Introduction to the basic tap dance steps with general concepts of dance technique. Performance of traditional tap step patterns and short combinations. Enrollment limited to 15.

This is a course that introduces students to different installation strategies (e.g., working with multiples, found objects, light, site-specificity, among others). Coursework includes a series of projects, critiques, readings and a paper. A required fee of $25 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration. Prerequisite: ARS 164, 173 (pending CAP approval), or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12.

The human figure and other natural forms. Work in modeling and plaster casting. A required fee of $25 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration. Prerequisite: ARS 161, 163, 173 (pending Cap approval), or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 16.

This team-taught course will introduce first-year students to a range of conceptual frameworks for making and thinking about art.. Unlike skills-based class devoted to a single medium, this course involves problem solving across traditional boundaries between the media. The course concentrates on a range of three-dimensional and time-based media and practices, including architecture, sculpture, installation, digital media and video, all of which will be introduced during the semester. Assignments will allow students to explore both studio and site-specific approaches.

An introduction to visual experience through a study of the basic principles of design. A required fee of $25 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration.

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 four areas of descriptive knowledge, incubators of modern disciplines: bestiaries (zoology); herbals (botany); lapidaries (geology); alchemy (chemistry).

The meanings we ascribe to art works of any culture or time period are a direct result of our own preoccupations and methods. This colloquium will give a broad overview of contemporary debates in the history of art, and locate these methods within art history?s own intellectual history. Among the topics we consider: technologies of vision, histories of interpreting art across cultural boundaries, colonialism and the history of art, and globalism.

Topics course. Urban and architectural history of the Eternal City, comprising seven famous hills whose summits and slopes (and the valleys in between) are a cradle of Western civilization. Extensive readings in primary sources and the analysis of works of art of all types will help us understand why Rome has constituted such an indispensable and inexhaustible point of emulative reference from the traditional date of its founding (21 April 753 BCE) to the fascist era and beyond.

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 III

Topics Course This course traces the historical origins of the image-saturated world of today, examining the evolution of philosophical and scientific ideas about visual perception and the development of visual technologies and practices that laid the foundations for modern spectacular society. As such, the course introduces students to a broad range of non-artistic imagery and vernacular visual practices, from postcards to people-watching.