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ARH - Art History

ARH 2000
Understanding Visual Arts

(Offered fall, spring, and summer). (Meets Fine Arts Humanities requirement). A study of visual expression as presented through different media. Lectures, slides, and studio activities will introduce the student to the problems and materials of the artists.

Credit hours: 3Lecture hours: 3
ARH 2000H
Honors Understanding Visual Arts

(Offered fall, spring, and summer). (Meets Fine Arts Humanities requirement). A study of visual expression as presented through different media. Lectures, slides, and studio activities will introduce the student to the problems and materials of the artists.

Credit hours: 3
ARH 2050
Art History Criticism I

(Offered fall). (Meets Fine Arts Humanities requirement.) From Prehistoric to Renaissance.

Credit hours: 3Lecture hours: 3
ARH 2051
Art History Criticism II

(Offered spring). (Meets Fine Arts Humanities requirement). From Renaissance to Twentieth Century.

Credit hours: 3Lecture hours: 3
ARH 2060
History of Architecture

(Offered fall and spring). (Meets Fine Arts Humanities requirement). This course provides an introduction to the history of architecture from ancient times to modern days. It explores the relationships between historical developments in architecture and wider changes in the social, technological and aesthetics realms. The study of architecture will serve as a window into broader aspects of cultural history. Simultaneously, the course will examine architecture as a unique medium, with its own visual codes, spatial forms and material structures. In this sense, the history of architecture will be seen in terms of the internal dynamics and ongoing issues of what it means to design and build in any context. The students will be expected to develop visual literacy in the forms and trends of architecture over the various periods. Emphasis will be placed on learning to look at buildings and architectural representations in a deeper way. The history of architecture will be read both from the outside, as a consequence of certain social, economic and ideological forces, and from inside, as a problem of the evolution of the construction materials, technology and science.

Credit hours: 3Lecture hours: 3
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