Art and architecture of the English colonies, the early U.S. republic and the antebellum period. Emphasis on the cultural significance of portraiture, the development of national and regional schools of genre and landscape painting, the invention of photography, early sculpture and the changing stylistic modalities in architecture. Prerequisite: one 100-level art history course or permission of the instructor. Group II, Group III

Post Counter-Reformation Italy and the reconsideration of art theory and design at the Academy of the Carracci in Bologna beginning about 1580, the emergence of a new artistic interpretation brought about by Caravaggio and his followers -- first in Rome and then across Europe, and the subsequent change in styles to meet various political and regional needs will be examined through painting and sculpture in Italy: with such artists as Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Caravaggio, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pietro da Cortona, Guido Reni; etc.; in France: Simon Vouet, Poussin, Claude and Georges de La T

This course surveys the architecture, landscape, book arts and luxury objects produced in Islamic contexts from Spain to India, and from the seventh through the 20th centuries. Attention will be focused upon the relationships between Islamic visual idioms and localized religious, political and socioeconomic circumstances. In particular, lectures and readings will examine the vital roles played by theology, royal patronage, ceremonial, gift exchange, trade, and workshop practices in the formulation of visual traditions. Group II

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 I

This course introduces the diverse artistic and cultural traditions in China from the Neolithic period to the 19th century. A variety of visual materials, including archaic jades, ritual bronzes, mortuary sculpture, temple murals and scroll paintings, will be examined both as examples of the culture in which they were made as well as works collected and valued for their aesthetic qualities. With updated archaeological material, this course considers artistic creation in relation to society, class, ethnicity, religion and changing perception of what constitutes Chinese art. Group I, Group II

Topics course. This seminar focuses on issues of demography, health, nutrition and disease on the African continent, contextualized in the social, economic and political activities of human populations. The course discusses the distribution and food production systems of human groups in particular environments; the incidence and prevalence of infectious diseases including malaria, tuberculosis, river blindness, measles and HIV/AIDS; and varying approaches to health care including traditional medicine and the availability of Western treatment.

With more than 80 percent of its population based in rural areas, China is usually viewed as a primarily agrarian society. However, economic reforms in the past 20 years have brought about dramatic growth in China?s urban areas. This course examines the conceptualization of urban and rural China in terms of political and economic processes and social relations from the Communist revolution in 1949 to the present day.

This seminar, taught by a cultural critic and a computer scientist, offers an interdisciplinary examination of the internet society. We examine the influence of cultural values on the design and use of digital technologies and the influence of these digital technologies on social and economic organization, leisure and consumer culture, politics, and the shaping of our identities.

Same as CSC 324. This course blends computer science and cultural studies to examine the digital revolution as a transformative technological and social phenomenon. What desires, interests, acts of scientific imagination and institutions have propelled the Internet to such prominence in our lives? How have personal digital technologies rewired us by transforming commerce, journalism, political activism, consumer behaviors and social relationships?

Through the course of the semester, students consider the many histories, experiences and cultures that shape and define the ever-changing, ever-evolving field of Asian/Pacific/American (A/P/A) studies, an interdisciplinary space marked by multiple communities, approaches, voices, issues and themes. The course covers the first wave of Asian immigration in the 19th century, the rise of anti-Asian movements, the experiences of A/P/A?s during World War II, the emergence of the ?Asian American? movement in the 1960s, and the new wave of post-1965 Asian immigration.