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Graduate 500 & 600 level Courses

    510 STUDIES IN ART HISTORY.
    Original investigation in art history, to be pursued independently or concurrently with course work in particular fields.
    511 SEMINAR IN ANCIENT ART.
    Selected topics from the history of Greek and Roman art.
  • recent topics:
  • MARMI COLORATI-ROMAN OPULENCE AND POLITICS IN COLORED STONE (Dr. Walters)
  • ALLURE OF THE ORIENT, DEADLY TO ROMANS? (Dr. Walters)
  • FANTASY AND REALITY IN THE ARTS TIED TO COURTS OR CENTERS OF MAJOR EMPIRES (Dr. Walters)
    512 SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL ART.
    Original research into problems dealing with the art of the Middle Ages.
  • recent topics:
  • ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE CISTERCIAN ORDER (Dr. Smith)
  • THE CASE FOR GOTHIC IN ITALY (Dr. Smith)
  • TEXT AND IMAGE IN MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE (Dr. Smith)
  • THE MODEL IN MEDIEVAL ART (Dr. Smith)
    513 SEMINAR IN RENAISSANCE ART.
    Investigations in the area of Renaissance art, centering around major masters and monuments.
  • recent topics:
  • THE RENAISSANCE AND THE ANCIENT WORLD (Dr. Curran)
  • MANNERISM: STYLE AND MEANING IN CINQUECENTO ART (Dr. Curran)
  • RENAISSANCE ROME BETWEEN THE IDEAL AND THE "REAL" (Dr. Curran)
  • THE POWER OF WOMEN: POLITICS AND PATRONAGE OF RENAISSANCE FEMALE RULERS (Dr. Houghton)
  • ANTWERP 1549-67—THE RISE AND FALL OF AN ARTISTIC CENTER (Dr. Houghton)
    514 SEMINAR IN BAROQUE ART.
    Investigations in the area of baroque art, centering around major masters and monuments.
  • recent topics:
  • GENRE AND SOCIETY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NETHERLANDISH ART (Dr. Houghton)
    515 SEMINAR IN MODERN ART.
    Lectures, readings, reports, and discussions in the field of modern art
  • recent topics:
  • THEORIES OF ARTISTIC INFLUENCE (Dr. Locke)
  • POST-STRUCTURALIST APPROACHES TO VISUAL ART (Dr. Rich)
  • FRENCH ART OF THE COLD WAR (Dr. Rich)
  • CONTEMPORARY / QUEER / ART / THEORY (Dr. Rich)
  • THROUGH THE LABYRINTH: TOPICS IN ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM (Dr. Rich)
    522 SEMINAR IN BYZANTINE ART.
    Specific iconographical and stylistic problems in Byzantine art and its relation to classical antiquity, the medieval West, and Islam (Dr. Cutler).
    525 SEMINAR IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE.
    Investigation into the works and problems of modern architecture as they relate to the culture of our times.
  • recent topic:
  • ICONIC ARCHITECTURE: 1950 TO THE PRESENT (Dr. Zabel)
  • FROM FUTURAMA TO THE ATOMIC AGE IN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE (Dr. Zabel)
  • ARCHITECTURAL AND DESIGN REFORM IN VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN BRITAIN: THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT AND ITS INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS (Dr. Zabel)
    551 HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ART HISTORY.
    The relationship between the definition of, and approach to, art-historical problems from Vasari to the present (Dr. Curran, Dr. Houghton or Dr. Locke).
    552 PROBLEMS IN CONNOISSEURSHIP.
    A study of the problems of authenticating, attributing, and dating paintings and sculpture through internal evidence (Dr. McGrady).
  • recent topics:
  • PRINTS AND DRAWINGS IN THE PALMER MUSEUM (Dr. McGrady)
    596 INDIVIDUAL STUDIES
    597 SPECIAL TOPICS
  • recent example:
  • SEMINAR IN NIGERIAN ART (Dr. OKEKE-AGULU)
  • METHODS OF RESEARCH (Dr. Cutler)
  • SEMINAR IN SACRED SPACE: ART, ARCHITECTURE AND THE HOLY FROM LATE ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Dr. Cutler)
  • SEMINAR IN AMERICAN ART: AMERICAN GENRES (Dr. Mazow)

600 Level Courses

    600 THESIS RESEARCH
    601 PH.D. DISSERTATION FULL-TIME
    602 SUPERVISED EXPERIENCE IN COLLEGE TEACHING

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