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2021 – 2022 Course Offerings

Fall 2021

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 101-6 Freshman Seminar: Social Histories of Photography Thompson MW  
3:30-4:50
ART_HIST 225 Introduction to Medieval Art Normore TR  
12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 350-1 19th Century Art 1: 1800-1848 Caticha MW  
12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 375-0/HUM 225-0-20 Media Theory: An Introduction Hodge MW 
11-12:20
ART_HIST 389 Special Topics: Court, Company, Bazaar: Reframing South Asia’s Long 19th Century Sharma TR  
11-12:20
ART_HIST 402 Writing Seminar Normore
2-5
ART_HIST 460 Studies in Contemporary Art: Art Historical Fictions Thompson R  
2-5
ART_HIST 480 Studies in Asian Art: Art and Visual Culture in the Global Mughal World Sharma W  
1-3:50

Winter 2022

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 240 Introduction to Asian Art Sharma TR 
11-12:20
ART_HIST 319 Comparative Approaches to Ancient Empires Gunter TR 
2-3:20
ART_HIST 320-3 Medieval Art: Late Medieval: Gothic Art and Architecture Normore TR 
9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 330-2 Renaissance and Mannerism: Southern European Art 1400-1600: The High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy and Beyond Metzler MW 
11-12:20
ART_HIST 386 Art of Africa: Photography and Africa Byrd MW 
2-3:20
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: Cairo/Paris: Art & Empire in the Modern City Dowad MW 
12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 391 Undergraduate Methods Seminar: Art Historical Methods Caticha
1-3:50
ART_HIST 403 Mellon COSI Objects and Materials Escobar
1-3:50
ART_HIST 460 / MENA 490-0-2 Studies in 20th & 21st Century Art: Aesthetics of Solidarity Feldman / Johnson
2-5

Spring 2022

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 101-6 First-Year Seminar: Empires of Fashion: from Marie Antoinette to Meghan Markle Caticha MW 
12:30–1:50
ART_HIST 232 Introduction to the History of Architecture, 1400 to the Present Escobar TR 
11–12:20
ART_HIST 260 / ATP 270 Introduction to Contemporary Art: Survey of Art since 1960 Relyea MW 
11–12:20
ART_HIST 350-2 19th-Century Art 2: 1848-1900 Dowad TR 
12:30–1:50
ART_HIST 386 Art of Africa: Contemporary South African Art and the Transition to Democracy Joja MW 
9:30–10:50
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: The Protest Idiom in (South) African Modernism Joja
2–4:50
ART_HIST 390 / HUM 370-6-10 Undergraduate Seminar: Who is an Object: Ancestors, Gods and Intermediaries in the Museum Puleo
2–4:50
ART_HIST 395 Museums: Critical Reflections on Racial Violence in American Art Dees

2–4:50
ART_HIST 395 Museums: Collecting the World in Early Modern European Cabinets of Art and Wonder Racek
1–3:50
ART_HIST 406 Dissertation Proposal Writing: Writing the Dissertation Prospectus Feldman
2–4:50
ART_HIST 440 Studies in 19th Century Art: Materializing Race Caticha
2–4:50

 

2020 – 2021 Course Offerings

Fall 2020

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 250 Introduction to European Art Randolph TR 
9:40-11
ART_HIST 319/HUM 370
Special Topics in Ancient Art: Monsters, Art, and Civilization Gunter

TR 11:20-12:40

ART_HIST 340-1 Baroque Art: Italy and Spain, 1600 to 1750 Escobar MWF
11:30-12:20
ART_HIST 350 19th Century Art 1: 1800-1848 Eisenman TR  
1-2:20
ART_HIST 390 Special Topics/Seminar in Asian Art: Gyantse Kumbum, 15th & 20th Centuries Linrothe TR 
9:40-11
ART_HIST 390 An Art of Describing Blackness: Early Modern Visual Culture of Race Swan TR 2:40-4

Winter 2021

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 255 Introduction to Modernism Kiaer MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 319 / HUM 370-4-22 / CLA 310 Special Topics in Ancient Art: Constructing Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean World Gunter TR 
11-12:20
ART_HIST 367 / ENVR_POL 390-0-25 Special Topics in American Art: The Visual Language of Protest Zorach MW 
12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 369 / ITAL 377 Special Topics in 20th and 21st Century Art: Feminist Utopias and Dystopias in Art, Literature, and Film Zorach/Torlasco TR 
12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 391 Art Historical Methods Seminar Caticha F
1-3:50

Spring 2021

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 235 Introduction to Latin American Art Escobar TR 
11-12:20
ART_HIST 359 Special Topics in 19th Century: Fashion, Race, and Power Caticha MW 
12-1:50
ART_HIST 368 Special Topics in Modern Art: Art of the Russian Revolution Kiaer TR 
12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 389 Special Topics in Asian Art: Neolithic Petroglyphs and Neuro-Art History Linrothe TR 
2-3:20
ART_HIST 390 / HUM 370-6-20 Undergraduate Seminar: Modern Art and Spiritual Thought Yousefi MW 
2-3:20
ART_HIST 395 COSI Undergraduate Seminar: Blackness and Abstraction Love
1-3:50

 

2019 – 2020 Course Offerings

Fall 2019

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 101-6 Freshman Seminar: The Life and Afterlife of Art Objects Normore TR 
2-3:20
ART_HIST 222
Introduction to Art of the African Diaspora Thompson MW 
12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 255 Introduction to Modernism Copeland TR 
11-12:20
ART_HIST 318 Exhibiting Antiquity: The Culture and Politics of Display Gunter TR  
2-3:20
ART_HIST 389 Special Topics in Asian Art: Portraiture in Himalayan Buddhist Art Linrothe TR 
9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: Art, Ecology, and Politics Zorach F  2-5

Winter 2020

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 232 Introduction to the History of Architecture and Design Levin TR  
11-12:20
ART_HIST 349 Special Topics in Baroque Art: Materiality and Experience Swan TR 
9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 350-1 19th Century Art I: European Art from 1785 to 1855 Clayson MW 
12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 375 Media Theory: An Introduction Hodge TR 
2-3:20
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: Black Art of the 1960s: New Paradigms Thompson
2-4:50
ART_HIST 391  Art Historical Methods Seminar: Making Art History Normore
1-3:50
ART_HIST 395 Museums: Japanese Woodblock Prints: From 1660 to the Present (onsite at the Art Institute of Chicago) Katz
1-3:50

Spring 2020

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 101-6 Freshman Seminar: Everest: Altitude and Attitude Linrothe TR 
2-3:20
ART_HIST 224 Introduction to Ancient Art Gunter MW 
12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 250 Introduction to European Art Escobar TR 
11-12:20
ART_HIST 320-1 Medieval Art Byzantine: Byzantine Art and Architecture Normore TR 
11-12:20
ART_HIST 350-2 19th Century Art 2: 1848-1900 Eisenman TR 
12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 390/Crit Theory Undergraduate Seminar: Afro-Pessimist Aesthetics (partially on-site at SAIC) Copeland/Sam Aranke
1-3:50

ART_HIST 395

Collecting/Critique: Art, Museums, and Thinking About History

Feldman/Essi Rönkkö/Kate Hadley Toftness


1-3:50

ART_HIST 395

Chicago Object Study Initiative Undergraduate Seminar: Medieval Art and the Decorative Arts

Miller


1-3:50

 

2018 – 2019 Course Offerings

Fall 2018

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 260 Introduction to Contemporary Art Feldman TR 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 330-1 Renaissance Art: Italian Art from c.1300 to the Sack of Rome Randolph MW 9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 369/HUM 370-6 New Media Art Hodge MW 11-12:20
ART_HIST 390 William Morris: Art, Design, Politics, Ecology (w/450) Eisenman R 2-5
ART_HIST 390/AMST Special Topics in American Art: Chicago 1968 Zorach R 2-5

Winter 2019

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 225 Intro to Medieval Art Normore TR 2-3:20
ART_HIST 228 Introduction to Precolumbian Art Miller MW 11-12:20
ART_HIST 349 Special Topics in Baroque Art: History of the Book Antonetti MW 9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 350-2 19th Century Art II Clayson TR 11-12:20
ART_HIST 390 (w/430) Art & Technology in the Renaissance (on-site at Newberry Library) Markey T 2-5
ART_HIST 390 (w/480) Undergraduate Seminar: Borobudur Linrothe W 2-5
ART_HIST 391 Undergraduate Methods Seminar Levin F 1-3:50

Spring 2019

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 224 Introduction to Ancient Art Gunter TR 11-12:20
ART_HIST 250 Introduction to European Art Zorach MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 349 Early Modern Art: Materiality and Experience Swan TR 11-12:20
ART_HIST 369/HUM 370-6 Special Topic in Contemporary Art: Black Ecology Zorach R 2-5
ART_HIST 370-1 Modern Architecture and Design Levin MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 390 (w/450) Undergraduate Seminar: World's Fairs Clayson W 2-5

ART_HIST 395

COSI Undergraduate Seminar: Impressions Otherwise: Colonialism and the Environment in Late-Nineteenth-Century French Art

McKee

F 2-5

ART_HIST 395

Museums Seminar: Reshaping an Exhibition: Preparing "Caravans of Gold" for Presentation in Africa

 Berzock

 F 2-5

 

2017 – 2018 Course Offerings

Fall 2017

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 101-6 First-Year Seminar: Art and Architecture in Chicago Swan MW 3:30-4:50
ART_HIST 232 Introduction to History of Architecture and Design Van Zanten MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 255 Introduction to Modernism Copeland TR 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 349 Special Topics in Baroque Art: European Architecture and Urbanism, 1600 to 1750 Escobar TR 11-12:20
ART_HIST 368 Studies in 20th Century Art: Art Against Empire in the 1960s Reitz MW 11-12:20
ART_HIST 389 Special Topics in Asian Art: Buddhist Art: Image and Ritual Linrothe MW 2-3:20
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: Goya and Blake (with ART_HIST 450) Eisenman F 2-5
ART_HIST 395
Architecture: How It’s Done and Why We Do It in Modern Western
Civilization
Van Zanten TR 3:30-4:50

Winter 2018

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 101-6 First Year Seminar: Civil War Photography Bell TR 3:30-4:50
ART_HIST 240 Introduction to Asian Art Hu TR 11-12:20
ART_HIST 250 Introduction to European Art, Early Modern Swan MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 319 / HUM 370-4 Constructing Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean World Gunter TR 9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 340-2 Baroque Art: Early Modern Art and Science Swan TR 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 360-1 20th Century European Art (1900-WWII) Kiaer MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 365-2 American Art II: 1861-1968 Reitz MW 11-12:20
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: Social Histories of Photography Thompson TR 2-3:20
ART_HIST 391 Undergraduate Methods Seminar Hu F 1-3:50

Spring 2018

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 222 African American Art History Thompson MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 260 Introduction to Contemporary Art Feldman TR 11-12:20
ART_HIST 350-1 19th Century Art: Late 18th Century-1848 Eisenman MW 11-12:20
ART_HIST 368 Art of the Russian Revolution Kiaer MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 379 East Asian Architecture Hu TR 9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: Art and Empire in the Ancient Near East Gunter TR 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: Maps and the Early Modern Transatlantic World Escobar W 2-5
ART_HIST 395 Undergraduate Museums Seminar: Museums: Caravaggio (on-site at the Art Institute of Chicago) Long R 2-5

2016 – 2017 Course Offerings

Fall 2016

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 101 First-Year Seminar Clayson TR 11:00-12:20
ART_HIST 224 Introduction to Ancient Art Gunter TR 11:00-12:20
ART_HIST 255 Introduction to Modernism Kiaer MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 320-3 Medieval Art III: Gothic Normore TR 9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 330-3 Global Early Modern Art and Architecture Swan TR 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 350-1 19th-Century Art I Clayson, Eisenman, VanZanten MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 375/ HUM 225/ COMM_STU 298-0-2 Media Theory Hodge MW 2-3:20
ART_HIST 390-0-1/ HUM 370-6 New Media Art Hodge MW 9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 390-0-2 Materiality of Art and Archeology Walton MW 2-3:20

Winter 2017

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 101-6 First Year Seminar: Wall of Respect and Chicago’s Mural Movement Zorach TR 11:00-12:20
ART_HIST 240 Introduction to Asian Art Hu TR 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 350-2 19th Century Art II Clayson, Eisenman, Van Zanten MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 389 Studies in Middle East and North Africa: History and Fantasy in Islamic Painting Moor TR 2:00-3:20
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: Expanding Medieval: West Africa’s Age of Empires and the Trans-Saharan Trade Normore, Berzock W 2-5
ART_HIST 391 Undergraduate Methods Seminar Copeland F 10-12:50
ART_HIST 390 / HUM 370-4-2 Undergraduate Seminar: Archaeology and Nationalism Gunter TR 11:00-12:20

Spring 2017

Course Number Course Title Instructor Day/Time
ART_HIST 235 Introduction to Latin American Art Escobar TR 11-12:20
ART_HIST 250 Introduction to European Art: Early Modern Swan MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 319 Special Topics in Ancient Art: Monsters, Art, and Civilization Gunter TR 9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 367 Special Topics in American Art: Remembering the Civil War Bell TR 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 369 Special Topics in Contemporary Art: What is a Place? Art and the Spatial Imagination in the Contemporary Middle East Feldman T 3-6
ART_HIST 379 Special Topics in Architecture: East Asian Architecture Hu TR 11-12:20
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: Art, Ecology, and Politics Zorach R 2-5
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: Picasso Kiaer MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: Art of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals Moor MW 2-3:20

 

2015 – 2016 Course Offerings

Fall 2015

CourseNumber Course Title Instructor Date/Time
ART_HIST / HUM 101 1st Year Seminar: Kaplan Humanities Swan MTWR 3:20-4:50
ART_HIST 222 Studies in Art History and the African Diaspora: African American Art Thompson TR 9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 255 Introduction to Modern Art Eisenman TR 11:00-12:20
ART_HIST 310-1 Ancient Art I: Art and Architecture of the Ancient Greco-Roman World Johnson MW 11:00-12:20
ART_HIST 320-1 Medieval Art I: Byzantine Art Normore TR 9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 340-1 Baroque Art: Italy and Spain Escobar TR 11:00-12:20
ART_HIST 350-1 19th Century Art I: The Age of Revolution Eisenman MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: Modern Architecture and the City Van Zanten M 2:00-5:00
ART_HIST 382-2 Chinese Painting II: Landscape Hu TR 12:30-1:50

Winter 2016

Course Number Course Title Instructor Date/Time
ART_HIST 101 First Year Seminar: Art, Animals and Animal Rights Eisenman MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 210/ COMM ST 298/ HUM 225 Media Theory Hodge MW 11:00-12:20
ART_HIST 230 Introduction to American Art Bell TR 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 318/ CLAS 397/ HUM 397 Exhibiting Antiquity: The Culture and Politics of Display Gunter TR 9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 370-1 Modern Architecture and Design Van Zanten MW 2:00-3:20
ART_HIST 389-1 Special Topics: Arts of Asia and the Middle East: Dalai Lama Portraiture Linrothe MW 3:30-4:50
ART_HIST 389-2/ MENA 390-6 Special Topics: Arts of Asia and the Middle East: Islamic Art, 650-1600 Moor MW 11:00-12:20
ART_HIST 390-1 Undergraduate Seminar: Art and Photography in the Black Power Era Thompson T 2:00-5:00
ART_HIST 390-2/ HUM 390-6 Undergraduate Seminar: Scoring the Avant-Garde (Moorman) Graham TR 2:00-3:20
ART_HIST 391 Undergraduate Methods Seminar Hu F 10:00-12:50

Spring 2016

Course Number Course Title Instructor Date/Time
ART_HIST 101 1st Year Seminar: Architecture Van Zanten TR 2:00-3:20
ART_HIST 228 Introduction to Pre-Columbian Art Miller MW 11:00-12:20
ART_HIST 250 Introduction to European Art Swan TR 11:00-12:20
ART_HIST 339 Special Topics in Renaissance Art: 16th-Century Architecture in Europe and Beyond Heinrichs TR 2:00-3:20
ART_HIST 350-2 19th-Century Art II Clayson TR 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 366-0 Contemporary Art: Art and Activism Zorach MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 390-1 Undergraduate Seminar: Velázquez in Madrid Escobar F 10:00-12:50
ART_HIST 390-2 Undergraduate Seminar: Materiality in Art and Archaeology: Intro to Technical Art History Walton MW 9:30-10:50

2014 – 2015 Course Offerings

Fall 2014

Course Number Course Title Instructor Date/Time
HUM 101-6 Kaplan Scholars: Measuring the Humanities C. Swan TR 3:30-4:50
ART_HIST 232 Introduction to the History of Architecture D. Van Zanten TR 9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 250 Introduction toEuropean Art S. Eisenman MW 2:00-3:20
ART_HIST 365-1 American Art: Colonial Times to the Civil War C. Bell TR 2:00-3:20
ART_HIST 368 Special Topics in 20th Century Art: Art of the Russian Revolution C. Kiaer TR 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 368 Special Topics in 20th Century Art: What is a Sculpture? H. Copeland TR 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: The Silk Road J. Hu MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 390 Museums: The Fin de Siécle Poster H. Clayson TR 2:00-3:20

Winter 2015

Course Number Course Title Instructor Date/Time
ART_HIST 255 Introduction to Modernism H. Clayson MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 340-2 Baroque Art: Global Baroque C. Swan MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 369 Special Topics in Contemporary Art: What is a Place? Art and the Visual Public Sphere in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa H. Feldman M 9:00-11:50
ART_HIST 378 History of Modern Architecture and Urbanism D. Van Zanten F 10:00-12:50
ART_HIST 368 Art of the African Diaspora: Post Colonial Urban K. Thompson TR 9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 389 Special Topics: Collecting Kashmir R. Linrothe TTR 11:00-12:20
ART_HIST 391 Undergraduate Methods Seminar C. Normore F 10:00-12:50

Spring 2015

Course Number Course Title Instructor Date/Time
ART_HIST 101 Freshman Seminar: Chivalry C. Normore T 2:00-5:00
ART_HIST 240 Introduction to Asian Art J. Hu TR 11:00-12:20
ART_HIST 260 Introduction to Contemporary Art: Contemporary Art in and Out of Institutions H. Copeland MW 2:00-3:20
ART_HIST 330-1 Renaissance Art: Fifteenth-Century Italy J. LaFountain MW 11:00-12:20
ART_HIST 350-2 19th Century Art II S. Eisenman MW 12:30-1:50
ART_HIST 320-3 Late Medieval Art: Gothic Art C. Normore TR 9:30-10:50
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: African American Art: New Perspectives on Modern and Contemporary Art K. Thompson F 10:00-12:30
ART_HIST 390 Undergraduate Seminar: Art and Architecture in the Islamic Lands ca. 650-1250 B. Moor TR 2:00-3:20
ART_HIST 390-0-22 Avant-Garde Dance and Visual Collaborations A. Graham MW 2:00-3:30
ART_HIST 395 Museums: Unpacking the Museum: Current Issues, Theories, and Practices L. Corrin T 10:00-12:50