Looking for Automatic Honors Humanities Credit?
Consider taking a class with the Art History Department in Fall 2015!
Whether you are curious about what the Art History Department has to offer or are looking to fulfill an Honors Breadth requirement with an interesting course, the below classes may be for you!
Both of these course are Elementary level Humanities courses for 4 credits.
Art History 201: From Pyramids to Cathedrals: Ancient and Medieval Art
(MWF 12:05-12:55; Honors discussion section Tuesdays 3:30-4:20)
Why and how were the Egyptian pyramids built? Why was Classical Greece fixated on the ideal body? Why did the medieval Christian Church use figural images in worship while Islamic cultures condemned them? What engineering innovations and theological ideas lie behind the building of the Gothic Cathedrals in late medieval Europe? Why did Giotto and other Italian painters develop perspective? These and many other questions will be explored in this introduction to the arts and cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean basin before the Renaissance.
We look at well-known artworks such as the Pyramids at Giza and the mummy of Tutankamun, the Parthenon in Athens, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the Book of Kells, the Great Mosque at Cordoba, Chartres cathedral and Giotto's Arena Chapel. But we also explore the artefacts of everyday life, including books, jewelry, ceramics, clothing, and textiles. Besides considering the social, religious and historical contexts of artistic production, we address basic human concerns: death and the afterlife, desire and the body, concepts of likeness (portraiture), power and propaganda, monstrosity and the supernatural, the divine and the sacred.
Art History 205: Global Arts
(TR 11:00-12:15; Honors discussion section Wednesdays 3:30-4:20)
Art is Global (and always has been!). Today we find Egyptian protest artists inspiring activists around the globe via the internet. In earlier times Roman glass and Buddhist icons moved along the ancient Silk Route, networks of trade flourished in the medieval Mediterranean region, and colonial empires brought visual cultures into a volatile contact. This course helps students learn to understand the complex, interconnected world in which they live, full of objects and images produced though cultural exchanges. It shows that the present is really not so different from the past and develops the skills needed to live fully in a world in which borders are not really barriers to the movement of images, objects, and ideas. It deepens understanding of cultural differences and the impact of interactions. By exploring works in a range of media and tracing processes of cross-cultural exchange, the course also develops sensitivity to visual and material form and a solid foundations in the practice of visual and material analysis.
Whether you are curious about what the Art History Department has to offer or are looking to fulfill an Honors Breadth requirement with an interesting course, the below classes may be for you!
Both of these course are Elementary level Humanities courses for 4 credits.
Art History 201: From Pyramids to Cathedrals: Ancient and Medieval Art
(MWF 12:05-12:55; Honors discussion section Tuesdays 3:30-4:20)
Why and how were the Egyptian pyramids built? Why was Classical Greece fixated on the ideal body? Why did the medieval Christian Church use figural images in worship while Islamic cultures condemned them? What engineering innovations and theological ideas lie behind the building of the Gothic Cathedrals in late medieval Europe? Why did Giotto and other Italian painters develop perspective? These and many other questions will be explored in this introduction to the arts and cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean basin before the Renaissance.
We look at well-known artworks such as the Pyramids at Giza and the mummy of Tutankamun, the Parthenon in Athens, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the Book of Kells, the Great Mosque at Cordoba, Chartres cathedral and Giotto's Arena Chapel. But we also explore the artefacts of everyday life, including books, jewelry, ceramics, clothing, and textiles. Besides considering the social, religious and historical contexts of artistic production, we address basic human concerns: death and the afterlife, desire and the body, concepts of likeness (portraiture), power and propaganda, monstrosity and the supernatural, the divine and the sacred.
Art History 205: Global Arts
(TR 11:00-12:15; Honors discussion section Wednesdays 3:30-4:20)
Art is Global (and always has been!). Today we find Egyptian protest artists inspiring activists around the globe via the internet. In earlier times Roman glass and Buddhist icons moved along the ancient Silk Route, networks of trade flourished in the medieval Mediterranean region, and colonial empires brought visual cultures into a volatile contact. This course helps students learn to understand the complex, interconnected world in which they live, full of objects and images produced though cultural exchanges. It shows that the present is really not so different from the past and develops the skills needed to live fully in a world in which borders are not really barriers to the movement of images, objects, and ideas. It deepens understanding of cultural differences and the impact of interactions. By exploring works in a range of media and tracing processes of cross-cultural exchange, the course also develops sensitivity to visual and material form and a solid foundations in the practice of visual and material analysis.
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