Art History (2022 - 2024)
Note: students who matriculated before fall 2021 should discuss prerequisites for advanced courses with the department. They may also consult the PDF of the 2020-2022 Bulletin at bulletin.cas.nyu.edu and scroll to the section for this department.
Required Foundational Course
Foundations of Art History
ARTH-UA 10 No prerequisite. Required for the major in art history. Lecture. Offered every semester. 4 points.
Introduces the requisite skills and concepts to develop a meaningful engagement with the visual arts and art history as a global discipline. Rather than a chronological survey of great works, provides examples and perspectives from a wide range of regions, periods, and cultures. Topics include materials and techniques of production; formal analysis; subject matter and iconography; historical and cultural contexts; the social role and formation of artists; and the history of art history as a discipline.
Survey Courses in Western Art and Architecture
No previous study is required for admission to the following courses (ARTH-UA 1 through 6). Students cannot receive credit for both History of Western Art I (ARTH-UA 1) and Ancient Art (ARTH-UA 3) or Medieval Art (ARTH-UA 4); or for both History of Western Art II (ARTH-UA 2) and Renaissance and Baroque Art (ARTH-UA 5) or Modern Art (ARTH-UA 6), as their contents overlap.
History of Western Art I
ARTH-UA 1 Identical to MEDI-UA 1. Students who have taken ARTH-UA 3 or ARTH-UA 4 will not receive credit for this course. Offered every semester. 4 points.
Introduction to the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture from ancient times to the dawn of the Renaissance, emphasizing the place of the visual arts in the history of civilization. Includes the study of significant works in New York museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cloisters, and the Brooklyn Museum.
History of Western Art II
ARTH-UA 2 Identical to MEDI-UA 2. Students who have taken ARTH-UA 5 or ARTH-UA 6 will not receive credit for this course. Offered every semester. 4 points.
Introduction to the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the early Renaissance to the present day. Includes the study of significant works in New York museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, the Morgan Museum and Library, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Ancient Art
ARTH-UA 3 Identical to CLASS-UA 310. Students who have taken ARTH-UA 1 will not receive credit for this course. Offered periodically. 4 points.
From the third millennium B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E. Traces developments from the first monuments and visual narratives of advanced civilizations in Mesopotamia, North Africa, and the Aegean to the expansion of Mediterranean interaction in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods, then shifts to the rise of the Roman Empire and through to the Christian imagery and abstract styles of the fourth century C.E. Studying the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum is essential.
Medieval Art
ARTH-UA 4 Identical to MEDI-UA 200. Students who have taken ARTH-UA 1 will not receive credit for this course. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Introduction to the arts of the Christian Middle Ages in the Greek East and Latin West ca. 200-1400 C.E. Covers architecture, monumental sculpture, painting, mosaics, stained glass, ivory and metalwork, and panel painting in their historical, religious, political, and social contexts. Topics include: creation of a vocabulary of Christian symbols, imagery, and architectural forms; medieval patrons, artists, and audiences; arts of pilgrimage, monastery, and cathedral; roles and functions of images. Integrates a study of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters.
Renaissance and Baroque Art
ARTH-UA 5 Identical to MEDI-UA 333. Students who have taken ARTH-UA 2 will not receive credit for this course. Offered every year. 4 points.
Introduction to art and architecture, 1400-1750, against the context of historical, cultural, religious, technological, and social change. Topics: emergence of humanism and its engagement with the ancient past; development of transformative techniques and technologies for making art; function of art in religious, public, and domestic settings; role of the patron; impact of Protestant and Catholic Reformations; proliferation of new genres. Studying the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick, and the Morgan Museum and Library is essential.
Modern Art
ARTH-UA 6 Students who have taken ARTH-UA 2 will not receive credit for this course. Offered every year. 4 points.
Western art from the late 18th century to present. Topics: neoclassicism and romanticism; realism; the impressionists; parallel developments in architecture; new sculptural tradition of Rodin; post impressionism to fauvism; expressionism; futurism; cubism; geometric abstraction in sculpture and painting; modernism in architecture in the 20th century; Dadaism and surrealism. Covers action painting, pop art, minimal art, and postmodernism. Studying the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art is expected in the course.
Advanced Courses in Ancient Western Art and Architecture
Birth of Greek Art: From the Bronze Age to the Geometric Period
ARTH-UA 101 Identical to CLASS-UA 311. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Surveys the art, archaeology, and culture of the Aegean Bronze Age and early Iron Age: from ancient Thera, to the palace-based states of Minoan Crete and the Mycenaean Greek mainland, to developments within communities of the eighth century B.C.E. Architecture, wall painting, sculpture, ceramics, and narrative in early Greek art are among the topics to be examined. Emphasis on critical approaches to material culture within the contexts of religion, sociopolitical and economic organization, burial practices, trade networks, and interactions with neighboring cultures.
Archaic and Classical Art: Greek and Etruscan
ARTH-UA 102 Identical to CLASS-UA 312. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Covers the seventh through the fourth century B.C.E., including the orientalizing and archaic styles, the emergence of the classical style, and the impact of Macedonian court art under the conquests of Alexander the Great. Studies architecture, sculpture, and vase painting within their historical and cultural contexts. Includes study of the Metropolitan Museum of Art collections.
Roman Art
ARTH-UA 103 Identical to CLASS-UA 313. No prerequisite. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Traces developments in art from the formation of the city of Rome in the early first millennium BCE to the sixth century C.E., when religion, style and imperial territory fundamentally shifted the trajectory of art and cultural interaction thereafter. Includes archaic and classical style art in Rome, the area of Rome’s expansion into Italy and the Mediterranean; interaction with Hellenistic art and culture in the east; and the art of the Roman Empire. Study of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum collections is essential.
Greek Architecture
ARTH-UA 104 Identical to CLASS-UA 353. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Covers Archaic through Hellenistic periods (eighth to first centuries B.C.E.). Provides a chronological survey of Greek architectural tradition from its Iron Age origins, marked by construction of the first all-stone temples, to the late Hellenistic period, embodied in the baroque palace architecture reflected in contemporary theatre stage-buildings. Related topics include: city planning and urbanism; building methods; traditions of architectural patronage.
Roman Architecture
ARTH-UA 105 Identical to CLASS-UA 354. No prerequisite. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Covers the Archaic period to the sixth century C.E. Traces Roman architecture from its early development in the milieu of the Mediterranean, among Greek and Etruscan peoples, through complex changes to engineering practices, availability of materials, political climate, and social and religious institutions. Topics: city planning and urbanism; Roman engineering; experience of space and plans in architectural design; and the interaction between Rome, neighboring territories, and provinces during the Empire.
Ancient Egyptian Art
ARTH-UA 110 No prerequisite. Offered every year. 4 points.
Traces developments in sculpture, painting, and architecture of ancient Egypt from predynastic beginnings through the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms until the conquest of Augustus (3100-40 B.C.E.). Emphasis on Egyptian art in the context of history, religion, and cultural patterns. Includes study of Egyptian collections in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
Advanced Courses in Medieval Western Art and Architecture
Art of the Early Middle Ages
ARTH-UA 201 Identical to MEDI-UA 201. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every other year. 4 points.
Christian architecture, sculpture, painting, mosaic, manuscript illumination, and luxury arts in the Greek East and Latin West from 200 C.E. through ca. 950 C.E. Considers visual and material culture of Christianity in light of the religious, historical, political, social, and cultural contexts. Style periods: Christian, early Byzantine, barbarian, insular, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Topics include: the commemoration of the dead; art and theology; emergence of the cult of saints; early medieval patrons; arts of pilgrimage and early monasticism; word and image in early medieval culture; and iconoclasm and debates about the role of images in early Christianity.
Romanesque Art
ARTH-UA 202 Identical to MEDI-UA 202. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every other year. 4 points.
Examines architecture, sculpture, painting, manuscript illumination, and treasury arts of the Latin West during ca. 950-1200 C.E., including Ottonian, Anglo-Saxon, Mozarabic, First Romanesque, and Romanesque art. Considers visual arts of Christianity in light of the historical, religious, political, social, and cultural contexts of their creation. Topics: the cult of saints and the arts; the art and architecture of pilgrimage and crusade; monasticism and the arts; Romanesque patrons, artists, and audiences; the Romanesque revival of monumental sculpture; Christian encounters with Islam and Judaism; secular themes in Romanesque art; word and image in Romanesque art; medieval attitudes toward the classical tradition.
Gothic Art in Northern Europe
ARTH-UA 203 Identical to MEDI-UA 203. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every other year. 4 points.
Art of the "age of the cathedrals"—including architecture, sculpture, stained glass, manuscript illumination, wall painting, luxury arts, and tapestry—from origins of the Gothic style in the 12th-century Ile-de-France through the early 15th century. Considers artistic developments in light of religious, historical, political, social, and cultural contexts of their creation. Topics include: Gothic patrons, artists, builders, and art-making; lay literacy and the patronage and reception of art; the cult of the Virgin and the arts; the Gothic image as bearer of religious, political, and social values and ideologies; arts of chivalry and courtly love; naturalism and developments in portraiture; the roles of art in devotional and mystical experience; Gothic art and late medieval notions of vision and the self.
Art and Architecture in the Age of Giotto: Italian Art, 1200-1400
ARTH-UA 204 Identical to MEDI-UA 204. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every other year. 4 points.
Traces the evolution of the painted altarpiece in relation to its liturgical, devotional, and cultic functions, with consideration of artistic personalities such as Duccio, Simone Martini, and the Lorenzetti. Studies great fresco cycles in churches and chapels from the point of view of artists (including Giotto and Taddeo Gaddi), patron(s), and program. Surveys key monuments of religious and civic architecture and their painted and sculpted decoration within the historical and political contexts of the emerging Italian city-states. Topics include: mendicant orders and the arts; Black Death and art; status of the artist; gender and social class in representation and patronage.
Medieval Architecture
ARTH-UA 205 Identical to MEDI-UA 205. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every other year. 4 points.
Surveys the architecture of the Middle Ages in Western Europe with emphasis on the period from ca. 1000-1500 C.E., from the emergence of the Romanesque to the late Gothic period. Examines monumental religious and secular projects, such as cathedrals and civic palaces, from stylistic, technical, functional, iconographic, and ideological perspectives. Topics include regionalism, patronage, the status of the "architect," and the concept of the multimedia ensemble. Situates buildings within their social, religious, and political contexts.
Advanced Courses in Western Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture
Architecture and Urbanism in Renaissance Europe
ARTH-UA 301 Identical to MEDI-UA 301. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
A new style of architecture developed in 15th century Florence against the background of a vigorously evolving humanist culture and spread throughout Italy and beyond over the course of the 16th century. Traces the evolution of Renaissance architecture through the work of major figures such as Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Michelangelo, and Palladio. Special attention is given to the social, cultural, and historical conditions that shaped the built environment.
Architecture and Urbanism in the Age of the Baroque
ARTH-UA 302 Formerly European Architecture in the Age of Grandeur. Identical to MEDI-UA 302. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
An architectural history of Europe, 1600-1750, with emphasis on the social, cultural, and historical conditions that shaped the built environment. Palaces, churches, villas, gardens, and urban spaces such as streets and piazzas are studied in terms of the life that went on in and around them. Themes include the pursuit of status through architectural patronage; the use of buildings to communicate political power or religious authority; the role of ceremony and spectacle in shaping architectural space and design; and the dissemination of the baroque style beyond Europe to the colonies.
Northern Renaissance Art, 1400-1530
ARTH-UA 303 Identical to MEDI-UA 303. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every other year. 4 points.
Addresses painting north of the Alps, ca. 1380- 1530, partly late medieval, partly Renaissance. Examines the connection of breathtaking technique and deeply religious aspects of the art to function, symbolic thought, patronage, and changes in the society to which painting was related. Also explains ways in which we write history when most of the vital written documents are missing or destroyed. Artists discussed include Jan van Eyck, the Master of Flemalle, Rogier van der Weyden, Jean Fouquet, Hugo van der Goes, Jerome Bosch, Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grünewald, and Hans Holbein.
Sixteenth Century Art North of the Alps
ARTH-UA 304 Identical to MEDI-UA 304. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Topics include the development of landscape as a separate subject in art; the Reformation's effects on subject matter and aesthetics; what northerners learned from the classicizing Italians and what the Italians learned from northern realism; aspects of patronage and the art market; the northern interest in peasant life and in the grotesque; the sociopolitical significance of dress; and the importance of printmaking. Among the artists considered are the German artists Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grünewald, Hans Holbein the Younger, and the Cranach family; the Netherlandish artists Hieronymus (Jerome) Bosch, Quentin Massys, Lucas van Leyden, Jan Gossaert, and Pieter Brueghel the Elder; and Jean and François Clouet and other artists associated with the French court.
Italian Renaissance Sculpture
ARTH-UA 305 Identical to MEDI-UA 305. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
The role of sculpture in the visual arts in Italy from ca. 1400-1600. Begins with Donatello and his contemporaries, including Ghiberti, Verrocchio, and Pollaiuolo, before moving on to Michelangelo's sculpture and a comparison of his works with those of contemporaries and followers, ending with Giambologna.
Early Masters of Italian Renaissance Painting
ARTH-UA 306 Identical to MEDI-UA 306. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every other year. 4 points.
Achievements of the chief painters of the 15th century with special attention to the Tuscan tradition. A brief introduction to Giotto and his time provides background for the paintings of Masaccio and his artistic heirs (Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Piero della Francesca). In the later 15th century, social and cultural changes generated by power shifts from Medici Florence to papal Rome also affected art patronage, creating new tensions and challenges for artists and fostering the emergence of new modes of visualization. Topics include the role of pictorial narrative, perspective, and mimesis; the major techniques of Renaissance painting; and the relationship of painting to the other visual arts.
The Age of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo
ARTH-UA 307 Identical to MEDI-UA 307. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts in Florence and Rome from about 1470 to the mid-16th century. Begins with Andrea del Verrochio, Leonardo, Perugino, Raphael, Domenico Ghirlandaio, and Michelangelo; investigates new pictorial modes emerging after 1510 in Andrea del Sarto, Pontormo, Rosso, Parmigianino, Giulio Romano, and other members of Raphael's school; and then considers their younger contemporaries and successors, including Bronzino and Vasari. Emphasizes the patronage, symbolic tasks, and functions of Renaissance painting and critically examines historical concepts such as high Renaissance, mannerism, and maniera.
The Golden Age of Venetian Painting
ARTH-UA 308 Identical to MEDI-UA 308. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
The art of Venice and its surroundings, Emilia and Lombardy. Covers the Bellini and Vivarini artistic families, Giorgione, Titian, and Sebastiano del Piombo; the itinerant careers of Carlo Crivelli and Lorenzo Lotto; and the origins and implications of Correggio's and his student Parmigianino's daring experiments. Examines the significance of the mature Titian for his contemporaries Veronese, Tintoretto, and Bassano. In the 18th century, Tiepolo brings Venice's golden age to a close. Stresses artistic reciprocity between northern and central Italy.
Italian Art in the Age of the Baroque
ARTH-UA 309 Identical to MEDI-UA 309. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Painting and sculpture in Italy, 1580-1700. Highlights major developments in the visual arts and the work of leading artists including Caravaggio, Carracci, Bernini, and Poussin. Examines the blurring of boundaries between the real and the imaginary, the instantaneous and the infinite, the imitative and the innovative. Special attention is paid to the creative process and the influences on it: the role of the patron, the logistics of site, and the artist's own thought process as revealed through preparatory drawings and sketches.
Dutch and Flemish Painting, 1600-1700
ARTH-UA 311 Identical to MEDI-UA 311. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
In Flanders, Rubens overturned all previous concepts of painting and was the first to deserve the term "baroque." Van Dyck, his pupil, took Rubens's style to England. Dutch painters, including Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer, moved in a different direction, addressing every aspect of their country and society: the peasant, the quiet life of the well-ordered household, the sea and landscape, views of the cities, and church interiors.
French Art from Versailles to the Age of Rococo, c. 1660-1760
ARTH-UA 313 Formerly French Art: Renaissance to Rococo, 1520-1770. Identical to MEDI-UA 313. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
French art, architecture, and material culture from the mid-17th to late 18th centuries. Topics include the artistic splendors of the court of Louis XIV at Versailles and the relationship of art and politics; the French Academy and the Paris Salon; cross-cultural exchange and its impact on decorative arts and interior design; gardens and landscape; intersections between Enlightenment art, philosophy, and science; gender and patronage; and the rise and fall of the rococo.
Art in Spain from El Greco to Goya
ARTH-UA 315 Identical to MEDI-UA 315. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Begins with El Greco in Italy and Toledo, Velázquez, Zurbarán, Murillo, Ribera, and Valdés Leal before moving to the 18th century (the Tiepolo family, Meléndez). Defines Spain in the 16th and 17th century as a global power by considering colonial-era art in such New World centers as Mexico City and Lima. The focus then shifts to the art of Francisco de Goya and the projection of Spanish art into the modern era.
Latin American Art: From Colonial to Modern
ARTH-UA 316 Identical to MEDI-UA 316. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Begins with a brief consideration of the achievements of the great pre-Hispanic civilizations (Aztec, Maya, Inca, and others) prior to contact with the Iberian world. Emphasis on colonial painting, sculpture, and architecture in Mexico and Central America, the Caribbean, and the Andes. Examines painting and sculpture of the 19th century and the secularization of Latin American art, and then the establishment of modernism from 1900 onward. Important modern artists such as Frida Kahlo, Joaquín Torres-García, Tarsila do Amaral, Wifredo Lam, and the surrealists bring the survey to approximately 1950.
Advanced Courses in Modern Western Art and Architecture
American Art
ARTH-UA 404 Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Examines the art that developed in what is now the United States, from the beginnings of European colonization until the First World War and the internationalizing of American art. Includes painting, sculpture, and architecture, concentrating on the work of Copley, Cole, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, and others. New York City provides major collections of painting and sculpture, as well as outstanding examples of architecture.
Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art
ARTH-UA 407 Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Considers the varied avant-gardes of the United States, England, France, Italy, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia in the years immediately after World War II, then focuses on the development of the New York School from abstract expressionism, through neo-dada and other movements of the late 1950s, and into the pop art and minimalism of the 1960s. Also examines the parallel but divergent development of an international avant-garde linking France, Italy, and South America. Emphasizes the global perspective by surveying avant-gardes of the 1950s and 1960s in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Japan, and how they responded to developments in Paris and New York.
Early Modern Architecture: 1776-1914
ARTH-UA 408 Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601) or Expressive Culture: Architecture in New York Field Study (CORE-UA 722) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Focuses on the creation of modern building types such as the bank, state capitol, museum, railroad station, and skyscraper. After considering the forms and meanings associated with neoclassicism, examines the Gothic revival and subsequent 19th-century movements (e.g., high Victorian Gothic, Second Empire, beaux-arts classicism) as efforts to find appropriate expressions for diverse building forms. Students consider changes resulting from the Industrial Revolution, including developments in technology, and the reforms of art nouveau and secession architecture.
Modern Architecture: 1914 to the Present
ARTH-UA 409 Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or Early Modern Architecture: 1776-1914 (ARTH-UA 408) or History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601) or Expressive Culture: Architecture in New York Field Study (CORE-UA 722) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every year. 4 points.
Considers such subjects as currents on the eve of the First World War, new technology, and the impact of the war; architecture and politics between the wars; the rise of expressionist design; the international style and the concurrent adaptation of traditional styles; art deco design; mid-century glass curtain-wall architecture; brutalism; and reactions to modernism. Includes ideological and political considerations and works by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, James Stirling, and Frank Gehry, among others.
Neoclassicism to Realism
ARTH-UA 411 Formerly Age of Revolutions, 1750-1860. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
The Enlightenment's valorization of cool rationalism contributed to the rise of neoclassicism as a dominant style, while the era's opposing celebration of emotion as the purest form of intellectual and spiritual expression (as in Rousseau) gave rise to romanticism. Following on the heels of romanticism, realism has been seen as both a rejection and an extension of it. Focuses on these three stylistic movements and examines how late 18th- and early 19th-century artists negotiated not just the aesthetic ideas of the Enlightenment but its political consequences as well.
Impressionism to Post-Impressionism
ARTH-UA 412 Formerly Impressionism and After, 1860-1900. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Begins by considering how impressionism refined and redirected the artistic aims of 19th-century realism, then follows the development of progressive art to the brink of cubism and pure abstraction in the first years of the 20th century. Following impressionism and post-impressionism, close attention is paid to symbolism, aestheticism, art nouveau, the Arts and Crafts movement, fauvism, and expressionism. The aesthetic aims of these movements are analyzed in tandem with the social and cultural conditions that generated them.
Cubism to Surrealism
ARTH-UA 413 Formerly Era of the Avant-Gardes, 1900-1945. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
After analyzing the invention of cubism by Picasso and Braque, examines its international reverberations, including Italian futurism, the later phases of German expressionism, and constructivism in revolutionary Russia. The dada movement in the period during and after World War I is considered as a reaction to the apparent cultural and artistic bankruptcy of Western civilization. Addresses the tensions in the multiple currents of surrealism: metamorphic, academic, and abject, and then analyzes painting after World War II, from Pollock to Dubuffet, as an extension and transformation of prewar trends.
Contemporary Art
ARTH-UA 414 Formerly Postmodern to Contemporary Art, 1970-2014. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every year. 4 points.
First concentrates on the development of contemporary art in New York, London, and Berlin. Discussion of the decade 1975-1985 is organized around the opposition between art as social critique and art as spiritual expression. Discussion of 1985-1995 focuses on the re-emergence of narrative, and on identity and bodily experience as organizing metaphors. Discussion of 1995-2010 focuses on comic-book imagery, amusement park installation, and allegorical abstraction. Finally, considers the diverse art scenes of Russia and Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and Australia, and China from 1989 to the present. Considers how "Western" art formats have provided vehicles for responding to diverse experiences such as the collapse of Communism, rapid industrialization, and ethnic and religious conflict.
Aesthetic History of Photography
ARTH-UA 431 Identical to PHTI-UT 1102. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every spring. 4 points.
Chronicles the history of photography's complex and symbiotic relationship to painting, sculpture, architecture, installation, and performance. Beginning with the medium's invention and the early fights of its practitioners to establish themselves as fine artists, describes photographers' unique attempts to negotiate their relationships with both artistic movements and the media culture of which they are a part. Assesses the impact of art movements, cultural attitudes, and new technologies on photographers across the history of the medium.
Social History of Photography
ARTH-UA 432 Identical to PHTI-UT 1101. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every fall. 4 points.
A social and political history of photography, from its beginnings to the present day. Focuses on the popular forms of photographic imagery, such as advertising, fashion, travel photography, family portraits and snapshots, scientific documents, documentary reform, and photojournalism, and describes the medium's relationship to Western (and global) social history during the modern era. Readings from Susan Sontag, John Berger, and Roland Barthes.
Toward a Critical Vocabulary of Photography
ARTH-UA 433 Identical to PHTI-UT 1129. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Emphasizes the analysis and synthesis of visual and written information. Critical readings from Roland Barthes, Donna Haraway, Susan Sontag, Boris Groys, bell hooks, Thomas Kuhn, Mircea Eliade, John Berger, and George Kubler, as well as selections from fiction and graphic novels, are considered in relation to historical and contemporary pictures. Considers topics in philosophy, art history, science, literature, and cultural studies that are relevant to photography.
Museums and the Art Market
ARTH-UA 701 Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every year. 4 points.
An overview of history and theory. Presents a series of lectures and case studies examining such issues as the birth of the museum, the role played by world's fairs and biennials, the impact of collectors, the art market, and the gallery system. Visits to museums, galleries, and auction houses in New York.
Courses in Non-Western Art and Architecture
No previous study is required for admission to the following courses unless a prerequisite is stated in the description.
Asian Art in New York Museums and Galleries
ARTH-UA 507 No prerequisite. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Hands-on fieldwork at museum storerooms and exhibitions, private collections, and commercial galleries. Content varies with the museum exhibitions available at the time of offering. Emphasizes visual analysis and requires active discussion. Particularly suitable for students interested in a museum or gallery career.
East Asian Art I: China, Korea, Japan to 1000 C.E.
ARTH-UA 510 Identical to EAST-UA 91. No prerequisite. Offered every fall. 4 points.
An introduction to the art and culture of the Far East, presented in a chronological and thematic approach corresponding to the major dynastic and cultural changes of China, Korea, and Japan. Teaches how to "read" works of art in order to interpret a culture or a historical period; aims at a better understanding of the similarities and differences among the cultures of the Far East.
East Asian Art II: China, Korea, Japan from 1000 C.E. to the Present
ARTH-UA 511 Identical to EAST-UA 92. No prerequisite. Offered every spring. 4 points.
An introductory survey. Emphasizes an overall understanding of the development of art and culture, as well as mastery of specific works of art. East Asian Art I followed the development of the common cultural heritage of the Northeast Asia region. Part of this commonality is due to the extraordinary influence of an early-developing Chinese civilization on Japan and Korea. However, Japan and Korea also developed their own cultures and arts. Topics include Song landscape paintings, Edo "floating world" prints, Koryo celadons, and modern art.
Arts of China
ARTH-UA 512 No prerequisite. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Explores architecture and gardens, painting and sculpture, and ceramics and textiles. Concentrates on the function of artworks, their physical and sociological context, and the meanings they convey. The time period covered varies, but is always limited to around five hundred years.
Arts of Japan
ARTH-UA 520 No prerequisite. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Focuses on buildings, sculptures, paintings, and decorative objects in the development of Japanese art and society from ca. 10,000 BCE into the modern era. Proceeds chronologically and investigates such themes as the relation between past and present, artists and patrons, imported and indigenous, and “high and low.” Time periods covered vary by semester.
South Asian Art I: Indus Valley to 1200
ARTH-UA 530 No prerequisite. Offered periodically. 4 points.
An introductory survey of the history of South Asia from 2000 B.C.E. to 1200 C.E., with an emphasis on the Indian subcontinent. From the Indus Valley culture to the present day, artistic production has played a critical role in the transmission of religious beliefs and the development of cultural systems in and around South Asia. We consider the historical circumstances surrounding the production of South and Southeast Asian art, as well as the problems that art historians face when trying to interpret the surviving evidence. Examines art in a variety of media, including architecture, urban form, sculpture, painting, and performance.
South Asian Art II: 1200 to Present
ARTH-UA 531 No prerequisite. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Begins with the introduction of Islamic artist traditions into the Indian subcontinent through the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate, which effectively integrated itself into a widely diverse and multicultural range of preexisting artistic practices. Follows the cultivation of new tastes in the Mughal and Rajput courts through the vigorous interaction among Persian, Indic, and European artists and elites. Finally, turns to the colonial and postcolonial artistic responses to South Asia's complex past(s). By looking at art in a range of media—including painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography—examines how art actively served as an expression of political authority and cultural identity.
Art in the Islamic World I: From the Prophet to the Mongols
ARTH-UA 540 No prerequisite. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Provides an outline of Islamic material in its early and classical periods, from 650 to 1200 C.E. The period saw the initial formation of an Arab empire stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, a decline in centralized authority, and the rise to political prominence of various North African, Iranian, and Central Asian dynasties from the 10th century onward. These political developments are reflected in the increasingly heterogeneous nature of Islamic material culture over this time span.
Art in the Islamic World II: From the Mongols to Modernism
ARTH-UA 541 No prerequisite. Offered periodically. 4 points.
An introduction to the arts of Islam during a period of dynamic cultural and political change in the Islamic world. Beginning with the Mongol invasions of the 13th century, traces the development of Islamic art and architecture through the eras of Timur, the "gunpowder empires" (the Mughals, Ottomans, Safavids), and European colonialism, to the art of the nation-state in the 20th century.
Arts of Africa
ARTH-UA 560 Identical to SCA-UA 787. No prerequisite. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Introduction to historical and contemporary arts of Africa, ranging from ancient architecture, masquerades, and traditional sculpture to modern photography, recent digital works, and multi-media installations. Special attention given to movement between societies within Africa and between Africa and the Americas and Europe, including histories of imperialism and decolonization. Introduces methods and vocabulary of art history, and the challenges and politics of interpreting African arts in the globalizing world.
North American Indian Arts
ARTH-UA 570 No prerequisite. Offered periodically. 4 points.
An introductory survey of North American Indian and Eskimo art. It covers the following art-producing areas and cultures: Northwest Coast (Ozette, Salish, Nootka, Haida, Kwakiutl, Tlingit); Alaska (Old Bering Sea, Ipiutak, and Yupik Eskimo); Southwest (Hohokam, Mogollon, Anasazi, Hopi, Navajo); Plains (Arapaho, Kiowa, Mandan, Sioux); Woodlands (Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian, Ojibwa, Iroquois); and contemporary art (tradition and innovation in contemporary Native American and Eskimo art).
Other Advanced Courses in Art and Architecture
European and American Decorative Arts: Renaissance to Modern
ARTH-UA 317 Formerly ARTH-UA 10. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
History of the design of objects used in daily life. Studies works of art in a social and historical context. Beginning with the Italian, French, and northern Renaissance, surveys the Louis styles in France, international neoclassicism, and the Victorian style. Concludes with the modern period. Stresses the history of furniture, but also covers glass, silverware, tapestries, ceramics, wallpaper, carpets, and small bronzes.
Special Topics in the History of Art
ARTH-UA 150, ARTH-UA 250, ARTH-UA 350, ARTH-UA 450, ARTH-UA 550, ARTH-UA 750, and ARTH-UA 850 Prerequisites vary by topic. 4 points.
Topics change from semester to semester and are sometimes outside of the usual classification areas. Those that carry prerequisites are normally considered advanced courses in the major, satisfying requirements in the ancient or medieval, Renaissance or baroque, or modern areas.
Advanced Seminar in Art History
Advanced Seminar
ARTH-UA 800 Prerequisite: permission of the director of undergraduate studies. Open to departmental majors who have completed Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) and four other 4-point art history courses with a C or better. Offered in the fall and spring. 4 points.
Exposure in small-group discussion format to historical/critical problem(s) of concern to the faculty member offering the seminar. Requires oral report(s) and/or a substantial paper.
Honors Thesis and Independent Study in Art History
Senior Honors Thesis
ARTH-UA 801 4 points.
Open to departmental majors who have been accepted as candidates for honors in art history in the first term of their senior year and who have the permission of the director of undergraduate studies. See this department's subheading "Graduation with Departmental Honors" for eligibility requirements. Students are expected to work on their theses over a period of two semesters by following ARTH-UA 801 in the fall with ARTH-UA 804 in the spring (see Independent Study, below). Applicants must have a GPA of 3.65 in art history courses and an overall GPA of 3.65 as stipulated by the College's honors program regulations.
Independent Study
ARTH-UA 803, 804 Prerequisite: written permission of the director of undergraduate studies and of an adviser. 1 to 2 points per term.
Independent study is done only exceptionally. It consists of the investigation, under the guidance and supervision of a designated instructor, of a research topic agreed on by the student and instructor and approved by the chair. Requires a substantial report written by the end of the term.
Graduate Courses Open to Art History Majors
Juniors and seniors who have a 3.65 grade point average in five art history courses may take, for undergraduate credit, the 1000- and 2000-level courses offered in the Graduate School of Arts and Science at the Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street. For more information, please consult the Graduate School of Arts and Science Bulletin or the announcement of courses of the Institute of Fine Arts. Before registering for these courses, students must obtain the permission of the director of undergraduate studies, as well as that of the instructor of the course.
Urban Design and Architecture Studies: Foundational Courses
History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present
ARTH-UA 601 No prerequisite. Offered every semester. 4 points.
Introduction to the history of Western architecture, emphasizing the formal, structural, programmatic, and contextual aspects of selected major monuments from ancient times to the present. Monuments discussed include the Parthenon, the Roman Pantheon, Hagia Sophia, the cathedral at Chartres, St. Peter's, Palladio's Villa Rotonda, St. Paul's Cathedral, Versailles, the London Crystal Palace, Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion, and others. Also considers aspects of city planning in relation to certain monuments and to the culture and events of their time.
Shaping the Urban Environment
ARTH-UA 661 No prerequisite. Offered every semester. 4 points.
Introduces basic concepts of Western urbanism, focusing primarily on Europe and the United States. Lectures, readings, and course work present both a survey of city form since antiquity and an analysis of contemporary urban issues. Investigates key elements of urban development, including roads, walls, water, housing, transportation, and open space, as well as factors influencing these elements, such as types and shapes of cities, engineering, and architectural form as an expression of political systems. Special attention is given to real estate development, landmark preservation, city planning, and community participation in New York City.
Urban Design and Architecture Studies: Architecture and Urban History Courses
Greek Architecture
ARTH-UA 104 Identical to CLASS-UA 353. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
See this department's subheading "Advanced Courses in Ancient Art and Architecture."
Roman Architecture
ARTH-UA 105 Identical to CLASS-UA 354. No prerequisite. Offered periodically. 4 points.
See this department's subheading "Advanced Courses in Ancient Art and Architecture."
Medieval Architecture
ARTH-UA 205 Identical to MEDI-UA 205. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically. 4 points.
See this department's subheading "Advanced Courses in Medieval Art and Architecture."
Architecture and Urbanism in Renaissance Europe
ARTH-UA 301 Identical to MEDI-UA 301. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every other year. 4 points.
See this department's subheading "Advanced Courses in Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture."
Architecture and Urbanism in the Age of the Baroque
ARTH-UA 302 Formerly European Architecture in the Age of Grandeur. Identical to MEDI-UA 302. Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every other year. 4 points.
See this department's subheading "Advanced Courses in Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture."
Early Modern Architecture: 1776-1914
ARTH-UA 408 Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601) or Expressive Culture: Architecture in New York Field Study (CORE-UA 722) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every year. 4 points.
See this department's subheading "Advanced Courses in Modern Art and Architecture."
Modern Architecture: 1914 to the Present
ARTH-UA 409 Prerequisite: Foundations of Art History (ARTH-UA 10) or Early Modern Architecture: 1776-1914 (ARTH-UA 408) or History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601) or Expressive Culture: Architecture in New York Field Study (CORE-UA 722) or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered every year. 4 points.
See this department's subheading "Advanced Courses in Modern Art and Architecture."
Architecture in New York: Field Study
ARTH-UA 602 Offered every year. 4 points.
Examines the history of architecture and urbanism through the landmark buildings and neighborhoods of New York City. Addresses key issues of architectural history, including style, building type, patronage, professional education, adaptive reuse, construction techniques, and the process of historic preservation, all within the context of urban and national development. Meetings consist of classroom lectures and field study trips, including visits to Broadway/ Battery, South Street Seaport, City Hall area, SoHo, Greenwich Village, Ladies' Mile/Gramercy, Upper West Side, Grand Central/42nd Street, Park Avenue, and Rockefeller Center.
Special Topics in Urban Design and Architecture Studies
ARTH-UA 650, 850 Prerequisites vary according to topic. 4 points.
Subjects change from semester to semester and are outside of the usual classification areas.
Cities in History
ARTH-UA 662 Prerequisite: Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661) or permission of the program director. Offered every other year. 4 points.
Historical survey of city types, plans, and symbolic meanings from classical Greece to the present. Subjects include ancient towns and planned cities, especially those of the Roman Empire; medieval commercial centers and cathedral towns; Renaissance plazas and baroque street systems; and 19th-century industrial, colonial, and resort cities. Emphasis on European and American cities. Discussion of London, Paris, and Rome throughout.
History of City Planning: 19th and 20th Centuries
ARTH-UA 663 Prerequisite: Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661) or permission of the program director. Offered every year. 4 points.
Examines the history of cities, planning, and urban design in Europe and the United States since 1800. Emphasizes the social, political, and economic factors shaping modern cities, including industrialization, housing, sanitation, transportation, social reform, recreation, and infrastructure, as well as cultural and aesthetic debates about style, monumentality, and diversity in cities. Incudes field trips to notably planned sites in the New York area.
Urban Design and Architecture Studies: Seminars
Ideology and Urban Design
ARTH-UA 35 Prerequisites: History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601), Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661), and permission of the program director. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Examines the building of an urban environment as a reflection of ideology. Examples illustrate interrelationships of architectural and urban forms and ideological thought. Topics include: the International Style in democratic Europe, 1918-1933; the U.S.S.R. during the years after the revolution of 1917; the U.S.S.R. under Stalin, National Socialism in Germany, 1933-1945; Eastern European countries; the U.S.A. today; cultural centers, urban and suburban developments, central business districts, and civic centers.
Decision Making and Urban Design
ARTH-UA 670 Prerequisites: History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601), Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661), and permission of the program director. Offered every year. 4 points.
The impact and limitations of private and public decision-making power on urban design and architecture. City architecture in light of the values and priorities set by a society. Recognition of citizens' groups as increasingly important factors in city planning and related changes. Critically evaluates the complexity of decision-making and historical circumstances as related to the built urban environment on the basis of historical and modern American and European examples.
Architecture in Context
ARTH-UA 671 Prerequisites: History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601), Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661), and permission of the program director. 4 points.
Examines the practice of architecture through the lens of a NYC architectural firm. A range of projects is considered through presentations, case studies, and site visits. Each week is devoted to a theme that illustrates the importance of design and sustainability as it relates to civic engagement and social responsibility, the different phases of project development, the influence of regulations on design, and primary building systems.
Environmental Design: Issues and Methods
ARTH-UA 672 Prerequisites: History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601), Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661), and permission of the program director. Offered every year. 4 points.
Examines the manifold technological considerations that affect urban building and urban environmental quality in cities today. Topics include the specifics of power supply, heating, lighting, ventilation, internal traffic (vertical and horizontal), pollution control, and other topics of immediate significance. Focuses on the potential of technology to resolve urban environmental problems.
Urban Design: Infrastructure
ARTH-UA 673 Prerequisites: History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601), Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661), and permission of the program director. Offered every year. 4 points.
Serves as a laboratory for the investigation of New York City's infrastructure, using the definition of the word as a point of departure. In what ways can the city be perceived as a collective undertaking, with intricate components interwoven in continuous strands? What systems and forces give the city and its neighborhoods their current form, and what influences their future shape? Can these systems be dissected? What do these analyses tell us about the relationship of the city to its inhabitants and to the wider environment? Investigates the street grid, water supply, waste disposal, and subway system.
Urban Design and the Law
ARTH-UA 674 Prerequisites: History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601), Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661), and permission of the program director. Offered every year. 4 points.
Relationship between physical surroundings and the basis of society in law. Examines the effects of zoning regulations and building codes; urban renewal legislation; condemnation procedures; real estate law; law concerning tenants; taxation; special bodies such as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; preservation and landmarks; licensing procedures for architects, engineers, and planners; and pollution control measures. Special attention to laws of New York City and nearby communities.
Seminar in Urban Options for the Future
ARTH-UA 675 Prerequisites: History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601), Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661), and permission of the program director. Offered every year. 4 points.
Explores the nature of today's urbanism with an eye on understanding future prospects for cities through lectures, extensive readings, class discussions/presentations, and "mapping exercises" which take students out of the classroom and into the city. Topics include sustainable urban futures, the consequences of dramatic demographic shifts, smart growth practices, landscape urbanism, and the phenomenon of exploding/imploding cities.
Drawing for Architects and Others
ARTH-UA 676 Prerequisites: History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601), Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661), and permission of the program director. Offered every semester. 4 points.
Teaches how to perceive and to record phenomena manually without relying on formulaic methods of drawing perspective, volumetrics, and the like. Encourages the examination of proportion, scale, light, shade, and texture, as well as means of expression, the nature and essence of objects, various media, and graphic composition. Students create a comprehensive series of drawings and build a portfolio.
Reading the City
ARTH-UA 677 Prerequisites: History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601), Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661), and permission of the program director. Offered every year. 4 points.
Lectures, discussions, and field walks primarily examine the architects and the forces that shaped the historical fabric of New York around the turn of the 20th century. Students learn to read the historical stratigraphy of the city’s architecture by utilizing primary and secondary sources (maps, prints, and panoramas). Considers how understanding context and history can inform current architectural practice.
Parks, Plants, and People
ARTH-UA 679 Prerequisites: History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601), Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661), and permission of the program director. Offered periodically. 2 points.
Studies the components of successful urban green public spaces designed for and about people. Requires numerous site visits to important New York City parks and gardens. Considers the role that good planting and a connection with nature plays in improving the quality of life in the city.
Case Studies in Historic Preservation
ARTH-UA 681 Prerequisites: History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601), Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661), and permission of the program director. Offered in the spring. 4 points.
A survey of the history, philosophy, and practice of historic preservation on the national and local levels. Case studies present the field as a civic responsibility and public activity. Equips and energizes students to be involved in the quality of the built environment in general and historic preservation in particular wherever they may live, and wherever their professional paths may take them.
Urban Design and Health
ARTH-UA 682 Prerequisite: History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601), Shaping the Urban Environment (ARTH-UA 661), and permission of the program director. Offered in the spring. 4 points.
Architecture of modern cities, planning procedures, and technology in terms of their relationship to public health. Topics: building legislation; sanitary engineering; problems of pollution engendered and solved; design of mass housing; design of hospitals, including contemporary controversies and community participation; design and psychological disorder; and medical fact and theory and their relationship to architectural design.
Honors Thesis and Independent Study in Urban Design and Architecture Studies
Senior Honors Thesis: Urban Design and Architecture Studies
ARTH-UA 690, 691 Open to departmental majors who have been accepted as candidates for honors in urban design by the first term of their senior year and who have the permission of the director of undergraduate studies. 4 points per term.
See this department's subheading "Graduation with Departmental Honors" for eligibility requirements. Students are expected to work on their theses over a period of two semesters. A GPA of 3.65 in urban design courses and an overall GPA of 3.65 as stipulated by the College's honors program regulations are necessary.
Independent Study
ARTH-UA 803, 804 Prerequisites: written permission of the program director and of an adviser. 1 to 2 points per term.
See this department's subheading "Honors Thesis and Independent Studies in Art History."
Urban Design and Architecture Studies: Courses in Other CAS Departments Acceptable for Major Credit
Urban Society
ANTH-UA 44 Prerequisite: Culture, Power, Society (ANTH-UA 1) or permission of the instructor. 4 points.
See description under anthropology.
Urban Economics
ECON-UA 227 Identical to SCA-UA 751. Prerequisite: Introduction to Microeconomics (ECON-UA 2). 4 points.
See description under economics.
Cities in a Global Context
SCA-UA 602 4 points.
See description under metropolitan studies.
Cities, Communities, and Urban Life
SOC-UA 460 Identical to SCA-UA 760. 4 points.
See description under sociology.
With departmental approval, other courses may be substituted.
Graduate Courses Open to Urban Design and Architecture Studies Majors
Under special circumstances, students are allowed to enroll for courses in the Graduate School of Arts and Science and in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. If these courses are credited toward the undergraduate degree, no advanced credit is allowed toward a graduate degree. The Wagner program offers undergraduate courses in management of nonprofit organizations and in the role of government in art production and consumption.