2018-2019 University Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]
Art History
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The art history program is designed to expose students to a history of visual expression that includes different time periods, cultures, and media, with a special emphasis on modern and contemporary art history, criticism, and theory. Its curriculum facilitates critical thinking through diverse course offerings; class activities; formats that include lecture, seminar, and online versions; and supplementary visits to Chicago art museums and galleries. Other goals of the program include instilling a deepened cultural awareness, an appreciation of art’s relationship to social, political, religious, and ideological contexts, and a significant understanding of the discursive nature of the field of art history.
A major or minor in art history offers students a broad understanding of art objects, their purpose, and the conditions of their creation. Our goal, however, is to prepare students for graduate school or careers in teaching, writing about art, art conservation, art consulting, or working in or running auction houses, galleries, or museums.
ProgramsUndergraduate ProgramsUndergraduate MinorCourses- ARTH 190 - Global Art History I: Prehistory to Medieval
- ARTH 191 - Global Art History II: Renaissance to the Present
- ARTH 195 - Introduction to Contemporary Art
- ARTH 196 - The Art Market and Business of Art
- ARTH 205 - Refining Civilization: Greek and Roman Art and the Development of the Western World
- ARTH 215 - Lighting Up the Dark Ages: Illuminating Medieval Art
- ARTH 225 - Geniuses, Corruption, and Godliness: The Politics, Patronage, and People of Renaissance and Baroque Art
- ARTH 250 - Modern Art and the Making of our Aesthetic World
- ARTH 253 - Skyscrapers, Steel, and Sleek Design: A History of Modern Architecture and Design
- ARTH 265 - History of 20th-Century Photography
- ARTH 267 - History of Graphic Design
- ARTH 296 - Exploring African, Asian, Middle Eastern, and Indigenous Art
- ARTH 315 - Issues in Medieval Art
- ARTH 325 - Issues in Renaissance and Baroque Art
- ARTH 350 - Issues in Modernist and Contemporary Art
- ARTH 355 - Museum Studies
- ARTH 356 - The Politics of Display: Race, Class, and Memory in the Museum
- ARTH 383 - Public Art in America: The Purpose, Places, and People of Memorials, Sculptures, and Spaces
- ARTH 419 - Themes in Contemporary Art
- ARTH 446 - Senior Thesis Art History
- ARTH 450 - Independent Study
- ARTH 455 - Internship
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