The following directory lists the graduate courses which the University expects to offer, although the University in no way guarantees that all such courses will be offered in any given academic year, and reserves the right to alter the list if conditions warrant. Click on the links below for a list of courses in that subject area. You may then click “View Classes” to see scheduled classes for individual courses.
5319. Introduction to Art History Methods and Theories
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students only.
Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
This seminar focuses on developing visual analysis, critical reading, and writing skills by exploring the historiography and most theoretically relevant methods of Art History and Visual Culture. Taught by the full complement of art history faculty and museum and gallery professionals, focus varies with instructor. Possible topics include: social history, gender, sexuality, psychoanalysis, formalism, aesthetics, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, critical race studies, media, and technologies.
View Classes »5320. Issues in Art Criticism
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students only.
Grading Basis: Graded
Topics in visual arts criticism, including art criticism debates, practices, writing art criticism, and the impact and use of social networking media. Components vary. May be offered online or as seminar.
View Classes »5321. Historiography of Art History
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Philosophical, theoretical, cultural and historical issues that underwrite art historical methods.
View Classes »5330. Curatorial Practices
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students only.
Grading Basis: Graded
Issues facing curators working in the arena of contemporary art today in a globalized art world.
View Classes »5340. Advanced Studies in Museum and Exhibition Practices
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: ARTH 5321 and ARTH 5322.
Grading Basis: Graded
Contemporary and theoretical issues in museum and exhibition practices directed toward their application in various internship contexts. Components vary. May be offered online or as seminar.
View Classes »5370. Issues in Contemporary Art
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in Studio Art and Art History, others with instructor consent.
Grading Basis: Graded
Critical and theoretical issues in twentieth and twenty-first century art production and reception including modernism, postmodernism, feminism, technology, and globalization.
View Classes »5383. Special Topics in Art History
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Seminar focusing upon a special, limited topic in the history of art. The content will vary from semester to semester.
View Classes »5392. Independent Study
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Independent study in Art History.
View Classes »5397. Museum Studies Internship
3.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Internship practicum in museum, gallery, or other curatorial context.
View Classes »5570. History and Theory of Digital Art
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students in the Master of Fine Arts, Digital Media and Design Master of Fine Arts, and Arts Administration Master of Fine Arts programs; others by permission, instructor consent required.
Grading Basis: Graded
Investigation of forms of digital and Internet art and the forgotten histories of the technologies behind them. Forms of digital and Internet art to be explored include games/gaming, surveillance art, cyberfeminism, data visualization, and crowd sourced art, among others.
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