The course introduces the student to the technical, aesthetic and historical aspects of architecture, sculpture, and painting. An analysis of the visual elements used in fine arts such as color, line, shape, texture, and principles of design are developed through slide lectures, museum visits and assigned readings. In addition, students investigate the purposes of art and visual communication and develop a heightened sense of critical thinking that allows them to investigate successfully different modes of representation, styles and media in a multicultural society.
A survey of the origins and development of painting, sculpture and architecture from prehistoric times to the Medeival period. Emphasis is placed on representative works of art from Ancient Egypt and Near East, Antiquity, Byzantine and Medeival, and Early Renassance Europe. Methodological problems of interpretation, formal analysis and aesthetic principles are studies in these art works.
A survey of the origins and development of painting, sculpture, and architecture from Renaissance times to the Modern period. Emphasis is placed on representative works of art from the Renaisance, Baroque, Rococo, Nineteenth Century Movements-Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Impressionism, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism and Abstract Art. The aim of the coure is to introduce the student to basic critical and art historical methods as well as the analysis of style and content within sequential cultural contexts.
A survey of the major technical and stylistic developments in ecclesiastical and secular architecture from Prehistory to the present day studied with an emphasis on the major monuments (Parthenon, Pantheon, Gothic Cathedrals, St. Peter's, Versailles Palace, Eiffel Tower, Guggenheim Museum). Spring, alternate years.
A study of the nineteenth century European painting, sculpture, and architecture are analyzed, including the art of Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism and Art Nouveau.
A study of American and European movements in painting, sculpture, and architecture from 1900 to the present. Emphasis is placed on Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, International Style, Pop, Op Art, Minimal Art, Photorealism, and Post-Modernism.
This course surveys the major trends and functions of imaging and picturing, as well as its societal impact as it becomes a pervasive cultural and aesthetic entity since the invention of photograph, film and video. Lectures trace the chronological development of the medium; analyze images, culture and integrate discussions pertaining to the role of imaging as it affects the process of visual information as well as how imaging and picturing can affirm existing cultural structures or shape the course of new aesthetic images and ideas.
A study of Greek painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Cycladic to the Hellenistic period, and an examination of Roman Art from the Etruscan age to the beginning of Christian art. Emphasis is placed on the Greek Classical period and the Roman Empire.
A survey of architecture, sculpture and painting of Early Christian, Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque and Gothic periods from the fourth to the fourteen centuries in relationship to philosophical and socioeconomic developments. Emphasis on Hagia Sophia, Aachen Chapel, Saint Denis and the French cathedrals.
From Filippo Brunelleschi's first perspective experiments to Leonardo da Vinci's prolonged study of human anatomy and optics, Renaissance artists exhibited unprecedented interest in the scientific nature of light, color, space, and form as they affected artistic creativity. At no other time in history were technology, science and art so closely interconnected. Discussion will focus on the achievement of Italian artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as they attempted to translate their new scientific understanding of the world.
The study of American painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century seen in relation to European developments and American social and technological changes. Emphasis is placed on New England architecture.
This course begins with a discussion of native American building traditions and proceeds chonologically from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Students will gain a familiarity with the major movements in American architecture (such as Colonial, Greek Revival, Victorian, Arts and Crafts, City Beautiful, International Style, Postmodern) as well as the leading archiects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry. The architecture is discussed in its historical context with attention to the inventions, materials and aesthetic assumptions that made it possible.
A study of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Florence, Rome and .Venice during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Special emphasis on the formation of the High Renaissance style and the role of representative artists of the period, such as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael in Central Italy; Giorgione and Titian in Venice.
A study on the impact of the High Renaissance in the sixteenth century, the subsequent development of early Mannerism in central Italy and the formation of the Proto-Baroque syle in Venice and Northern Italy, the establishment of the courtly Mannerist style. The role of representative artists such as Anguissola, Pontormo, Rosso, Parmigianino, Bronzino, Beccafumi, Fontana, Vasari, Veronese, Bandinelli, Cellini, Palladio, Peruzzi and Ammanati is emphasized.
The purpose of this course is to provide a general overview of the art of the traditional cultures of Asia, China, India and Japan. This survey provides a critical and historical examination of these cultures.
The development of painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy during the seventeenth century with special emphasis on Rome and Venice. The role of representative artists (Caravaggio, Bernini, Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabetta Sirani and Longhena) is emphasized.
Investigation of the various ways women have been portrayed in the visual arts from antiquity to the present. A chronological examination of selected female artists and their milieu from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.
The examination of nineteenth century painting in England with a study on the role of representative artists such as Ford Madox Brown, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt, Elizabeth Siddall, Fredrick Sandys, and William Morris.
Following the Second World War, artists transformed the avant-garde tradition of their European predecessors to establish a dialogue with the mass media and consumer culture that has resulted in a wide array of artistic movements. Issues ranging from multiculturalism and gender to modernism and postmodernism will be addressed through the movements of abstract expressionism, pop, minimalism, neo-expressionism and appropriate in the diverse media of video, performance and photography, as well as painting and sculpture.
Examination of issues of content, theory, and criticism in traditional, modern and contemporary art. Current exhibitions and criticism are integral to the course. Topics vary from year to year.
Examination of issues of content, theory and criticism in the traditional, modern and contemporary lives of artists; autobiographies, biographies and historiographies as source of filmic expression. Focus on the interpretation and transformation of art historical records into filmic vision as revealed in set and costume design, music, camera technique and other aesthetic elements of film, as well as how such elements function to extend and convey directorial vision to movements in art history.
Study of particular artist, style or selected art historical problem. Topics to be announced. Course may be repeated.
Study of particular artist, style or selected art historical problem. Topics to be announced. Course may be repeated.
Study of particular artist, style or selected art historical problem. Topics announced. Course may be repeated
An individual supervised research project relating to stylistic, thematic or methodological issues in Art History, the result to be presented in a significant paper.
A program of directed study affords the advanced student with an additional opportunity to pursue a previously explored problem in greater depth or to initiate and investigate an additional problem. The purpose is to sharpen and refine skills for scholarly research and presentation
A program of on-campus and/or off-campus experiences for Art History students only. Specific requirements will vary depending upon department policies and the nature of the program undertaken by the student. The intent of the practicum experience is to provide an occasion for investigation of a community, social, cultural or artistic area and for applying techniques of problem solving and/or credits. Students will be graded satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
A program of on-campus and/or off-campus experiences for Art History students only. Specific requirements will vary depending upon department policies and the nature of the program undertaken by the student. The intent of the practicum experience is to provide an occasion for investigation of a community, social, cultural or artistic area and for applying techniques of problem solving and/or credits. Students will be graded satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
An individual supervised research project relating to stylistic, thematic or methodological issues in Art History, the result to be presented in a significant paper.
Values and Creative Thinking is a course designed specifically for freshmen. Throughout the semester you will be asked to examine your personal value system and how it relates to your education. The purpose of this course is to help you identify those individual qualities that you can use to achieve your highest academic potential. Specifically, this course is intended to help you develop greater self-awareness and confidence; creative and critical thinking skills; career planning skills designed to help you understand the full spectrum of available careers; an understanding of different computer technologies and multimedia techniques; an awareness of the role of values in determining your experiences and perspectives; problem solving and group decision making skills relating to issues that affect the quality of your life.
This course studies the aesthetic, artistic and intellectual similarities between art history and music history. By comparing modes of visual and aura representation, the course focuses on the development of human creativity and expression through the arts, from ancient times as 'art and morality' followed in the Renaissance as 'art and sciences' continued in the Enlightenment as 'art and society' contrasted in the nineteenth century as 'art and enlightenment'.
A survey of the origins and development of painting, sculpture and architecture from prehistoric times to the Medeival period. Emphasis is placed on representative works of art from Ancient Egypt and Near East, Antiquity, Byzantine and Medeival, and Early Renassance Europe. Methodological problems of interpretation, formal analysis and aesthetic principles are studies in these art works.
A survey of the origins and development of painting, sculpture, and architecture from Renaissance times to the Modern period. Emphasis is placed on representative works of art from the Renaisance, Baroque, Rococo, Nineteenth Century Movements-Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Impressionism, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism and Abstract Art. The aim of the coure is to introduce the student to basic critical and art historical methods as well as the analysis of style and content within sequential cultural contexts.
Addresses some of the important questions of human existence through a close study of representative literature from ancient times to the present. In the first semester students explore and evaluate three perennial themes: the problem of evil; self and society; freedom and fate.
Serves as a continuation of 59.205. In the second semester, the thematic units are the pursuit of knowledge, the nature of humankind, and the experience of love. May be taken independently of 59.205.
Explores how the actual development of a culture proceeds on many levels at once; the art, literature, philosophy, and social structure of a given historical period evolve together, interact with one another, and eventually give rise to a new era. These courses are designed to capture the richness of the various periods of western and non-western civilization, to discern networks of dependency and influence among the diverse aspects of epoch's culture, and to trace lines of continuity between one age and another. The first semester will treat the period from ancient civilization to the Protestant reformation; the second semester will focus on developments from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.
Explores how the actual development of a culture proceeds on many levels at once; the art, literature, philosophy, and social structure of a given historical period evolve together, interact with one another, and eventually give rise to a new era. These courses are designed to capture the richness of the various periods of western and non-western civilization and cultures, to discern networks of dependency and influence among the diverse aspects of epoch's culture, and to trace lines of continuity between one age and another. Focusing on the cultural developments from the seventeenth through present centuries. May be taken independently of 59.208.
A study of the nineteenth century European painting, sculpture, and architecture are analyzed, including the art of Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism and Art Nouveau.
This course explores the various means of media as an expression of popular culture. Students are encouraged to develop a habit of providing critical thought to what is read, seen or heard in the media.
This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to the field of Gender Studies that examines both commonalties and differences among diverse groups of women. A variety of topics are presented such as past and present stratification in work and family, sexual identities, medial representations of women, and violence against women. Social movements for women's equality and feminist theories and methods are also introduced.
Anti-req 59.239 (equivalent to 59.240 - students cannot get credit for both)
A survey of architecture, sculpture and painting of Early Christian, Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque and Gothic periods from the fourth to the fourteen centuries in relationship to philosophical and socioeconomic developments. Emphasis on Hagia Sophia, Aachen Chapel, Saint Denis and the French cathedrals.
Examines the relationship among American views on humanity, nature and democracy and shows how these relationships affect attitudes towards the individual, the "American Dream", science and technology. Readings are selected from authors as diverse as the Puritans, the ex slave Douglass, Wharton, Hemingway and Oppenheimer and include such genres as the essay, the short story, autobiography and the magazine article. Topics to be considered include
immigration, technological invention, and the modern application of democratic principles to the business community. The course shows how an evolving system of values in America is a factor influencing both individual and national decisions.
An introduction to the basic elements of technical theatre through a combination of classroom and hands-on training.
Pre-Req: 42.101/102 College Writing I and College Writng II
Theory and practice of acting including exercises in the elements and methods of acting and the preparation of a public performance. (also 42.261)
A continuation of 59.261. (also 42.262)
How safe is safe enough? Who really was Dr. Frankenstein? Was it possible not to create the A bomb? In this course we study decision-making capabilities crucial to survival in a technological age and examine the many value issues involved in understanding the nature of technological risk and its impact on modern society. Focusing on questions of scientific responsibility and societal safety, this course examines the changing attitudes toward technology and values.
Level Junior Standing
Helps the student to understand the major tenets of Islamic culture and to analyze its growth and dissemination in the Mediterranean basin. Examines the relationship of Islamic culture to medieval Europe via Moorish civilizations of Spain and, to a lesser extent, of Sicily.
The Uses of Multimedia explores how multimedia is used on the Internet as well as providing a forum and a lab for the creation of multimedia web pages. The course meets twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Includes lectures, demos and hands-on activities and the creation of student multimedia projects on the web.
A survey of the development of Western Science in the Middle Ages, this course traces the important movements toward scientific discoveries and the role of individuals in restoring and developing the study of science. The early Middle Ages will be contrasted with the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece followed by the rise of Islam and the rediscovery of the ancients' scientific knowledge. The course will also address the roles played by the Church, the universities, and the medical schools in the advancement of scientific knowledge.
Development of Flemish and Dutch painting from the brothers Jan van Eyck and Roger van der Weyden to Bosch and Bruegel, from the late fourteenth century to mid-sixteenth century. The course will also include a study of French and German painters of the same period: Fouquet, Clouet, Durer, Grunewald and Holbein. Spring, alternate years.
In order to effectively explore the use of multimedia, students will engage in the entire process of designing and publishing a website from concept and design to finished product. Tasks in the process will include website evaluation, using tables, and adding design and multi-media elements. While the focus of the course is on website design, other topics including video streaming and animation as well as site copyright issues and the compliance of student sites to existing standards and guidelines will be addressed. In order to design and publish your own original website, you will learn Microsoft FrontPage 2002, a leading html editor, and PhotoShop Elements, a digital imaging software package.
Pre-Req: 59.316 Uses of Multimedia I
From Filippo Brunelleschi's first perspective experiments to Leonardo da Vinci's prolonged study of human anatomy and optics, Renaissance artists exhibited unprecedented interest in the scientific nature of light, color, space, and form as they affected artistic creativity. At no other time in history were technology, science and art so closely interconnected. Discussion will focus on the achievement of Italian artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as they attempted to translate their new scientific understanding of the world.
The course traces the changes in attitude about the public participation of women in music during the course of the 205h century and investigates the music that women composed. Students learn basic concepts about music, allowing them to come to their own conclusions about the musical works. Interviews with women who compose or perform test the material presented in the course readings.
A study of Greek painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Cycladic to the Hellenistic period, and an examination of Roman Art from the Etruscan age to the beginning of Christian art. Emphasis is placed on the Greek Classical period and the Roman Empire.
The development of painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy during the seventeenth century with special emphasis on Rome and Venice. The role of representative artists (Caravaggio, Bernini, Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabetta Sirani and Longhena) is emphasized.
study on the impact of the High Renaissance in the sixteenth century, the subsequent development of early Mannerism in central Italy and the formation of the Proto-Baroque syle in Venice and Northern Italy, the establishment of the courtly Mannerist style. The role of representative artists such as Anguissola, Pontormo, Rosso, Parmigianino, Bronzino, Beccafumi, Fontana, Vasari, Veronese, Bandinelli, Cellini, Palladio, Peruzzi and Ammanati is emphasized.
Investigation of the various ways women have been portrayed in the visual arts from antiquity to the present. A chronological examination of selected female artists and their milieu from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.
Introduction of the process of directing plays of different styles. Students will direct scenes with other members of the workshop and their work will be analyzed by the instructor and fellow students.
Following the Second World War, artists transformed the avant-garde tradition of their European predecessors to establish a dialogue with the mass media and consumer culture that has resulted in a wide array of artistic movements. Issues ranging from multiculturalism and gender to modernism and postmodernism will be addressed through the movements of abstract expressionism, pop, minimalism, neo-expressionism and appropriate in the diverse media of video, performance and photography, as well as painting and sculpture.
This course provides students with a wide range of interests and backgrounds with the opportunity to examine their own mental model(attitudes/values/ assumptions) of disability. It includes an overview of the nature of mental retardation and other disabilities and it provides opportunities to explore and understand the historical social response to disability. Students will look at a range of strategies for providing support and intervention and they will learn about how to effect change through a variety of strategies, including advocacy.
Pre-req: 47.101, General Psychology; Student may not enroll if already has credit for 47.363
Focuses on the way French film makers (male, and more recently female) have been portraying women in their films. Carefully selected French films with English subtitles are used to show the evolution that has taken place from Carne and Renoir's poetic realism to the present. Selected readings are also used to underscore various themes, such as how women have been represented in these films. Conducted in English.
Examination of issues of content, theory and criticism in the traditional, modern and contemporary lives of artists; autobiographies, biographies and historiographies as source of filmic expression. Focus on the interpretation and transformation of art historical records into filmic vision as revealed in set and costume design, music, camera technique and other aesthetic elements of film, as well as how such elements function to extend and convey directorial vision to movements in art history.
A study on the impact of the High Renaissance in the sixteenth century, the subsequent development of early Mannerism in central Italy and the formation of the Proto-Baroque syle in Venice and Northern Italy, the establishment of the courtly Mannerist style. The role of representative artists such as Anguissola, Pontormo, Rosso, Parmigianino, Bronzino, Beccafumi, Fontana, Vasari, Veronese, Bandinelli, Cellini, Palladio, Peruzzi and Ammanati is emphasized.
A cross-cultural study of contemporary European films with a specific focus on ethnicity. The following themes will be explored: the ethnicization of the colonial legacy, ethnicities at war, race and romance, working class ethnicities. Directors include; Sverak (Czechoslovakia), the Dardenne brothers (Belgium), Fassbinder and M. vonTrotta (Germany), Kassovitz and Klapisch (France), MacKinnon and O'Donnell (Ireland), Manchevski (Macedonia), Bodrov (Russia) Gutierrez-Aragon (Spain), Dizdar, Frears, and Prasad (UK).
No knowledge of languages other than English is required. (All films have English subtitles) Conducted in English. AHD
Covers the dramatic presentation French society gives of itself during the period of profound social and economic change, from the New Wave and the May 68 events to today's younger generation facing an uncertain tomorrow. Each screening (in French with subtitles) is preceded by an introduction placing the film in its historical context. In English.
A guide to contemporary Italian studies through literary and cultural approaches. The works of central figures in contemporary Italian letters are examined in view of their impact on Italian life. Emphasis is given to poets, novelists, the new cinema, the influences of existentialism, and the impact of America on Italian literature. Conducted in English.
A survey of ancient to early modern theatre in its historical and social contexts, tracing changes and developments in acting syles, theatre architecture, scenic practices, dramatic literature, and the audience. The course examines how theatre both reflects and shapes the changing beliefs and priorities of a culture.
Pre-Req: 42.101/102 College Writing I and College Writng II
A hands-on introduction to a range of plays, studied as scripts intended for production. Conducted as a seminar/workshop with attention to both the critical interpretation and staging of a variety of dramatic forms. (also 42.384)
An introduction to the various aspects of theatrical design: lighting, costuming, and set design.
Advanced study of a selected area of theatrical production, history, texts, or theory, taking into consideration the strengths and interests of current students in the program and the instructor.
A study of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Florence, Rome and .Venice during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Special emphasis on the formation of the High Renaissance style and the role of representative artists of the period, such as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael in Central Italy; Giorgione and Titian in Venice.
Production of a full-length play or showcase of scenes, leading to a public performance.
This course provides for an in-depth exploration of values, and attitudes of participant. It also offers students the chance to deepen their capacity to identify with people with developmental disabilities and for investigating the reality of disenfranchisement. Finally, it provides a forum for discussion of fieldwork experience and to integrate such experience with what they have learned in their Psychology and related courses. (Field Placement Required)
Pre-Req or Co-Req: 47.363 Intro to Disability Studies, or 59.363 Intro to Disability Studies, or 47.362 Psych of Develop Disabilities; student may not enroll if already has credit for 47.480/59.480.
This course is a continuation of 47.480. The classroom experience accompanies the field placement and provides a critical examination of the nature of community and advocacy in the lives of people with disabilities. Students are provided with a forum to explore personal values and attitudes relative to community and to identify key elements of healthy communities. Strategies for supporting people with disabilities to assume valued, community roles will be identified. (Field Placement Required)
Pre-requisites: 47.260 Child & Aolescent Development and 47.480 Integrative Sem in Dev Dis I or 59.480 Seminar I; student may not enroll if already has credit for 47.481
A part-time full-semester internship at an approved off-campus theatre. To be arranged through the Program Coordinator during pre-registration period.
