1994-1995 Undergraduate Catalog
1994-1995 Courses
Art History
ARTH 150 Monuments and Methods in the History of Art 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture studied as artistic
and cultural expressions of their times. Emphasis on
selected major artists, monuments and methods of
analysis.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.
ARTH 151 Myth, Religion and Art 3
An introduction to the study of mythical and religious
images, types, attributes and symbols on a comparative
basis from many ages throughout the world. Includes
archetypal images, such as the Great Mother, the Great
Father, the hero, images with supernatural powers and
satirical images.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 152 Design and Expression in the Visual Arts 3
An introduction to visual analysis of painting, sculpture
and architecture. Principles of two- and three-
dimensional design, spatial composition, color and
technical methods used by artists to create emotional and
aesthetic effects. Examples chosen from a variety of
periods and places.
ARTH 153 Introduction to Art History I 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture from Prehistoric
times through ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Middle
Ages studied in historical and cultural context.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.
ARTH 154 Introduction to Art History II 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture of Western Europe
from the Renaissance to the present studied in historical
and cultural context.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 155 Asian Art 3
Introduction to the artistic traditions of China, Japan,
India, Korea and Southeast Asia. Emphasis on historical,
religious and social context. Focus on the arts of
Buddhism; also considers Hindu, Confucian, Taoist and
other localized religious and cultural influences on the
visual arts.
ARTH 161 Art in East and West 3
Similarities and differences between works of art typical
of Asian and Western traditions and examination of their
points of contact, emphasizing such themes as nature,
humanity and the divine, world of the ruler, religious
art and private art.
ARTH 162 History of Architecture 3
Major buildings and architects from the ancient world to
the present. Elements of architectural design and the
influence of social, economic, political, religious and
technological factors on the art of building.
Architecture as cultural expression.
ARTH 207 Origins of Art 3
Art and architecture of the Stone Age, the Near East,
Egypt, Crete, Mycenean Greece and Barbarian peoples.
Includes politics and religion as factors influencing
artistic change. Ancient literature used to clarify the
meaning of the works.
RESTRICTIONS: Offered in Fall semester, every other year.
ARTH 208 Greek and Roman Art 3
Development of Greek art and architecture from the
Geometric period through the Orientalizing, Archaic,
Classical and Hellenistic eras. Roman art and
architecture from its Etruscan and Greek origins through
the Republican period and the stages of the Empire until
the time of Constantine the Great.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester, every
other year.
ARTH 209 Early Medieval Art 200-1000 AD 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture in Europe and the
Near East. Surveys the earliest Christian art as well as
Byzantine, Early Islamic, Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian
art.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester, every
other year.
ARTH 210 Later Medieval Art, 1000-1400 AD 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture of the Christian
world, treating later Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic
artistic traditions in their historical and cultural
contexts. Development of a distinctively European art and
society.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester, every
other year.
ARTH 213 Art of the Northern Renaissance 3
Covers late medieval devotional images to the art of the
early modern cities (1400-1570), especially in the
Netherlands and Germany. Special emphasis on Jan van
Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Durer and Pieter
Bruegel.
ARTH 217 Early Renaissance Art 3
Italian art of the 14th and 15th centuries. Special
emphasis on the founders of the Renaissance tradition in
central Italy such as Giotto, Donatello, Masaccio, Fra
Angelico, Botticelli, Brunelleschi and Alberti.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.
ARTH 218 High Renaissance and Mannerist Art 3
Italian art in the 16th century. Emphasis on such artists
as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bramante,
Titian, Tintoretto and El Greco. Also treats the spread
of Italian style to France and Spain.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 220 Italian Renaissance Architecture 3
Italian architecture and cities from the 14th to the 16th
centuries. Emphasis on the socio-economic, intellectual
and cultural context of Renaissance architecture. Focuses
on architects such as Brunelleschi, Alberti, Michelangelo
and Palladio and cities such as Florence, Rome and
Venice.
ARTH 222 Baroque Art 3
Seventeenth-century European painting, sculpture and
architecture in its social-historical context. Emphasis
on such major artists as Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens,
Rembrandt, Vermeer, Poussin and Velasquez. Discussion of
the rise of genre, still-life and landscape painting, as
well as the role of patronage.
ARTH 223 Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Urbanism 3
Architecture and urban design in Europe from 1580 to 1750
in its religious, political and cultural context. Studies
Italy, France, England and Germany. Architects such as
Bernini, Borromini, Le Vau, Mansart and Neumann.
ARTH 225 Eighteenth Century Art 3
Examines major trends and artists in 18th-century
European painting, sculpture and architecture in the
framework of the social, ideological and cultural
currents of the time. Artists such as Watteau, Hogarth,
Blake, Chardin, Canova, David and Goya.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 227 Modern Art I 3
Important 19th-century European movements in art such as
Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism
studied in their cultural and socio-political context.
Artists such as David, Delacroix, Turner, Courbet and
Monet.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.
ARTH 228 Modern Art II 3
Art and theory of major movements from 1880 to the
present. Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism,
Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism,
Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Neo-Expressionism and
Post-Modern developments. Painting, sculpture,
photography, environments and performance art.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 230 American Art: 1607-1865 3
Architecture, painting, sculpture and the decorative arts
of the United States from the first Colonial settlements
to the Civil War. American Art examined in the light of
its political, social, economic and religious background
and in relationship to European art.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester.
ARTH 231 American Art: 1865-Present 3
Architecture, painting, sculpture, photography and
decorative arts in the United States from the Civil War
on. American art in a political, social, economic and
cultural framework. The rise of the United States to a
position of global power and emergence as an
international artistic center.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 233 Art of China 3
Survey of the arts of China from neolithic times to the
20th century. Discussions center on such phenomena as
Confucian thought and political art, the importation of
Buddhist beliefs and their Chinese expressions, and the
search for harmony with the natural world.
ARTH 234 Art of Japan 3
Survey of the art of Japan from neolithic times to the
20th century. Emphasis on the interaction between
imported ideas and native sensibilities, the development
of Buddhist imagery and the influence of literature,
drama and political change on the visual arts.
ARTH 235 Art of India 3
Survey of the art of Indian Asia from the prehistoric
culture of the Indus Valley through the development of
Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic religious structures and
imagery. Emphasizes the interrelationships of
philosophical, religious and aesthetic concepts in
shaping Indian art and the spread of Indic culture.
ARTH 236 The Arts of Islam 3
Survey of architecture, painting, ceramics and metalwork
of Islam in Western and Southern Asia, Islamic Africa and
the Iberian peninsula. Also treats influences of Islamic
design on the arts of Judaeo-Christian Europe and the
rich secular cultures that flourished in Moslem nations.
ARTH 250 Rulers' Images from Augustus to George Washington
3
Thirteen rulers from the ancient, medieval and early
modern worlds as they were depicted in contemporary
artistic and literary works. Rulers studied include
Augustus, Justinian, Saint Louis, Napoleon and
Washington. Focuses on rulers' images in the modern
world.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Spring semester.
ARTH 301 Research and Methodology in Art History 3
Methods and major approaches to advanced art historical
study, together with the practical aspects of research
and work in art historical professions, such as
education, historic preservation, museums and galleries.
Experience with original works of art.
RESTRICTIONS: Offered in Fall semester.
ARTH 302 Prints and Society 3
A social history of prints and printmaking techniques,
focusing on such major printmakers as Durer, Rembrandt,
Piranesi, Goya, Daumier and Picasso. Topics include the
role of woodcuts in popular culture, political and
satirical prints, posters and advertising, and the
connoisseurship of original prints.
ARTH 304 Northern Baroque Art: The Age of Rubens, Rembrandt
and Vermeer 3
Painting, printmaking and art theory in 17th-century
Holland and Flanders in social and historical context.
Examines the rise of landscape, genre and portraiture,
the nature of Dutch realism, the social role of the
artist, art and theater, and the impact of religion on
art.
ARTH 305 Italian Baroque Art: Metaphor and Marvel 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture from the time of
Caravaggio and the Carracci to Bernini and Cortona.
Examines topics such as the Counter-Reformation and its
impact on the arts, the rise of naturalism and
illusionism, the design process and the function of
drawings, theatricality and rhetoric.
ARTH 308 Modern Architecture I:1750-1900 3
Aesthetic and technological developments in architecture,
interior design and the planned environment, beginning
with the mid-18th century break from Renaissance
tradition to Art Nouveau and the end-of-19th century rise
of the skyscraper. Architects such as Ledoux, Soane,
Richardson, Sullivan, Horta and Gaudi.
ARTH 309 Modern Architecture II: The Twentieth Century 3
Aesthetic and technological developments in architecture,
interior design and the planned environment from the
early work of Wright through the contributions of the
Bauhaus, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier to Post-
Modernism and other trends of the last third of the 20th
century.
ARTH 310 The Role of the Artist in Society 3
Explores changing ideas of the artist from medieval
craftsman and Renaissance courtier to Romantic genius and
modern revolutionary. Topics include self-portraiture,
notions of artistic temperament and genius, women artists
and artists' changing relations with their clients.
ARTH 318 History of Photography 3
History and aesthetics of photography from its beginnings
to the present. Emphasis on photography as artistic
expression, the importance of technology and photography
in relation to the other arts and social history.
Photographers such as Negre, Emerson, Stieglitz,
Cunningham, Weston and Arbus.
ARTH 321 History of Afro-American Art 3
See BAMS320 for course description.
ARTH 339 Art and Architecture of Europe 3
Primary focus on painting, sculpture and architecture in
Central Europe from the Romanesque to the Modern Eras.
Subject matter determined by country in which overseas
program is conducted.
RESTRICTIONS: Offered only in conjunction with a foreign
study program. May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 341 British Art and Art Institutions 3
Provides an introduction to British Art and Art
institutions from 1700 to present day. Special emphasis
placed on collecting of art, display in museums, and the
British School of painting.
ARTH 360 Humanities Colloquium 3
See ARSC360 for course description.
ARTH 366 Independent Study 1-6
ARTH 402 Undergraduate Seminar in the History of Art 3
Topics change with each time of offering. Emphasis on art
historical reading and research. Student oral reports.
Recent seminar topics include The Age of Tutankhamen,
Places of Delight: The Villa from Antiquity to the
Present, The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci,
Caravaggio.
RESTRICTIONS: For undergraduates only. May be repeated
for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 403 History, Philosophy, Functions and Future of
Museums 3
See MSST403 for course description.
ARTH 405 Seminar in Greek and Roman Art 3
The art and architecture of antiquity from the origins of
Greek civilization to the fall of Rome. Topics change
with each time of offering. Recent topics include Archaic
Greek Vase Painting, Hellenistic Greek Sculpture, Late
Roman Portraiture and Roman Architecture.
PREREQ: ARTH208.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 406 Seminar in Medieval Art 3
The art of Europe from the fall of Rome to the late
Gothic period. Topics change with each time of offering.
Recent topics include The Court of Charlemagne, Early
Irish and Anglo-Saxon Art, and Saint Denis and the
Origins of Gothic Architecture.
PREREQ: ARTH209 or ARTH210.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 408 Seminar in Northern Renaissance Art 3
The arts in Northern Europe from 1300 to 1600. Topics may
change with each time of offering.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 413 Seminar in Italian Renaissance Art 3
Italian art from 1300 to 1600. Topics change with each
time of offering. Recent topics include Leonardo da
Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian and Medici Patronage in the
Golden Age.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 414 Seminar in Italian Renaissance Architecture 3
Italian architecture from 1300 to 1600. Recent topics
include Renaissance Villas and Gardens, Brunelleschi and
Alberti, Roman Architecture in the Age of Michelangelo,
and Palladio.
PREREQ: ARTH220.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 415 Seminar in Italian Baroque Art 3
Painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy in the 17th
century. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent
topics include Bernini and Roman Baroque Sculpture,
Seicento Poetics and Imagery, Caravaggio, and Origins of
the Baroque: The Carracci and their Academy.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 417 Seminar in Northern Baroque Art 3
Seventeenth-century art in northern Europe. Topics change
with each time of offering. Recent topics include
Rembrandt and Rubens, Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting,
Northern Baroque Portraiture, and Prints in the Age of
Rembrandt.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 419 Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Art 3
Art from the Enlightenment to the Age of Revolution.
Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics
include Goya and the Spanish Enlightenment, David and
Early Romanticism.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 421 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Art 3
Art from David to Impressionism. Topics change with each
time of offering. Recent topics include Gericault,
Delacroix, Cezanne, Art and Politics, The Theory and
Practice of Romanticism, Historicism from David to
Gerome, and Orientalism.
PREREQ: ARTH227.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 423 Seminar in Twentieth-Century Art 3
Art in Europe, with some reference to American art, from
Post-Impressionism to the present. Topics may change with
each time of offering. Recent topics include Symbolism,
Picasso, Dada and Surrealism, Cubism and its Influence,
and Post-Modernism.
PREREQ: ARTH227 or ARTH228.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 424 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Photography 3
Aspects of the history and aesthetics of 19th-century
photography. Topics change with each time of offering.
Recent topics include Photography and Art, Documentary
Photography, and 'Art' Photography.
PREREQ: ARTH227 or ARTH318.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester, every
other year.
ARTH 427 Seminar in Twentieth-Century Photography 3
Aspects of the history and aesthetics of 20th-century
photography. Topics change with each time of offering.
Recent topics include Photography and Art, and
Photography and Criticism.
PREREQ: ARTH227 or ARTH228 or ARTH230 or ARTH311.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in the Fall semester, every
other year.
ARTH 429 Seminar in Modern Architecture 3
Architecture in Europe and/or America from 1750 to the
present. Topics change with each time of offering. Recent
topics include the Architecture of Neoclassicism; and
Sullivan, Wright and the Prairie School.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 431 Seminar in American Architecture 3
American architecture from the Colonies to the present.
Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics
include Architecture of the Colonial and Federal periods,
Nineteenth-Century American Architecture, and
Philadelphia Architecture.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 435 Seminar in American Art 3
American art from the Colonies to the present. Topics
change with each time of offering. Recent topics include
Eakins and American Realism, Early American Modernism,
and American Painting and Sculpture after World War II.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 440 Seminar on Prints and Drawings 3
Graphic art from the 15th to 19th century with an
emphasis on original works of art. Topics change with
each time of offering. Recent topics include Renaissance
and Baroque Graphic Art, Prints in the Age of Durer, and
Problems in Prints from the Renaissance to the 19th
Century.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 454 Vernacular Architecture 3
See HIST454 for course description.
ARTH 457 Survey of African Art 3
See ANTH457 for course description.
ARTH 466 Independent Study 1-6
ARTH 605 Studies in Greek and Roman Art 3
The art of antiquity from the origins of Greek
civilization to the fall of Rome. Recent topics include
Archaic Greek Vase Painting, Hellenistic Greek Sculpture,
Late Roman Portraiture, and Roman Architecture.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 606 Studies in Medieval Art 3
The art of Europe from the fall of Rome to the late
Gothic period. Topics change with each time of offering.
Recent topics include the Court of Charlemagne, Early
Irish and Anglo-Saxon Art, and Medieval Ivories.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 608 Studies in Northern Renaissance Art 3
The arts in Northern Europe from 1300 to 1600. Topics may
change with each time of offering.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 611 Studies in Italian Renaissance Art 3
Italian art from 1300 to 1600. Topics change with each
time of offering. Recent topics include Leonardo da
Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, and
Medici Patronage in the Golden Age.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 614 Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture 3
Italian architecture from 1300 to 1600. Recent topics
include Renaissance Villas and Gardens, Brunelleschi and
Alberti, Roman Architecture in the Age of Michelangelo,
and Palladio.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 615 Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Art 3
The beginnings of Christian expression under the Romans
to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Topic of study may
change with each time of offering.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 616 Studies in Italian Baroque Art 3
Italian art in the 17th century. Recent topics include
Bernini and Roman Baroque Sculpture, Seicento Poetics and
Imagery, Caravaggio, and Origins of the Baroque: The
Carracci and their Academy.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 617 Studies in Northern Baroque Art 3
Seventeenth-century art in northern Europe. Recent topics
include Rembrandt and Rubens, Vermeer and Dutch Genre
Painting, Northern Baroque Portraiture, and Prints in the
Age of Rembrandt.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 619 Studies in Eighteenth-Century Art 3
Art from the Enlightenment to the Age of Revolution.
Recent topics include Goya and the Spanish Enlightenment,
J.L.David and Early Romanticism.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 621 Studies in Nineteenth-Century Art 3
Art from David to Impressionism. Recent topics include
Gericault, Delacroix, Cezanne, Art and Politics (1780-
1880), The Theory and Practice of Romanticism,
Historicism from David to Gerome, and Orientalism.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 623 Studies in Twentieth-Century Art 3
Art in Europe, with some reference to later American art,
from 1900 to the present. Recent topics include
Symbolism, Picasso, Dada and Surrealism, and Cubism and
French Art.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 627 Studies in the History of Photography 3
Aspects of the history and aesthetics of photography.
Recent topics include 19th-Century Documentary
Photography, 19th-Century "Art" Photography, 20th-Century
Photography and Criticism, and 20th-Century Photography
and Art.
RESTRICTIONS: Usually offered in Fall semester, every
other year. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 628 Seminar in Historic Preservation 3
See URAF629 for course description.
ARTH 629 Studies in Modern Architecture 3
Architecture in Europe and/or America from 1750 to the
present. Recent topics include the Architecture of
Neoclassicism and Sullivan, Wright and the Prairie
School.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 631 Studies in American Architecture of the Colonial
and Federal Periods 3
Architecture in the American Colonies from the anonymous
buildings of the 17th century to the designs of Thomas
Jefferson and B.H.Latrobe in the early 19th century.
Recent topics include Colonial and Federal American
Architecture and Philadelphia Architecture. Includes
field trips.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 632 Making the American City 3
See URAF632 for course description.
ARTH 633 Studies in Nineteenth-Century American
Architecture 3
The Greek, Gothic, Egyptian and Oriental Revivals; High
Victorian Style and its culmination in the Age of
Elegance; and Late Nineteenth-Century American
Architecture. Includes field trips.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 634 Historic Preservation Studio 3
See URAF630 for course description.
ARTH 636 Studies in American Art 1875-Present 3
Painting, sculpture and related media from Eakins to the
present. Recent topics include Eakins and American
Modernism, and American Painting and Sculpture after
World War II.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 637 Studies in English Art and Architecture 3
The art of England, emphasizing the period from the 16th
century through the end of the 19th century. Recent
topics include the English Country House, British
Painting, English Architecture, and Collecting in
England.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 638 European Decorative Arts 3
Interiors, furniture and decorative arts in Europe from
the Renaissance to the 20th century. Application of art-
historical techniques and interpretation. Field trips to
New York and Philadelphia.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 639 American Decorative Arts 3
Interiors, furniture and decorative arts in America from
the 17th century to the present.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 640 Studies in Eighteenth-Century Art 3
Art and art theory in England and the Continent. Topic of
study may change with each time of offering.
PREREQ: ARTH214 or ARTH215.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 647 Seminar in Prints and Drawings 3
Graphic art from the 15th to 19th century emphasizing
original works of art. Recent topics include Renaissance
and Baroque Graphic Art, Prints in the Age of Durer, and
Problems in Prints from the Renaissance to the 19th
Century.
RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics
vary.
ARTH 657 Survey of African Art 3
See ANTH657 for course description.
ARTH 680 Studio in the Materials and Techniques of Drawing
in the West 3
See ARTC680 for course description.
ARTH 681 Materials and Techniques of the Contemporary
Painter and Draftsman 3
See ART 681 for course description.
ARTH 688 Studio Materials and Techniques of Painting I 3
See ARTC688 for course description.
ARTH 689 Studio Materials and Techniques of Painting II 3
See ARTC689 for course description.
ARTH 690 Studio in the Materials and Techniques of Printmaking I 3
See ARTC690 for course description.
ARTH 801 Introduction to Decorative Arts in America to 1850 3
See EAMC801 for course description.
ARTH 810 Studies in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
European and American Sculpture 3
Academic and non-academic traditions of European and
American sculpture of the 19th century and the several
phases of modernism. Among the artists treated are
Canova, Carpeaux, Rodin, Greenough, Powers, Saint-
Gaudens, Calder and Smith.
RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only.
ARTH 811 Studies in American Painting Before 1800 3
Painting of Colonial and Early Federal America. Topics
change with each time of offering. Recent topics include
the Puritan Aesthetic, the Influence of English Art, the
Rise of Native-born Talent, and the Work of Such Artists
as Copley and Peale.
PREREQ: ARTH320.
RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only. May be
repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 812 Studies in American Painting: 1800-1875 3
Topics change with each time of offering. Recent topics
include Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and the Grand Manner
in the Art of West, Trumbull, Allston and Vanderlyn.
Landscape and Genre Painting in the Work of Cole, Durand,
Mount and the Hudson River School.
PREREQ: ARTH320.
RESTRICTIONS: Open to graduate students only. May be
repeated for credit when topics vary.
ARTH 850 Bibliography and Research Methods in Art History 0 PF
An introduction to the art historical resources of the
University of Delaware and to the techniques of scholarly
research and bibliographical materials in the historical
study of the visual arts.
RESTRICTIONS: Offered every Fall semester.
ARTH 860 Reading and Research 1-9 PF
Readings and conferences on an approved subject under
faculty direction.
RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of Department Chair.
Open to Art History Ph.D. students only.
ARTH 869 Master's Thesis 1-6
ARTH 964 Pre-Candidacy Study 3-12 PF
Research and readings in preparation of dissertation
topic and/or qualifying examinations for doctoral
students before admission to candidacy but after
completion of all required course work.
RESTRICTIONS: Not open to students who have been admitted
to candidacy.
ARTH 969 Doctoral Dissertation 1-12 PF