Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design

Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art

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The Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art enables students to see, formulate, and articulate visual concepts through the manipulation of forms and materials. Its basic aim is to develop their awareness of visual expression within the humanist tradition. Creative activity in Studio Art and scholarship in art history are enriched by the sophisticated dynamics of learning in a liberal arts context and are challenged by the rigor of knowledge generation in a leading-edge research university.

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Requirements

The major requires at least 42 credit hours* (54 with the Addenda requirements), including the requirements listed below.

Creative Core.
1. Pathways. One (1) course:
  - SOAD-A 100 Pathways: Introduction to Art, Design and Merchandising
  SOAD-A 100 Pathways: Introduction to Art, Design and Merchandising
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores the fields of art, design, and merchandising within the contemporary landscape of creating and making. Identifies where these disciplines have mutually reinforcing values and opportunities for interdisciplinary study. Provides a common experience for art, design and merchandising students.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
2. Color. One (1) course:
  - SOAD-A 101 Creative Core: Color
  SOAD-A 101 Creative Core: Color
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores color's fundamental principles and formal elements; its contextual meanings and sociological connotations; and its significance within the fields of art, design and merchandising. Cultivates visual sensitivity, develops aesthetic knowledge and the production of creative work through studio practices.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of SOAD-A 101 or FINA-F 102.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
3. Drawing. One (1) course:
  - SOAD-A 102 Creative Core: Drawing
  SOAD-A 102 Creative Core: Drawing
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Development of visual awareness and coordination of perceptual and manual skills; seeing, representing, and inventing on an experimental, exploratory level in two dimensions. Includes placement, scale, volume, light, formal articulation, and investigation of graphic tools and media.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-F 100 or SOAD-A 102.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
4. 3D Design. One (1) course:
  - SOAD-A 103 Creative Core: 3D Design
  SOAD-A 103 Creative Core: 3D Design
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Volume, space, material, and physical force studies provide the basis for exploration of three-dimensional form; includes carving, construction, modeling, and casting using wood, plaster, Styrofoam, clay, etc.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-F 101 or SOAD-A 103.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
5. Cross-Disciplinary Workshops. One (1) course:
  - SOAD-A 211 Cross-Disciplinary Workshops in Art, Design, and Merchandising
  SOAD-A 211 Cross-Disciplinary Workshops in Art, Design, and Merchandising
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A variable topic studio course that focuses on skill development and technical manipulation of materials within the specific traditions of a particular discipline. Emphasizes fundamental principles of art and design within a discipline. Designed around a variable topic such as image, time, narrative, space, materials, and markets.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum total of 12 credit hours in SOAD-A 111 and SOAD-A 211.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
Intermediate Studio. Six (6) credit hours:
1. 2D Studio Course. One (1) course:
  - SOAD-S 200 Drawing I
  - SOAD-S 201 Figure Drawing and Anatomy
  - SOAD-S 210 Digital Art: Survey and Practice
  - SOAD-S 230 Painting I
  - SOAD-S 240 Basic Printmaking Media
  - SOAD-S 250 Graphic Design I
  - SOAD-S 290 Fundamentals of Photography
  - SOAD-U 201 Special Topics in Studio Art (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  SOAD-S 200 Drawing I
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Preliminary course for advancement in drawing, stressing basic visual awareness; seeing, representing, and technical command on a two-dimensional surface. Problems in handling placement, scale, space, volume, light, and formal articulation.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 200 or SOAD-S 200.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 201 Figure Drawing and Anatomy
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to figure drawing, emphasizing life drawing. Focuses on visual interpretation of human figure through perceptual approaches to figuration, fundamental studies of anatomy, and representation of the body in space and in motion. Studio work investigates how ways of seeing and making intersect with history, culture, belief and identity.
  SOAD-S 210 Digital Art: Survey and Practice
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Beginning class on digital media's role in the world of art production and reception. Class emphasizes learning to use digital media to produce original, creative art work. Students use Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, Dreamweaver, and Autodesk Mudbox to create their own artworks. Topics include digital imaging, video art, interactive art, and 3D modeling.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-D 210 or SOAD-S 210.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 230 Painting I
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Preliminary course for advancement in painting. Investigates how different ways of seeing and making intersect with history, culture, belief, and identity. Explores technical and visual aspects of color and mark.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 230 or SOAD-S 230.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 240 Basic Printmaking Media
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An introduction to printmaking through a survey of basic print media: intaglio, lithography, relief and screen print. Emphasis on ways in which drawing, painting, digital and photography are utilized through printmaking processes is emphasized.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 240 or SOAD-S 240.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 250 Graphic Design I
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Drawing and perception in the history and practice of visual communication, including a basic introduction to the field and exercises with pencil, marker, computer, and other tools, to produce symbols, letter forms, and symbol-letter combinations.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 250 or SOAD-S 250.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 290 Fundamentals of Photography
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Basic practice of digital camera operation, exposure calculation, exposing, image file management, image optimization and digital printing. Guidance toward establishment of a personal photographic aesthetic. A digital SLR camera is required.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 291 or SOAD-S 290.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-U 201 Special Topics in Studio Art
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected introductory-level topics not ordinarily covered in other studio art courses.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FINA-U 201 and SOAD-U 201.
2. 3D Studio Course. One (1) course:
  - SOAD-S 220 Fibers I
  - SOAD-S 260 Ceramics I
  - SOAD-S 270 Sculpture I
  - SOAD-S 271 Introduction to Figurative Sculpture
  - SOAD-S 280 Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design I
  - SOAD-U 201 Special Topics in Studio Art (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  SOAD-S 220 Fibers I
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An introduction to fiber and textile-related techniques and concepts. This survey course investigates a variety of materials and processes including resist dyeing, printing, and felting, emphasizing the expressive potential of each of these techniques through demonstrations, hands-on projects, lectures, and critiques.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 220 or SOAD-S 220.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 260 Ceramics I
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Knowledge and skill development in the use of basic ceramic tools, techniques, and processes sufficient to produce work from concept to finished object. Students practice three-dimensional design and develop solutions to practical and aesthetic problems. The place of ceramics within the history of art, design, and culture is also discussed.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 260 or SOAD-S 260.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 270 Sculpture I
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Foundation in basic technical and formal methods of traditional and contemporary sculpture. Use of tools and equipment for additive and subtractive techniques including wood construction, steel fabrication, clay modeling, plaster mold making and cold casting, and assemblage. Emphasis placed on technical execution, conceptualization, and creative problem solving.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 271 Introduction to Figurative Sculpture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Figurative sculpture has been the traditional method of introducing students to form, space, and proportion in sculpture. Students work from the model with clay, creating sculpture from observation.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 271 or SOAD-S 271.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 280 Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design I
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to creative expression through metalsmithing and jewelry design. Focuses on basic techniques while exploring the historical context and the social role of artistic expression in the metals discipline.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 280 or SOAD-S 280.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-U 201 Special Topics in Studio Art
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected introductory-level topics not ordinarily covered in other studio art courses.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FINA-U 201 and SOAD-U 201.
Advanced Studio Courses. 21 credit hours:
1. Advanced 2D Studio Courses. At least one (1) course:
  - SOAD-A 400 Studio Art BA Capstone
  - SOAD-S 300 Drawing II
  - SOAD-S 310 Interactive Multimedia
  - SOAD-S 311 Video Art
  - SOAD-S 313 3D Computer Graphics
  - SOAD-S 330 Painting II
  - SOAD-S 341 Printmaking II Intaglio
  - SOAD-S 343 Printmaking II Lithography
  - SOAD-S 344 Printmaking II Silkscreen
  - SOAD-S 351 Typography I
  - SOAD-S 352 Production for the Graphic Designer
  - SOAD-S 390 Intermediate Photography
  - SOAD-S 400 Drawing III
  - SOAD-S 403 Anatomy for the Artist
  - SOAD-S 410 Advanced Multimedia
  - SOAD-S 411 Digital Video
  - SOAD-S 413 Computer Graphical Environments
  - SOAD-S 430 Painting III
  - SOAD-S 441 Printmaking III Intaglio
  - SOAD-S 443 Printmaking III Lithography
  - SOAD-S 444 Printmaking III Silk Screen
  - SOAD-S 445 Relief Printmaking Media
  - SOAD-S 450 Graphic Design Problem Solving
  - SOAD-S 490 Advanced Photography
  - SOAD-U 301 Special Topics in Studio Art (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - SOAD-U 401 Special Topics in Studio Art (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  SOAD-A 400 Studio Art BA Capstone
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  Studio Art BA major; and senior standing or consent of instructor
  Description
  Provides an opportunity to create culminating studio projects and portfolios of the multidisciplinary work created throughout the program. Projects, research, and discussions explore various themes, topics and current events impacting art and design.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for credit up to 2 times for a maximum of 3 credit hours.
  SOAD-S 300 Drawing II
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-A 101, SOAD-A 102, or SOAD-A 103; and SOAD-S 200 or SOAD-S 201; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Intermediate course in drawing from the model and other sources. Emphasis on technical command of the media in conjunction with the development of a visual awareness. Continued problems in the articulation of space, scale, volume, value, and linear sensitivity.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in SOAD-S 300 and FINA-S 301.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 310 Interactive Multimedia
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 210 or FINA-D 210; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Hands-on studio course exploring the intersection of art, technology, and human behavior by looking at the various bodies of knowledge that inform the interactive multimedia from storytelling, interaction design, installation, public intervention, and creative coding. This project-based course covers conceptually-oriented digital art practices spanning audio & video production, coding with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, animation in Adobe After Effects, and physical computing with Arduino.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of SOAD-S 310 and FINA-D 310.
  SOAD-S 311 Video Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 210 or FINA-D 210; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Exploration of the medium of video as an aesthetic expression. Time and sound are elements incorporated into visual composition's traditional concerns. Emphasis on technical command of video camera and digital editing procedures in conjunction with development of a visual sensitivity. Readings and a research project are required.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-D 317 or SOAD-S 311.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 313 3D Computer Graphics
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 210 or FINA-D 210; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Hands-on studio course exploring the technical development of three-dimensional computer graphics for state-of-the-art display systems. Includes investigation of user-interface design, creation of 3D graphical environments, and exploration of the parallel drives toward content creation and visual aesthetics.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-D 318 and SOAD-S 313.
  SOAD-S 330 Painting II
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-A 101, SOAD-A 102, or SOAD-A 103; and SOAD-S 230; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Intermediate course in painting from the model and other sources. Emphasis on technical command and understanding of the components of painting space, color, volume, value, and scale. Media: oil or acrylics.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FINA-S 331 and SOAD-S 330.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 341 Printmaking II Intaglio
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-A 101 or SOAD-A 102; and SOAD-S 240 or FINA-S 240; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced study with focus on intaglio. Emphasis on drawn, painterly and photographic Intaglio processes.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 341 or SOAD-S 341.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 343 Printmaking II Lithography
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-A 101 or SOAD-A 102; and SOAD-S 240 or FINA-S 240; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced study with focus on lithography. Emphasis on drawn and photographic lithography processes.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 343 or SOAD-S 343.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 344 Printmaking II Silkscreen
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-A 101 or SOAD-A 102; and SOAD-S 240 or FINA-S 240; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced study with focus on screen print. Emphasis on stencil, drawn and photographic screen processes.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 344 or SOAD-S 344.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 351 Typography I
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 250 or FINA-S 250; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Studies in visual communication with an emphasis on typography, including measurement and structure, detail and refinement, hierarchy and legibility, tools, and application to various media in digital and print formats. An introduction to type history, aesthetics and analysis are also considered.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 351 or SOAD-S 351.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 352 Production for the Graphic Designer
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 351 or FINA-S 351; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced studio in graphic design for sharpening production and packaging, design research, and problem solving skills to create unique communications. Other areas of focus include: brand strategy, design functionality, points of entry, interaction, and user experience.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 352 or SOAD-S 352.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 390 Intermediate Photography
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-A 101, SOAD-A 102, or SOAD-A 103; and SOAD-S 290; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Practice of digital color or chemical photography: camera work, darkroom practices, appreciation of photographs, and experience in expressive use of the medium.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours of FINA-S 392 or SOAD-S 390.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 400 Drawing III
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 300 or FINA-S 301; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced drawing. Continuation of FINA-S 301 or SOAD-S 300.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a total of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 401 and SOAD-S 400.
  
  SOAD-S 403 Anatomy for the Artist
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 200 or FINA-S 200; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Intensive lecture/studio course describing all of the bones and muscles of the body. The emphasis is on joint movement and proportion. The areas of the body are divided into 3D mass conception, bone and muscle description, and joint description. Students draw from the skeleton, plaster cadaver casts, and the human figure.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 403, SOAD-S 401, or SOAD-S 403.
  
  SOAD-S 410 Advanced Multimedia
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 310 or FINA-D 310; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Hands-on studio course exploring the intersection of art, technology, and human behavior by looking at the various bodies of knowledge that inform the interactive multimedia from storytelling, interaction design, installation, public intervention, and creative coding. Covers conceptually-oriented digital art practices spanning audio and video production, coding with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, animation in Adobe After Effects, and physical computing with Arduino. Dialogue of timely issues through readings, screenings, websites, and gallery visits. Emphasis on a more self-guided conceptual practice.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-D 410 or SOAD-S 410.
  
  SOAD-S 411 Digital Video
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 311 or FINA-D 317; or consent of instrutor
  Description
  Advanced study of video's potential in contemporary fine art practice. Students will create a new visual vocabulary using the latest technology including high-definition video systems and interactive DVD authoring. Covers special effects and animation programs that allow artists to further explore the aesthetics of time-based media.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-D 417 or SOAD-S 411.
  
  SOAD-S 413 Computer Graphical Environments
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 313 or FINA-D 318; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Further develops skills in 3D computer graphics, virtual reality, and real-time rendered displays and explores techniques involved in the creation of 3D models, texture mapping, lighting, environment design, rendering for virtual reality, and interaction. Readings, videos, gallery visits, websites, etc., encourage discussion of current issues in the field.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of SOAD-S 413 or FINA-D 418.
  
  SOAD-S 430 Painting III
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 330 or FINA-S 331; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced course in painting. Continuation of FINA-S 331 or SOAD-S 330.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated in consecutive or concurrent terms for a maximum of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 431 and SOAD-S 430.
  
  SOAD-S 441 Printmaking III Intaglio
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 341 or FINA-S 341; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced work in intaglio for qualified students.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 441 or SOAD-S 441.
  
  SOAD-S 443 Printmaking III Lithography
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 343 or FINA-S 343; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced work in lithography for qualified students.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 443 or SOAD-S 443.
  
  SOAD-S 444 Printmaking III Silk Screen
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 344 or FINA-S 344; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced work in silk screen for qualified students.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 444 or SOAD-S 444.
  
  SOAD-S 445 Relief Printmaking Media
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 345; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced work in relief media for qualified students.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 445 or SOAD-S 445.
  
  SOAD-S 450 Graphic Design Problem Solving
  
  Credits
  3–6 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 352 or FINA-S 352; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Professional problem solving in graphic design. Using a variety of mediums to communicate messages, students apply processes from printing to multimedia as appropriate for directed projects.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 451 and SOAD-S 450.
  
  SOAD-S 490 Advanced Photography
  
  Credits
  3–6 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 390 or FINA-S 392; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Emphasizes advanced conceptual and technical development in digital and traditional photographic media and the expansion of creative possibilities. Topics vary. May include such topics as alternative processes, advanced Photoshop, documentary and large format photography, photographic theory, installation art, and black and white darkroom practice.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 493 and SOAD-S 490.
  
  SOAD-U 301 Special Topics in Studio Art
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected intermediate-level topics not ordinarily covered in other studio art courses.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FINA-U 301 and SOAD-U 301.
  
  SOAD-U 401 Special Topics in Studio Art
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected topics in studio art not ordinarily covered in other departmental courses.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FINA-U 401 and SOAD-U 401.
2. Advanced 3D Studio Courses. At least one (1) course:
  - SOAD-A 400 Studio Art BA Capstone
  - SOAD-S 313 3D Computer Graphics
  - SOAD-S 320 Fibers II
  - SOAD-S 360 Ceramics II
  - SOAD-S 370 Sculpture II
  - SOAD-S 380 Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design II
  - SOAD-S 413 Computer Graphical Environments
  - SOAD-S 420 Fibers III
  - SOAD-S 460 Ceramics III
  - SOAD-S 464 Basic Glaze Composition
  - SOAD-S 470 Sculpture III
  - SOAD-S 480 Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design III
  - SOAD-U 301 Special Topics in Studio Art (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - SOAD-U 401 Special Topics in Studio Art (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  SOAD-A 400 Studio Art BA Capstone
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  Studio Art BA major; and senior standing or consent of instructor
  Description
  Provides an opportunity to create culminating studio projects and portfolios of the multidisciplinary work created throughout the program. Projects, research, and discussions explore various themes, topics and current events impacting art and design.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for credit up to 2 times for a maximum of 3 credit hours.
  
  SOAD-S 313 3D Computer Graphics
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 210 or FINA-D 210; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Hands-on studio course exploring the technical development of three-dimensional computer graphics for state-of-the-art display systems. Includes investigation of user-interface design, creation of 3D graphical environments, and exploration of the parallel drives toward content creation and visual aesthetics.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-D 318 and SOAD-S 313.
  SOAD-S 320 Fibers II
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-A 101 or SOAD-A 103; and SOAD-F 203, SOAD-S 220, or FINA-S 220; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Expands students' technical, creative, and critical abilities when working with fibers and textile-related materials, processes, and concepts. Rotating semester topics include advanced dyeing, repeat-pattern design and screenprinting, weaving, soft sculpture, performance, wearables, and installation.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FINA-S 321 and SOAD-S 320.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 360 Ceramics II
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 260 or FINA-S 260; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Intermediate level practice in ceramic forming and glazing techniques, surface decoration and kiln firing. Instruction through lecture, demonstration, and group critiques. May have varied topical content based on instructor and semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FINA-S 361 and SOAD-S 360.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 370 Sculpture II
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-A 103 or FINA-F 101; and SOAD-S 270 or FINA-S 270; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Development of skills in both traditional and contemporary sculpture methodology. Rotating semester topics may include figurative sculpture, carving, casting, steel/wood construction, computer- aided machining and rapid prototyping, installation art, performance art and public art. Emphasis on the exploration of ideas through the sculptural form and knowledge of materials and historical traditions.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FINA-S 371 and SOAD-S 370.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 380 Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design II
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-A 101, SOAD-A 102, or SOAD-A 103; and SOAD-S 280 or FINA-S 280; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Extensive designing and model making for exploring forms and ideas in metal and mixed media, either as jewelry or hollowware objects such as flatware, tea strainers/infusers, boxes, or small-scale sculpture. Focuses on the techniques of angle raising, forging, stone setting, jewelry mechanisms, and hinge making.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FINA-S 381 and SOAD-S 380.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  SOAD-S 413 Computer Graphical Environments
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 313 or FINA-D 318; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Further develops skills in 3D computer graphics, virtual reality, and real-time rendered displays and explores techniques involved in the creation of 3D models, texture mapping, lighting, environment design, rendering for virtual reality, and interaction. Readings, videos, gallery visits, websites, etc., encourage discussion of current issues in the field.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of SOAD-S 413 or FINA-D 418.
  
  SOAD-S 420 Fibers III
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 320 or FINA-S 321; or consent of instructor
  Description
  A continued exploration of fiber and textile-related materials, processes, and concepts with an emphasis on conceptual development, independent investigation and production.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 421 and SOAD-S 420.
  
  SOAD-S 460 Ceramics III
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 360 or FINA-S 361; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Further practice in advanced ceramic techniques. Instruction through lectures, demonstrations, and critiques. Topics vary by instructor and semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated in consecutive or concurrent terms with different topics for a maximum of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 461 and SOAD-S 460.
  
  SOAD-S 464 Basic Glaze Composition
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Investigates the effect of high-oxide glaze materials and their mixtures in terms of fusibility, transparency temperatures on single and multiple opacity, surface, and other qualities. Includes weighing, applying, and firing of glaze test batches as well as blending systems, glaze calculations, and compositional charting.
  
  SOAD-S 470 Sculpture III
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 370 or FINA-S 371; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced work in sculpture for qualified students working in the chosen materials. The course focuses on the development of ideas as manifest in sculptural form.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 18 credit in FINA-S 471 and SOAD-S 470.
  
  SOAD-S 480 Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design III
  
  Credits
  1–20 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 380 or FINA-S 381; or consent of instructor
  Description
  A continued exploration of metalsmithing and jewelry design materials, processes, and concepts with an emphasis on independent investigation and production. Guidance toward developing a personal direction of creative expression, artistic aesthetic, and art philosophy. Rotating semester topics include; large-scale vessels from metal sheet fabrication, large-scale soldering, die forming, advanced jewelry mechanisms, chain making, chasing and repoussÃ©, enameling, and working with alternative materials.
  Repeatability
  May be taken in consecutive or concurrent terms for a maximum of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 481 and SOAD-S 480.
  
  SOAD-U 301 Special Topics in Studio Art
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected intermediate-level topics not ordinarily covered in other studio art courses.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FINA-U 301 and SOAD-U 301.
  
  SOAD-U 401 Special Topics in Studio Art
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected topics in studio art not ordinarily covered in other departmental courses.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FINA-U 401 and SOAD-U 401.
3. 400–499 Level Studio Course. At least three (3) credit hours:
  - SOAD-A 400 Studio Art BA Capstone
  - SOAD-S 400 Drawing III
  - SOAD-S 403 Anatomy for the Artist
  - SOAD-S 410 Advanced Multimedia
  - SOAD-S 411 Digital Video
  - SOAD-S 413 Computer Graphical Environments
  - SOAD-S 420 Fibers III
  - SOAD-S 430 Painting III
  - SOAD-S 441 Printmaking III Intaglio
  - SOAD-S 443 Printmaking III Lithography
  - SOAD-S 444 Printmaking III Silk Screen
  - SOAD-S 445 Relief Printmaking Media
  - SOAD-S 450 Graphic Design Problem Solving
  - SOAD-S 460 Ceramics III
  - SOAD-S 464 Basic Glaze Composition
  - SOAD-S 470 Sculpture III
  - SOAD-S 480 Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design III
  - SOAD-S 490 Advanced Photography
  - SOAD-U 401 Special Topics in Studio Art
  SOAD-A 400 Studio Art BA Capstone
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  Studio Art BA major; and senior standing or consent of instructor
  Description
  Provides an opportunity to create culminating studio projects and portfolios of the multidisciplinary work created throughout the program. Projects, research, and discussions explore various themes, topics and current events impacting art and design.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for credit up to 2 times for a maximum of 3 credit hours.
  
  SOAD-S 400 Drawing III
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 300 or FINA-S 301; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced drawing. Continuation of FINA-S 301 or SOAD-S 300.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a total of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 401 and SOAD-S 400.
  
  SOAD-S 403 Anatomy for the Artist
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 200 or FINA-S 200; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Intensive lecture/studio course describing all of the bones and muscles of the body. The emphasis is on joint movement and proportion. The areas of the body are divided into 3D mass conception, bone and muscle description, and joint description. Students draw from the skeleton, plaster cadaver casts, and the human figure.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 403, SOAD-S 401, or SOAD-S 403.
  
  SOAD-S 410 Advanced Multimedia
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 310 or FINA-D 310; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Hands-on studio course exploring the intersection of art, technology, and human behavior by looking at the various bodies of knowledge that inform the interactive multimedia from storytelling, interaction design, installation, public intervention, and creative coding. Covers conceptually-oriented digital art practices spanning audio and video production, coding with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, animation in Adobe After Effects, and physical computing with Arduino. Dialogue of timely issues through readings, screenings, websites, and gallery visits. Emphasis on a more self-guided conceptual practice.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-D 410 or SOAD-S 410.
  
  SOAD-S 411 Digital Video
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 311 or FINA-D 317; or consent of instrutor
  Description
  Advanced study of video's potential in contemporary fine art practice. Students will create a new visual vocabulary using the latest technology including high-definition video systems and interactive DVD authoring. Covers special effects and animation programs that allow artists to further explore the aesthetics of time-based media.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-D 417 or SOAD-S 411.
  
  SOAD-S 413 Computer Graphical Environments
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 313 or FINA-D 318; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Further develops skills in 3D computer graphics, virtual reality, and real-time rendered displays and explores techniques involved in the creation of 3D models, texture mapping, lighting, environment design, rendering for virtual reality, and interaction. Readings, videos, gallery visits, websites, etc., encourage discussion of current issues in the field.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of SOAD-S 413 or FINA-D 418.
  
  SOAD-S 420 Fibers III
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 320 or FINA-S 321; or consent of instructor
  Description
  A continued exploration of fiber and textile-related materials, processes, and concepts with an emphasis on conceptual development, independent investigation and production.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 421 and SOAD-S 420.
  
  SOAD-S 430 Painting III
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 330 or FINA-S 331; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced course in painting. Continuation of FINA-S 331 or SOAD-S 330.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated in consecutive or concurrent terms for a maximum of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 431 and SOAD-S 430.
  
  SOAD-S 441 Printmaking III Intaglio
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 341 or FINA-S 341; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced work in intaglio for qualified students.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 441 or SOAD-S 441.
  
  SOAD-S 443 Printmaking III Lithography
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 343 or FINA-S 343; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced work in lithography for qualified students.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 443 or SOAD-S 443.
  
  SOAD-S 444 Printmaking III Silk Screen
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 344 or FINA-S 344; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced work in silk screen for qualified students.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 444 or SOAD-S 444.
  
  SOAD-S 445 Relief Printmaking Media
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 345; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced work in relief media for qualified students.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FINA-S 445 or SOAD-S 445.
  
  SOAD-S 450 Graphic Design Problem Solving
  
  Credits
  3–6 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 352 or FINA-S 352; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Professional problem solving in graphic design. Using a variety of mediums to communicate messages, students apply processes from printing to multimedia as appropriate for directed projects.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 451 and SOAD-S 450.
  
  SOAD-S 460 Ceramics III
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 360 or FINA-S 361; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Further practice in advanced ceramic techniques. Instruction through lectures, demonstrations, and critiques. Topics vary by instructor and semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated in consecutive or concurrent terms with different topics for a maximum of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 461 and SOAD-S 460.
  
  SOAD-S 464 Basic Glaze Composition
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Investigates the effect of high-oxide glaze materials and their mixtures in terms of fusibility, transparency temperatures on single and multiple opacity, surface, and other qualities. Includes weighing, applying, and firing of glaze test batches as well as blending systems, glaze calculations, and compositional charting.
  
  SOAD-S 470 Sculpture III
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 370 or FINA-S 371; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Advanced work in sculpture for qualified students working in the chosen materials. The course focuses on the development of ideas as manifest in sculptural form.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 18 credit in FINA-S 471 and SOAD-S 470.
  
  SOAD-S 480 Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design III
  
  Credits
  1–20 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 380 or FINA-S 381; or consent of instructor
  Description
  A continued exploration of metalsmithing and jewelry design materials, processes, and concepts with an emphasis on independent investigation and production. Guidance toward developing a personal direction of creative expression, artistic aesthetic, and art philosophy. Rotating semester topics include; large-scale vessels from metal sheet fabrication, large-scale soldering, die forming, advanced jewelry mechanisms, chain making, chasing and repoussÃ©, enameling, and working with alternative materials.
  Repeatability
  May be taken in consecutive or concurrent terms for a maximum of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 481 and SOAD-S 480.
  
  SOAD-S 490 Advanced Photography
  
  Credits
  3–6 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  SOAD-S 390 or FINA-S 392; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Emphasizes advanced conceptual and technical development in digital and traditional photographic media and the expansion of creative possibilities. Topics vary. May include such topics as alternative processes, advanced Photoshop, documentary and large format photography, photographic theory, installation art, and black and white darkroom practice.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 18 credit hours in FINA-S 493 and SOAD-S 490.
  
  SOAD-U 401 Special Topics in Studio Art
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected topics in studio art not ordinarily covered in other departmental courses.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FINA-U 401 and SOAD-U 401.
Courses from both two-dimensional and three-dimensional disciplines
At least 3 credit hours at the 400–499 level
Residency. At least 20 credit hours of Studio courses must be completed in residence on the Bloomington campus.
Addenda Requirements*.
1. Survey of European and American Art. One (1) course:
  - ARTH-A 102 Renaissance through Modern Art
  ARTH-A 102 Renaissance through Modern Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of major artists, styles, and movements in European and American art and architecture from the fifteenth century to the present.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 102 or FINA-A 102.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
2. Art and Culture. One (1) course:
  - ARTH-A 101 Ancient and Medieval Art
  - ARTH-A 155 Introduction to African Art
  - ARTH-A 160 Introduction to East Asian Art
  - ARTH-A 207 Introduction to Contemporary Art and Its Discontents, 1960 to the Present
  ARTH-A 101 Ancient and Medieval Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of major styles and monuments in art and architecture from prehistoric times to the end of the Middle Ages.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 101 or FINA-A 101.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 155 Introduction to African Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  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.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 155 or FINA-A 155.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 160 Introduction to East Asian Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of major monuments, artists, and movements in Chinese and Japanese art.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 160 or FINA-A 160.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 207 Introduction to Contemporary Art and Its Discontents, 1960 to the Present
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Provides a chronological overview of contemporary art (from 1960) with a focus on the social and political engagements that have informed artistic developments in recent decades. Examines the qualities that have made particular genres and artistic practices significant to art history; how globalization, tourism, technology, current world conflicts, and social media have shaped artistic production, art criticism, and the art market today.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
3. Intermediate Art History. One (1) course:
  - ARTH-A 200 Topics in Art History
  - ARTH-A 201 Art and Culture of Southern Italy
  - ARTH-A 203 Machine Age Modern: European Modernism, 1848-1939
  - ARTH-A 204 Buddha and Beyond: Keywords for the Study of East Asian Buddhist Art
  - ARTH-A 205 Baroque Art in Europe: From Caravaggio to Rembrandt
  - ARTH-A 206 Classical Art and Archaeology
  - ARTH-A 207 Introduction to Contemporary Art and Its Discontents, 1960 to the Present
  - ARTH-A 210 Topics in Ancient Art
  - ARTH-A 214 Art and Life in Ancient Rome
  - ARTH-A 220 American Arts/American Identities, 1776-1945
  - ARTH-A 224 The Gothic Cathedral
  - ARTH-A 226 Envisioning the Sacred: Survey of Medieval Art
  - ARTH-A 231 The Age of Giants: Art in the Time of Leonardo and Michelangelo
  - ARTH-A 233 Renaissance and Baroque Art in Italy 1250-1700
  - ARTH-A 234 Renaissance Florence
  - ARTH-A 240 Rococo, Revolution, Romance
  - ARTH-A 243 History of Photography: An Introduction
  - ARTH-A 245 Jewish Art
  - ARTH-A 255 Topics in African Art History
  - ARTH-A 260 1968 and Its Material Legacies
  - ARTH-A 261 Art and Culture of China
  - ARTH-A 262 Introduction to Japanese Art and Culture
  - ARTH-A 276 Eye of the Beholder: Art and Perception
  - ARTH-A 280 The Art of the Comic Strip
  - ARTH-A 281 Introduction to Islamic Art and Visual Culture
  - ARTH-A 282 The Art of the Comic Book
  - ARTH-A 290 How Architecture Works: The University as Machine
  - ARTH-A 300 Topics in Art History
  - ARTH-A 303 The Art and Ideas of Eighteenth-Century Europe and America
  - ARTH-A 304 Made in Barcelona: From Gaudi to Dali and Everything in Between
  - ARTH-A 310 Topics in Ancient Art
  - ARTH-A 311 Art of the Classical Age of Greece
  - ARTH-A 312 Art of the Roman Empire
  - ARTH-A 313 Greek Pottery and Painting
  - ARTH-A 314 History of Greek Sculpture
  - ARTH-A 315 The Body in Classical Art
  - ARTH-A 316 Ancient Art from Alexander the Great to Augustus
  - ARTH-A 321 Romans and Barbarians: Early Medieval Art
  - ARTH-A 322 Romanesque and Gothic Art
  - ARTH-A 323 Illuminated Manuscripts in the Middle Ages: Form, Function, and Audience
  - ARTH-A 326 The Golden Age of Justinian: Art in the Sixth Century Mediterranean
  - ARTH-A 327 Survey of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art
  - ARTH-A 329 Topics in Medieval Art
  - ARTH-A 330 Art of Renaissance and Baroque
  - ARTH-A 331 Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Art in Italy
  - ARTH-A 332 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Art in Southern Europe
  - ARTH-A 333 From Van Eyck to Vermeer
  - ARTH-A 335 Baroque Art in Italy, 1580-1700
  - ARTH-A 336 The Graphic Novel
  - ARTH-A 337 Age of Rubens and Rembrandt
  - ARTH-A 340 Topics in Modern Art
  - ARTH-A 341 Nineteenth-Century European Art
  - ARTH-A 342 Twentieth-Century Art
  - ARTH-A 345 American Art to 1913
  - ARTH-A 347 Picasso
  - ARTH-A 348 American Architecture
  - ARTH-A 349 Dada and Surrealism
  - ARTH-A 350 Topics in African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian American Art
  - ARTH-A 351 Art of the South Pacific
  - ARTH-A 352 Art of Eastern and Southern Africa
  - ARTH-A 353 Art in America: 1945 to the Present
  - ARTH-A 354 Contemporary Art: 1960 to the Present
  - ARTH-A 355 Art, Craft, and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
  - ARTH-A 356 Art of Central Africa
  - ARTH-A 358 Women Artists
  - ARTH-A 360 Topics in East Asian Art
  - ARTH-A 361 Japanese Woodblock Prints
  - ARTH-A 372 History of Portraiture
  - ARTH-A 375 Topics in Art Theory
  - ARTH-A 390 Museum Studies I: Methods, History, Issues
  - ARTH-A 391 Museum Studies II: Museum Exhibitions
  - ARTH-A 393 Museums: The Display of Culture
  - ARTH-A 396 Foreign Study in History of Art
  - ARTH-A 400 Senior Seminar
  - ARTH-A 404 Imaging Race: Photography and the Archive
  - ARTH-A 409 Hellenistic and Roman Portraits
  - ARTH-A 410 Topics in Ancient Art
  - ARTH-A 411 Art and Archaeology of Anatolia
  - ARTH-A 412 The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean
  - ARTH-A 413 The Art and Archaeology of Greece
  - ARTH-A 414 Art & Archaeology of the Roman World
  - ARTH-A 415 Roman Painting
  - ARTH-A 416 Greek Architecture
  - ARTH-A 417 Roman Sculpture
  - ARTH-A 418 Roman Architecture
  - ARTH-A 421 Pagans and Christians: Christian Art in the Roman Empire
  - ARTH-A 423 Romanesque Art
  - ARTH-A 425 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium
  - ARTH-A 426 The Medieval City
  - ARTH-A 428 Comics and the Art World
  - ARTH-A 432 Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century
  - ARTH-A 434 Visual Culture of the Interwar Years
  - ARTH-A 435 Beyond Kitsch and Colonialism: Islamic Art in the Nineteenth Century
  - ARTH-A 436 Italian Art of the Fifteenth Century
  - ARTH-A 437 Playing with Pictures in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands
  - ARTH-A 439 The Art Historian as Sherlock Holmes: Objects and Materiality in the Digital Age
  - ARTH-A 440 Nineteenth-Century Painting I
  - ARTH-A 441 Nineteenth-Century Painting II
  - ARTH-A 442 Twentieth-Century Art, 1900-1945
  - ARTH-A 443 History of Twentieth-Century Photography
  - ARTH-A 445 American Art to 1865
  - ARTH-A 446 American Art, 1865-1945
  - ARTH-A 447 Modernism and Anti-Modernism in American Art, 1900-1945
  - ARTH-A 449 Twentieth-Century Art, 1925-Present
  - ARTH-A 450 History of Photography
  - ARTH-A 452 Art of Pre-Columbian America
  - ARTH-A 453 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa I: Arts of Africa's Western Sudan
  - ARTH-A 454 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa II: Arts of the West African Coast
  - ARTH-A 455 Modern Architecture and Design
  - ARTH-A 456 The Arabesque from Kant to Comics
  - ARTH-A 458 Topics in the Ethnographic Arts
  - ARTH-A 459 The Painted Image in the Islamic World
  - ARTH-A 464 Art and Archaeology of Early China
  - ARTH-A 465 Later Chinese Art
  - ARTH-A 466 Early Chinese Painting
  - ARTH-A 467 Later Chinese Painting
  - ARTH-A 469 Installation Art
  - ARTH-A 476 Print and the Origins of the Modern Medium
  - ARTH-A 480 Russian Art
  - ARTH-A 481 The Worlds of Art History: Academic, Museum, Commercial
  - ARTH-A 482 Sixteenth-Century Visual Culture in Northern Europe
  - ARTH-A 483 Visual and Material Cultures of Play
  - ARTH-A 484 Experience/Experiment: Modern and Contemporary Intersections of Art and Science
  - ARTH-A 486 Spanish Art of the Golden Age
  - ARTH-A 487 Caribbean and Latin American Art: Empire, Identity, and Society
  - ARTH-A 489 Topics in Islamic Art
  - ARTH-A 490 Topics in Art History
  - ARTH-A 499 Senior Honors Thesis
  ARTH-A 200 Topics in Art History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Various topics in the history of art will be offered depending upon instructors and their area of expertise.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 200 and FINA-A 200.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 201 Art and Culture of Southern Italy
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  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.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 203 Machine Age Modern: European Modernism, 1848-1939
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  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.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 203 or FINA-A 203.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 204 Buddha and Beyond: Keywords for the Study of East Asian Buddhist Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Through classroom discussion and direct study of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean artworks in the Eskenazi Museum, this course examines the history of East Asian Buddhist art from the fourth century to the present. Each week is devoted to a particular keyword, from "buddha" and "bodhisattva" to "pagoda" and "pure land."
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 205 Baroque Art in Europe: From Caravaggio to Rembrandt
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of seventeenth-century European art. Focus will be on Italy, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. Artists to be discussed include Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Bernini, Poussin, El Greco, Velazquez, Rubens, Van Dyck, Vermeer, and Rembrandt.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 206 Classical Art and Archaeology
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of the art and archaeology of classical lands from the Minoan-Mycenaean Age through classical Greece and Rome. Emphasis on the contributions of archaeology to our understanding of classical culture.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 206, FINA-A 206, or CLAS-C 206.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 207 Introduction to Contemporary Art and Its Discontents, 1960 to the Present
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Provides a chronological overview of contemporary art (from 1960) with a focus on the social and political engagements that have informed artistic developments in recent decades. Examines the qualities that have made particular genres and artistic practices significant to art history; how globalization, tourism, technology, current world conflicts, and social media have shaped artistic production, art criticism, and the art market today.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
  ARTH-A 210 Topics in Ancient Art
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of ancient art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 210 and FINA-A 210.
  ARTH-A 214 Art and Life in Ancient Rome
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Thematic exploration of the art and architecture of ancient Rome with a focus on the relationship between art and society during the imperial period.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 214 or FINA-A 214.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 220 American Arts/American Identities, 1776-1945
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introductory survey of American fine arts and popular culture from 1776 to the end of World War II. Emphasis on changing conceptions of "Americanness."
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 220 or FINA-A 220.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 224 The Gothic Cathedral
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Studies the development of the Gothic cathedral, the most important cultural institution and innovating force in Europe in the development of architecture, visual arts, education and music. Examines trends in European architecture, sculpture and painting in the twelfth through fifteenth centuries, and the connections between the visual arts and politics, theology, music and religious practice.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 224, ARTH-A 324, or FINA-A 324.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 226 Envisioning the Sacred: Survey of Medieval Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Origins and development of the architecture, and especially the sculpture and painting, of the period from Constantine the Great (300 A.D.) to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 in the Byzantine East and the beginning of the Renaissance in the Latin West.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 226 or FINA-A 226.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 231 The Age of Giants: Art in the Time of Leonardo and Michelangelo
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Italian painting and sculpture in the time of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), whose accomplishments represent what S.J. Freedberg has called the "most extraordinary intersection of genius art history has known." Besides an overview of Italian High Renaissance art, major topics to be addressed include the rivalry between Leonardo and Michelangelo, Leonardo's notebooks, and the reception of both artists' works in later centuries.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 231 or FINA-A 231.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 233 Renaissance and Baroque Art in Italy 1250-1700
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of the major artists and monuments in Italy 1250-1700. Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Florence, Venice, and Rome will be given particular attention.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 233 or FINA-A 233.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 234 Renaissance Florence
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of the interrelationships between Florentine artistic and literary culture between 1300 and 1530. Major emphasis on Boccaccio, Giotto, Masaccio, Donatello, Lorenzo de' Medici, Leonardo da Vinci, Guicciardini, Machiavelli, and Michelangelo.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 234, FINA-A 234, or FRIT-M 234.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 240 Rococo, Revolution, Romance
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Focuses on the painting, sculpture and architecture of the Rococo movement; its interdisciplinary reach into aspects of interior design, literature, music, and theater; and its important impact on the cultural climate of the eighteenth century.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 240 or FINA-A 240.
  ARTH-A 243 History of Photography: An Introduction
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  History of photography as a social and artistic practice from its invention in 1839 through present day digital imagery. Develops an understanding of the historical evolution of photography with particular attention to the array of social meanings ascribed to the medium. Studies a range of photographic practices, including fine arts photography, political and social documentary, collage and photomontage, photo books, fashion photography, and advertising.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 243 or FINA-A 243.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 245 Jewish Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of Jewish art from the frescoes at Dura Europos to the paintings of Leon Golub.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 245 or FINA-A 245.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 255 Topics in African Art History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Variable topics in African art and visual culture, including important issues and areas of the continent.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 255 and FINA-A 255.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 260 1968 and Its Material Legacies
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  1968 was a pivotal--some say revolutionary--year in art history. This interdisciplinary course considers how this year in particular came to represent the apotheosis of 1960's radicalism when viewed through the lens of its material legacies (painting, sculpture, graphic art, happenings, performance, and film).
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 260 or FINA-A 260.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 261 Art and Culture of China
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines Chinese art and visual culture from the Neolithic era to the present day. Provides training and practice in analyzing works of art from China (including bronzes, Buddhist sculptures, calligraphy, monumental landscape paintings, ceramics, imperial palaces, and contemporary installations) and critically evaluating scholarly writing about artistic objects from the area.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 262 Introduction to Japanese Art and Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Traces the transformation of painting and other artistic media, including ceramics, sculpture, scroll painting, and screens, through the epochs of Japanese art history. Emphasizes major moments of change, placing the visual arts in the context of international contact and the political and social order of Japan.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 276 Eye of the Beholder: Art and Perception
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to the philosophy and psychology of perception as they are related to Western art theory and criticism from Plato to the present.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 276 or FINA-A 276.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 280 The Art of the Comic Strip
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys the formal and social history of the comic strip in America from its beginning in the mid 1800s to the present. Examines how the format created narrative challenges and conventions unique to comic strips and distinct from comic books as it surveys magazine comic strip humor, the newspaper comic strip and comic supplement, the continuity adventure strip, and postwar minimalist newspaper strips, to current comic strips and webcomics.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 280 or FINA-A 280.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 281 Introduction to Islamic Art and Visual Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of the spectacular art, architecture and visual culture of the Islamic world, from its beginnings in the seventh century through to the recent past.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 281, FINA-A 281, or FINA-A 327.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 282 The Art of the Comic Book
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys the formal and social history of the comic book in America from its beginning in the early 1930s to the present. Examines how the format created narrative challenges and conventions of its own. Studies its connections to the subject matter of superheroes, romance, counter culture, sexuality and autobiography.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 290 How Architecture Works: The University as Machine
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Taking IUB as a case study, this course examines architecture as an expression of educational ideals. People design buildings and shape the landscape in order to achieve specific ends; with that in mind, we will try to sort out how the physical fabric of this institution expresses certain cultural, political, and social ideals. Comparing the infrastructure of this campus with other examples, we will try to shed light on what your families hope you've been doing, what you think you've been doing, and what the state expects you to do in the future.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 290 or FINA-A 290.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 300 Topics in Art History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Specialized topics in the study of art history.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 300 and FINA-A 300.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 303 The Art and Ideas of Eighteenth-Century Europe and America
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to the ideas that shaped the art of the eighteenth century, reflecting changing attitudes towards education, literacy, religion, leadership, social values, women and slavery, the scope of knowledge, as well as the human psyche. Focus is on key paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints of the period.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 304 Made in Barcelona: From Gaudi to Dali and Everything in Between
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Covers the history of art produced in Catalonia, particularly in the capital city, Barcelona. Introduces particular styles, artists, movements, and historical periods of Catalan art and culture. No previous art historical knowledge or Catalan/Spanish language skills required.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 310 Topics in Ancient Art
  Credits
  3–6 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of ancient art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 310 and FINA-A 310.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 311 Art of the Classical Age of Greece
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Architecture, sculpture, and painting in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 311 or FINA-A 311.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 312 Art of the Roman Empire
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of art and architecture of the Roman Empire from 31 B.C.E. to 337 C.E.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 312 or FINA-A 312.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 313 Greek Pottery and Painting
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of Greek painted pottery and remains of painting from 1000 to 200 B.C. It illustrates the successive stages of development, drawing upon the rich collection of the IU Art Museum to illuminate the different phases. Emphasis is on period as well as individual styles and on the interpretation of subject matter as well as on technique.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 313 or FINA-A 313.
  ARTH-A 314 History of Greek Sculpture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The history of Greek sculpture from the early Iron Age (ca. 900 B.C.) to the late Hellenistic period. Focus on problems of change, context, and stylistic differentiation between parts of the Greek world. Original material from the IU Art Museum will also be studied.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 314 or FINA-A 314.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 315 The Body in Classical Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This course will explore the representation of the human body, both nude and draped, from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman period (ca. 600 B.C. to A.D. 400).
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 316 Ancient Art from Alexander the Great to Augustus
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean world during the Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 316 or FINA-A 316.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 321 Romans and Barbarians: Early Medieval Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys the art and architecture of Western Europe from the fourth through the tenth centuries, a period of enormous change when new social and cultural systems developed. Examines visual forms such as painting, sculpture, and architecture in the context of such cultural institutions as warfare, kingship, and monasticism.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 321 or FINA-A 321.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 322 Romanesque and Gothic Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of the art of the High Middle Ages from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, with an emphasis on architecture and sculpture in England, France, Germany, and Italy.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 322 or FINA-A 322.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 323 Illuminated Manuscripts in the Middle Ages: Form, Function, and Audience
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Starting with the invention of the codex in the first century, and continuing to the end of the Middle Ages, this course will investigate the tools, methods and inspiration behind the creation of medieval manuscripts. Lectures will survey the most important types of manuscripts and schools of manuscript illumination, as well as their audiences.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 323 or FINA-A 323.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 326 The Golden Age of Justinian: Art in the Sixth Century Mediterranean
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Art of the later Roman/early Byzantine world in the sixth century Mediterranean context. Comparison to Sasanian and western art traditions.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 326 or FINA-A 326.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 327 Survey of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Provides a comprehensive overview of modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 327 or FINA-A 327.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 329 Topics in Medieval Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of Medieval art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 329 and FINA-A 329.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 330 Art of Renaissance and Baroque
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of Renaissance and Baroque art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 330 and FINA-A 330.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 331 Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Art in Italy
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 331 or FINA-A 331.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 332 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Art in Southern Europe
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Beginnings of baroque style and pictorial traditions, which spread from Italy to Spain and France.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 332 or FINA-A 332.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 333 From Van Eyck to Vermeer
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of major artists and themes in Netherlandish painting from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 333 or FINA-A 333.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 335 Baroque Art in Italy, 1580-1700
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Sculpture, painting, and architecture in Italy, 1580-1700. Development of baroque style from the late sixteenth century through the period of the High Baroque in Rome, Florence, and Venice in the mid- to late -seventeenth century. Lectures, readings, and discussions will be centered around questions of stylistic progression, and the influence of patrons, socioeconomic conditions, and religion on artistic practice.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 335 or FINA-A 335.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 336 The Graphic Novel
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Focuses on the medium of the graphic novel (the long-form comic) from its inception in 1960's America to the present. Primary focus is on the visual-narrative aspects of the medium, as well as in-depth analysis of graphic novels in the social and cultural context in which they were produced.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 336 or FINA-A 336.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 337 Age of Rubens and Rembrandt
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Baroque art in northern Europe of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, emphasizing the art and culture of the Netherlands.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 337 or FINA-A 337.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 340 Topics in Modern Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 340 and FINA-A 340.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 341 Nineteenth-Century European Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of major artists and styles in painting and sculpture from c. 1770 to 1900, emphasizing developments in France, England, and Germany. Topics include neoclassicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism, and post-impressionism.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 341 or FINA-A 341.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 342 Twentieth-Century Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of major artists, styles, and movements in painting and sculpture from 1900 to the present in Europe and the United States. Topics include expressionism, cubism, futurism, dada, surrealism, and abstraction.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 342 or FINA-A 342.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 345 American Art to 1913
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  American architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, and graphics from the seventeenth century to the Armory Show of 1913.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 345 or FINA-A 345.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 347 Picasso
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of the different phases of Picasso's career, the artistic milieu in which he worked, and the critical approaches that have been taken to his art.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 347 or FINA-A 347.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 348 American Architecture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of American architecture from the colonial period to the late twentieth century, including public, commercial, and domestic design, with emphasis on historical context and the role of architecture as signifier of social, cultural, and political ideologies.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 348 or FINA-A 348.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 349 Dada and Surrealism
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An examination of the Dada Surrealism project, in particular the critique of established forms of art making; also the historical background, intellectual sources, and social and political goals of the two movements.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 349 or FINA-A 349.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 350 Topics in African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian American Art
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian American art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 350 and FINA-A 350.
  ARTH-A 351 Art of the South Pacific
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of the visual art traditions of Australia and the South Pacific Island groups of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Focuses on style regions, individual island styles, and the cultural and historical contexts of objects. Emphasis is on traditional arts but contemporary forms are also discussed.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 351 or FINA-A 351.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 352 Art of Eastern and Southern Africa
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A one-semester survey of visual arts, traditions of eastern and southern Africa, examining architecture, personal arts of the body and household, religious arts, and contemporary painting and sculpture. Emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but some earlier traditions, such as Ethiopian Christian art and Swahili architecture, are also discussed.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 352 or FINA-A 352.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 353 Art in America: 1945 to the Present
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores how a specifically American paradigm shaped art and criticism in an era that saw the post-war rise of New York City as the center of Western art giving way to contemporary globalization. Course is thematically organized, utilizing case studies and emphasizing primary sources in art and critical literature.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 353 or FINA-A 353.
  
  ARTH-A 354 Contemporary Art: 1960 to the Present
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of art since 1960 that delves into issues of art production, presentation, and criticism from this period, with topics ranging from globalization and new media, to identity and embodiment. Emphasis is placed on learning to analyze contemporary art and on finding and using primary sources.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 354 or FINA-A 354.
  ARTH-A 355 Art, Craft, and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examination of technology, history, and uses of traditional African art materials, such as metals, ceramics, wood, and fiber. Emphasis is on furniture, textiles, decorative arts, and utilitarian objects.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 355 or FINA-A 355.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 356 Art of Central Africa
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Analysis of visual art traditions of central Africa, focusing primarily on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but also including art from Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, and Angola.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 356 or FINA-A 356.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 358 Women Artists
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Exploration of contributions by women artists from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 358 or FINA-A 358.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 360 Topics in East Asian Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Topics vary; each is focused on a specific aspect or issue in East Asian art, studied in the context of social and intellectual history.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours in ARTH-A 360 and FINA-A 360.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 361 Japanese Woodblock Prints
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Provides a survey of the Japanese woodblock print from its emergence in the mid-17th century to modern times. Explores technical developments, major genres, and master designers within the context of pictorial traditions, publishing, and urban culture. Addresses aesthetic discourse, censorship, erotica, Japonisme, social identity, print culture, and representation of war.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 372 History of Portraiture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Interpretive analysis of portraiture from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century in western Europe.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 372 or FINA-A 372.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 375 Topics in Art Theory
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of art theory.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 375 and FINA-A 375.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 390 Museum Studies I: Methods, History, Issues
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to basic workings of an art museum: the history of museums, collection management, cataloging of objects. The course works closely with the IU Art Museum and its staff and, where applicable, with staff from other museums nearby.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 390 or FINA-A 390.
  
  ARTH-A 391 Museum Studies II: Museum Exhibitions
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Exhibitions in art museums: conception and development, budget, funding, catalogue writing and production, education and publicity. Students work with a chosen group of museum objects, normally at least partly from the IU Art Museum; the group of objects varies by course topic. Students will receive practical experience by involvement in all aspects of exhibition preparation.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 391 or FINA-A 391.
  ARTH-A 393 Museums: The Display of Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines what is chosen for displays of other cultures in museums, how those materials are presented, and how displays representative of world cultures may be overtly politicized. Investigates some of the most potent presentations in the history of museums and exhibitions and engages with questions of colonialism, cultural capital, nation-building and self-identity.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 396 Foreign Study in History of Art
  
  Credits
  1–9 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Intended only for students participating in IU Overseas Study Program; all art history majors are required to obtain prior approval from the undergraduate art history advisor.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours in ARTH-A 396 and FINA-A 396.
  
  ARTH-A 400 Senior Seminar
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Art History major or consent of instructor
  Description
  Intensive examination of selected topics in art history. Open only to art history majors or with consent of instructor. Required for art history honors students.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 7 credit hours in ARTH-A 400 and FINA-A 400.
  ARTH-A 404 Imaging Race: Photography and the Archive
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of major developments in commercial and artistic photographic practice from the 19th century to the present, with emphasis on the role that this technology and its interpretation have played in shaping racial imaginaries and art history, primarily in the U.S. This course considers how institutionalized concepts of blackness and whiteness are manifest in image production and circulation, and how the social formation of race affects who and what is and is not visible in the photographic record.
  Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 409 Hellenistic and Roman Portraits
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores the repertoire of portraiture in Greece and Rome from ca. 350 BCE to 500 CE. Examines the motivations for commissioning portraits, the language of physiognomy, hairstyles, and costume choices, and the varied contexts where portraits were displayed.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 410 Topics in Ancient Art
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of ancient and Classical art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 410 or FINA-A 410.
  ARTH-A 411 Art and Archaeology of Anatolia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of the art and archaeology of early Turkey from prehistoric times to about 1000 B.C. Emphasis on origins and development of distinctive Anatolian cultures such as that of the Hittites.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 411 or FINA-A 411.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 412 The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to the preclassical art and archaeology of the Aegean Basin: Greece, Crete, and the Aegean islands during the Stone and Bronze Ages (to about 1000 B.C.). Topics covered include Troy, Minoan Crete, and Mycenaean Greece.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 412 or FINA-A 412.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 413 The Art and Archaeology of Greece
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Art and archaeology of Greece from about 1000 B.C. through the Hellenistic period. Special attention given to the development of Greek architecture, sculpture, and vase painting. Continuation of ARTH-A 412 (CLAS-C 412), but ARTH-A 412 (CLAS-C 412) is not a prerequisite.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 413, FINA-A 413, or CLAS-C 413.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 414 Art & Archaeology of the Roman World
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Development of Roman architecture, sculpture, and painting from the beginning through the 4th century A.D. Consideration given to the major archaeological sites. Continuation of ARTH-A 413, but ARTH-A 413 is not a prerequisite.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 414 or CLAS-C 414.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 415 Roman Painting
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Critical survey of Roman painting from second century B.C. through early fourth century A.D. Emphasis is on paintings from Rome and the region of Pompeii in the period from 100 B.C. to A.D. 79.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 415 or FINA-A 415.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 416 Greek Architecture
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The development of Greek architecture from the ninth to the first century B.C.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 416 or FINA-A 416.
  ARTH-A 417 Roman Sculpture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Analytical survey of Roman sculpture from the Republic through the reign of Septimus (circa third century B.C.E. to early third century C.E.).
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 417 or FINA-A 417.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 418 Roman Architecture
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The formation and development of Roman architecture from the second century B.C. to the middle of the fourth century A.D.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 418 or FINA-A 418.
  ARTH-A 421 Pagans and Christians: Christian Art in the Roman Empire
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Christian art as it developed in its first centuries within the Roman Empire (200-600).
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 421 or FINA-A 421.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 423 Romanesque Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Intensive analysis of the art of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Emphasis on architecture and sculpture of England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 423 or FINA-A 423.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 425 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire (A.D. 600-1453). Consideration of materials from the core territories of the Byzantine world (Constantinople, Asia Minor, Greece), the Byzantine commonwealth of Orthodox lands (Kievan Rus, Serbia) and Western Europe (Sicily, Venice, Crusader states).
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 425 or FINA-A 425.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 426 The Medieval City
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This course will examine the cities of Western Europe and the Islamic and Byzantine worlds from the perspective of the institutions of the city and the art and architecture they generated, including houses, fortifications, churches, town halls, guild halls, and markets. Medieval representations of the city also will be explored.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 426 or FINA-A 426.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 428 Comics and the Art World
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Studies the interaction and cross-fertilization between cartoons and comics and the "high art" world of galleries and museums from 1900 to the present, with a focus on the United States. These connections are studied formally as well as critically, historiographically, and sociologically.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 428 or FINA-A 428.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 432 Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Investigates art in Italy during one of its most important centuries. Focuses on the artists of central Italy including such luminaries as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Examines the puzzling phenomenon of mannerism (Pontormo, Rosso, Bronzino, Parmigianino) and the warm, painterly naturalism of Venice (Giorgione, Titian).
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 432 or FINA-A 432.
  ARTH-A 434 Visual Culture of the Interwar Years
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the creative practice of artists primarily in Germany, Russia and France from 1918 to 1939 with significant attention to texts that theorized social and artistic change during the interwar years. Includes the legacy of Expressionism, Dada as cultural critique, the so-called realism of the Neue Sachlichkeit, photography and cinema as new media.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 434 or FINA-A 434.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 435 Beyond Kitsch and Colonialism: Islamic Art in the Nineteenth Century
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examine the remarkable and often overlooked art produced in the Middle East and North Africa during the long nineteenth century, placing it into the social histories of the Islamic world during a century of tumultuous change.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 436 Italian Art of the Fifteenth Century
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Major artists and stylistic trends of fifteenth-century Italy. Special attention to Tuscan painting and sculpture and to the works of Masaccio, Ghiberti, and Donatello.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 436 or FINA-A 436.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 437 Playing with Pictures in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Major artists and topics from the fifteenth-century Netherlands. Special attention to Bosch, van Eyck, and their contemporaries.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 437 or FINA-A 437.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 439 The Art Historian as Sherlock Holmes: Objects and Materiality in the Digital Age
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Investigates the intersections of material culture, scientific knowledge, and subjectivity to explore fundamental questions posed by the objects in a variety of disciplines and frameworks. Looking at objects simultaneously as \"things\" and as \"ideological constructs,\" seeks to break down the artificial border between \"the material\" and \"the virtual.\"
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 440 Nineteenth-Century Painting I
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A thematic look at neoclassical and romantic art throughout Europe.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 440 or FINA-A 440.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 441 Nineteenth-Century Painting II
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Major European painters and artistic movements, particularly in France, with some coverage of the United States. Focus on cultural and intellectual milieu of each artist.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 441 or FINA-A 441.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 442 Twentieth-Century Art, 1900-1945
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Art, architecture and design of the first half of the twentieth century: cubism, futurism, German expressionism, Dada, constructivism, the Bauhaus, with emphasis on the central concepts of modernism and the avant-garde.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 442 or FINA-A 442.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 443 History of Twentieth-Century Photography
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys twentieth-century photography as a medium of art and communication. Considers portraiture, landscape, still life, the nude, conceptual photography, the social documentary tradition, the magazine picture story, fashion, advertising, and war photography. Examines the impact of postmodern theories on photographic practice and the understanding of photography.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 443 or FINA-A 443.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 445 American Art to 1865
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  History of art in the United States from the colonial period through the Civil War.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 445 or FINA-A 445.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 446 American Art, 1865-1945
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  History of art in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the twentieth century.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 446 or FINA-A 446.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 447 Modernism and Anti-Modernism in American Art, 1900-1945
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of American painting, sculpture, photography, design, and commercial art in the early Modern period. Topics include the urban realism of the "Ash Can School"; the early avant-garde; New York Dada; the cult of the machine; regionalist painting and the American heartland; the expressionist landscape; and surrealism American style.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 447 or FINA-A 447.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 449 Twentieth-Century Art, 1925-Present
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Painting, sculpture, and architecture 1925-1970. Main emphasis will be on American developments, including necessary historic background from the Armory Show to migration of surrealism, abstract expressionism, op, pop, minimal, and kinetic art. A world view of architecture will cover such topics as international style and new brutalism.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 449 or FINA-A 449.
  ARTH-A 450 History of Photography
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys the history of photography from its beginning to the mid-twentieth century, with a focus on theoretical issues as well as the cultural and social contexts of photography and its practices.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 450 or FINA-A 450.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 452 Art of Pre-Columbian America
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of precontact arts of the Americas south of the Rio Grande. Emphasis on sculptural, architectural, and ceramic arts of ancient Mexico and Peru.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 452 or FINA-A 452.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 453 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa I: Arts of Africa's Western Sudan
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Analysis of visual art traditions of West Africa, focusing primarily on the peoples of the Western Sudan and including the area from northern Nigeria to Senegal. Emphasis on the concepts and themes that give the art its beauty, power, and social relevance for the peoples who use it.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 453 or FINA-A 453.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 454 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa II: Arts of the West African Coast
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Analysis of visual art traditions of West Africa, focusing primarily on the peoples of the Atlantic coast from Nigeria to the Republic of Guinea. Emphasis on the concepts and themes that give the art its beauty, power, and social relevance for the peoples who use it.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 454 or FINA-A 454.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 455 Modern Architecture and Design
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Considers architectural practice and theory of the late-eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries in light of contemporary disciplinary themes including globalization, new technologies, concepts of space, and sustainability. Highlights the social, political, intellectual, and technological forces that have influenced and continue to motivate modern design.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 455 or FINA-A 455.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 456 The Arabesque from Kant to Comics
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Uses the arabesque, an ornamental design of flowing lines and curvilinear motifs, as a vehicle to explore issues of media history and intermediality, social networks and cultural transfer, as well as the rise of new and non-traditional art forms between roughly 1750 and 1880, with an outlook into the arabesque's persistence in 20th and 21st-century art.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 458 Topics in the Ethnographic Arts
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Specific themes of particular interest in the ethnographic arts. Topics will be based on art categories (such as textiles and music) or geographic areas (such as new developments in the study of central Bantu initiation arts).
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 7 credit hours in ARTH-A 458 and FINA-A 458.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 459 The Painted Image in the Islamic World
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Investigates the rich and vibrant tradition of painted imagery in the Islamic world. Uses materials that date from the Umayyad period (seventh-eighth centuries) to the early modern period to examine representational practice in the Middle East, representation of the human form in the Islamic world, illustration of narrative tales and scientific texts, and the circulation of topographical imagery through pilgrimage.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 459 or FINA-A 459.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 464 Art and Archaeology of Early China
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The arts of China from Neolithic times through the T'ang Dynasty (618-906 A.D.): prehistoric ceramics, ritual bronzes, jades, animal sculpture, Buddhist art, and early pictorial art. Particular attention will be paid to major archaeological discoveries, and the material will be discussed in the context of the development of Chinese culture and civilization.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 464 or FINA-A 464.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 465 Later Chinese Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Chinese art from the 10th to the 18th century. The main emphasis will be on painting; calligraphy, ceramics, and other arts will also be covered.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 465 or FINA-A 465.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 466 Early Chinese Painting
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Chinese painting and pictorial art from the Bronze Age to the end of the Sung dynasty (A.D. 1279): tomb paintings and reliefs, Buddhist cave paintings, courtly art and imperial patronage, and landscapes. Materials and techniques, art theory, and the relationship between painting and calligraphy will also be considered.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 466 or FINA-A 466.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 467 Later Chinese Painting
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Chinese painting from the Yuan dynasty (A.D.1279-1368) to the twentieth century: the emergence, development, and interaction of diverse painting schools; amateurs and professionals, regional styles, political and social contexts, the role of patronage and collecting, and art theory and criticism.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 467 or FINA-A 467.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 469 Installation Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examination of the historical roots and development of installation art.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 469 or FINA-A 469.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 476 Print and the Origins of the Modern Medium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the cultural and political impacts of print in Europe and the Americas from 1375-2000. Discussion of various types of printmaking and how they reshaped social interaction, reconfigured text and image relationships, transformed the values assigned to visual expression, and created the concept of a "medium."
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 476 or FINA-A 476.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 480 Russian Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Russian art from the twelfth century to the present. Emphasis on the period 1850 to the present: realism, the Slavic revival, symbolism, constructivism, and socialist realism.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 480 or FINA-A 480.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 481 The Worlds of Art History: Academic, Museum, Commercial
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Art history major; and junior or senior standing
  Description
  An introduction for art history majors to the three main realms of the professional art historian: academia (colleges and universities), museums, and commerce (galleries, auction houses, appraisal, and corporate work). Exploration of the various ways in which art historical skills and knowledge prepare one for interesting and rewarding careers. Field trips required.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 481 or FINA-A 481.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 482 Sixteenth-Century Visual Culture in Northern Europe
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Major themes and images from the Renaissance in England, France, Germany, and the Low Countries. Discussion of such notable painters and sculptors as Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Albrecht Durer, Jan Gossaert, Quentin Massys, Antonis Mor, and Veit Stoss. Issues include landscape and vicarious travel, assertions of artistic and intellectual self-sufficiency, forms of visual play, and the relationship between print and interpretive conflict.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 482 or FINA-A 482.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 483 Visual and Material Cultures of Play
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys the play element of culture, with particular attention to American, Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian societies from the twelfth century to the present. Covers historical background, conceptual framework, and critical vocabulary necessary for understanding the ludic aspects of cultural production. Grapples with questions about the relationship between perception and thought, about the changing social and political functions of idleness, and about the value of intellectual labor.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 483 or FINA-A 483.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 484 Experience/Experiment: Modern and Contemporary Intersections of Art and Science
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines how and in what circumstances the scientific study of human experience has influenced artistic practice (and vice versa) from the twentieth century through to the present day. Explores how intersections between these "two cultures" have led to creative and critical breakthroughs in both fields of study.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 484 or FINA-A 484.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 486 Spanish Art of the Golden Age
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Studies the emergence of a distinctive and influential school of Spanish painting from the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth century. Special attention paid to the artists that truly made this a golden age of painting: El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera, and Murillo.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 487 Caribbean and Latin American Art: Empire, Identity, and Society
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Focuses on the emergence of an African aesthetic and its conceptual principles, from the first stirrings in the 16th century of Africans dislocated through the slave trade to the early 20th century, when most African artistic and cultural expressions were fully developed and firmly rooted throughout the Americas.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 489 Topics in Islamic Art
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of Islamic art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 8 credit hours in ARTH-A 489 and FINA-A 489.
  ARTH-A 490 Topics in Art History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Topic varies with the instructor and year and will be listed in the online Schedule of Classes.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours in ARTH-A 490 and FINA-A 490.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 499 Senior Honors Thesis
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Consent of departmental honors committee
  Description
  None
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 499 or FINA-A 499.
4. Advanced Art History. One (1) course:
  - ARTH-A 300 Topics in Art History
  - ARTH-A 303 The Art and Ideas of Eighteenth-Century Europe and America
  - ARTH-A 304 Made in Barcelona: From Gaudi to Dali and Everything in Between
  - ARTH-A 310 Topics in Ancient Art
  - ARTH-A 311 Art of the Classical Age of Greece
  - ARTH-A 312 Art of the Roman Empire
  - ARTH-A 313 Greek Pottery and Painting
  - ARTH-A 314 History of Greek Sculpture
  - ARTH-A 315 The Body in Classical Art
  - ARTH-A 316 Ancient Art from Alexander the Great to Augustus
  - ARTH-A 321 Romans and Barbarians: Early Medieval Art
  - ARTH-A 322 Romanesque and Gothic Art
  - ARTH-A 323 Illuminated Manuscripts in the Middle Ages: Form, Function, and Audience
  - ARTH-A 326 The Golden Age of Justinian: Art in the Sixth Century Mediterranean
  - ARTH-A 327 Survey of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art
  - ARTH-A 329 Topics in Medieval Art
  - ARTH-A 330 Art of Renaissance and Baroque
  - ARTH-A 331 Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Art in Italy
  - ARTH-A 332 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Art in Southern Europe
  - ARTH-A 333 From Van Eyck to Vermeer
  - ARTH-A 335 Baroque Art in Italy, 1580-1700
  - ARTH-A 336 The Graphic Novel
  - ARTH-A 337 Age of Rubens and Rembrandt
  - ARTH-A 340 Topics in Modern Art
  - ARTH-A 341 Nineteenth-Century European Art
  - ARTH-A 342 Twentieth-Century Art
  - ARTH-A 345 American Art to 1913
  - ARTH-A 347 Picasso
  - ARTH-A 348 American Architecture
  - ARTH-A 349 Dada and Surrealism
  - ARTH-A 350 Topics in African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian American Art
  - ARTH-A 351 Art of the South Pacific
  - ARTH-A 352 Art of Eastern and Southern Africa
  - ARTH-A 353 Art in America: 1945 to the Present
  - ARTH-A 354 Contemporary Art: 1960 to the Present
  - ARTH-A 355 Art, Craft, and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
  - ARTH-A 356 Art of Central Africa
  - ARTH-A 358 Women Artists
  - ARTH-A 360 Topics in East Asian Art
  - ARTH-A 361 Japanese Woodblock Prints
  - ARTH-A 372 History of Portraiture
  - ARTH-A 375 Topics in Art Theory
  - ARTH-A 390 Museum Studies I: Methods, History, Issues
  - ARTH-A 391 Museum Studies II: Museum Exhibitions
  - ARTH-A 393 Museums: The Display of Culture
  - ARTH-A 396 Foreign Study in History of Art
  - ARTH-A 400 Senior Seminar
  - ARTH-A 404 Imaging Race: Photography and the Archive
  - ARTH-A 409 Hellenistic and Roman Portraits
  - ARTH-A 410 Topics in Ancient Art
  - ARTH-A 411 Art and Archaeology of Anatolia
  - ARTH-A 412 The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean
  - ARTH-A 413 The Art and Archaeology of Greece
  - ARTH-A 414 Art & Archaeology of the Roman World
  - ARTH-A 415 Roman Painting
  - ARTH-A 416 Greek Architecture
  - ARTH-A 417 Roman Sculpture
  - ARTH-A 418 Roman Architecture
  - ARTH-A 421 Pagans and Christians: Christian Art in the Roman Empire
  - ARTH-A 423 Romanesque Art
  - ARTH-A 425 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium
  - ARTH-A 426 The Medieval City
  - ARTH-A 428 Comics and the Art World
  - ARTH-A 432 Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century
  - ARTH-A 434 Visual Culture of the Interwar Years
  - ARTH-A 435 Beyond Kitsch and Colonialism: Islamic Art in the Nineteenth Century
  - ARTH-A 436 Italian Art of the Fifteenth Century
  - ARTH-A 437 Playing with Pictures in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands
  - ARTH-A 439 The Art Historian as Sherlock Holmes: Objects and Materiality in the Digital Age
  - ARTH-A 440 Nineteenth-Century Painting I
  - ARTH-A 441 Nineteenth-Century Painting II
  - ARTH-A 442 Twentieth-Century Art, 1900-1945
  - ARTH-A 443 History of Twentieth-Century Photography
  - ARTH-A 445 American Art to 1865
  - ARTH-A 446 American Art, 1865-1945
  - ARTH-A 447 Modernism and Anti-Modernism in American Art, 1900-1945
  - ARTH-A 449 Twentieth-Century Art, 1925-Present
  - ARTH-A 450 History of Photography
  - ARTH-A 452 Art of Pre-Columbian America
  - ARTH-A 453 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa I: Arts of Africa's Western Sudan
  - ARTH-A 454 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa II: Arts of the West African Coast
  - ARTH-A 455 Modern Architecture and Design
  - ARTH-A 456 The Arabesque from Kant to Comics
  - ARTH-A 458 Topics in the Ethnographic Arts
  - ARTH-A 459 The Painted Image in the Islamic World
  - ARTH-A 464 Art and Archaeology of Early China
  - ARTH-A 465 Later Chinese Art
  - ARTH-A 466 Early Chinese Painting
  - ARTH-A 467 Later Chinese Painting
  - ARTH-A 469 Installation Art
  - ARTH-A 476 Print and the Origins of the Modern Medium
  - ARTH-A 480 Russian Art
  - ARTH-A 481 The Worlds of Art History: Academic, Museum, Commercial
  - ARTH-A 482 Sixteenth-Century Visual Culture in Northern Europe
  - ARTH-A 483 Visual and Material Cultures of Play
  - ARTH-A 484 Experience/Experiment: Modern and Contemporary Intersections of Art and Science
  - ARTH-A 486 Spanish Art of the Golden Age
  - ARTH-A 487 Caribbean and Latin American Art: Empire, Identity, and Society
  - ARTH-A 489 Topics in Islamic Art
  - ARTH-A 490 Topics in Art History
  - ARTH-A 499 Senior Honors Thesis
  ARTH-A 300 Topics in Art History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Specialized topics in the study of art history.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 300 and FINA-A 300.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 303 The Art and Ideas of Eighteenth-Century Europe and America
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to the ideas that shaped the art of the eighteenth century, reflecting changing attitudes towards education, literacy, religion, leadership, social values, women and slavery, the scope of knowledge, as well as the human psyche. Focus is on key paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints of the period.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 304 Made in Barcelona: From Gaudi to Dali and Everything in Between
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Covers the history of art produced in Catalonia, particularly in the capital city, Barcelona. Introduces particular styles, artists, movements, and historical periods of Catalan art and culture. No previous art historical knowledge or Catalan/Spanish language skills required.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 310 Topics in Ancient Art
  Credits
  3–6 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of ancient art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 310 and FINA-A 310.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 311 Art of the Classical Age of Greece
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Architecture, sculpture, and painting in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 311 or FINA-A 311.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 312 Art of the Roman Empire
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of art and architecture of the Roman Empire from 31 B.C.E. to 337 C.E.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 312 or FINA-A 312.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 313 Greek Pottery and Painting
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of Greek painted pottery and remains of painting from 1000 to 200 B.C. It illustrates the successive stages of development, drawing upon the rich collection of the IU Art Museum to illuminate the different phases. Emphasis is on period as well as individual styles and on the interpretation of subject matter as well as on technique.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 313 or FINA-A 313.
  ARTH-A 314 History of Greek Sculpture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The history of Greek sculpture from the early Iron Age (ca. 900 B.C.) to the late Hellenistic period. Focus on problems of change, context, and stylistic differentiation between parts of the Greek world. Original material from the IU Art Museum will also be studied.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 314 or FINA-A 314.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 315 The Body in Classical Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This course will explore the representation of the human body, both nude and draped, from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman period (ca. 600 B.C. to A.D. 400).
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 316 Ancient Art from Alexander the Great to Augustus
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean world during the Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 316 or FINA-A 316.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 321 Romans and Barbarians: Early Medieval Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys the art and architecture of Western Europe from the fourth through the tenth centuries, a period of enormous change when new social and cultural systems developed. Examines visual forms such as painting, sculpture, and architecture in the context of such cultural institutions as warfare, kingship, and monasticism.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 321 or FINA-A 321.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 322 Romanesque and Gothic Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of the art of the High Middle Ages from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, with an emphasis on architecture and sculpture in England, France, Germany, and Italy.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 322 or FINA-A 322.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 323 Illuminated Manuscripts in the Middle Ages: Form, Function, and Audience
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Starting with the invention of the codex in the first century, and continuing to the end of the Middle Ages, this course will investigate the tools, methods and inspiration behind the creation of medieval manuscripts. Lectures will survey the most important types of manuscripts and schools of manuscript illumination, as well as their audiences.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 323 or FINA-A 323.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 326 The Golden Age of Justinian: Art in the Sixth Century Mediterranean
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Art of the later Roman/early Byzantine world in the sixth century Mediterranean context. Comparison to Sasanian and western art traditions.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 326 or FINA-A 326.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 327 Survey of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Provides a comprehensive overview of modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 327 or FINA-A 327.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 329 Topics in Medieval Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of Medieval art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 329 and FINA-A 329.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 330 Art of Renaissance and Baroque
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of Renaissance and Baroque art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 330 and FINA-A 330.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 331 Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Art in Italy
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 331 or FINA-A 331.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 332 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Art in Southern Europe
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Beginnings of baroque style and pictorial traditions, which spread from Italy to Spain and France.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 332 or FINA-A 332.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 333 From Van Eyck to Vermeer
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of major artists and themes in Netherlandish painting from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 333 or FINA-A 333.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 335 Baroque Art in Italy, 1580-1700
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Sculpture, painting, and architecture in Italy, 1580-1700. Development of baroque style from the late sixteenth century through the period of the High Baroque in Rome, Florence, and Venice in the mid- to late -seventeenth century. Lectures, readings, and discussions will be centered around questions of stylistic progression, and the influence of patrons, socioeconomic conditions, and religion on artistic practice.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 335 or FINA-A 335.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 336 The Graphic Novel
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Focuses on the medium of the graphic novel (the long-form comic) from its inception in 1960's America to the present. Primary focus is on the visual-narrative aspects of the medium, as well as in-depth analysis of graphic novels in the social and cultural context in which they were produced.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 336 or FINA-A 336.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 337 Age of Rubens and Rembrandt
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Baroque art in northern Europe of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, emphasizing the art and culture of the Netherlands.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 337 or FINA-A 337.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 340 Topics in Modern Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 340 and FINA-A 340.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 341 Nineteenth-Century European Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of major artists and styles in painting and sculpture from c. 1770 to 1900, emphasizing developments in France, England, and Germany. Topics include neoclassicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism, and post-impressionism.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 341 or FINA-A 341.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 342 Twentieth-Century Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of major artists, styles, and movements in painting and sculpture from 1900 to the present in Europe and the United States. Topics include expressionism, cubism, futurism, dada, surrealism, and abstraction.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 342 or FINA-A 342.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 345 American Art to 1913
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  American architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, and graphics from the seventeenth century to the Armory Show of 1913.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 345 or FINA-A 345.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 347 Picasso
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of the different phases of Picasso's career, the artistic milieu in which he worked, and the critical approaches that have been taken to his art.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 347 or FINA-A 347.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 348 American Architecture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of American architecture from the colonial period to the late twentieth century, including public, commercial, and domestic design, with emphasis on historical context and the role of architecture as signifier of social, cultural, and political ideologies.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 348 or FINA-A 348.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 349 Dada and Surrealism
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An examination of the Dada Surrealism project, in particular the critique of established forms of art making; also the historical background, intellectual sources, and social and political goals of the two movements.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 349 or FINA-A 349.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 350 Topics in African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian American Art
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian American art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 350 and FINA-A 350.
  ARTH-A 351 Art of the South Pacific
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of the visual art traditions of Australia and the South Pacific Island groups of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Focuses on style regions, individual island styles, and the cultural and historical contexts of objects. Emphasis is on traditional arts but contemporary forms are also discussed.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 351 or FINA-A 351.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 352 Art of Eastern and Southern Africa
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A one-semester survey of visual arts, traditions of eastern and southern Africa, examining architecture, personal arts of the body and household, religious arts, and contemporary painting and sculpture. Emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but some earlier traditions, such as Ethiopian Christian art and Swahili architecture, are also discussed.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 352 or FINA-A 352.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 353 Art in America: 1945 to the Present
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores how a specifically American paradigm shaped art and criticism in an era that saw the post-war rise of New York City as the center of Western art giving way to contemporary globalization. Course is thematically organized, utilizing case studies and emphasizing primary sources in art and critical literature.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 353 or FINA-A 353.
  
  ARTH-A 354 Contemporary Art: 1960 to the Present
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of art since 1960 that delves into issues of art production, presentation, and criticism from this period, with topics ranging from globalization and new media, to identity and embodiment. Emphasis is placed on learning to analyze contemporary art and on finding and using primary sources.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 354 or FINA-A 354.
  ARTH-A 355 Art, Craft, and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examination of technology, history, and uses of traditional African art materials, such as metals, ceramics, wood, and fiber. Emphasis is on furniture, textiles, decorative arts, and utilitarian objects.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 355 or FINA-A 355.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 356 Art of Central Africa
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Analysis of visual art traditions of central Africa, focusing primarily on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but also including art from Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, and Angola.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 356 or FINA-A 356.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 358 Women Artists
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Exploration of contributions by women artists from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 358 or FINA-A 358.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 360 Topics in East Asian Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Topics vary; each is focused on a specific aspect or issue in East Asian art, studied in the context of social and intellectual history.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours in ARTH-A 360 and FINA-A 360.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 361 Japanese Woodblock Prints
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Provides a survey of the Japanese woodblock print from its emergence in the mid-17th century to modern times. Explores technical developments, major genres, and master designers within the context of pictorial traditions, publishing, and urban culture. Addresses aesthetic discourse, censorship, erotica, Japonisme, social identity, print culture, and representation of war.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 372 History of Portraiture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Interpretive analysis of portraiture from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century in western Europe.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 372 or FINA-A 372.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 375 Topics in Art Theory
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of art theory.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 375 and FINA-A 375.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 390 Museum Studies I: Methods, History, Issues
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to basic workings of an art museum: the history of museums, collection management, cataloging of objects. The course works closely with the IU Art Museum and its staff and, where applicable, with staff from other museums nearby.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 390 or FINA-A 390.
  
  ARTH-A 391 Museum Studies II: Museum Exhibitions
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Exhibitions in art museums: conception and development, budget, funding, catalogue writing and production, education and publicity. Students work with a chosen group of museum objects, normally at least partly from the IU Art Museum; the group of objects varies by course topic. Students will receive practical experience by involvement in all aspects of exhibition preparation.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 391 or FINA-A 391.
  ARTH-A 393 Museums: The Display of Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines what is chosen for displays of other cultures in museums, how those materials are presented, and how displays representative of world cultures may be overtly politicized. Investigates some of the most potent presentations in the history of museums and exhibitions and engages with questions of colonialism, cultural capital, nation-building and self-identity.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 396 Foreign Study in History of Art
  
  Credits
  1–9 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Intended only for students participating in IU Overseas Study Program; all art history majors are required to obtain prior approval from the undergraduate art history advisor.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours in ARTH-A 396 and FINA-A 396.
  
  ARTH-A 400 Senior Seminar
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Art History major or consent of instructor
  Description
  Intensive examination of selected topics in art history. Open only to art history majors or with consent of instructor. Required for art history honors students.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 7 credit hours in ARTH-A 400 and FINA-A 400.
  ARTH-A 404 Imaging Race: Photography and the Archive
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of major developments in commercial and artistic photographic practice from the 19th century to the present, with emphasis on the role that this technology and its interpretation have played in shaping racial imaginaries and art history, primarily in the U.S. This course considers how institutionalized concepts of blackness and whiteness are manifest in image production and circulation, and how the social formation of race affects who and what is and is not visible in the photographic record.
  Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 409 Hellenistic and Roman Portraits
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores the repertoire of portraiture in Greece and Rome from ca. 350 BCE to 500 CE. Examines the motivations for commissioning portraits, the language of physiognomy, hairstyles, and costume choices, and the varied contexts where portraits were displayed.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 410 Topics in Ancient Art
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of ancient and Classical art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ARTH-A 410 or FINA-A 410.
  ARTH-A 411 Art and Archaeology of Anatolia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of the art and archaeology of early Turkey from prehistoric times to about 1000 B.C. Emphasis on origins and development of distinctive Anatolian cultures such as that of the Hittites.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 411 or FINA-A 411.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 412 The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to the preclassical art and archaeology of the Aegean Basin: Greece, Crete, and the Aegean islands during the Stone and Bronze Ages (to about 1000 B.C.). Topics covered include Troy, Minoan Crete, and Mycenaean Greece.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 412 or FINA-A 412.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 413 The Art and Archaeology of Greece
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Art and archaeology of Greece from about 1000 B.C. through the Hellenistic period. Special attention given to the development of Greek architecture, sculpture, and vase painting. Continuation of ARTH-A 412 (CLAS-C 412), but ARTH-A 412 (CLAS-C 412) is not a prerequisite.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 413, FINA-A 413, or CLAS-C 413.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 414 Art & Archaeology of the Roman World
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Development of Roman architecture, sculpture, and painting from the beginning through the 4th century A.D. Consideration given to the major archaeological sites. Continuation of ARTH-A 413, but ARTH-A 413 is not a prerequisite.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 414 or CLAS-C 414.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 415 Roman Painting
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Critical survey of Roman painting from second century B.C. through early fourth century A.D. Emphasis is on paintings from Rome and the region of Pompeii in the period from 100 B.C. to A.D. 79.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 415 or FINA-A 415.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 416 Greek Architecture
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The development of Greek architecture from the ninth to the first century B.C.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 416 or FINA-A 416.
  ARTH-A 417 Roman Sculpture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Analytical survey of Roman sculpture from the Republic through the reign of Septimus (circa third century B.C.E. to early third century C.E.).
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 417 or FINA-A 417.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 418 Roman Architecture
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The formation and development of Roman architecture from the second century B.C. to the middle of the fourth century A.D.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 418 or FINA-A 418.
  ARTH-A 421 Pagans and Christians: Christian Art in the Roman Empire
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Christian art as it developed in its first centuries within the Roman Empire (200-600).
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 421 or FINA-A 421.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 423 Romanesque Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Intensive analysis of the art of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Emphasis on architecture and sculpture of England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 423 or FINA-A 423.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 425 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire (A.D. 600-1453). Consideration of materials from the core territories of the Byzantine world (Constantinople, Asia Minor, Greece), the Byzantine commonwealth of Orthodox lands (Kievan Rus, Serbia) and Western Europe (Sicily, Venice, Crusader states).
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 425 or FINA-A 425.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 426 The Medieval City
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This course will examine the cities of Western Europe and the Islamic and Byzantine worlds from the perspective of the institutions of the city and the art and architecture they generated, including houses, fortifications, churches, town halls, guild halls, and markets. Medieval representations of the city also will be explored.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 426 or FINA-A 426.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 428 Comics and the Art World
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Studies the interaction and cross-fertilization between cartoons and comics and the "high art" world of galleries and museums from 1900 to the present, with a focus on the United States. These connections are studied formally as well as critically, historiographically, and sociologically.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 428 or FINA-A 428.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 432 Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Investigates art in Italy during one of its most important centuries. Focuses on the artists of central Italy including such luminaries as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Examines the puzzling phenomenon of mannerism (Pontormo, Rosso, Bronzino, Parmigianino) and the warm, painterly naturalism of Venice (Giorgione, Titian).
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 432 or FINA-A 432.
  ARTH-A 434 Visual Culture of the Interwar Years
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the creative practice of artists primarily in Germany, Russia and France from 1918 to 1939 with significant attention to texts that theorized social and artistic change during the interwar years. Includes the legacy of Expressionism, Dada as cultural critique, the so-called realism of the Neue Sachlichkeit, photography and cinema as new media.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 434 or FINA-A 434.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 435 Beyond Kitsch and Colonialism: Islamic Art in the Nineteenth Century
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examine the remarkable and often overlooked art produced in the Middle East and North Africa during the long nineteenth century, placing it into the social histories of the Islamic world during a century of tumultuous change.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 436 Italian Art of the Fifteenth Century
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Major artists and stylistic trends of fifteenth-century Italy. Special attention to Tuscan painting and sculpture and to the works of Masaccio, Ghiberti, and Donatello.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 436 or FINA-A 436.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 437 Playing with Pictures in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Major artists and topics from the fifteenth-century Netherlands. Special attention to Bosch, van Eyck, and their contemporaries.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 437 or FINA-A 437.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 439 The Art Historian as Sherlock Holmes: Objects and Materiality in the Digital Age
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Investigates the intersections of material culture, scientific knowledge, and subjectivity to explore fundamental questions posed by the objects in a variety of disciplines and frameworks. Looking at objects simultaneously as \"things\" and as \"ideological constructs,\" seeks to break down the artificial border between \"the material\" and \"the virtual.\"
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 440 Nineteenth-Century Painting I
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A thematic look at neoclassical and romantic art throughout Europe.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 440 or FINA-A 440.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 441 Nineteenth-Century Painting II
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Major European painters and artistic movements, particularly in France, with some coverage of the United States. Focus on cultural and intellectual milieu of each artist.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 441 or FINA-A 441.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 442 Twentieth-Century Art, 1900-1945
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Art, architecture and design of the first half of the twentieth century: cubism, futurism, German expressionism, Dada, constructivism, the Bauhaus, with emphasis on the central concepts of modernism and the avant-garde.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 442 or FINA-A 442.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 443 History of Twentieth-Century Photography
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys twentieth-century photography as a medium of art and communication. Considers portraiture, landscape, still life, the nude, conceptual photography, the social documentary tradition, the magazine picture story, fashion, advertising, and war photography. Examines the impact of postmodern theories on photographic practice and the understanding of photography.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 443 or FINA-A 443.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 445 American Art to 1865
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  History of art in the United States from the colonial period through the Civil War.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 445 or FINA-A 445.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 446 American Art, 1865-1945
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  History of art in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the twentieth century.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 446 or FINA-A 446.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 447 Modernism and Anti-Modernism in American Art, 1900-1945
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of American painting, sculpture, photography, design, and commercial art in the early Modern period. Topics include the urban realism of the "Ash Can School"; the early avant-garde; New York Dada; the cult of the machine; regionalist painting and the American heartland; the expressionist landscape; and surrealism American style.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 447 or FINA-A 447.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 449 Twentieth-Century Art, 1925-Present
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Painting, sculpture, and architecture 1925-1970. Main emphasis will be on American developments, including necessary historic background from the Armory Show to migration of surrealism, abstract expressionism, op, pop, minimal, and kinetic art. A world view of architecture will cover such topics as international style and new brutalism.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 449 or FINA-A 449.
  ARTH-A 450 History of Photography
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys the history of photography from its beginning to the mid-twentieth century, with a focus on theoretical issues as well as the cultural and social contexts of photography and its practices.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 450 or FINA-A 450.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 452 Art of Pre-Columbian America
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of precontact arts of the Americas south of the Rio Grande. Emphasis on sculptural, architectural, and ceramic arts of ancient Mexico and Peru.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 452 or FINA-A 452.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 453 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa I: Arts of Africa's Western Sudan
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Analysis of visual art traditions of West Africa, focusing primarily on the peoples of the Western Sudan and including the area from northern Nigeria to Senegal. Emphasis on the concepts and themes that give the art its beauty, power, and social relevance for the peoples who use it.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 453 or FINA-A 453.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 454 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa II: Arts of the West African Coast
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Analysis of visual art traditions of West Africa, focusing primarily on the peoples of the Atlantic coast from Nigeria to the Republic of Guinea. Emphasis on the concepts and themes that give the art its beauty, power, and social relevance for the peoples who use it.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 454 or FINA-A 454.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 455 Modern Architecture and Design
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Considers architectural practice and theory of the late-eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries in light of contemporary disciplinary themes including globalization, new technologies, concepts of space, and sustainability. Highlights the social, political, intellectual, and technological forces that have influenced and continue to motivate modern design.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 455 or FINA-A 455.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 456 The Arabesque from Kant to Comics
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Uses the arabesque, an ornamental design of flowing lines and curvilinear motifs, as a vehicle to explore issues of media history and intermediality, social networks and cultural transfer, as well as the rise of new and non-traditional art forms between roughly 1750 and 1880, with an outlook into the arabesque's persistence in 20th and 21st-century art.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 458 Topics in the Ethnographic Arts
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Specific themes of particular interest in the ethnographic arts. Topics will be based on art categories (such as textiles and music) or geographic areas (such as new developments in the study of central Bantu initiation arts).
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 7 credit hours in ARTH-A 458 and FINA-A 458.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 459 The Painted Image in the Islamic World
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Investigates the rich and vibrant tradition of painted imagery in the Islamic world. Uses materials that date from the Umayyad period (seventh-eighth centuries) to the early modern period to examine representational practice in the Middle East, representation of the human form in the Islamic world, illustration of narrative tales and scientific texts, and the circulation of topographical imagery through pilgrimage.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 459 or FINA-A 459.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 464 Art and Archaeology of Early China
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The arts of China from Neolithic times through the T'ang Dynasty (618-906 A.D.): prehistoric ceramics, ritual bronzes, jades, animal sculpture, Buddhist art, and early pictorial art. Particular attention will be paid to major archaeological discoveries, and the material will be discussed in the context of the development of Chinese culture and civilization.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 464 or FINA-A 464.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 465 Later Chinese Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Chinese art from the 10th to the 18th century. The main emphasis will be on painting; calligraphy, ceramics, and other arts will also be covered.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 465 or FINA-A 465.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 466 Early Chinese Painting
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Chinese painting and pictorial art from the Bronze Age to the end of the Sung dynasty (A.D. 1279): tomb paintings and reliefs, Buddhist cave paintings, courtly art and imperial patronage, and landscapes. Materials and techniques, art theory, and the relationship between painting and calligraphy will also be considered.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 466 or FINA-A 466.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 467 Later Chinese Painting
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Chinese painting from the Yuan dynasty (A.D.1279-1368) to the twentieth century: the emergence, development, and interaction of diverse painting schools; amateurs and professionals, regional styles, political and social contexts, the role of patronage and collecting, and art theory and criticism.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 467 or FINA-A 467.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 469 Installation Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examination of the historical roots and development of installation art.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 469 or FINA-A 469.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 476 Print and the Origins of the Modern Medium
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the cultural and political impacts of print in Europe and the Americas from 1375-2000. Discussion of various types of printmaking and how they reshaped social interaction, reconfigured text and image relationships, transformed the values assigned to visual expression, and created the concept of a "medium."
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 476 or FINA-A 476.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 480 Russian Art
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Russian art from the twelfth century to the present. Emphasis on the period 1850 to the present: realism, the Slavic revival, symbolism, constructivism, and socialist realism.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 480 or FINA-A 480.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 481 The Worlds of Art History: Academic, Museum, Commercial
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Art history major; and junior or senior standing
  Description
  An introduction for art history majors to the three main realms of the professional art historian: academia (colleges and universities), museums, and commerce (galleries, auction houses, appraisal, and corporate work). Exploration of the various ways in which art historical skills and knowledge prepare one for interesting and rewarding careers. Field trips required.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 481 or FINA-A 481.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  ARTH-A 482 Sixteenth-Century Visual Culture in Northern Europe
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Major themes and images from the Renaissance in England, France, Germany, and the Low Countries. Discussion of such notable painters and sculptors as Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Albrecht Durer, Jan Gossaert, Quentin Massys, Antonis Mor, and Veit Stoss. Issues include landscape and vicarious travel, assertions of artistic and intellectual self-sufficiency, forms of visual play, and the relationship between print and interpretive conflict.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 482 or FINA-A 482.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 483 Visual and Material Cultures of Play
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys the play element of culture, with particular attention to American, Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian societies from the twelfth century to the present. Covers historical background, conceptual framework, and critical vocabulary necessary for understanding the ludic aspects of cultural production. Grapples with questions about the relationship between perception and thought, about the changing social and political functions of idleness, and about the value of intellectual labor.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 483 or FINA-A 483.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 484 Experience/Experiment: Modern and Contemporary Intersections of Art and Science
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines how and in what circumstances the scientific study of human experience has influenced artistic practice (and vice versa) from the twentieth century through to the present day. Explores how intersections between these "two cultures" have led to creative and critical breakthroughs in both fields of study.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 484 or FINA-A 484.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 486 Spanish Art of the Golden Age
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Studies the emergence of a distinctive and influential school of Spanish painting from the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth century. Special attention paid to the artists that truly made this a golden age of painting: El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera, and Murillo.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 487 Caribbean and Latin American Art: Empire, Identity, and Society
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Focuses on the emergence of an African aesthetic and its conceptual principles, from the first stirrings in the 16th century of Africans dislocated through the slave trade to the early 20th century, when most African artistic and cultural expressions were fully developed and firmly rooted throughout the Americas.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  ARTH-A 489 Topics in Islamic Art
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Special topics in the history and study of Islamic art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 8 credit hours in ARTH-A 489 and FINA-A 489.
  ARTH-A 490 Topics in Art History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Topic varies with the instructor and year and will be listed in the online Schedule of Classes.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours in ARTH-A 490 and FINA-A 490.
  Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  ARTH-A 499 Senior Honors Thesis
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Consent of departmental honors committee
  Description
  None
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 499 or FINA-A 499.
5. Art History Residency. At least six (6) credit hours of Art History courses must be completed in residence on the Bloomington campus
Major GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
1. Major GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the major—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
2. Major Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the major.
3. Major Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed at the 300–499 level.
4. Major Residency. At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
5. College Breadth. At least 58 credit hours must be completed in courses from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines outside of the major area.

Notes

* Courses used to fulfill addenda requirements require a grade of C- or higher and do not count toward the Major GPA or Major Hours.

Major Area Courses

Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:

Any course at the 100-499 level with the SOAD-A, SOAD-S, or SOAD-U subject area prefix--as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent
Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken--as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent--except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception

The above courses cannot be applied toward the College Breadth requirement in the major.

This program of study cannot be combined with the following:

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art (FINASBFA1)
Minor in Creative Technologies in Art + Design (CTADSGNMIN)
Minor in Studio Art (FINASMIN)

Exceptions to and substitutions for major requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.