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The course explores a range of intellectual and multi-disciplinary approaches to the practice of art history and the interpretation of works of art through case study examinations of the works of 19th century American realists Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. The course integrates student reflections on skills and knowledge gained from General Education and Art History courses with application of knowledge, critical analysis, research, and creative thinking skills to the contemporary practice of art history.

The topic of looted art appears in the news on a weekly basis, with art historians, museums, archaeologists, economists and legal scholars all weighing in on the problem.

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This course explores how and why a preoccupation with the care and commemoration of the dead was given concrete reality in art, architecture, and ritual throughout the Middle Ages. Proceeding in a largely chronological fashion, we will explore changing conceptions of death itself and the afterlife from the third through the fifteenth centuries. Critical in our investigations will be an understanding of the many ways in which the living and the dead were dependent upon one another throughout this period, and how all forms of the visual arts mediated this interdependence.

Focusing on modern and contemporary visual culture, we will ask: what does it mean to see, imagine, and witness Black queer feminisms? Topics include formerly enslaved drag artist-activist William Dorsey Swann, Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman, Mickalene Thomas's mixed media collages, and a vast range of other Black visual culture.

Historical survey of the decorative arts from the middle ages into the present century; emphasis on the European and American period styles of the 18th century onward. Various media of the decorative arts, including furniture, glass, textiles.