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Undergraduate Bulletin College of Arts and Sciences

Course descriptions, prerequisites and more...

Below you will find the list of courses offered through the College's schools, departments, and programs. This list includes important information about each course, including the course description, credit hours, prerequisites, repeatability, and more. Use the filters to narrow your search.

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143 courses found. Showing results 1–10.
  • ARTH-A 101 Ancient and Medieval Art (3 cr.) A survey of major styles and monuments in art and architecture from prehistoric times to the end of the Middle Ages. Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 101 or FINA-A 101.
  • ARTH-A 102 Renaissance through Modern Art (3 cr.) A survey of major artists, styles, and movements in European and American art and architecture from the fifteenth century to the present. Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 102 or FINA-A 102.
  • ⚠New course!ARTH-A 105 Introduction to Global Architecture (3 cr.) A survey of architecture and the built environment throughout the world, considered globally in terms of the social, cultural, religious, and political forces that shaped its varied forms.
  • ARTH-A 150 African, New World, and Oceanic Art (3 cr.) Arts of the non-Western world outside of Asia. Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 150 or FINA-A 150.
  • ARTH-A 155 Introduction to African Art (3 cr.) African art in its cultural setting. Major style areas: prehistoric Nok culture, kingdoms of Ife and Benin, Western Sudan, Guinea Coast, equatorial forests, Congo, eastern and southern Africa. Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 155 or FINA-A 155.
  • ARTH-A 156 Introduction to Art of the African Diaspora (3 cr.) Survey of African cultural expression in the Americas that considers the cultures of the African diaspora from multiple perspectives and explores how politics, religion, and culture influence Black Atlantic art, focusing on artwork that emerged from the slave trade and its contact and conflict with western colonial powers.
  • ARTH-A 160 Introduction to East Asian Art (3 cr.) A survey of major monuments, artists, and movements in Chinese and Japanese art. Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 160 or FINA-A 160.
  • ARTH-A 200 Topics in Art History (3 cr.) Various topics in the history of art will be offered depending upon instructors and their area of expertise. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 200 and FINA-A 200.
  • ARTH-A 201 Art and Culture of Southern Italy (3 cr.) Provides a foundation for understanding the distinctive art, architectural, and cultural traditions of ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern southern Italy in the region of Campania using the concept of the city.
  • ARTH-A 203 Machine Age Modern: European Modernism, 1848–1939 (3 cr.) Explores visual culture in Europe from the introduction of photography through the rise of cinema. Considers the dynamics of modernism in relation to processes of modernization, such as technological innovation, the advent of mass culture and spectacle, and socio-political change. Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 203 or FINA-A 203.