Category: Liberal Arts

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DAH-200 WESTERN ART HISTORY/VISUAL CULTURE

This course is a survey of Western Art and,visual culture from the late Middle Ages to the,twentieth-century. Other than to present an,outline history of Western art, this course seeks,to introduce students cumulatively to the,critical concepts and vocabulary in the study of,art history, visual culture, art appreciation and,historiography of art, that is, the study of the,writing about art and its history. The course,will seek to introduce students to historically,relevant accounts of the philosophical,,religious, poetic and technological contexts of,art as well as to introduce new forms of,historical thinking on the relevance of the,recognition of social, political and economic,,(race, class and gender)in the understanding of,both the making of art and its audience.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

DAH-307 20TH CENTURY ART IN EUROPE

This course focuses on artists’ response to the,sweeping social, philosophical and political,changes that began in the late nineteenth century,,including Expressionism, Cubism and Futurism.,Students explore the work of modernists who,affronted their audiences in order to bring about,changes in perception, including the artists of,the Dada movement, who mocked art and society, and,the Surrealists, who explored the unconscious as a,resource for art. Artists studied include Henri,Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Pablo,Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali and Max,Ernst.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DAH 200, DAH 201 (or DAH 202)

DAS-490 INDEPENDENT STUDY

Independent Study is available to students who are,at Junior or Senior level standing with a,cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or above.,The student may receive approval to work in an,area or on a project that is not otherwise offered,or addressed in the regular curriculum. An,Independent Study should include opportunities for,individual student voice and provide a space for,diverse perspectives. Students may receive credit,toward graduation for no more than 6 credit hours.,The student must submit to the chairperson of the,department in which they wish to study, an,Independent Study Proposal of 150 words (no less),of the student’s plan for study and her/his reason,for choosing to study independently. Once the,department chairperson provides approval and the,instructor for the Independent Study is,determined, the faculty member must write an,Independent Study Syllabus with education goals,,learning outcomes, meeting dates, course,expectations, timelines, and due dates. Art,Education candidates must pass DAE 490 with a,grade of ‘C’ (2.00) or higher to qualify for,certification.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 239

DEN-490 INDEPENDENT STUDY

Independent Study is available to students who are,at Junior or Senior level standing with a,cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or above.,The student may receive approval to work in an,area or on a project that is not otherwise offered,or addressed in the regular curriculum. An,Independent Study should include opportunities for,individual student voice and provide a space for,diverse perspectives. Students may receive credit,toward graduation for no more than 6 credit hours.,The student must submit to the chairperson of the,department in which they wish to study, an,Independent Study Proposal of 150 words (no less),of the student’s plan for study and her/his reason,for choosing to study independently. Once the,department chairperson provides approval and the,instructor for the Independent Study is,determined, the faculty member must write an,Independent Study Syllabus with education goals,,learning outcomes, meeting dates, course,expectations, timelines, and due dates. Art,Education candidates must pass DAE 490 with a,grade of ‘C’ (2.00) or higher to qualify for,certification.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 239

DLE-400 WHAT MAKES MODERN ART MODERN

This seminar explores the following: (i) art,becomes modern when art is rejected; (ii) there is,no modern art without poetry, philosophy, ethics,or the political; (iii) art becomes modern when,the poet Charles Baudelaire realizes the city as,an active subject in art; (iv) the city and,anti-art produce an avant-garde which claims to,refuse art. Broadly speaking, the course is not,concerned with the claim of a particular movement,or artist as the beginning of modern and/or,avant-garde activity; instead the course is,concerned with the practices, attitudes and values,that make for distinctively modern conceptions of,artistic activities, of which the following are,emphasized: the city, poetry, spectacle and,performance. There is a special section in the,course devoted to the city and film. Students,will be encouraged to devise creative responses in,film, photography, digital media, drawing,,painting, sculpture etc. to their environment.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Take one 3.0 credit, 200 level course from one of the,following subjects: DAH (Art History), DEN (English), DAS,(Academic Studies), DVC (Visual Culture).

DNS-490 INDEPENDENT STUDY

Independent Study is available to students who are,at Junior or Senior level standing with a,cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or above.,The student may receive approval to work in an,area or on a project that is not otherwise offered,or addressed in the regular curriculum. Students,may receive credit toward graduation for no more,than 6 credit hours. The student must submit to,the chairperson of the department in which they,wish to study, an Independent Study Proposal of,150 words (no less) of the student’s plan for,study and her/his reason for choosing to study,independently. Once the department chairperson,provides approval and the instructor for the,Independent Study is determined, the faculty,member must write an Independent Study Syllabus,with education goals, learning outcomes, meeting,dates, course expectations, timelines, and due,dates.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 102 OR DEN 108

DVC-490 INDEPENDENT STUDY

Independent Study is available to students who are,at Junior or Senior level standing with a,cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or above.,The student may receive approval to work in an,area or on a project that is not otherwise offered,or addressed in the regular curriculum. An,Independent Study should include opportunities for,individual student voice and provide a space for,diverse perspectives. Students may receive credit,toward graduation for no more than 6 credit hours.,The student must submit to the chairperson of the,department in which they wish to study, an,Independent Study Proposal of 150 words (no less),of the student’s plan for study and her/his reason,for choosing to study independently. Once the,department chairperson provides approval and the,instructor for the Independent Study is,determined, the faculty member must write an,Independent Study Syllabus with education goals,,learning outcomes, meeting dates, course,expectations, timelines, and due dates. Art,Education candidates must pass DAE 490 with a,grade of ‘C’ (2.00) or higher to qualify for,certification.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Take one 3.0 credit, 200 level course from one of the,following subjects: DAH (Art History), DEN (English), DAS,(Academic Studies), DVC (Visual Culture).

DAH-201 VISUAL NARRATION AFRICA

This course is an introduction to the visual,cultures of Africa and its Diasporas, through a,series of case studies in visual narration in a,wide variety of media and formats from Africa,,the Caribbean, the US, Brazil, and indeed,throughout the Black Atlantic. The case studies,range from altar-making to filmmaking, and from,sculpture to pageantries of carnival. The course,seeks to locate these individual,images-texts-objects in the larger narrative and,performance traditions, as well as the,socio-political and historical contexts, from,which they emerge. But the course also asks,where these forms are going, and how historical,memory works now, always in motion. What, then,,are the theoretical and practical implications,for establishing origins, authenticity, and the,future?

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

DAH-310 RENAISSANCE AND MANNERIST ART

In the sixteenth century, as ancient manuscripts,began to be rediscovered, translated and made,available to European humanists such as Petrarch,,society turned in a more worldly direction.,Artists began adding classical themes to their,devotional repertories and more frequently,directed their attention to the problems of life,on earth. This class covers painters, architects,and sculptors, including Botticelli, Leonardo,da Vinci and Michelangelo in Italy, and Jan,Van Eyck, Hieronymous Bosch, Albrecht Durer and,Hans Holbein in northern Europe. Mannerism as an,outgrowth of the Renaissance is also discussed.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DAH 200, DAH 201 (or DAH 202)