ARTH 1380:1381: History of Art I, II
[TCCN—ARTS 1303:1304:]
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1303. Required of all art majors. First semester: from the ancient world to the Gothic period. Second semester: from the Renaissance to the present.
ARTH 2381: Classical Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. Minoan, Mycenaean, Greek, and Roman art.
ARTH 2382: Medieval Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic art.
ARTH 2383: Renaissance Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. Proto-Renaissance through Mannerist art.
ARTH 2386: Nineteenth Century Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. Romanticism through Post-Impressionism in Europe and America.
ARTH 2387: Twentieth Century Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. Style Nouveau through contemporary art.
ARTH 2388: Survey of the Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1303. Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in their historical context.
ARTH 2394: Selected Topics in Art History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 2398: Special Problems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor.
ARTH 3310: Ancient Egyptian Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. The art and architecture of Egypt during the time of the Pharaohs.
ARTH 3311: Greek and Roman Art
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. The art and architecture of Ancient Greece and the Aegean World and of Rome through the Republic and Empire periods.
ARTH 3312: Precolumbian Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. Art and architecture of the Aztec, Maya and their predecessors.
ARTH 3314: Latin American Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. Art and architecture of Latin America from the appearance of the Spanish to the present.
ARTH 3316: American Women Artists
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. American women artists, 19th century to the present, and introduction to feminist art history.
ARTH 3376: Representations of Gender
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. Analysis of the shifting conventions and iconography of representing gender, from early pre-Greek ART through contemporary late 20th century art.
ARTH 3377: Landscape in Western Tradition
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381, or consent of instructor. American women artists, 19th century to the present, and introduction to feminist art history.
ARTH 3378: History of Nineteenth Century Photography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. From the invention of photography to 1900.
ARTH 3379: History of Twentieth Century Photography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. The history of photography from 1900 to the present.
ARTH 3380: 17th Century Dutch Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. The rich artistic production of Holland's "Golden Age of art", including history, painting, genre, portraiture, landscape, and still life. Rembrandt, Vermeer, and many other artists.
ARTH 3381: Italian Renaissance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. Italian art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
ARTH 3382: Northern Renaissance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. German and Netherlandish art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
ARTH 3383: Baroque Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380: 1381 or consent of instructor. Seventeenth century Western art, sculpture, and architecture.
ARTH 3385: Nineteenth Century Painting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. From neoclassicism through symbolism.
ARTH 3386: Twentieth Century Painting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. From Fauvism and Expressionism to the present.
ARTH 3387:3388: American Art I, II
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0 each). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. First semester: colonial art and architecture through the Civil War. Second semester: later nineteenth century to 1945.
ARTH 3389: Italian Gothic Art and Patronage
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. Italian art of the 13th and 14th centuries and the role of the art patron.
ARTH 3394: Selected Topics in Art History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381 or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
ARTH 3399:4399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of chair.
ARTH 4198:4298:4398: Special Problems
Cr. 1-3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: ARTH 1380 and 1381 and consent of instructor.
ARTH 4310: The Human Body in Non-Western Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. Representation of the human body in the artistic traditions of Africa, Oceania and the Precolumbian Americas.
ARTH 4311: Artists, Art-Making and Patronage in Medieval Europe
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. European Arts in the Middle Ages: professional lives of artists, art-making and art patronage.
ARTH 4312: The Harlem Renaissance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of the instructor. Arts of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920s, and 30s.
ARTH 4319: Readings in Nineteenth Century Photography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ART 3375, 3376, and 3377 or consent of instructor. Practice and theory of nineteenth century photography.
ARTH 4320: Readings in Twentieth Century Photography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ART 3375, 3376, and 3377 or consent of instructor. Practice and theory of twentieth century photography.
ARTH 4375: Theories of Creativity
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381. Analysis of the arts creative process through studying relevant theories of Freud, Jung, Gardner, and others, and specific examples of creativity among artists in various media.
ARTH 4378: History of Twentieth Century Sculpture
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381. Sculpture from Rodin to the present.
ARTH 4379: Art Since 1945
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381. Examination of the visual arts since World War II.
ARTH 4381: Seminar on Rembrandt
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380, 1381, and six additional hours of art history or consent of instructor. The work and legacy of the most important artist in 17th century Holland, Rembrandt van Rijn, through readings, class discussion, and research.
ARTH 4382: Pre-Columbian Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. History of the arts in Latin America before Columbus.
ARTH 4383: Contemporary Painting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380 and 1381 or consent of instructor. Painting since 1945 with an emphasis on the past two decades.
ARTH 4385: Senior Seminar in Art History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: major in art history and twenty-four semester hours in art history, which must include ARTH 4388 or consent of instructor. Extensive readings, class discussion and research on a specific art historical subject. Topics may vary. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
ARTH 4388: Methods of Art History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: major in art history, ARTH 1380, 1381, and six additional hours of art history, or consent of instructor. Readings, class discussions, and research on methodological issues in art history and the historical development of the discipline.
ARTH 4389: Museum Methodology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: twenty semester hours of studio art or fifteen semester hours of art history. Introduction to the functions, methodology, and techniques of museums. May be repeated with consent of instructor.
ARTH 4394: Selected Topics in Art History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ARTH 1380:1381. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
For graduate-level course descriptions,
please see the graduate catalog:
http://www.uh.edu/grad_catalog/las/arth_courses.html
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