The human figure and other natural forms. Work in modeling and plaster casting. A required fee of $25 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Prerequisite: ARS 163, 172, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15.

Topics course: From College Hall to Hogwarts and Romantic ruins to videogames, medieval visual culture has provided a vast reservoir of materials for post-medieval cultural productions, both historicizing and deliberately anachronistic. Salient moments in the reception of medieval art and architecture will be examined to understand how they have served differing cultural and political agendas from the eighteenth century onward.

Topics course: Border crossing, voluntary or involuntary, has become an important theme in contemporary global art, framing the conditions of the exile and the “illegal alien,” the tourist and the refugee, the service worker and the sex slave. This seminar examines the work of a range of contemporary artists examining border crossings of various kinds, focusing especially on the models and experiences of globalization that emerge through their practices.

This course presents a global survey of architecture and urbanism since 1945, from post-World War II reconstruction and planning, through critiques of modernism, to postmodernism, deconstruction, critical regionalism and beyond. Major buildings, projects, movements and tendencies are examined in their historical, theoretical and rhetorical contexts. Group B, Counts for ARU

From North Africa to Gaul, from the Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar) to Asia Minor, the interrelationships of art and power in the visual culture of the ethnically diverse Roman empire, from the first century B.C.E. through the fourth century C.E., are the subject of study. We also examine works of art from later periods as well as literature and film that structure our perception of the Roman world. Group A, Counts for ARU {A} {H}

During the formative periods when the local and global forces simultaneously took actions in shaping Chinese civilization, the functions of images and objects, the approaches to things, and the discourses around art underwent significant shifts, not only responding to but also mapping out the “Chinese-ness” in visual and material culture.

This one-semester capstone course is required of senior and j-term junior Plan B majors. Students create work in media of their choice and develop the skills necessary for presenting a cohesive exhibition of their work at the end of their final semester, as required by the Plan B major. Course material includes installation or distribution techniques for different media, curation of small exhibitions of each others’ work, and development of critical discourse skills through reading, writing and speaking assignments.

Advanced study of printmaking and the function of the printed image. Students will produce a portfolio of self-directed work using a variety of processes, including intaglio, relief, and some lithographic techniques. A required fee of $75 to cover group-supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration. Students may require additional supplies as well and will be responsible for purchasing them directly. Prerequisite:At least one 200-level printmaking course or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12.

An introduction to visual experience through a study of the basic elements of photography as an expressive medium. Prerequisite: ARS 162, 172 or permission of the instructor. Each section involves either black and white or a combination of darkroom and digital processes. A required fee of $75 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Enrollment limited to 15.

An introduction to visual experience through a study of the basic elements of photography as an expressive medium. Prerequisite: ARS 162, 172 or permission of the instructor. Each section involves either black and white or a combination of darkroom and digital processes. A required fee of $75 to cover group-supplied materials is charged at the time of registration. Enrollment limited to 15.