Same as ARC 135. This course studies past cultures and societies through their material remains and explores how archaeologists use different field methods, analytical technique and theoretical approaches to investigate, reconstruct and learn from the past. Data from settlement surveys, site excavations and artifact analysis are used to address economic, social, political and ideological questions across time and space.

This course explores the similarities and differences in the cultural patterning of human experience, compares economic, political, religious and family structures in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania and analyzes the impact of the modern world on traditional societies. Several ethnographic films are viewed in coordination with descriptive case studies. Limited to first-year students and sophomores. Total enrollment of each section limited to 25.

This course explores the similarities and differences in the cultural patterning of human experience, compares economic, political, religious and family structures in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania and analyzes the impact of the modern world on traditional societies. Several ethnographic films are viewed in coordination with descriptive case studies. Limited to first-year students and sophomores. Total enrollment of each section limited to 25.

Topics course.: This course investigates how gender and sexuality are simultaneously constitutive of, and constituted by, the built environment. Approaching the topic from the perspective of 19th- and 20th-century art and architectural history in the United States and Europe, the course addresses several interrelated questions: How have women shaped the built environment? What role has gender played in shaping dominant understandings of private and public spheres? What role does space play in defining socially acceptable and unacceptable sexual relationships?

Topics course.: Bridging the gap between the history of art and the history of science, the manuscript and the print age, the medieval and early modern periods, this seminar interrogates the creative ways in which the writing of natural history was entwined with visual representation. It focuses on bestiaries or treatises on animals, the genre from which modern zoology would emerge. Themes include the depiction of animals; classifications of the animal kingdom; the collecting of animals in menageries and of animal parts in cabinets of curiosity.

This course explores many different aspects of life in the cities and sanctuaries of the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Etruria and Rome. Recurrent themes include urbanism, landscapes and patterns of worship, including initiation, sacrifice and pilgrimage. We probe how modern notions of the secular and the sacred influence interpretation and how sometimes the seemingly most anomalous features of the worship of Isis or of the juxtaposition of commercial and domestic space within a city can potentially prove to be the most revealing about life in another place and time.

Topics course. Students may take up to four semesters of ARH 280 Art Historical Studies, as long as the topics are different.: The landscapes of sugar and agricultural production, syncretic and Christian faiths, slavery, nation and state, and tourism are just some of the areas we study as we explore the modern Caribbean built environment as it developed after European contact. A consideration of both insular and international contexts allows us to engage with concepts of hybridity and translation as we explore such diverse places as Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica.

Artistic production under the first three Hanoverian kings of Great Britain. Topics include royal patronage; urban developments (London, Bath, Edinburgh); the English landscape garden; the English country house and its fittings; collecting and display; the Grand Tour; aesthetic movements (Gothic Revival, the Sublime, the Picturesque, Neoclassicism); artists’ training and careers (among others, the brothers Adam, Gainsborough, Hawskmoor, Hogarth, Reynolds, Roubiliac and Wright of Derby); maps, prints and books; center vs. periphery; city vs. country.

A survey of photography, photographers and the literature of photography. Consideration of the formal, technical, historical and social factors in the development and practice of photography since 1839. Group B

Topics course. Students may take up to four semesters of ARH 280 Art Historical Studies, as long as the topics are different.: This course examines the intersection between the visual arts and games in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We examine theories of play and their relationship with both visual art and game design. We approach this topic from two directions. First, by asking how the visual arts have represented games and game playing and how they have utilized the mechanics of game play.