Winter 2027 Class Schedule: Department of Art History

Winter 2027 Class Schedule

Art History offerings for the 2026-27 school year are tentative and subject to change without notice.

Undergraduate Students
Graduate Students

Course #	Course Title	Instructor	Day/Time
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
ART_HIST 101-8	First-Year Writing Seminar: Medieval Sports and Art	Esener	TTh 9:30-10:50a
ART_HIST 101-8 First-Year Writing Seminar: Medieval Sports and Art Chariot-racing, archery, tennis, and jousting were just some sports enjoyed over the 1000 years (4th–15th centuries CE) known as the "Middle Ages." Kings and queens, monks and nuns, and nobles and peasants engaged in these to gain athletic prowess, fame, status, wealth, love, sex, and fun. This course examines the powerful visual expressions of various sports and games developed, cultivated, and encouraged or discouraged over the medieval era in the Mediterranean world. The evidence includes athletic monuments, illustrated manuscripts, tapestries, and relatively unexpected objects such as mirrors and combs. Modern material, such as films and TV excerpts, shall also be used. Key issues explored are the spectacle and spectatorship of medieval sports; gender, class, and religion in the practice of sports; the body, fashion, and the spaces of sports (stadiums, arenas, etc.), and comparisons between their medieval and modern versions.
ART_HIST 224	Introduction to Ancient Art	Gunter	TTh 11a-12:20p
ART_HIST 224 Introduction to Ancient Art
ART_HIST 320-3	Medieval Art: Late Medieval	Normore	TTh 11a-12:20p
ART_HIST 320-3 Medieval Art: Late Medieval
ART_HIST 330-1	Special Topics in 17th & 18th-Century Art	Escobar	TTh 2-3:20p
ART_HIST 330-1 Special Topics in 17th & 18th-Century Art
ART_HIST 389	Special Topics in the Arts of Asia	Sharma	MW 12:30-1:50p
ART_HIST 389 Special Topics in the Arts of Asia
ART_HIST 391	Undergraduate Methods Seminar	Caticha	F 1-3:50p
ART_HIST 391 Undergraduate Methods Seminar This seminar provides an introduction to art historical research methods for undergraduates and is intended for students in their junior year. The seminar will survey the history of Art History with a focus on recent debates and interventions in the field. The seminar will also provide students with concrete tools to develop, research, and write a piece of original art historical scholarship. What does it mean to ask an original art historical research question? What is historiography and how is it critical for mapping out and developing an original thesis statement and argument? What constitutes "evidence," and how is the dominant perception of "evidence" shaped by the origins of Art History as an academic field of study?
ART_HIST 395	Museums Seminar	Katz	Th 2-4:50p
ART_HIST 395 Museums Seminar
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GRADUATE STUDENTS
ART_HIST 403	Objects & Materials Seminar	Normore	Th 2-4:50p
ART_HIST 403 Objects & Materials Seminar
ART_HIST 450	Studies in 19th-Century Art	Zorach	F 2-4:50p
ART_HIST 450 Studies in 19th-Century Art
ART_HIST 480	Studies in Asian Art	Sharma	W 2-4:50p
ART_HIST 480 Studies in Asian Art
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Winter 2027 Class Schedule

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

GRADUATE STUDENTS