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Course Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Students planning a program of study or concentration are urged to review program requirements and course descriptions before meeting with their advisors. Not all courses listed here are taught every year, and students should consult the Course Schedule on the Wheaton website for information about offerings in a particular semester. Courses are numbered to indicate levels of advancement as follows: 100–199, elementary or introductory; 200–299, intermediate; 300 and above, advanced. Departments often design new courses, either to be offered on a one-time basis or an experimental basis, before deciding whether to make them a regular part of the curriculum. These courses are numbered 098, 198, 298 or 398.
Information is available online through WINDOW about prerequisites that must be completed before enrolling in a course, as well as the curriculum and general education requirements that a course fulfills. Most courses are offered for one course credit; a course credit at Wheaton is the equivalent of four semester hours.
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MGMT 398 - Managerial Accounting Managerial accounting focuses on the information used by internal financial statement users, those inside an organization, to help them develop business strategies. This course will introduce the accounting processes and reports used by management in evaluating progress towards meeting company goals. Management requires financial information that provides detailed analysis of a company’s day-to-day operations, so that they can make informed short-term and long-term decisions.
Prerequisites MGMT250 Accounting
Credits 1
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African, African American, Diaspora Studies |
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AFDS 099 - Independent Study An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits .5
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AFDS 103 - Introduction to African, African American, Diaspora Studies An introduction to the study of Africa and its diaspora, primarily in the Americas, but also Europe. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach to a range of historical, literary, artistic, economic and political questions crucial to the understanding of the experiences of people of African descent.
Credits 1
Area Social Sciences
Division Social Sciences
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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AFDS 199 - Independent Study An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 1
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AFDS 201 - Witnessing Contemporary African Society “Witnessing Contemporary African Society” is an intensive, interdisciplinary course designed to give students exposure to and an overview of one or more African countries normally South Africa and Botswana. Course activities and assignments include visits to political, economic, historical and cultural centers (e.g. townships, neighborhoods, museums and courts), meetings with local leaders and activists, lectures/seminars by local academics, and interactions with university students.
Credits 1
Foundation Beyond the West
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AFDS 299 - Independent Study An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 1
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AFDS 347 - Blackness, Futurism, and Supernatural Fiction This class will explore Black literary and cultural aesthetics that operate in speculative and science fiction. Students will read across media, including short stories, manifestos, journalism, critical theory, novels, music and film to engage and answer questions about the links between the African diaspora, cultural politics, technological development, communication systems, distant pasts and possible futures.
Prerequisites ENG 290 . Minors by Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with ENG 347
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AFDS 399 - Independent Study An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Prerequisites Permission of instructor
Credits 1
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Anthropology |
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ANTH 099 - Independent Study An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 0.5
Area Social Science
Division Social Science
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ANTH 101 - Human Evolution Discoveries related to human and cultural evolution are constantly changing our view of where we came from and how we got to be the way we are. This course considers the latest findings and controversies concerning evolutionary theory, our relationship to apes, our sexuality, bipedalism and capacity for language, the relevance of “race,” our links to Neanderthals, the development of what we call civilization and other topics.
Credits 1
Area Social Sciences
Division Social Sciences
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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ANTH 102 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology This course explores cultural diversity in the contemporary world and introduces the analytical and methodological tools that anthropologists use to understand cultural similarities and differences in a global context. This course will acquaint students with the extraordinary range of human possibility that anthropologists have come to know, provide a means of better understanding the culturally unfamiliar and offer a new perspective through which to examine the cultures that they call their own.
Credits 1
Notes A lab section must be selected with the lecture
Area Social Sciences
Connection 20023
Division Social Sciences
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ANTH 199 - Independent Study An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 1
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ANTH 210 - Feast or Famine: The Ecology and Politics of Food This course concerns how food is produced, distributed and consumed. Topics covered include: how culture shapes taste, cuisine, nutrition and food production systems, as well as the ecological, economic and political factors that cause famine and food shortage. Films, case studies, guest speakers, action/service fieldwork and modeling exercises provide opportunities to think creatively about policy and action to increase food security for the most vulnerable at home and abroad. Students are expected to meet the challenge of bringing these issues into a forum for discussion on the Wheaton campus.
Credits 1
Area Social Science
Connection 23002
Division Social Science
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ANTH 226 - Anthropology of Art This course considers art as diverse as Maori canoe prows, Warhol’ Pop, aboriginal sand drawings, gang graffiti, Tibetan tangkas, children’ finger painting and Mapplethorpe’ photographs from an anthropological perspective, asking: Why do humans make art? How and why does art affect us and those of other cultures? What are the relationships between art, artists and society? Artists are encouraged to participate.
Credits 1
Notes Open to Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores or Permission of Instructor.
Area Social Science
Division Social Science
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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ANTH 230 - Language and Culture Linguistic anthropology is concerned with the many ways that language and communication make us what we are as human beings and affect our daily social and cultural lives. Topics covered include: evolution of language; how language and culture affect the way we know the world; language acquisition; and language and communicative behaviors associated with social classes, races and genders.
Credits 1
Area Social Science
Division Social Science
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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ANTH 235 - Peoples and Cultures of Latin America The course looks at the issues faced by peoples and cultures of Latin America primarily through the careful reading of ethnographies. The ethnographies, as well as the associated articles and films used in the course, highlight the social realities and history of Latin American region. In this course we focus on understanding the interconnectedness of the Americas, the relationship between gender and state development, multiple forms of violence (structural, gendered, political, symbolic and everyday), religious change, and the impact of migrations, as well as the legacies of historical constructions of race, gender and ethnicity.
Credits 1
Area Social Science
Connection 23003
Division Social Science
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality |
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ANTH 245 - Indigenous Movements of Latin America This course takes a topical approach to contemporary challenges facing indigenous peoples in Latin America. The course uses recent ethnographic accounts to give us an in-depth understanding of the struggles, achievements and meaning-making practices of indigenous peoples in Latin America. We focus on identity-making practices of indigenous ethnic groups in their struggles within the states of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala and Mexico.
Credits 1
Area Social Science
Connection 23003
Division Social Science
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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ANTH 255 - Women in Africa What contributions have women made to the societies of Africa prior to colonialism? How and why did colonialism affect men and women differently? What are the implications of gender inequality for economic development in Africa today? These questions are considered from ethnographic, autobiographical and fictional accounts. Gender, class and cultural identity will be focal points.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with WGS 255 Women in Africa
Area Social Science
Connection 23001
Division Social Science
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality |
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ANTH 260 - Women and Development This course focuses some of the central development problems in the Global South (poverty, hunger, infectious disease, illiteracy) and how our thinking about these issues changed once women were entered into the development equation. The backdrop to the issues we will tackle is the re-organization of the global political economy and the way that different actors in the business of development (international bodies such as the UN and its subsidiaries, national governments, multinational corporations and trade bodies, NGOs and Aid agencies, and the local recipients of aid) understand the fundamental problems causing underdevelopment and the solutions that they affirm. While we will consider the big picture of development from the top down, our key focus will remain on how women and men in the Global South understand and cope with the key development challenges they face in a rapidly changing world.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with WGS 262 Women and Development
Area Social Science
Division Social Science
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ANTH 265 - Medical Anthropology Medical Anthropology explores how socio-cultural and biological factors influence practices of health and well being. Students in the course will learn about (1) diverse experiences and cultural influences on the distribution of illness, (2) cultural breadth in prevention and treatment of sickness and healing processes, (3) ways to document and understand the social relations of therapy management, and (4) the potential social benefits of pluralistic medical systems.
Credits 1
Area Social Science
Connection 20085
Division Social Science
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ANTH 266 - Global Health: Power, Sex, and Gender Inequality shapes the ways that world health issues are experienced by individuals and communities across cultures. This course focuses on (1) how unequal access to power shapes reproductive health, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and other forms of gender-based health disparities; and (2) how power imbalances shapes the knowledge produced in the growing field of global health. The course will provide students with an understanding of the ways gender shapes global health issues. In addition, the course introduces students to the culture that underpins biomedical and public health practice.
Credits 1
Area Social Sciences
Division Social Sciences
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ANTH 270 - Psychological Anthropology Shamanic cures, ecstatic trance, spirit possession, dream interpretation, identity negotiation and other psychological phenomena that pose challenges for anthropological explanation are examined in order to better understand the relationship between sociocultural context and individual experience and thought. Case studies from diverse cultural settings are bases for exploring contemporary issues and topics in this field.
Credits 1
Area Social Science
Division Social Science
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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ANTH 275 - Peoples and Cultures of the Himalaya The Himalayan region provides extraordinary opportunities for pursuing fascinating issues that interest anthropologists everywhere, including the relationship between ecology and culture, the politics of gender, negotiating ethnic identity, religious diversity and interaction, and globalization. This region is also home to some of the most widely known fantasies about the ideal society, usually called Shangrila. This course uses intimate, detailed portraits of cultures and societies that the best of anthropology provides in order to examine these issues (and fantasies) in Himalayan contexts, while at the same time providing a broad overview of the enormous diversity to be found in the region and the challenges that those who live there share.
Credits 1
Area Social Science
Division Social Science
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Social Science |
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ANTH 295 - Peoples and Cultures of South Asia Religious and ethnic diversity and conflict, ritual performance and festivity, caste, colonialism, cultural heritage, nationalism and modern struggles over sovereignty and development schemes are all features of South Asia that anthropologists find particularly interesting. This course explores the extraordinary cultural diversity of this region, which extends from the Himalayas to Sri Lanka and Pakistan to Bhutan in order to better understand the differences and commonalities that divide and unite its peoples.
Credits 1
Area Social Science
Connection 20032
Division Social Science
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Social Science |
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ANTH 298 - Imagining a Just World through Action The work of social justice has been afoot for centuries and yet today the idea of a just world for the majority is still elusive. Where do we begin to change our world? Is making change within ourselves a must? What can we do right now to address injustice? What should we not do? And, at any rate, who even gets to decide what social justice is?
You are invited to learn about different approaches to making social justice change. Together we will interrogate contemporary problems of social justice and learn practical techniques for unassuming engagements with one another. We will study global and local efforts for justice in political representation, gender, judicial processes, and knowledge creation. We will also learn through experience in the practical components of social justice practice. This course will welcome you into a community of learners where you will be expected to work on your outlook and the world in concrete ways!
Credits 1
Compass Attributes Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ANTH 298 - Inequality and Health Health outcomes are shaped by socioeconomic inequalities worldwide. This course introduces students interested in medicine, public health, public policy, and the study of race and racism to the use of a cultural lens to understand how people experience and are affected by health inequalities in their everyday lives. Case studies will be drawn from contexts all around the globe.
Credits 1
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ANTH 298 - Power, Sex, Gender This course explores cultural diversity in the contemporary world and introduces the analytical and methodological tools that anthropologists use to understand cultural similarities and differences in a global context. This course will acquaint students with the extraordinary range of human possibility that anthropologists have come to know, provide a means of better understanding the culturally unfamiliar and offer a new perspective through which to examine the cultures that they call their own.
Credits 1
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ANTH 299 - Independent Study An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
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ANTH 333 - Economic Anthropology The seminar explores capitalism and alternative forms of economic organization, challenging students to reconceptualize “economy” as a cultural system. Students compare nonmonetized economic relations in different societies and interactions between economic cores and peripheries. This reconceptualization informs a critical understanding of the implications for participation in the global economic system and its impact on the rest of the world.
Prerequisites ANTH 102
Credits 1
Notes Open to Sophomore, Junior and Seniors or Permission of Instructor
Area Social Science
Division Social Science
Foundation Beyond of the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality |
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ANTH 350 - The Social Life of Gender Societies differ considerably (over time and through space) in the way that gender is linked to sexuality and how these categories are assigned value, meaning, and power. This course offers a cultural and historical perspective on how gender is linked to sex and is inscribed in hierarchy and inequality. We begin by considering how cultural constructions of gender are deeply embedded, enacted, and contested in family/kinship systems with many variations. Through readings focused on specific historical and ethnographic cases, films, and two short fieldwork assignments we will interrogate assumptions about the evolution of gender inequality, compare cultures that incorporate non-binary sex/gender systems, and examine how the social life of gender implicates sex role identity and performance in public (education, medicine, workplace, political sphere) as well as private (families, networks, community organizations) institutions. Following Foucault, cases of particular interest will be those undergoing rapid, economic, political and technological change.
Prerequisites ANTH 102 or WGS 101
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with WGS 350
Area Social Science
Connection 23006
Division Social Science
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ANTH 357 - Indigenous Religions An exploration of the rituals, myths and symbols of indigenous religions and the interconnection between these religious forms and native ways of life. Focuses on Native North American religious traditions, but indigenous religions in Africa, Australia and Latin America will also be considered.
Prerequisites One 200-level Religion course or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with REL 357
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities |
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ANTH 399 - Independent Study Independent study supervised by a member of the Anthropology Department.
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ANTH 401 - Senior Seminar A semester of directed research in which students explore topics of their own choice through their own original research. Students meet regularly in a seminar setting, which provides a framework in which to discuss the many stages of the research process and offer collaborative support for fellow students pursuing their individual projects. Students will be expected to produce a completed thesis in February as their capstone to the major.
Credits 1
Notes Open to Senior Majors or Permission of Instructor
Area Social Science
Division Social Science
Compass Attributes Social Science |
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ANTH 499 - Independent Research Open to majors at the invitation of the department.
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ANTH 500 - Individual Research Open to majors at the invitation of the department
Credits 1
Compass Attributes Social Science |
Arabic |
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ARBC 099 - Independent Study An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits .5
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ARBC 101 - Elementary I This course provides the first-time learner with basic knowledge and skills in Arabic.
Credits 1
Foundation Foreign Language
Compass Attributes Foreign Language |
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ARBC 102 - Elementary II A continuation of 101.
Credits 1
Notes An additional hour of conversation per week will be required and will be scheduled with the professor.
Foundation Foreign Language
Compass Attributes Foreign Language |
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ARBC 199 - Independent Study An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 1
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ARBC 201 - Intermediate I During this course,students will review chapters 1-10 that are in Book I . Get tested on it before going to Book II, Al-Kitaab. Emphasis will be on learning new vocabulary, writing, reading and speaking will be applied in every class. Instructor will teach materials from the textbooks, CDs, DVDs, cultural events and articles, movies and the instructor personal experience as a native speaker. Speaking Arabic will be encouraged at each class.
Credits 1
Notes An additional hour of conversation per week will be required and will be scheduled with the professor.
Foundation Foreign Language
Compass Attributes Foreign Language |
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ARBC 202 - Intermediate II A continuation of 201.
Credits 1
Notes An additional hour of conversation per week will be required and will be scheduled with the professor.
Foundation Foreign Language
Compass Attributes Foreign Language |
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ARBC 299 - Independent Study An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Prerequisites Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
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ARBC 301 - Advanced Arabic Students at this level have a broader range of vocabulary, more fluency in speaking, and more advanced skills in Arabic than students at the regular Intermediate Arabic level. The main objective of this course is to move students in a short period of time across the threshold of the high intermediate level of proficiency and provide opportunities and learning strategies towards the advanced level of proficiency. This level is characterized by extensive readings and discussions on a multitude of political, social, cultural, and literary topics. Listening activities focus on authentic materials of considerable length and content. At this level, students learn colloquial dialects mostly Levantine. The objective is to equip students with the necessary conversational skills that would enable them to engage in meaningful discourse with educated Arabs in a medium that is not considered artificial or unfamiliar in the Arab World.
Prerequisites ARBC 101, ARBC 102, ARBC 201 and ARBC 202 or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes Course taught at Stonehill College. Students are responsible for their own transportation
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Foundation Foreign Language
Compass Attributes Foreign Language, Humanities |
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ARBC 302 - Advanced Arabic
Students at this level have a broader range of vocabulary, more fluency in speaking, and more advanced skills in Arabic than students at the regular Intermediate Arabic level. The main objective of this course is to move students in a short period of time across the threshold of the high intermediate level of proficiency and provide opportunities and learning strategies towards the advanced level of proficiency. This level is characterized by extensive readings and discussions on a multitude of political, social, cultural, and literary topics. Listening activities focus on authentic materials of considerable length and content. At this level, students learn colloquial dialects mostly Levantine. The objective is to equip students with the necessary conversational skills that would enable them to engage in meaningful discourse with educated Arabs in a medium that is not considered artificial or unfamiliar in the Arab World.
Prerequisites ARBC 101, 102, 201 and 202 or Permission of Instructor.
Credits 1
Notes This course is taught at Stonehill College. Students are responsible for their own transportation.
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Foundation Foreign Language
Compass Attributes Foreign Language, Humanities |
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ARBC 399 - Independent Study An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Prerequisites Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
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History of Art |
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ARTH 099 - Selected Topics An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits .5
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ARTH 110 - Introduction to Italian Renaissance Art This introductory course is meant to give students a survey of the arts in the Italian peninsula from the 13th century to the 18th century. The class will present a variety of works in diverse media made during what is commonly called the Renaissance. We will explore architecture, paintings, and sculptures by analyzing the historical, social, and cultural contexts in which they were produced. At the end of the course, students will be able to discuss early modern Italian art and to understand the particular concepts that drove artistic productions. Students will also learn the foundations of art historical methods and vocabulary; they will deploy these tools to analyze the works examined in class. Though the course is structured around lectures, students are strongly encouraged to bring their own comments and questions to class. No previous knowledge of history of art is required.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities |
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ARTH 120 - Introduction to American Art and Design
An introduction to American art and design from the colonial period through the midtwentieth century, this course examines the role visual culture has played in the formation of national identity. Students will consider a wide range of media, seeking to understand how artists, architects, and designers negotiated the rise of urban culture, industrial prosperity, sectional conflict, and the changing politics of race and gender.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ARTH 121 - Introduction to Modern Architecture and Design In this introductory survey, we will study the evolution of Western architecture from the period of the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century. Examining the technological, political, and social contexts of key works throughout this period, we will consider the ways individual structures and the built environment have reflected modern Westerners’ greatest aspirations as well as their deepest anxieties.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities |
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ARTH 122 - Introduction to Modern Art in Europe This course provides a survey of modern art, from its origins during the French Revolution to WWII. We look in-depth at key artists and ideas that shaped the development of modern art in the West. Our approach will prioritize the political context and ideological impact of a select group of paintings and sculptures. Although our focus will be on Europe, we also consider how artists found inspiration in other cultures and events beyond their immediate borders.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ARTH 132 - Introduction to Contemporary Art and Design This course is an introduction to the theories and practices of living artists. Our goal is not a general survey of the contemporary art world, but a careful consideration of the political, material, and intellectual questions engaging artists and designers today. We study critical and creative relationships across periods, cultures, and media (painting and sculpture, photography, performance, installation, film and video). Close analysis of individual works, landmark contemporary exhibitions, as well as recent writings by artists, art historians, curators and critics form the basis of the course. Students will engage directly with contemporary collections and exhibitions, via gallery visits in either Boston, Providence, or both.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities |
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ARTH 142 - Introduction to Photography This course is an introduction to photography as an artistic and social practice beginning with its 19th-century origins. We focus on major artists and movements in the history of photography, but also examine the factors that transformed perceptions of the media, helping to establish it as a modernist art form in the 20th century. We will consider debates surrounding the status of photography as fine art vs. documentation. We will see how photographers balanced the aesthetic possibilities of the camera with its political power to create ideological messages.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities |
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ARTH 198 - Introduction to Photography This course is an introduction to photography as an artistic and social practice beginning with its 19th-century origins. We focus on major artists and movements in the history of photography, but also examine the factors that transformed perceptions of the media, helping to establish it as a modernist art form in the 20th century. We will consider debates surrounding the status of photography as fine art vs. documentation. We will see how photographers balanced the aesthetic possibilities of the camera with its political power to create ideological messages.
Credits 1
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ARTH 199 - Selected Topics An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 1
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ARTH 212 - African Art and Design This course provides an introduction to the rich, diverse, and inspiring world of African art. We will examine the varied ways that African art has shaped and been shaped by the histories and cultural values of different African peoples, both in the past and during the present day. This course will strengthen the student’s ability to critically assess the role of art in Africa for the people who produce and use it, and will provide an understanding of the role of African art in the West for the people who collect, exhibit, view, and study it. Towards this end, we will look at diverse art forms, such as sculpture, painting, ceramics, masquerade, dance, literature, feature film, documentary film, and other forms of popular culture. We will also visit art museums and galleries in order to experience African art firsthand. Topics of study will include social political, religious, philosophical, gendered, and aesthetic practices.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Connection 23001
Division Arts and Humanities
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ARTH 220 - Grant Writing for Social Justice This course teaches students the mechanics of grant proposal writing and the political and social aspects of philanthropy and funding. We start with an introduction to grantwriting for nonprofit organizations, focusing on arts and social justice organizations. Students will identify sources of grant funding, conduct research to support their applications, and tailor proposals to specific audiences. Students will partner with a professional at a local organization and will write a grant proposal for their community partner. This course combines academic and advocacy goals and provides students with valuable professional experiences that will enhance understandings of the workplace and career opportunities.
Credits .5
Notes Cross-listed with WGS 220
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Sophomore Experience |
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ARTH 222 - Learn to Negotiate Participants in this course will gain an understanding of societal factors driving income inequality and pay disparity in the United States, particularly with an intersectional focus. We will also cover historical and current efforts to combat the pay gap, including labor organizing and legislative efforts, and an understanding of income inequality and the ongoing harm of the pay gap (with focused study on the pay gap on federal and state levels, as well as within a student’s desired profession). After setting this foundation, students will explore resources and strategies to assist with negotiation in their future workplace (this includes workshops and exercises geared to helping students define, articulate, and claim their expertise).
Credits .5
Notes Cross-listed with WGS 222
Compass Attributes Sophomore Experience, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars, Humanities |
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ARTH 230 - Introduction to Museum Studies This course introduces students to museum history and practice and to theoretical issues in museum studies. Students will explore the ways in which museums and like institutions represent people and cultures and will consider their missions, organizational structure and architecture, their role in the community and the contemporary challenges faced by museum practitioners.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities, Sophomore Experience, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ARTH 240 - Art of the Avant-Gardes, 1900-1945: France, Germany, Italy and Russia This course examines the artistic avant-gardes in France, Germany, Italy and Russia, during the first half of the 20th century. We study individual artists and their associated movements (Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism, for example) through select themes: appropriations from and critical responses to mass culture and emerging new media, to visual traditions outside of Europe; representations of sexual, racial, and class identity; and the relationships between modernism, nationalism, war, and revolution. Critical analysis of individual works of art, as well as primary texts, especially those by artists and critics articulating ideological theories of art-making and its social and political roles, forms the basis of the course.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ARTH 242 - Patronage and the Artist in Early-Modern Italy This course explores the relationship between various patrons and artists in Italy from circa 1400 until circa 1650. We examine the influence held by patrons such as churches, monasteries, and court rulers on art production and, in turn, how artists affected patrons’ taste. In addition, the class addresses issues of gender and politics to understand the process of art production and art reception in early-modern Italy. From fresco cycles, to museum collections, sacred decorations, and self-portraits, this course pays close attention to individual styles while contextualizing the works within their political, social, religious and economic settings.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality |
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ARTH 243 - Early Modern Spaces This course examines various spaces in Italy and France from circa 1400 until circa 1700. The students look at private residences such as palazzi and castles in terms of architecture, patronage, and domestic productions. The class determines the parameters of an established gendered space and the components of a socially constructed space. In addition, the course addresses the impact of urban public structures on politics and culture, as well as the drive behind the establishment of villas outside of city centers. From the gardens of Bomarzo to studioli and to the Château de Chenonceau, this class pays close attention to aesthetic decisions contextualized within political, religious, economic and social settings.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Connection 20098
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities |
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ARTH 244 - Baroque Art This course surveys a selection of the arts in Italy from the middle of the sixteenth century to circa 1750. The works of major artists such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Gentileschi, Borromini, and the Carracci brothers are examined and contextualized within their political, social, religious and economic settings. A special emphasis is put on Rome, though Florence and Venice are discussed in relation to courtly productions and to the Grand Tour. Close attention to individual styles is emphasized in lectures, readings and class discussion. The class also looks at the intersections of art and science, and the ways in which the interest in the marvelous and the curious took visual forms during a time when questioning the supremacy of divine creation was prevalent.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality |
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ARTH 245 - Postwar and Contemporary Art: 1945-2000 This course surveys the diversity of art making since 1945 through a thematic approach. We study postwar modernism Abstract Expressionism, Art Informel, Neo-Dada, Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual art in conjunction with more recent work, from a more global context, that challenges its discourses. By focusing on select concepts body, gender and identity, consumerism, natural environment, cultural hybridity, historical memory, e.g we consider critical and creative relationships across periods, cultures, and media (painting and sculpture, photography, performance, installation, film and video). Analysis of individual works, museum visits, web resources, and writings by artists, art historians, and critics form the basis of the course. (Previously ARTH 340).
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
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ARTH 250 - Modernism and Mass Culture in France, 1848-1914 This course studies the early movements of European modern art (Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism) with a focus on their interactions with mass culture. Beginning in the mid-19th century with Courbet and the impact of popular printmaking on his art, we study how other non-elite forms (lithographic posters, commercial photography, newspapers) shaped the subsequent development of modernist art, chiefly in France. In the second half of the course, we consider how new forms of leisure and commercial entertainment in Paris (cafe-concert, music hall, etc) impacted artists including Manet, Degas, and Seurat. We end in the early 20th century, with a consideration of cubist collage by Picasso and Braque and their adoption of the ephemera of mass culture: newspapers, song sheets, and department store advertisements. Why, if modernism can be traced through its appropriations from the commodity culture of capitalism, has it also been described as a critical alternative to it?
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Connection 20088
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities |
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ARTH 255 - Art and Ritual of the Ancient Americas A historical and cultural examination of the architecture, sculpture and allied arts of the ancient Andes and Mesoamerica. Spanning the first millennium B.C.E. to the time of the Spanish Conquest, this course considers the role of the arts in the establishment and maintenance of pre-Columbian political/religious authority.
Credits 1
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality |
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ARTH 257 - Photography and Knowledge (1830-1930) This course is a social history of photography which examines how the medium shaped categories of subjectivity in the 19th century (class, gender, race, nationality, for example). We study how photographic representations were a means to archive and classify fields of knowledge. The development of photography in this period intersected with the burgeoning sciences of ethnography and anthropology, and it was used in both topographical and expeditionary surveys. Faith in photography as a document made it a powerful witness to war, urban development, colonial expansion and social inequalities. While we study the work of photography’ more well-known practitioners from Europe and North America, our approach will not emphasize the aesthetic innovations of self-consciously artistic photography. Rather, we examine both professional and domestic photography as a means to produce knowledge about the world.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with FNMS 252
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality |
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ARTH 261 - Anatomies 1400-1600: Sexual, Forbidden and Monstrous This course looks at the ways in which the body was understood and visualized in the early modern period. Focusing mostly on France and Italy, the class addresses topics such as: the perceived imperfections of the female body; the mystery held by reproductive organs and their function; the theological and physical challenges posed by human dissections; the production of illustrated anatomical treatises; the implication of artists and anatomists in exploring monstrous bodies; and the intellectual and physical fascination with hermaphrodites.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ARTH 263 - African American Art and Design This course explores the contribution of African American artists to the visual culture of the United States, from the work of 18th- and 19th-century enslaved and free blacks to the production of contemporary African American artists. Students examine the various strategies that African American artists have used to establish an independent artistic identity and to provide a political voice for their audiences.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Connection 23010
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ARTH 298 - Career Ready: Contemporary Visual Art and Design What are the questions and concerns engaging artists and designers today? We’ll focus on the professional contexts for visual art and design: how it is made, how and where it is installed, how it is shared with diverse audiences, and how it is written about and received. We’ll use the history of artists’ statements and other writings by art historians, curators and critics as resources. We’ll focus on the personal and political commitments, ideas, and issues behind the public careers of an international range of creative practitioners. Students will engage with curators, museums, collections, exhibitions, and influential publications, via workshops with invited professionals in the arts. We will research, prepare, and plan relevant conversations collectively, and share them with the broader community outside Wheaton. Student projects will receive professional feedback from leading experts in the field of curating and museum education.
Credits 1
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ARTH 298 - Curating Immigration Histories: City and Campus Using Providence, Rhode Island and Wheaton College as case studies, this course will explore how the built environments of city and campus have responded to demographic changes and evolving notions of national identity. Students’ research will serve as an incubator for a future exhibition, also featuring work by students in ARTH 298 . This course is designed to develop professional skills, through a practical hands-on introduction to curatorial research. Using visual objects and documents from Wheaton’s Permanent Collection, Gebbie Archives, and other resources in Providence, RI, we will sharpen our interpretative skills with primary historical sources. In the process, students will see how an exhibition or public program is generated by humanities research. Our goal will be to reactivate historical materials with new questions, to create a relevant multi-dimensional visual presentation that speaks to a diverse 21st-century public.
Credits 1
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ARTH 298 - Curating Immigration Histories: Objects and Archives The course explores the material histories of immigrant communities in Providence, alongside the history of Wheaton College. Via historical objects, photography and other evidence, we’ll try to understand how our college and region have responded to demographic changes and to shifting ideas about national identity. Students’ research will serve as an incubator for a future exhibition, also featuring work by students in ARTH 298 . This course is designed to develop professional skills, through a practical hands-on introduction to curatorial research. Using visual objects and documents from Wheaton’s Permanent Collection, Gebbie Archives, and other resources in Providence, RI, we will sharpen our interpretative skills with primary historical sources. In the process, students will see how an exhibition or public program is generated by humanities research. Our goal will be to reactivate historical materials with new questions, to create a relevant multi-dimensional visual presentation that speaks to a diverse 21st-century public.
Credits 1
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ARTH 298 - Impossible Monsters: Goya as Painter and Printemaker Impossible Monsters: Goya as Painter and Printmaker is an in-depth study of the life and work of a single artist, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, who ranks among the most influential painters/printmakers in the history of art. In a rich series of astonishing works (Wheaton owns four of his prints), this brilliant Spanish artist plumbed the depths of human misery in images so real and yet so bizarre that the term “Social Fantastic” was coined for them. Goya’s penchant for portraying a universe of isolation, brutality and anxiety effected an intense change on aspects of modern art. We will scrutinize his impact on Picasso, for example, and identify how Goya’s work evolved as a painstaking criticism of outdated Spanish institutions as well as his critique of Spain’s invasion by Napoleon. From his technical innovations, which revolutionized the production of etchings and lithography (a “young” art form at the time) to his astounding portraits and historical/allegorical paintings, Goya’s art and insight were phenomenal – eerily modern and relevant even today.
Credits 1
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ARTH 298 - Museums in the Digital Age From audio guides to crowdsourced exhibitions to award-winning social media accounts, museums have always experimented with the latest forms of technology, at times driven to do so by artists who incorporate new media into their work. Today, museums receive exponentially greater numbers of visitors to their websites than their physical sites, and the pace of technological change has staff scrambling to gather the human and financial resources needed to function in the digital age. This course explores how museums – highly respected, yet often controversial cultural institutions – use digital media and technologies to better care for their collections, engage their audiences, and navigate relationships with source communities.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with FNMS 298 Museums in the Digital Age .
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ARTH 299 - Selected Topics An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 1
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ARTH 300 - French Art and Its Others (1830-1930) This seminar examines how a fascination with cultures outside of Europe motivated several artists and designers working in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. Modern art in France was profoundly shaped by a series of direct visual appropriations from African, Middle Eastern, and Asian artistic traditions, as well as a system of beliefs projected onto those “Other” cultures in question.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ARTH 312 - Contemporary African Arts This course will explore contemporary African art and the discourses that frame its production, reception and history. Issues considered include authenticity, tradition, modernity, nationality and African diasporic art. We will also examine the complex relationship of African art to colonialism, European art and its discourses, and the influence of globalization and popular culture. We will focus on several artists or artistic traditions as case studies, including the art scene in Dakar (Senegal); artistic production in post-Apartheid South Africa; and the revival of “traditional” forms through studio art markets. We will also explore the collection and display of contemporary African art. Readings include debates over the nature of representation in the postcolonial world, critiques of the place of African art in the symbolic and monetary economies of the Western metropolis, African feminism as expressed in the arts, and studies of the new contexts of so-called ethnographic objects.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Connection 23001
Division Arts and Humanities
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ARTH 320 - Matisse and Methods This seminar will focus on Henri Matisse (1869-1954) using his work as a lens to explore the methods of art history. The vast literature on Matisse provides us with a range of writers asking different questions of the artist’ work. After a critical consideration of methodologies that have been used to interpret Matisse’ work (formalist, structuralist, psychoanalytic, feminist, postcolonial, for example) we will focus in on one art historical question in particular, surrounding sources and their possible influences on Matisse. How have scholars and curators interpreted Matisse’ studio sources, and his appropriations from other media (photography, for example) and other cultural traditions (African and Islamic for example)? Have these approaches adequately addressed the complex relationships between Matisse’ paintings and sculpture, and the critical concepts about representation which inform them?.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality |
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ARTH 330 - Picturing New York: Art and Design In this course we will explore artists’ attempts to capture the essence of New York City, from its origins in the 17th century to the 9/11 period and beyond. Considering architecture, prints, photography, painting, sculpture, and film, we will examine the conditions under which New York gave rise to a uniquely American form of urban imagery, attempting to understand the roles that geography, politics, capitalism, race, and gender have played in New York’ development. In addition, we will investigate how these images and designs broke from traditional practices/forms, seeking to understand what “Modernism” means in its New York context.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
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ARTH 334 - Exhibiting Africa: Past & Present This course explores the ways in which Africa and its animals, peoples and material culture have been represented by museums. We will study how economic, political and social change influence the collection and display of Africa and Africans and how debates over cultural heritage and repatriation apply to the African continent.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Foundation Beyond the West
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality |
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ARTH 335 - Exhibition Design This course introduces students to the history, practice and theory of exhibition design. In this course, we will engage in all aspects of the exhibition design process through reading, in-class discussions, site visits, and guest lectures as well as the design and installation of an exhibition. We will consider the visitor experience and how objects and ideas are interpreted by and for different audiences, as well as how museums use technology to engage the public. Students will gain an understanding of the history of exhibition design as well as the challenges museums/like institutions face in making their collections accessible to the communities they serve. Students will be required to participate fully in the practical component of the course, which involves the research for and the design and installation of an exhibition for Wheaton’ Beard and Weil Galleries.
Prerequisites Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes Registration for the pre-application section of this course is required. Eligibility to enroll in this course will be determined at the first day of class. Cross-listed with FNMS 335
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities, Sophomore Experience |
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ARTH 350 - Ruling Families of the Renaissance The need to assert power, the struggle to maintain it through different political rules, and the results of visualizing it in effective ways will be the central themes of this course. The students will examine: the establishment of rulership in several Italian city states and duchies; the rise of families and their contiguous visual assertions; the links between commanding European families such as the Valois and the Medici; the creation of absolutist authority through legible media; and the exuberance of rococo as a political and social statement.
Credits 1
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality |
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ARTH 360 - American Art and Architecture: 1865-1945 Between the Civil War and World War II, American art and architecture demonstrated an unprecedented sense of confidence. Examining the roles of empire building, commerce and the rise of urban culture, this course will chart the development of American art from the American Renaissance to the triumph of the midcentury New York School.
Credits 1
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ARTH 370 - Women at Work: Art History and Feminism This course considers the ways feminist scholarship has transformed the discipline of art history, examining the rediscovery of exceptional women artists from the 1970s onward, as well as recent feminist critics’ efforts to redefine the structure of the field. Students examine two overlapping categories of work; the production of women artists and patrons, and the textual contributions of feminist scholars and critics. The rationale for this new course is to strengthen the department’ ties to women’ studies and to broaden the theoretical focus of the history of art major.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with WGS 371
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars |
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ARTH 371 - Masculinity and American Art In this seminar we will explore the intersection between the United States’ visual culture and its historical constructions of masculinity, seeking to understand the ways gender, race, sexuality, and class have shaped both. Throughout the semester we will seek to understand how artists and critics have presented masculinity and American character — however an age may have defined them — as synonymous, and to examine the ways in which challenge others have challenged this assumption.
Prerequisites One 200-level History of Art course or higher or Permission of Instructor.
Credits 1
Notes Cross-listed with WGS 372
Area Humanities
Division Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality |
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ARTH 398 - Slavery, Protest, and the Public Monument The urge to publicly memorialize or condemn racially charged moments in American history has long roots. Students in this course will examine the full range and intent of such monuments, from works designed to commemorate abolition efforts, Emancipation, and Civil Rights activism; post-Reconstruction Confederate memorials erected to bolster the “Lost Cause” mythology of the Jim Crow era; and public installations by contemporary African-American artists whose work has powerfully challenged the legacy of the Confederate monument. Throughout the semester, students will consider the roles that urban planners, designers, politicians, university officials, and museum professionals have played in the discourse over race and the public memorial.
Credits 1
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ARTH 399 - Selected Topics An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
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ARTH 401 - History of Art Senior Seminar The course is a required capstone experience for senior majors. It provides an in-depth engagement with the art historical skills of primary research, object analysis, using historical evidence, and situating visual expression in cultural and intellectual contexts. The specific area of inquiry is developed each year by the faculty member teaching the seminar.
Prerequisites Senior History of Art Majors and other qualified students by Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
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ARTH 499 - Independent Research Offered to selected majors at the invitation of the department.
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ARTH 500 - Individual Research Offered to selected majors at the invitation of the department
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AST 130 - The Universe Properties of stars and how they are born and die, black holes, galaxies, quasars and the origin and evolution of the universe. Weekly two-hour laboratories retrace the steps involved in measuring the age and size of the universe, with enrichment laboratories in astronomical photography and observing.
Credits 1
Notes A lab section must be selected with lecture.
Area Natural Sciences
Connection 20059, 20077
Division Natural Science
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AST 140 - The Solar System The processes that shape the surfaces and atmospheres of planets and satellites and how the planets have evolved in different directions. Students will learn how planetary data are gathered and how to interpret those data and will design a mission to address one of the many remaining mysteries of the solar system.
Credits 1
Area Natural Science
Division Natural Science
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AST 198 - Rocket Science Space … the final frontier. How do we get there, what should we bring with us, and what will we find? This class will give students a broad background in the challenges and opportunities of space exploration and the commercial development of space. Specifically, the class will focus on the physics of rocketry, orbital dynamics, spacecraft engineering, telecommunications, instrumentation, and planetary geology. Students will use hands-on activities and computer exercises to simulate space mission design and operations. Students coming into the class should be comfortable with using algebra and trigonometry, and expect a fast and challenging introductory class – it is rocket science, after all.
Credits 1
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AST 199 - Independent Study An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
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