The following courses, numbered 5000-9999, are offered for graduate credit. Courses numbered 5000-6999 which are offered for undergraduate credit only may be found in the undergraduate bulletin, as well as all other undergraduate courses (numbered 0900-4999). Courses in the following list numbered 5000-6999 may be taken for undergraduate credit unless specifically restricted to graduate students as indicated by individual course limitations. For interpretation of numbering system, signs and abbreviations, see University Courses.
Open only to art history or art majors. Exploration of media not normally dealt with in courses on modernism: such as video, performance, installations, and computer technologies. (I)
Prereq: consent of instructor. Open only to art history majors. Introduction to the methods of research in art history. History of the discipline's methodology examined through selective readings. (I)
Open only to art history or art majors. Prereq: A H 1110 and A H 1120. Sculpture, painting and architecture of the Greek world from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. (I)
Open only to art history or art majors. Prereq: A H 1110 and A H 1120. Development of Rome into an imperial capital. Design, function and political significance of public monuments in the city. (I)
Open only to art history or art majors. Prereq: A H 1110 and A H 1120. Greek painting, sculpture and architecture of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Emphasis on decorative programs of temples and cult statues. (I)
Prereq: A H 1110 and A H 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. Painting and sculpture of the Roman Republic and Empire, and their cultural context. (Y)
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. Art and architecture of the Mediterranean and Western Europe, A.D. 200-700. Formation and development of distinctive Christian tradition in context of the later Roman world. Emphasis on interaction between pagan, Christian and Jewish traditions. (B)
Open only to art history or art majors. Prereq: A H 1110 and A H 1120. The history of Athens as an urban center in antiquity. Public monuments, buildings and landscape as reflecting the city's aspirations and fortunes. (I)
Open only to art history or art majors. Prereq: A H 1110 and A H 1120. Interest in Classical antiquity as shown in English architecture of the seventeenth century. Domestic, state and religious architecture, urban planning, garden design and landscape architecture, in contexts of political and social developments. (I)
Open only to art history or art majors. Art and architecture of Constantinople in the Sixth Century and its place in the larger Mediterranean world. (B)
Prereq: A H 1110, A H 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. Art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire, A.D. 700-1453. Formation and development of a distinct Christian representational and architectural tradition in the context of Orthodox Christianity. Secular traditions considered in light of traditions of Hellenism. (Y)
Open only to art history or art majors. Art and architecture in Western Europe from the Dark Ages through the twelfth century. (I)
Open only to art history or art majors. Gothic art and architecture in Western Europe from 1140 to 1400, including manuscripts, metalwork, stained glass, as well as the architectural context in which they were used. (I)
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. Art and architecture in western Europe, 1050-1250. Development of Romanesque and Gothic styles in architecture, painting, and sculpture. (I)
Open only to art history or art majors. Art and architecture from Giotto to Botticelli; transformation of late medieval art prior to Black Death, classical revival in Florence; North Italian artists such as the Bellinis and Mantegna. (B)
Open only to art history or art majors. The art of Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, and their contemporaries. (I)
Prereq: A H 1120 or 1110. Open only to art history or art majors. Art of fifteenth and sixteenth century Venice considered in its socio-political milieu. (B)
Open only to art history or art majors. Northern painting from its sources in the Franco-Flemish manuscript tradition and Bohemian schools to the great masters of the fifteenth century. (B)
Open only to art history or art majors. Art of Germany and the Netherlands executed between 1400 and 1570. (B)
Open only to art history or art majors. Art of late sixteenth and seventeenth century Italy in its socio-political milieux. (B)
Prereq: A H 1120 or 1110. Open only to art history or art majors. Seventeenth-century art in the Netherlands in context of its socio-political milieux. (I)
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. Major styles, developments and masters. (B)
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. Origins of Modernism in the mid-nineteenth century; avant-garde art in Europe and the U.S. from 1850 to 1950; theories of Modernism in the visual arts. (B)
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. European and American paintings, sculpture, and new media surveyed from 1900 to present. (B)
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. European and American avant-garde art, Dada and Surrealism, the interwar period, and Abstract Expressionism. (B)
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. European and American art from the postwar period through movements including conceptualism, minimalism, and post-modernism. (B)
Prereq: A H 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. Social and economic change in nineteenth century Paris; impact on art from Romantics to Post-Impressionists. Reading in major works of literature and history. Dawn of modernism in painting. (B)
Election of more than three credits requires consent of instructor. Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (Y)
Prereq: one 1000-level art history course or above, or consent of instructor. Open only to undergraduate art history or art majors. Technical, aesthetic and historical development of the art of photography from its invention to the present. (B)
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. Lecture-survey of art and architecture produced by the Precolumbian civilizations of Peru, Central America and Mexico, including the traditions of Chavin, Tiahuanaco, Inca, Maya, Olmec, Teotihuacan, Toltec and Aztec. (B)
Prereq: A H 1110, A H 1120. History of collecting and collections in the Western tradition from antiquity to the modern era. (I)
Prereq: A H 1110, A H 1120; consent of instructor. Cooperative arrangement between the art history program and the Detroit Institute of Arts, in which the student applies art historical training to a current project or exhibition in the museum. (B)
Prereq: A H 1110, A H 1120; consent of instructor. Art historical research methods applied to work in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Topic to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Prereq: A H 1110, 1120. Open only to art history or art majors. The development and function of the art museum from 300 B.C.E. to the present with emphasis on the museum's role in the institutionalization of art history, collection and criticism. (B)
Prereq: consent of instructor. Open only to art history majors in BA or M.A. program. Supervised advanced reading and research in the history of art. (F,W)
Prereq: junior standing or above; A H 1110, 1120. Open only to art history or art majors in B.A., B.F.A., M.A. or M.F.A. program. Readings, discussion, and research paper on special topics in art history; topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. Graduate students undertake research paper in addition to other assignments. (Y)
Undergrad. prereq: consent of instructor. Open only to art history or art majors in B.A., B.F.A., M.A. or M.F.A. program. Methodological application of post-structuralist critical theory to the study of art and art history. (Y)
Election of more than three credits requires consent of instructor. Open only to art history majors in M.A. program. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes . (B)
Election of more than three credits per semester requires consent of instructor. Open only to art history majors in M.A. program. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes . (B)
Election of more than three credits per semester requires consent of instructor. Open only to art history majors in M.A. program. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes . (Y)
Election of more than three credits per semester requires consent of instructor. Open only to art history majors in M.A. program. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes . (F,W)
Open only to art history majors in M.A. program. (F,W)
Open only to art history master's candidates in M.A. program. (F,W)