived and painted on the Riviera. Students visit local museums containing their works. Seminars taught in French. This course meets 3½ hours a week for 12 weeks (42 hours). When taught in English, this seminar is ART 460 . (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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ART 490 - Independent Internship
Prerequisites, junior, or senior standing, consent of instructor. For students majoring in art, art history, and graphic design. The internship positions will offer actual working experience in art, art history, graphic studios, and advertising agencies. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) ½-3 credits
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ART 491 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in their discipline which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope. P/NP or letter grade option with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
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ART 497 - Advanced Art: Critique and Exhibition
Prerequisites, ART 195 , senior standing, and art, or studio art major, or art minor. This is a course for senior studio majors as they prepare for their capstone exhibition. Students are counseled in installation and presentation of their artwork; writing artist’s statements, resume, and bio; developing a portfolio, preparing for graduate school; and internships in professional art world. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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ART 497A - Developing a Studio Practice for the Thesis
Prerequisite, senior standing. During the preparation for the senior thesis students will participate in committee work to develop their artistic practice and an exhibition proposal for the capstone BFA show in the spring semester. Faculty will guide students to steadily engage with their production through tailored assignments and discussion aiming to develop a self-directed studio practice. Students will work one on one with full-time faculty committee members over the semester to brainstorm subject matter, experiment technically, get exposure to new artists and artwork that relate to their work and begin drafting the writing and develop a language that critically supports their work. Students will develop a research strategy to explore their subject matter that will go tandem with preliminary sketches and experimentation in different materials. Senior exhibitions can take the form of various mediums, including installation, video, photography, sculpture, paintings, or performance. At the conclusion of the semester students will identify their artistic intentions, the central theme and materials that their senior exhibition will take, and have a clear plan for timeline, exhibition layout, budget, and artist statement. P/NP. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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ART 499 - Individual Study
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Individual research and projects. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. (Offered every semester.) ½-6 credits
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AH 200 - Ancient to Medieval Art
An introduction to the development of the visual arts from the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) period to the Middle Ages. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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AH 201 - Renaissance to Modern Art
An introduction to the development of the visual arts in Europe, Britain, and America from the Renaissance to the 20th century. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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AH 202 - Art of India, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia
An introduction to the sacred arts of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam. Painting, sculpture, architecture and the decorative arts are studied as works of art and reflections of culture. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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AH 203 - Exchange and Evolution in the Arts of China and Japan
Examination of the traditional arts of China and Japan as expressions of their respective cultures. Major themes will include the role of the artist in society, art in the service of religion and the art as a vehicle for understanding the natural world. Emphasis will be placed on the evolution of forms and ideas as they migrate between the two cultures. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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AH 204 - Introduction to Museum Studies
(Same as CCI 204 .) 3 credits
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AH 205 - Arts of the Ancient Americas
As an introduction to the Art of the Ancient Americas, this survey examines cultures that lived in the Americas prior to European conquest and colonization. This course focuses on eight major cultures in Mesoamerica (Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, and Aztec) and Andean South America (Chavín, Nasca, Moche, and Inka). In examining a wide range of media, students will explore the central and powerful role that the visual arts played within the civilizations that produced them. This course will reveal the values and philosophies encoded in material culture, from monumental works such as architecture, city planning, sculpture, and mural painting to small-scale objects including textiles, ceramics, and metallurgy. Using a variety of interdisciplinary methods, students will reconstruct (to the degree that is possible), the meaning and function of the visual arts in multiple, interlocking economic, political and sacred spheres. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
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AH 229 - Experimental Course
Art History experimental courses are designed to offer additional opportunities to explore areas and subjects of special interest. Course titles, Prerequisites, and credits may vary. Some courses require student lab fees. Specific course details will be listed in the course schedule. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) ½-3 credits
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AH 290 - Independent Internship
Prerequisites, art history major, or minor and consent of instructor. For students majoring in art history. The internship positions will offer actual working experience in art, art history and graphic studios and advertising agencies. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) ½-3 credits
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AH 291 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in their discipline which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope. P/NP or letter grade option with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
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AH 300 - Art of Ancient Egypt
This course explores Egyptian paintings and reliefs from temples and tombs to reveal the meanings encoded in symbolism and iconography of funerary art. A careful analysis of artifacts will show how encoded images were seen as a form of power and a means to obtain immortality. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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AH 303 - The Ancient Greek City
This course will cover all aspects of ancient Greek urban life: the planning of towns, civic spaces, religious architecture, houses and households, theaters and drama, and the economy. Athens will be the primary example. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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AH 304 - Etruscan and Roman Art
The development of Etruscan and Roman art, 800 BCE-400 CE. The spread of Roman culture from central Italy to the ends of the Mediterranean and trans-Alpine Europe. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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AH 305 - Early Greek Art
This course will cover the art, architecture and archeology of ancient Greece from pre-history to the beginning of the Classical period, including the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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AH 306 - Later Greek Art
Artistic developments across the Greek world in the archaic, classical, and Hellenistic periods (550 BCE - 100 CE). (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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AH 310 - Medieval Art
This course studies the visual arts of the period from approximately 100 BC to AD 1400 through selected examples of painting, architecture, sculpture, and the decorative arts and crafts. The course will explore the religious and social context that gave rise to the great Gothic Cathedral of France, England, and Italy. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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AH 320 - Italian Renaissance Art
This course studies the flowering of Italian Renaissance art and architecture ca. 1350 - 1520, exploring topics such as the rise of naturalism, humanism, development of linear perspective, art of the courts, impact of changing media, and rise in the status of the artist. Artists discussed include Giotto, Donatello, Botticelli, Giovanni Bellini, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and Titian. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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AH 321 - Northern Renaissance Art
This course studies the flowering of Northern Renaissance art ca. 1375 - 1600, exploring the viewers interaction with the devotional image, the visualization of the spiritual and otherworldly, and exchanges with Italian culture. Artists discussed include Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Mathias Grunewald, Hieronymous Bosch, and Peter Brueghel. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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AH 322 - Baroque Art
An introduction to the painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Baroque and Rococo periods in Europe ca. 1600-1750. Artists such as Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Bernini, Vermeer, and Velasquez are studied against a background of political, religious, and social events and ideas. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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AH 323 - Arts of Tenochtitlán-Mexico City
The arrival of Europeans in the Americas in 1492 inaugurated one of the most remarkable and brutal encounters in human history. This course will examine the visual and material culture created in the aftermath of this cultural collision in Mexico, the former Viceroyalty of New Spain, from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Discussion will center on the ancient Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán, soon to become Mexico City in the wake of Spanish invasion. The course will consider, for example, featherwork, manuscripts, mural and easel painting, sculpture, architecture and urban planning, mapping, and ritual and performance as visual practices. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
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AH 324 - Global Renaissance
Virtual networks, physical migrations, and shifts in economic power have given rise to a self-consciously ‘global’ world, where cultural fluidity and fusion have become the norm. As a discipline, art history is likewise said to have taken a ‘global turn’. Today’s art history emphasizes intersections and connections across continents and between cultures. The idea of the Renaissance is tightly bound to stylistic, conceptual, and technological developments in the visual arts and architecture of 15th and 16th century Italy and Western Europe. Yet the same period saw the ‘discovery’ of the New World, extensive trade throughout the Mediterranean, and continued contact with Asia and Africa. Europeans owned Turkish rugs, Indian elephants, and Mexican jade masks, as well as people - slaves and servants. Through class discussion, reading responses, student presentations, and a research paper, students will explore various ways of understanding the global world of Renaissance art and visual culture. Students will consider: travel and travelers, mapping, luxury goods, sacred art, natural objects, and portraiture. Can the Renaissance have a renaissance? Students will consider what it means to consider Renaissance art in an expanding world. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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AH 325 - Topics in Early Modern Art
Prerequisite, junior standing. An experimental course that investigates particular aspects of the history of early modern art. Topics might include Italian sculpture, Venetian art, Florentine art, Flemish painting, Italian architecture, or colonial Latin America. May be repeated for credit if different topic. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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AH 329 - Experimental Course
Art Department experimental courses are designed to offer additional opportunities to explore areas and subjects of special interest. Course titles, Prerequisites, and credits may vary. Some courses require student lab fees. Specific course details will be listed in the course schedule. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) ½-3 credits
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AH 330 - Nineteenth Century Art
An exploration of European art from the French Revolution to Art Nouveau. The visual arts are examined in the context of contemporary developments in society, politics, philosophy, and psychology. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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AH 331 - History of Photography
A survey of photography from 1839 to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship of photography to other arts and current critical issues in the field. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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AH 332 - Modern Art
An introduction to the development of modernism in the visual arts ca. 1871-1945, emphasizing contemporary interests in spirituality, discoveries in science, mathematics, psychology, and new philosophical perspectives on the nature of reality. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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AH 333 - Modern Russian Art
An introduction to developments in Russian art between 1700 and 1917, this course investigates Russia’s relationship with Europe and Asia, the co-existence of elite and vernacular culture, the appeal to Utopian thought and revolution, the search for a distinctive national identity, and the artist’s role in society. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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AH 334 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Art
Explores the role of art, images, and visual culture in Russia from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the present. Themes include iconoclasm and conservation, elite and popular culture, the cult of the machine and the new man/woman, the place of individuals in the collective, nationalism and internationalism, power and dissent, art’s official/non-official status, nostalgia, the resumption of free expression, and the capitalist art market in the Russian Federation today. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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AH 335 - Theories of Modernism
Prerequisites, ART 195 , and art, or art history, or graphic design major, or art, or art history or graphic design minor. Seminar on defining artistic movements from the advent of Modernism in the 1860s, to the Post-Modern Period of the late 20th Century; study of texts by artists, critics, and art historians; critical analysis of artworks and images that define the language of Modern and Contemporary Art. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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AH 336 - The Art of Fashion
This course examines the social and cultural history of fashionable dress in modern Western culture from the industrial revolution to the present. We will explore dress both as an image disseminated in many media to which multiple meanings about the wearer’s identity are attached, and as a material object reflecting the economic, social and political realities of its time. Contemporary fashion trends will be considered in the light of historical examples and fashion theory. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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AH 340 - Contemporary Art: 1945 - 1970
Surveys the major artistic developments in Europe, America, and Asia between the close of World War II and the emergence of postmodernism, including abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, conceptualism, and site-specific art. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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AH 341 - Contemporary Art: 1970 - Present
Explores the evolution of art since 1970 in Europe, America, and Asia. Traditional media, performance, video, and installation are discussed in the light of post-modernist theory, Feminist and Marxist criticism, and the impact of mass media and new technologies. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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AH 350 - Chromophobia-Chromophilia: Color and the Making of the Atlantic World
The search for pigments and dye materials was an important aspect of trans-Atlantic colonialism. Beyond the economic imperatives of color as a commodity, however, differences in the use and perception of color came to play a central role in defining cultural difference and social status. This seminar examines such diverse aspects of “color” as commodity (pigments), language, surface, and metaphor, to name just a few. The objective will be to understand the role and function of color in shaping and re-shaping intercultural relationships between Europe, Africa, and the New World. In the course of our discussions, various media will be addressed, including painting, maps, manuscript illumination, sculpture, textiles/fabrics, and body arts. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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AH 351 - Brazilian Art: 1500-2000
Brazil, the fifth largest nation in the world, is also one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse. Perceptions of Brazil – with its vast geography and its varied people and culture – have undergone profound transformations since the first moments of encounter of the Portuguese with Native Americans in 1500. Through such media as earthwork, featherwork, body arts, performance, landscape painting, sculpture, architecture, and video art, this course examines the history of visual and material culture in Brazil from over a 500-year period. We will pay particular attention to the complexities of artistic and intercultural exchange among Brazil’s Amerindian, African and European populations. We will end examining by Brazil’s vibrant contemporary art and architecture scene today, and the continuing impact of eco- and ethno-political debates. Letter grade with Pass/No Pass option. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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AH 379 - Rome: The Development of the City
Students will spend four weeks exploring Rome: its urban plan, architecture, art, and history. Students will investigate Rome from the days of its earliest settlement, ca. 1000 BCE, up through the construction of the city’s latest major cultural attraction, the Museum of Contemporary Art (2010). Letter grade. Fee: TBD. (Offered summer.) 3 credits
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AH 398 - Junior Seminar: Art History
Prerequisites, junior standing, and ART 195, or consent of instructor, and art history major, or minor. Required of all junior art history majors, this seminar surveys the many methodologies used by art historians to understand works of art. Seminal texts representing the methods of Formalism, Iconography, Connoisseurship, Marxism, Feminism, Structuralism, and Post-Structuralism are discussed and applied. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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