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3000  Arts of Japan (3) Fulfills Humanities Integration, Fine Arts Integration.
   Introduces students to the broad range of artistic production in Japan including painting, sculpture, and wood block prints. Particular attention will be given to locating these works within a cultural, political, historical, and religious framework. Using analytical skills developed in the foundation course (ART H 2500), students will explore such issues as the impact of Chinese culture and Buddhist religion on Japan.

3020  Arts of China (3) Fulfills Humanities Integration, Fine Arts Integration.
   Introduces students to the history of Chinese art. Emphasizes the impact of religious and philosophical traditions (Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism) on the arts.

3030  Buddhist Art (3) Fulfills Humanities Integration, Fine Arts Integration.
   Focuses on Buddhist art in Asia, exploring the development of Buddhist art in India with relation to Indian philosophical traditions. How the imagery is tailored to reflect changes in the doctrine and practice of Buddhism in China, Japan, and South Asia.

3100  Antiquity: The Classical Ideal (3) Fulfills Humanities Integration, Fine Arts Integration.
   Explores the art and architecture of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Students will examine key historical moments to develop a critical framework for understanding the 'classical ideal.' Principles of archaeology will open discussions on modern perceptions of Antiquity. Comparisons are made with revival movements.

3150  Medieval Art and Architecture (3) Fulfills Humanities Integration, Fine Arts Integration.
   Presents the art and architecture of the East and West European Middle Ages from the Late Antique to the Late Gothic periods. Lectures, projects, and discussions collectively ground works of art in a cultural context. Students will compare traditional and contemporary methodologies for interpreting diverse forms of art.

3160  Medieval Imagination (3)
   Course content is organized topically to investigate moments of artistic creativity during the Middle Ages. Interdisciplinary projects by students will use current theoretical approaches to define how patronage and workshop inter-relate.

3180  East Mediterranean Cultures (3)
   Course content includes the art and architecture of Coptic, Byzantine, Islamic, and Crusader communities. The focus is on distinguishing art which developed within its own Eastern traditions from objects drawing on European influence.

3200  Renaissance Europe (3) Fulfills Humanities Integration, Fine Arts Integration.
   Builds upon the concepts introduced in Art History 2500 and examines15th- and 16th-century art in Europe. The goal is to understand what is meant by the cultural movement of the Renaissance and to explore its relationship to the works of the leading artists of Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany.

3250  Baroque Art in Europe (3) Fulfills Humanities Integration, Fine Arts Integration.
   The 17th century was a time of dynamic political, social, and religious changes calling for a re-examination of tradition and the purposes of art. Many artists in Italy, Flanders, Holland, Spain, France, and England experimented with ways of involving the viewer in their art for persuasion and more engagement in the issues of the day. This course expands on the introduction in Art History 2500 with an exploration of ways that works of painting, sculpture and architecture serve a cultural purpose in the conception and propagation of ideas.

3310  Revolutionary Era (3) Fulfills Humanities Integration, Fine Arts Integration.
   This course is a study of transformations in the art and culture of 18th-century Europe and America from the aristocratic late Baroque and Rococo to the onset of Romanticism.

3320  Romantic Era (3) Fulfills Humanities Integration, Fine Arts Integration.
   Study of European and American 19th-century Romanticism: as a celebration of nature; as an assertion of the value of feeling and emotion in private experience; and as a subjective orientation to the intensity of religious and mystical experience.

3330  Realism and Impressionism (3) Fulfills Humanities Integration, Fine Arts Integration.
   Study of European and American culture as reflected in the works of artists during the period from 1830 through the turn-of-the-century. Themes include: realism, luminism, impressionism, tonalism, naturalism, architectural eclecticism, and monumental sculpture.

3400  History of Art Criticism (3)
   Works of major critics, historic and contemporary, are analyzed to identify the philosophical positions on which their critical criteria are based. The course emphasizes the process that leads systematically through description, analysis, and interpretation to the formulation of defensible critical judgments. In addition to critical history, the class will consider issues relevant to contemporary society including censorship, morality, feminist views, and the application of literary critical methods. Students will learn to apply current, critical methods as ways of analyzing and interpreting art and architecture. The course is primarily organized around student presentations and class discussion of assigned readings. Students are required to write assigned critical essays based either on readings or selected topics, and will be graded on class participation and preparation of their assigned presentations.

3410  Survey of Early Twentieth-Century Art and Architecture (3) Fulfills Humanities Integration, Fine Arts Integration.
   A survey of modernist European and American movements in art, architecture, photography, and film from 1900 through the mid-20th century. Included are French and German Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, and developments in modernist American art. The class is designed to include lecture, discussion, and student presentations of assigned topics to explore topics, themes and the existing historical record. Students will learn to analyze and interpret the visual language in light of modernist intentions. Grading will be based on attendance, two exams and an assigned research paper.

3420  Survey of Late Twentieth-Century Art and Architecture (3) Fulfills Humanities Integration, Fine Arts Integration.
   Broad coverage of worldwide developments in art and architecture since the mid-20th century, 1950 to present. Emphasis will be on characterizing the progression from modernist purposes, through Pop's radical attacks on traditional definitions of art, and finally to postmodern and contemporary style-free expressions that deny an aesthetic purpose in favor of artistic responses to a social/environmental ethos. The course is designed to include lecture, discussion and student presenatations of assigned topics. Grading will be based on attendance, participation, two exams and a research paper or service-learning project.

3430  Contemporary Art and Architecture (3)
   Postmodern and contemporary developments are introduced for discussion in light of current trends in art and architecture. Emphasis is on examination of artistic purposes, role of electronic technology, role of the artist, contemporary women artists, non-traditional materials, and diverse cultural expressions. Grading will be based on student involvement in the form of discussion, presentations, and a possible service-learning project.

3600  The History of Photography (3)
   Traces the different directions photography has taken since its inception, using the social and cultural environment as a context and focus on the ever-increasing use of photography by artists in the creative process from the first uses of the camera obscura to the present. The specific reasons that set the stage for the 'invention' of photography and how photography changed the role of the artists of the 19th- and 20th-centuries will be discussed. The lectures will cover documentary photography and the rise of photography as a separate art form. The course will also discuss photography's characteristics as an art form and how it has changed our perceptions of the world. In the 20th-century, photographs have become a discreet language of signs, symbols, and metaphors with implied narratives.

4000  Japanese Ink Painting (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   Focuses on art, artistic production and patronage involved with the practice of Zen Buddhism in Japan. We will trace the evolution of painting from private devotional works to public display.

4001  Japanese Narrative Tradition (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   Traces the evolution of the Japanese tradition of court art from its flowering in the 11th-century in both image and text to its appropriation by the merchant class in the 17th- through19th-centuries. We will concentrate on the idea of narrative in religious hand scrolls, tales, and popular texts over a period of eight centuries.

4002  Arts of Pre-modern Japan (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   Examines the rich interplay and development of the arts of Edo Japan (1601 1868): woodblock prints, genre screens, Chinese style painting, and the social milieu in which they were made. The course will also examine the impact of the West in the early Meiji period.

4020  Chinese Painting (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   The specific focus of this course will be on the evolution theory and practice of Chinese painting from the 2nd-century through the 17th.

4021  Chinese Bronze Culture (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   Focuses on the ritual bronze vessels of China. Consideration will be given to recent archeological finds and attempts to develop a chronology.

4030  Japanese and Chinese Buddhist Sculpture (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   Course charts the development of Buddhist sculpture in Japan and China.

4040  The Indian Temple: A Frame of Reference (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   Examines the sacred space of Hindu and Buddhist Temples in Asia.

4110  Greek Art and Architecture (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500 and 3100.
   Artistic achievement of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age through the Alexandrine Empire is examined in lecture and discussion. The course includes aspects of Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations before turning to developments at Early Greek, Classical, and Hellenistic sites. Students are acquainted with principles of archaeology.

4120  Roman Art and Architecture (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500 and 3100.
   The art and architecture of Rome and her dominions constitute a foundation for understanding the history of the Roman Republic and Empire. Course content ranges in date from the Etruscan period to the Late Antique. Students are acquainted with principles of archaeology.

4150  Early Medieval Themes (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500 and 3150.
   Explores the early history of Christian art and architecture and the development of representational systems of spiritual subjects. Objects are highlighted against a cultural context undergoing profound change.

4160  Topics in Medieval Art (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500 and 3150.
   Students will examine artistic developments which accompany periods of medieval growth and prosperity. Versatile urban achievements will be placed in a broader historical context. Reassessing the terms Romanesque and Gothic is central to the content in light of contemporaneous political, social, economic and religious changes.

4180  Byzantium (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500 and 3180.
   Assesses issues of aesthetic interest against the politico-religious background of the Byzantine Empire based in Constantinople. Moments of contact with the West illuminate eastern and western medieval artistic traditions.

4190  Islamic Art and Architecture (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500 and 3180.
   Focuses on the art and architecture of Islam as a visual expression of a powerful theocracy. The artistic influence, beginning in the 7th-century, of Islam on a Judeo-Christian heritage will be examined.

4210  Italian Renaissance Art: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   Emphasizes an understanding of the nature of artistic acheivements just before and during the Early Renaissance in Central and Northern Italy. Major attention is given to the circumstances of art production and patronage that supported the development of a new naturalism of representation.

4220  Italian Renaissance Art: Sixteenth Century (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   Florence, Rome, and Venice were the centers for High Renaissance art in the early16th-century, and by the 1540s many artists experimented with an idealism in art that was directly derived from the works of the High Renaissance masters Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Titian. This course examines the achievements of the High Renaissance masters in their context and considers how their art prepared the way for the later diversity of developments.

4230  Northern Renaissance Art: Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   Examines the art of France, the Netherlands, and Germany and considers how social, religious, and political factors contributed to the development of a Northern tradition of realism.

4250  Southern Baroque Art and Architecture (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   Course focuses on understanding the artistic productivity that was seen in Italy, Spain, and France in the 17th century. The emphasis will be exploring several basic historical problems raised by the art: What notions were current about the nature of art and its functions? What subjects were acceptable and what was the character of artistic imagery? Who were the patrons and what was the relationship between art and society?

4260  Northern Baroque Art in the Seventeenth Century (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   Explores different topics and examines the most recent developments in the study of the art of the Netherlands.

4310  American Art I (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   The study of the art and culture of 18th-century America from the late Baroque and Rococo to the onset of Romanticism (inclusive of the arts of classical revivalism).

4320  American Art II (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   The study of American culture as reflected in the works of artists during the period from 1830 through the turn-of-the-century. Themes include: romanticism, luminism, impressionism, tonalism, naturalism, architectural eclecticism, and monumental sculpture.

4330  Impressionism and Post-impressionism (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   The study of the lives and art of Impressionists (Manet, Boudin, Monet, Degas, Morisot, Cassatt, Renoir, Pissaro, Sisley, et al.) and Post-Impressionist (Seurat, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, et al.).

4400  Topics in Art Criticism (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   Works of major critics, both historic and contemporary, are analyzed to identify the philosophical positions on which their critical criteria are based. Modern, Postmodern and Contemporary critical interpretive and analytical methods, including feminist and psychological approaches, literary critical methods (deconstruction, post-structuralism, semiotics), and anthropological methods of interpretation are examined along with traditional formalist art historical approaches. Course is designed to include lectures, individual and group reports, discussion and critical interpretation of assigned readings. Grades will be based on student participation, written and oral reports, and assigned critical essays.

4410  Topics in Early Twentieth-Century Art and Architecture (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 2500.
   Examines specific themes in early modern art including, but not limited to, contributions of women artists of the period or reactions of individual artists to industrialization, mechanization, urbanization, war and resultant social upheaval. Selected topics that relate to Cubism, French and German Expressionism, Surrealism, Dada, and American modernist developments from 1900 to 1940 will be explored through lecture, student reports, assigned projects, and panel discussions. Grading will be based on student participation, reports, and a research paper written on an approved topic.

4420  Topics in Mid Twentieth-Century Art and Architecture (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 3420.
   Concentrates on a specific theme, topic, or direction associated with art produced since mid-20th Abstract Expressionism, Minimal, Pop, Photo-Realism, Environmental and earth works, and conceptual directions in Asia can be included. Topics related to cultural and gender issues, and how these are interpreted by artists will be explored. The role of critics of the late modern period will be an integral part of class readings and discussions.

4430  Topics in Contemporary Art and Architecture (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ART H 3430.
   Directions explored by artists during the pluralistic 1970s, the postmodern 1980s, and the multi-cultural artists of the 1990's are the basis for this course. Critical reviews of current exhibitions will be assigned for discussion in class, or for presentation and summary by individual students. Grading will be based on student participation, class discussion, a research paper or project and/or a service-learning project.

5000  Senior Seminar in Japanese Art (3) Prerequisite: ART H 3000.

5020  Senior Seminar in Chinese Art (3) Prerequisite: ART H 3020.

5150  Senior Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Art (3)
   The advanced study of ancient and medieval art through historical/contextual methods, addressed through lecture, discussion, and student project.

5190  Senior Seminar in the History of the Book (3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Assesses structure and decoration in the manufacture of books from the time of Hammurabi to the appearance of incunabula. Directed student projects will guide course content.

5240  Senior Seminar in Renaissance and Baroque Art (3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   A capstone seminar for Art History majors. The course is organized around selected readings and group discussions of the historiography and methods used in the study of Renaissance and Baroque art. Students pursue independent research that may become part of the Senior Paper.

5250  History of Prints (3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Printed pictures using the techniques of woodcut, engraving, etching, and lithography were the most popular forms of visual art and communication before the invention of photography. This course, centered on the Utah Museum of Fine Arts' collection of prints, is a study of the history and methods of printmaking from the 15th century to the present. Students carry out independent research projects with the primary objective of developing the necessary skills to increase knowledge and enjoyment of prints.

5310  Senior Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Art (3) Prerequisite: ART H 2500 and 3250.
   Study of transformations in the art and culture of 18th-century Europe and/or America from the aristocratic late Baroque and Rococo to the onset of Romanticism (inclusive of the arts of classical revivalism).

5320  Senior Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Art (3) Prerequisite: ART H 3320 and 4320.
   The study of European and/or American culture (occasional emphasis on Utah possible) as reflected in works by the artists of the 1800s. Themes include: romanticism, realism, luminism, impressionism, tonalism, naturalism, architectural eclecticism, and monumental sculpture.

5330  Utah Art (3) Prerequisite: ART H 4310 and 4320.
   A seminar on Utah arts including: architecture, sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography, et al. Themes include: ancient arts and Native American arts, as well as Euro-American romanticism, realism, tonalism, impressionism and post-impressionism plus modernism and post-modernism within the context of this place.

5400  Senior Seminar in the History of Art Criticism (3) Prerequisite: ART H 3400 and 4400.
   Focuses on the writings of a selected critic or on a particular method of interpretation. All assigned readings are selected to explore a particular critical method in depth with alternative viewpoints. Students will report weekly on an assigned topic taken from the readings.

5440  Senior Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Art (3) Prerequisite: ART H 3430 and 4430.
   For art history majors. Various methods for arriving at an understanding of the issues that concern today's artists makes up the content for this course. Topics for reading and discussion will include cultural expressions, the materials and media available to artists today, site specific sculpture, installation and themes explored by contemporary women artists.

5850  Art History Seminar (3) Prerequisite: Senior Standing.

5950  Directed Study (3 to 6) Prerequisite: Senior Standing.
   An independent study option for students with a background in art history courses who have a particular interest in exploring a subject or topic not covered within an existing art history course. Not approved for study of courses taught at the lower-division level.

6000  Art History for Art Studio Graduate Students (3) Prerequisite: Art Studio Graduate Students only.
   Designed for accepted students in the M.F.A. Program, Department of Art and Art History.

6010  Advanced Japanese Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.

6020  Advanced Chinese Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.

6100  Advanced Ancient Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.

6150  Advanced Medieval Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.

6200  Advanced Renaissance Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   For graduate students in the Master of Arts Program in Art History.

6250  Advanced Baroque Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   For graduate students in the Master of Arts Program in Art History.

6310  Advanced Eighteenth-Century Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   This graduate course is a study of transformations in the art and culture of 18th-century Europe and/or America, from the aristocratic late Baroque and Rococo to the onset of Romanticism (inclusive of the arts of classical revivalism).

6320  Advanced Nineteenth-Century Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   This graduate course is a study of European and/or American culture (occasional emphasis on Utah possible) as reflected in works by the artists of the 1800s. Themes include: romanticism, realism, luminism, impressionism, tonalism, naturalism, architectural eclecticism, and monumental sculpture.

6330  Advanced Regional (Utah) Arts (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   This graduate course is a study of the Arts of Utah (architecture, sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography, etc.). Themes include: ancient arts and Native American arts, and Euro-American romanticism, realism, tonalism, impressionism, and post-impressionism plus modernism and post-modernism within the context of THIS place.

6400  Advanced Art Criticism (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   Graduate level study of the History of Art Criticism with concentration on the writings of modern and contemporary critics. Students meet weekly for discussion and report on their progress toward presenting a prepared slide lecture for an upper-division art history class.

6410  Advanced Early Twentieth-Century Art and Architecture (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   Graduate students meet with Art History 4410 in addition to their independent seminar format weekly meetings. Students are required to prepare a slide lecture for the undergraduate class, to read papers assigned to undergraduate students, and to read undergraduate exams.

6420  Advanced Late Twentieth-Century Art and Architecture (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   Graduate level course in post-WW II Art and Architecture. Students will meet weekly to discuss and prepare individual presentations for the undergraduate class. Students will read papers assigned to undergraduate students, and read undergraduate exams. Each student will also prepare a research paper on an approved topic.

6440  Advanced Contemporary Art and Architecture (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   Graduate-level study of contemporary developments in the visual arts and architecture with emphasis on the various possible interpretations of installations, inter-media works, sit-specific sculpture, responses to the environment and electronic imaging. Culturally-diverse artistic expressions and work by contemporary women artists will be examined. Students will be encouraged to prepare a lecture appropriate for presentation to an undergraduate art history class.

6800  Seminar: Historiography I (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   A two-semester seminar to introduce graduate students in the Master of Arts program in Art History to the history and methods of the discipline. The first semester is devoted to reading and discussion. In the second semester, students write individual papers in several stages and drafts for evaluation by the group in terms of the application of method and critical response to current issues.

6810  Seminar: Historiography II (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   A two-semester seminar to introduce graduate students in the Master of Arts Program in Art History to the history and methods of the discipline. The first semester is devoted to reading and discussion. In the second semester, students write individual papers in several stages and drafts for evaluation by the group in terms of the application of method and critical response to current issues.

6830  Seminar: Asian Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.

6840  Seminar: Ancient and Medieval Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.

6850  Seminar: Renaissance and Baroque Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   A research seminar for graduate students in the Master of Arts Program in Art History.

6860  Seminar: Art of the Eighteenth Century and After (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   Study of European and/or American culture (occasional emphasis on Utah possible) as reflected in works by the artists of the 1700s, 1800s and after. Themes include: romanticism, realism, luminism, impressionism, tonalism, naturalism, architectural eclecticism, and monumental sculpture.

6870  Seminar: Art of the Twentieth Century (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   Graduate-level seminar designed to allow in depth exploration of a specific topic related to 20th century art and architecture.

6910  Directed Studies in Asian Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.

6920  Directed Studies in Ancient and Medieval Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.

6930  Directed Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.

6940  Directed Studies in Art of the Eighteenth Century and After (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   Involves a student research project, weekly progress reports, and a final research presentation and paper on a subject drawn from 18th-century and/or 19th-century art history, and/or regional (Utah) art historical studies.

6950  Directed Studies in Art Criticism (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   Opportunity for graduate students in the Art History Program to work independently on a topic of particular interest not typically covered in a class. Students will study current artistic expressions and responses to them by recognized critics.

6970  Thesis Research: M.A. (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   For students who are involved in conducting research leading to completion of a Master's Thesis in Art History.

6980  Faculty Consultation: M.A. (3) Prerequisite: Students in MA Program in ART H.
   Only for graduate students needing special help or extra time while researching and writing the master's thesis.