Past Course Offerings
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
| 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 | W 2-4:50 |
| ART_HIST 391 | Art Historical Methods Seminar: Making Art History | Normore | F 1-3:50 |
| ART_HIST 395 | Museums: Japanese Woodblock Prints: From 1660 to the Present (onsite at the Art Institute of Chicago) | Katz | W 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 | F 1-3:50 |
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Collecting/Critique: Art, Museums, and Thinking About History |
Feldman/Essi Rönkkö/Kate Hadley Toftness |
W |
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Chicago Object Study Initiative Undergraduate Seminar: Medieval Art and the Decorative Arts |
Miller |
F |
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 |
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COSI Undergraduate Seminar: Impressions Otherwise: Colonialism and the Environment in Late-Nineteenth-Century French Art |
McKee |
F 2-5 |
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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
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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 |