Graduate Course Descriptions - Fall 2007
The following courses are being offered during term 2081, fall 2007. You may view the schedule through the School of Arts & Sciences Web page.
| 2000 | Research And Thesis MA | 1 to 6 cr. | ||
| 10099 | - TBA TBA | Savage, Kirk | ||
Independent research for M.A. paper.
| 2005 | Methods Research & Scholarship | 3 cr. | ||
| 11175 | Th 02:30 PM-05:20 PM 00104 FKART | Ellenbogen,Joshua | ||
This seminar is introduction to the analysis of art as a historical and critical discipline. The course examines a wide range of art historical texts, surveying the practice of art history from a set of varied perspectives. In the process, students can expect to become familiar with the history of art history from the nineteenth century onwards and gain familiarity with current approaches to the discipline. The format of the class will be a discussion based on close reading of art historical texts. It is open to graduate students in art history and to students from Culture Studies with a strong interest in the visual arts.
| 2400 | Special Topics-Modern Art | 3 cr. | ||
| Architecture by the Book: The Production & Use of Texts: 18th-20th C. | ||||
| 19520 | Tu 02:30 PM-05:20 PM 00104 FKART | Armstrong, Drew | ||
In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the central tenets of classical aesthetics that underpinned Western architectural theory since antiquity--assumptions about universality and beauty--dissolved in the face of empirical science and cultural relativism. Having always been a hybrid type, architectural writing fragmented into a plethora of divergent approaches, borrowing from any number of scientific disciplines and literary genres, including fiction, autobiography, history, travel writing, linguistic theory, and archaeology. Architectural writing became a forum for new speculative and utopian discourses that responded to social and political change, and was transformed by the emergence of critics, new publics (including children) and institutional frameworks such as academies, technical schools and professional organizations. Architectural writing in the early modern period is a mirror for the processes of modernization and industrialization, reflecting contemporary historical and scientific enquiries as well as economic and nationalist ideologies. This seminar course will be built around the exceptionally rich architectural holdings of the Bernd Collection at the Carnegie Library and the rare book collections at the Hillman and Frick libraries. The objective of this course is to examine individual texts and groups of texts that can be considered as forming distinct discourses within 18th- and 19th-century architectural thought, and to place these texts within the cultural, institutional, and intellectual milieu in which they were produced. Issues such as genre, format, the relationship of texts and images, printing techniques, the publishing industry, patronage networks and collecting will also be considered as part of a comprehensive analysis of architectural writing in the early modern period.
Prerequisite(s): A good reading knowledge of French will be an asset.
| 2600 | Special Topics-Chinese | 3 cr. | ||
| Modernity in Chinese Contemporary Art | ||||
| 19521 | W 02:30 PM-05:20 PM 00104 FKART | Gao, Minglu | ||
This graduate seminar will focus on the issue of what is modernity in Chinese contemporary art. This â''modernityâ'' should not to be confused with â''modernityâ'' in the Euro-American sense of a marker of temporal logic (from premodern to modern and postmodern), but refers particularly to a specific time and a concrete space, and to the value-choices of society at that time. This sense of the word had already emerged in the beginning of Chinese modern history at the turn of the twentieth century and it has been developed in contemporary Chinese art in the last thirty years. Through lectures, readings, videos and discussions, this course will investigate how Chinese modernity has shaped the horizon of contemporary Chinese art in some spatial perspectives, such as dislocation and displacement, in the sense of merging art and society by negotiation between various cultural and aesthetic domains. This is essential for a better understanding of Chinese modernity in contemporary art.
| 2901 | Directed Study | 1 to 9 cr. | ||
| 10100 | ||||
Directed study for History of Art and Architecture graduate students.
| 2902 | Directed Study | 1 to 9 cr. | ||
| 10101 | ||||
Directed study for History of Art and Architecture graduate students.
| 2905 | Comprehensive Exam Preparation | 1 to 9 cr. | ||
| 12764 | ||||
This course is an independent study for Ph.D. students who are actively preparing for their comprehensive exams. The student works under the supervision of a dissertation advisor, with the assistance of other members of the dissertation committee. Committee and student agree on bibliographies in advance, and the student is encouraged to discuss the readings on a regular basis with his or her advisor and other members of the committee if necessary.
| 2906 | Dissertation Prospectus | 1 to 9 cr. | ||
| 12765 | ||||
This course is an independent study for Ph.D. students who are preparing their dissertation prospectus. Working under the supervision of a dissertation advisor, the student writes a prospectus that summarizes the dissertation topic, its original contribution to the field, and its methodology. The prospectus should also include a brief chapter outline, a research plan, and a bibliography-the whole document totaling approximately 10 to 20 pages.
| 3000 | Research And Dissertation PhD | 1 to 9 cr. | ||
| 10102 | ||||
Ph.D. dissertation research and writing.