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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with FFST History and Art History · returned 14 results
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ARTH 140 African Art and Culture 6 credits
This course will survey the art and architecture of African peoples from prehistory to the present. Focusing on significant case studies in various mediums (including sculpture, painting, architecture, masquerades and body arts), this course will consider the social, cultural, aesthetic and political contexts in which artistic practices developed both on the African continent and beyond. Major themes will include the use of art for status production, the use of aesthetic objects in social rituals and how the history of African and African diaspora art has been written and institutionally framed.
- Winter 2019, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 140.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 140.02 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 172 Modern Art: 1890-1945 6 credits
This course explores developments in the visual arts, architecture, and theory in Europe and America between 1890 and 1945. The major Modernist artists and movements that sought to revolutionize vision, culture, and experience, from Symbolism to Surrealism, will be considered. The impact of World War I, the Great Depression, and the rise of fascism will be examined as well for their devastation of the Modernist dream of social-cultural renewal. Lectures will be integrated with discussions of artists’ theoretical writings and group manifestoes, such as those of the Futurists, Dadaists, Surrealists, Constructivists, and DeStijl, in addition to select secondary readings.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 172.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 172.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 236 Baroque Art 6 credits
This course examines European artistic production in Italy, Spain, France, and the Netherlands from the end of the sixteenth century through the seventeenth century. The aim of the course is to interrogate how religious revolution and reformation, scientific discoveries, and political transformations brought about a proliferation of remarkably varied types of artistic production that permeated and altered the sacred, political, and private spheres. The class will examine in depth select works of painting, sculpture, prints, and drawings, by Caravaggio, Bernini, Poussin, Velázquez, Rubens, and Rembrandt, among many others.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 236.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 236.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 236.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 161 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ARTH 236.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 263 European Architectural Studies Program: Prehistory to Postmodernism 6 credits
This course surveys the history of European architecture while emphasizing firsthand encounters with actual structures. Students visit outstanding examples of major transnational styles–including Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Moorish, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical and Modernist buildings–along with regionally specific styles, such as Spanish Plateresque, English Tudor and Catalan Modernisme. Cultural and technological changes affecting architectural practices are emphasized along with architectural theory, ranging from Renaissance treatises to Modernist manifestoes. Students also visit buildings that resist easy classification and that raise topics such as spatial appropriation, stylistic hybridity, and political symbolism.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Architectural Studies in Europe
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Participation in OCS Architectural Studies Program
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FREN 254 Paris Program: French Art in Context 6 credits
Home of some of the finest and best known museums in the world, Paris has long been recognized as a center for artistic activity. Students will have the opportunity to study art from various periods on site, including Impressionism, Expressionism, and Surrealism. In-class lectures and discussions will be complemented by guided visits to the unparalleled collections of the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Centre Pompidou, local art galleries, and other appropriate destinations. Special attention will be paid to the program theme.
Requires participation in OCS Program: French and Francophone Studies in Paris
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or the equivalent and Participation in OCS Paris Program
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HIST 137 Early Medieval Worlds 6 credits
Through the intensive exploration of a variety of distinct “worlds” in the early Middle Ages, this course offers an introduction to formative political, social, religious, and cultural developments in Europe between c.300 and c.1050. We will pay special attention to the structures, ideologies, practices, and social dynamics that shaped and energized communities large and small. We will also focus on developing the ability to observe and interpret various kinds of textual, visual, and material primary sources.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 137.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤 · Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
- M, WLeighton 402 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 402 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 137.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 236 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 236 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 139 Foundations of Modern Europe 6 credits
A narrative and survey of the early modern period (fifteenth through eighteenth centuries). The course examines the Renaissance, Reformation, Contact with the Americas, the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment. We compare the development of states and societies across Western Europe, with particularly close examination of the history of Spain.
- Fall 2018, Spring 2021, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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HIST 139.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 139.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 236 1:45pm-3:30pm
- THLeighton 304 1:45pm-3:30pm
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HIST 139.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
- FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century 6 credits
This course explores developments in European history in a global context from the final decade of the nineteenth century through to the present. We will focus on the impact of nationalism, war, and revolution on the everyday experiences of women and men, and also look more broadly on the chaotic economic, political, social, and cultural life of the period. Of particular interest will be the rise of fascism and communism, and the challenge to Western-style liberal democracy, followed by the Cold War and communism’s collapse near the end of the century.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 141.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 141.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 141.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 181 West Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade 6 credits
The medieval Islamic and the European (or Atlantic) slave trades have had a tremendous influence on the history of Africa and the African Diaspora. This course offers an introduction to the history of West African peoples via their involvement in both of these trades from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. More specifically, students will explore the demography, the economics, the social structure, and the ideologies of slavery. They also will learn the repercussions of these trades for men’s and women’s lives, for the expansion of coastal and hinterland kingdoms, and for the development of religious practices and networks.
- Winter 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 181.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 181.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 181.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 184 Colonial West Africa 6 credits
This course surveys the history of West Africa during the colonial period, 1860-1960. It offers an introduction to the roles that Islam and Christianity played in establishing and maintaining colonial rule. It looks at the role of colonialism in shaping African ethnic identities and introducing new gender roles. In addition, we will examine the transition from slave labor to wage labor, and its role in exacerbating gender, generation, and class divisions among West Africans. The course also highlights some of the ritual traditions and cultural movements that flourished in response to colonial rule.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 184.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 235 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 235 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 232 Renaissance Worlds in France and Italy 6 credits
Enthusiasm, artistry, invention, exploration…. How do these notions of Renaissance culture play out in sources from the period? Using a range of evidence (historical, literary, and visual) from Italy and France in the fourteenth-sixteenth centuries we will explore selected issues of the period, including debates about the meaning of being human and ideal forms of government and education; the nature of God and mankind’s duties toward the divine; the family and gender roles; definitions of beauty and the goals of artistic achievement; accumulation of wealth; and exploration of new worlds and encounters with other peoples.
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HIST 232.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 243 The Peasants are Revolting! Society and Politics in the Making of Modern France 6 credits
Political propaganda of the French Revolutionary period tells a simple story of downtrodden peasants exploited by callous nobles, but what exactly was the relationship between the political transformations of France from the Renaissance through the French Revolution and the social, religious, and cultural tensions that characterized the era? This course explores the connections and conflicts between popular and elite culture as we survey French history from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries, making comparisons to social and political developments in other European countries along the way.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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HIST 243.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 243.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 244 The Enlightenment and Its Legacies 6 credits
The Enlightenment: praised for its role in promoting human rights, condemned for its role in underwriting colonialism; lauded for its cosmopolitanism, despised for its Eurocentrism… how should we understand the cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment, and what are its legacies? This course starts by examining essential Enlightenment texts by philosophes such as Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, and then the second half of the term focuses on unpacking the Enlightenment’s entanglements with modern ideas around topics such as religion, race, sex, gender, colonialism etc.
- Winter 2022
- International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 244.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 289 Gender and Ethics in Late Medieval France 3 credits
Acknowledged by contemporaries as one of the leading intellects of her time, Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1431) was an author of unusual literary range, resilience, and perceptiveness. In addition to composing romances, poetry, quasi-autobiographical works, royal biography, and political theory, she became one of the most articulate critics of the patriarchy and misogyny of her world and a critical voice in defense of female capability. Using Christine’s writings along with other contemporary documents as a foundation, we will explore perceptions of gender, the analysis and resistance to misogyny, the ethics love and personal relations, and the exercise of patriarchal power (and resistance to it) in domestic and public spheres in late medieval France.
- Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 289.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm