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Fall Quarter, 2014

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AHI 001A: Ancient Mediterranean Art (4)

Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean world, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

GE credit: ArtHum | AH, VL, WC.

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AHI 001D: Arts of Asia (4)

Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to major forms and trends in the arts and material culture of Asia from the Neolithic to the contemporary emphasizing the visual manifestation of secular and religious ideas and ideals. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 1DV.

GE credit: ArtHum, Div | AH, WC, WE.  

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AHI 148: Theory and Criticism:
Painting & Sculpture (4)

Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: Art Studio 5 or 7 recommended. Study of forms and symbols in historic and contemporary masterpieces. (Same course as Art Studio 148.) Offered in alternate years.
GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt | AH, VL, WE.

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AHI 155: The Islamic City (4)

Lecture—3 hour; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1E recommended. Introduction to the urban history of the Islamic world. Includes critical study of the historiography of the Islamic city, development of urban form, institutions and rituals, and analysis of selected themes.

GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt. AH, VL.

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AHI 175: Architecture and Urbanism in Mediterranean Antiquity (4)

Lecture—3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: a lower division Classics course (except 30, 31); course 1A recommended. Architecture and urban
development in the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome. Special emphasis on the social structure of the ancient city as expressed in its architecture, and on the interaction between local traditions and the impact of Greco-Roman urbanism. (Same course as Classics 175.) Offered in alternate years.

Instructor: Lynn Roller

GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt | AH, VL, WC, WE.

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AHI 190H/290 Seminar: Modern Art: Marcel Duchamp (4)

190A-L. Undergraduate Proseminar in Art History (4)

Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: Art History major, minor, or other significant training in Art History recommended. Study of a broad problem or theoretical issue. Intensive reading, discussion, research, writing. Topics (A) Mediterranean Antiquity; (B) Medieval; © Renaissance; (D) American Art; (E) Gendering of Culture; (F) Chinese Art and Material Culture, GE credit: ArtHum | AH, OL, VL, WC, WE.; (G) Japanese Art and Material Culture; (H) Late Modern Art and Theory, GE credit: ArtHum | ACGH, AH, DD, OL, VL, WC, WE. May be repeated one time for credit when topic differs.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)

See Prof. Housefield’s course flyer for details.

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AHI 200A: Visual Theory and Interpretive Methods (4)

Discussion—3 hours; extensive writing. Close study of selected recent developments in interpretive methodology used by art historians and other analysts of visual culture and the place of those developments within art history’s history and in the larger field of social, cultural and historical analysis. May be repeated one time for credit.

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