Introductory survey of principles and practices of arts administration, as the crossroads of art and audience.

Focuses on gaining a working understanding of photographic processes and practice. Class assignments help students understand the visual language of photography using 35mm black and white film and printing their own photographs in the darkroom. In addition, lectures explore examples from the historical and contemporary worlds of fine art photography. Cameras are provided.

Subject varies with the instructor, who may decide to focus attention either on a particular period, artist, or theme, or on the broader question of the aims and methods of art history. Subject is announced prior to each registration period. Representative subjects include the life and art of Pompeii, Roman painting and mosaics, history and connoisseurship of baroque prints, art and politics in revolutionary Europe, Picasso and painting, and problems in American art and culture. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

This course will train students to understand and critically evaluate comparative, modern global cultures.

The vase painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic periods. Works are studies in their social, political, and religious contexts with a special focus on archaeology and material culture.

This course will train students to understand and evaluate global cultures from a critical and culturally sensitive perspective.

The course introduces experimental 16mm film production as a practice of visual art. These courses include technical, historical, and theoretical issues that apply to cinematography and its relationship to the traditional visual arts.

Introduction to intaglio printmaking and monotype techniques, including hard and soft ground etch, aquatint, and drypoint.

Introduction to Oil-based painting.

The Art History Practicum course places added emphasis on immersive experience and the active construction of knowledge, involving hands-on projects, experiments, lab work, and field trips of varying lengths, including on-site studies at archaeological sites, laboratories, or museums.