为什么艺术很重要? Art matters because human beings make—have always made and always will make—images to communicate the great breadth of human experience. 为什么艺术史很重要? 因为没有它, 我们祖先图像的意义——他们的信息, 教导, 我们将失去礼物. 在这介绍艺术, our class will travel through history and across the globe to learn how we humans use painting, 雕塑, 体系结构, 摄影和其他艺术形式来回应我们的环境, 来解决我们的问题, 展示我们的价值观, 从我们身边的材料中创造美. (Formerly ART 1; may not receive credit if ART 1 has been completed.)

This course aims to immerse students in three key foundations of film: its history; its artistry; and its interpretation. For the history portion we cover the invention of film through the first widespread use of color (1878 to 1939). For the artistry portion we cover essential technical and formal elements of film-making. For the interpretation portion we cover the conventions and 社会 functions of different film genres. These topics are presented through slide-illustrated lectures and screenings of films (and film clips) from many countries of origin, 为艺术形式提供全球方法的经验教训. ARTH 3特别适合视觉学习者.

This course presents a chronological history of the West using iconic artworks that embody the conditions and values of the people who created them. 我们从史前开始, 当时克鲁马努人在他们洞穴的墙壁上作画, 并在中世纪晚期结束, when artists sought ways to give tangible form to God and the heavens. 一路走来, we cover visual masterworks by ancient Arabs and Persians of Mesopotamia, 东北非洲人和尼罗河人在埃及, 以及地中海地区的希腊人和罗马人. 本课程特别适合视觉学习者. (Formerly ART 4; may not receive credit if ART 4 has been completed.)

This course presents a chronological history of the West using iconic works of art and 体系结构 that embody the conditions and values of the people who created them. We begin as Humanism cleaves the Early Renaissance away from a Medieval mindset, 并在近期总结, as art is radically redefined by modern and contemporary artists to evocatively reflect our unpredictable, 艰难时期. 本课程特别适合视觉学习者.

This course presents a chronological history of the 20th- and 21st centuries in the West (and at times, 除了), using iconic artworks that embody the conditions and values of the people who created them. We examine artworks created in a wide variety of media and targeting a broad range of subjects. Our focus is on major movements and influential ideas of this period, which—more than any other art historical period—were shaped by women artists, 土著艺术家, disasporic艺术家, 有色艺术家. 本课程特别适合视觉学习者.

从1800年到现在的美国艺术的多元文化调查. 特别强调由美洲原住民创造的艺术品, 亚裔美国人, 非裔美国人, 以及西班牙/拉丁裔艺术家和工匠. Considers how art objects express the maker’s identity within the specific historical, 社会, 以及他或她生活中的政治环境. Addresses how male and female artists and artisans from these groups have used various art forms to assert their gender and ethnic identity in response to historical change.

This course offers an overview of the rich visual cultures of Africa, 亚洲, 大洋洲, 和美洲. 我们的重点是观点, 哲学, and aesthetics developed before and/or outside the European tradition, thereby providing students visual and intellectual lessons from civilizations with distinctive and exceptional non-white worldviews. Each unit of study addresses a non-Western civilization’s visual cultures and the aesthetics associated with that civilization’s periods/kingdoms, 宗教, 喜欢的艺术类型. 本课程特别适合视觉学习者.

A broad chronological survey of photography from its invention to the present. 考虑到媒介作为技术和艺术的双重角色. 解决了摄影主题和目的的多样性. Considers the intersections of photography and technology, history, art, and everyday life.