Art History and Criticism Minor

Minor - Art History/Criticism (Minor)

College of Visual & Perf Arts

Catalog Year: 2014-2015

Degree Specific Credits: 24

Required Cumulative GPA: 2.5

Note: Minor in Art History For Those Not Majoring In Art

Studio Art Fundamentals

Rule: Must complete the following subcategories

12 Total Credits Required

Visual Language

Rule: The following course is required

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Show Description ARTZ 105A - Visual Language - Drawing
Offered autumn and spring.  Introduction to visual language, concept development, and studio practicum. Focus on basic skills development based on observation, imagination, and memory. Some research in historical and contemporary approaches to drawing required.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C 3 Total Credits Required

Beginning Art History

Rule: All courses are required

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Show Description ARTH 200H - Art of World Civilization I
Offered autumn. Survey of history of visual art from prehistory to 1400.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 201H - Art of World Civilization II
Offered spring. Survey of history of visual art from 1400 to the Present.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C 6 Total Credits Required

Beginning Art Criticism

Rule: The following course is required

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Show Description ARTH 250L - Introduction to Art Criticism
Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., ARTH 200H-201H. An overview of the description, and interpretation, and evaluation of visual art as practiced in the discipline of art criticism.
3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C 3 Total Credits Required

Upper Division Art History And Criticism

Rule: 12 Credits Of 300-400 Level Art History And/Or Criticism Courses Required

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Show Description ARTH 333H - Architectural History I
Offered autumn. Same as THTR 335H. Prereqs., ARTH 200H or 201H. Knowledge and understanding of architectural styles, designs and choices of the built environment from prehistory megalithic architecture to the start of the modern age.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 350 - Contemp Art and Art Criticism
Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., ARTH 250L or consent of instructor. Survey of artists, art works, critics and theories from 1960's to the present. Introduction to major art movements and ideas of the Post-Modern era. Special emphasis given to firsthand experiences with art at local venues and direct engagement with contemporary art criticism published in newspapers, journals, magazines, and other media.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 391 - Special Topics
(R-9) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 6 Credits
Show Description ARTH 402H - Greek Art & Architecture
Offered intermittently. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H or consent of instructor. Same as LS 340H and MCLG 360H. Ancient Greek works of art and architecture, related to and explained by contemporary ideas and values of Greek society.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 407 - Roman and Early Christian Art
Offered intermittently. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H or consent of instructor.  Same as LS 341H and MCLG 361H. A survey of the various media used in Roman art; the social political, and economic contexts in which the media were developed; and the transition (technical, iconographic, and contextual) to the art of the Early Christian period.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 425 - Art of the Renaissance
Offered intermittently. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H or consent of instructor.  Exploration of the arts of 1450-1600 in western Europe. Focus on themes such as the recovery of the classical past, development of scientific naturalism and linear perspective, and the evolution of major art forms architecture, urbanism, religious altarpieces and devotional images, fresco and oil paintings, monumental sculpture, etc.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 430 - 19th Century Art
Offered autumn. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H or consent of instructor. Exploration of major themes in European art from 1800 to 1900. Focus on major cultural and intellectual trends such as Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism and early Modernism.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 433H - Acient American Art
Offered intermittently. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H or consent of instructor.  Development of major ceremonial and urban centers throughout the Americas before the coming of Europeans. Analysis of how the visual arts articulate ancient world views or cosmologies in relation to nature. Focus on various strategies of reading the structure and meaning encoded in the layout of cities, stone sculpture, wall murals, ceramics, precious metals, and textiles.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 434H - Latin American Art
Offered intermittently. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H or consent of instructor.  Same as NAS 368H. Exploration of themes in the development of Latin American art from the colonial period to the present including Renaissance ideals in the “New World”, syncretism of European, African, and indigenous roots, the Black Legend, and the advent of such movements as Academism, Modernism, Social Realism, Magic Realism and Post-Modernism.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 435Y - Art of the United States
Offered intermittently. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H or consent of instructor. American painting, sculpture and architecture from 19th century to the present.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 436 - The History of Women in Art
Offered intermittently. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H or consent of instructor.  A survey of major women artists in context of social history and aesthetics from ancient to modern times. Analysis of feminism and works by contemporary women artists in film and video.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 440 - 20th Century Art
Offered spring. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H or consent of instructor.  Exploration of major themes in the development of art of the 20th century. Focus on major cultural and intellectual trends of the Modern and Post-Modern ages.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 450 - Renaissance Theory & Criticism
Offered intermittently. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H or consent of instructor.  An exploration of the writings of major thinkers of the 14th-16th centuries, including theoretical treatises, works of literature, contracts, and personal diaries.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 458 - Adv Research in Art History
(R-9) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H, a 300-level art history course and consent of instructor.  Advanced research in art history topics agreed upon by student and instructor.
 2 To 6 Credits
Show Description ARTH 459 - Advanced Research Art Crit
(R-9) Offered intermittently. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H or consent of instructor. Advanced Research in Art Criticism.
 3 To 6 Credits
Show Description ARTH 464 - African Art
Offered intermittently. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H or consent of instructor.  Broad investigation of the visual arts of Africa; historical civilizations, including Egypt, and colonial and post-colonial societies; methodologies for study of non-western societies; “Primitivism;” and the importance of African Art for the development of western art.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 465 - Spanish Art
Offered intermittently. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H or consent of instructor.  Exploration of the history of Spanish art from the cave paintings to the 21th century. Focus on Spanish art and aesthetics and Spain’s cultural identity through the visual arts.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 491 - Special Topics
(R-9) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 6 Credits
Show Description ARTH 494 - Sem Art Hist & Crit
(R-9) Offered intermittently. Prereq., ARTH 200H or 201H, a 300-level art history course and consent of instructor. Upper-division seminar in varying topics of art history and criticism.
 3 Credits
Show Description ARTH 498 - Internship
(R-12) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of instructor. Special internships under direction of department faculty allowing students practical experience in a chosen area.
1 To 6 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C 12 Total Credits Required