May 17, 2024  
2019-2020 Graduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Architecture

  
  • ARCH 6329 - Building Systems Integration

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6327 , ARCH 6328  and 6366

    Architectural and technical integration of traditional and innovative building systems.
  
  • ARCH 6331 - Computer Aided Design in Arch

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.

    Introduction to basic computer-aided design concepts, terminology and microcomputer applications.
  
  • ARCH 6333 - Adv Computer Modeling in Arch

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6330 or 6331 or equivalent.

    Advanced techniques in computer-aided modeling and visualization.
  
  • ARCH 6335 - Computer Visualizatn for Arch

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6333  or equivalent

    Advanced techniques in computer-aided modeling and visualization of architectural models, including computer animation.
  
  • ARCH 6336 - Digital Presentation in Arch

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Digital Presentation in Arch
  
  • ARCH 6338 - Graphic Realization in Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6331  ; ARCH 6601 or consent of instructor.

    Integration of digital and manual graphic tools with verbal presentation to communicate design
  
  • ARCH 6340 - Architectural History Survey I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Survey of the history of eastern and western architecture and art from Egypt to1750 with attention to cultural, philosophical and technical forces that influence them.
    Additional Fee $2.00 Fee Type Lab Fee
  
  • ARCH 6341 - Architectural History Survey II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: graduate standing

    Survey of the history of eastern and western architecture and art from 1750 to the present with attention to cultural, philosophical and technical forces that influence them.
  
  • ARCH 6342 - Shape of the City

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6340  ; ARCH 6341  or equivalent.

    Readings from Henry James, Jane Jacobs, J.B. Jackson, Reyner Banham and others about American cities as topographical , cultural and social phenomena, with analytical writing projects on Houston.
  
  • ARCH 6343 - Latin America Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6340  ; ARCH 6341  or equivalent.

    Exploration of the development and significance of Latin American architecture. Study of Pre-Hispanic, colonial and modern built environments with an emphasis on mapping the creation and transfer of culture.
  
  • ARCH 6347 - Evolution of Architectural Interiors

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6340  ; ARCH 6341 

    the evolution of interior architectural spaces through the contributions of architects, designers, decorators, industrial designers, and editors. the house as a design laboratory and the integrated interior.
  
  • ARCH 6348 - Technology 3

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6321  and concurrent enrollment in ARCH 6603 

    Numerical design of structural and environmental systems in buildings including systems selection, configuration guideling sizing rations, schematic planning, basic sizing calculations, and digital calculation tools at building component design scale.
  
  • ARCH 6349 - Technology 4

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6348  and concurrent enrollment in ARCH 6604 

    Digital and analog modeling of technical systems at the level of complete buildings, including structure, energy, thermal systems, daylighting and electrical lighting, utilizing computer simulation and scale model investigations.
  
  • ARCH 6351 - Criticism in Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6450 ; 6451

    Critical writing based on selected reading in architecture.
  
  • ARCH 6352 - Wright, Mies, and Corbusier

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6340  ; ARCH 6341  or equivalent.

    Search for the struth studying Wright, Mies, and Corbusier from the perspective of historic precedents, as well as observing the effect of their work on architecture.
  
  • ARCH 6353 - Postmodern Arch Since 1950

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6450 ; 6451

    the theory and development of architectural design of the most recent times. Studies in architectural pluralism since 1950.
  
  • ARCH 6354 - The Culture of Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6340  ; ARCH 6341 

    An investigation of how architects learn, think, and work in our own time and times past. Special emphasis is given to the Modern Movement and its critics and to the thought and production of influential architects and theorists including Alberti, Palladio, Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc, Gaudet, Loos, Le Corbusier and Venturi, and Scott Brown.
  
  • ARCH 6355 - Houston Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6340  and 6341

    Survey of Houston architecture, past and present
  
  • ARCH 6356 - City as Palimpsest: Paris

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6340  ; ARCH 6341 

    Parisian architecture and urban development from the Roman period to present via the metaphor of palimpsest.
  
  • ARCH 6357 - Contemporary Theory and Critical Practice

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.

    The objective of this seminar is to outline a map of contemporary architectural practice and to develop tools for scrutinizing that map, through formal reading, understanding (and speculating on) popular culture and politics, and building a general grasp of the recent history of architectural thinking.
  
  • ARCH 6358 - History of Asian Art and Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6340  and 6341

    Architectural history, methodology, art and the cultural forces that shaped the Eastern tradition.
  
  • ARCH 6359 - Modern Architecture & Urbanism

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6340 , 6341 or equivalent.

    Study and analysis of works ( built and un-built) themes, protagonists, and writings on modern architecture, urbanism, and design after 1945.
  
  • ARCH 6360 - Practice of Arch

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Case studies and analysis of issues facing the profession: Ethics, morality, intent, criticism, liability, etc. the intent is to approach office practice through issues rather than through documents; and exploration of present and future mission of the profession.
  
  • ARCH 6361 - Integrated Practice: Material Representation and Detailing

    Credit Hours: 3.00
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1.0   Lab Contact Hours: 2.0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6604 .

    This course will facilitate understanding of various building assembly systems and the limitations of material qualities, joints, and tolerances to aid selection for design proposals. Further we will explore common areas of envelope failure and considerations for conditions within homogeneous assemblages such as openings and other penetrations. Historic and theoretical background will be provided as context to material selection and use.
  
  • ARCH 6365 - Architecture of the Middle Ages

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6340 ;ARCH 6341 

    Western European archtecture of the Middle Ages (ca. 300-1500), investigated through the medium of the built environment and through texts that reveal aspects of medieval culture, aesthetics, philosophy, and building techniques.
  
  • ARCH 6366 - Materials and Methods

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6325 , ARCH 6326 

    Materials and methods of construction, including construction systems, advanced and emerging technologies, scheduling and budgeting.
  
  • ARCH 6367 - Case Studies in Sustainable Architecture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6327 , 6328 and 6366

    Green Revolution, sustainability, and ecological restoration. Sustainability measurements including biomimcry, ecological footprint, embodied energy and full cost accounting, Building components sustainability by CSI division. LEED certification overview.
  
  • ARCH 6368 - Sustainability Workshop

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing in architecture.

    Scenarios in sustainable design including performance rating standards, base case performance, precedents, deisgn targets, development and evaluation of design strategies for sustainable site, water, envelope, lighting, energy and life cycle considerations.
  
  • ARCH 6369 - Architecture of the Chapel

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6340 ;ARCH 6341 

    Architectural history of the chapel building type from its origins to the present, divided into illustrated lectures, short readings, and student presentations and papers on individual buildings.
  
  • ARCH 6373 - Urban Environments

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6340 ;ARCH 6341 

    An examination of the social, economic, cultural, and political development of cities including the diverse needs, values, and social and spatial patterns that characterize different cultures and individuals and the implication of this diversity for the societal roles and responsibilities of architects.
  
  • ARCH 6374 - World Cities

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None

    Critical exploration of cites of the world from different geographical, chronological and disciplinary persepctive. Development of analytical tools for understanding complex urban phenomena.
  
  • ARCH 6375 - Capitalism, Architecture, and the City

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6340 ;ARCH 6341 

    Exploration o determinants of urban form throughout history.
  
  • ARCH 6376 - Urban Determinants

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Economic, political, social and physical factors that become the design determinants of urban environments.
  
  • ARCH 6378 - Hist Preservation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6450 and ARCH 6451 , or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

    theory, methods of research, and practice of the preservation of historic buildings and resources.
  
  • ARCH 6380 - Architecture Plus Film

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ARCH 6603 

    Exploration of the cross-fertilization between architecture and film. Investigation of the nature of filmic and virtual space versus physical space.
  
  • ARCH 6393 - Master’s Project Preparation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6604  or Level III admission

    Preparation of Master’s Project proposal, project program, and associated research.
  
  • ARCH 6397 - Sel Tpcs-Arc/Urbn Desgn

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Topics vary.
    May be repeated for credit with permission of the Director of Graduate Studies.

  
  • ARCH 6398 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • ARCH 6598 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • ARCH 6600 - Architecture Design Studio I

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: Graduate Architecture standing and concurrent enrollment in 6320

    Introduction to architecture and basic design concepts through a series of projects that develop individual cognitive design tools and skills. Introduction to analog and digital forms of representation.
    Additional Fee $2.00 Fee Type Lab Fee
  
  • ARCH 6601 - Architecture Design Studio II

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6600  and concurrent enrollment in ARCH 6321 

    Further development of cognitive design tools and skills. Expanding use of analog and digital tools. Introduction to organizational structures with problems of growth, change, aggregation and metamorphosis at various scales.
  
  • ARCH 6602 - Arch Design/Build Workshop

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6601 

    Design and construction of a site specific climate-influenced building project.
  
  • ARCH 6603 - Architecture Design Studio III

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ARCH 6348 . Credit for ARCH 6602 or acceptance into Level II

    Design projects exploring the roles of content, construction and context in architecture. Expanding on different approaches to architectural solutions through application of rotational instruction.
    Additional Fee $2.00 Fee Type Lab Fee
  
  • ARCH 6604 - Architecture Design Studio IV

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6603  and concurrent enrollment in ARCH 6349 

    Design projects comprehensively exploring critical issues of architecture within an urban context. Integration and continuous feed-back on project with information from ARCH 6349 Technology 4.
  
  • ARCH 6698 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: approval of Director of Graduate Studies and instructor.

    Special Problems
  
  • ARCH 7600 - Architecture Design Studio V

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6604 or acceptance into Level III.

    Design studio in which actual or hypothetical projects with interdisciplinary bases are undertaken with faculty as project coordinators. Alternatively, students may choose to pursue independent design studies. the selection of a topic for independent study must be approved by the Level III Coordinator.
    Additional Fee $2.00 Fee Type Lab Fee
  
  • ARCH 7601 - Architecture Design Studio VI

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6604 or acceptance into Level III. Continuation of a project undertaken in ARCH 7600 , or another advanced design topic approved by the Level III Coordinator.

    Continuation of a project undertaken in ARCH 7600 , or another advanced design topic approved by the Level III Coordinator.
    Additional Fee $2.00 Fee Type Lab Fee
  
  • ARCH 7603 - Master’s Project

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: ARCH 6604 or Level III admission.

    Independent final project directed toward adding to the general body of knowledge in architecture. Requires approval of the Director of Graduate Studies.
    May be repeated for credit.


Art

  
  • ART 6198 - Independent Graduate Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • ART 6199 - Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • ART 6298 - Independent Graduate Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • ART 6300 - Drawing Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 6301 - Life Drawing Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 6305 - Painting Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 6308 - Graduate Critique

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of instructor.

    Critique and discussion in open forum.
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ART 6310 - Printmaking Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 6321 - Drawing for Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 6330 - Graphic Design Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Formerly/Same as: ART 6330 - Graphic Communications Studio.
  
  • ART 6350 - Ceramics Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 6360 - Sculpture Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 6370 - Photography Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 6371 - Video Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 6372 - Computer Imaging Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 6380 - Seminar

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of instructor.

    Readings, discussions, and critical writing on issues in art with emphasis on individual concerns.
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ART 6381 - Writing Seminar

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of instructor.

    Seminar on issues related to writing about art.
  
  • ART 6382 - Intermedia Seminar

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of instructor.

    An examination of new strategies of artistic production within the context of recent technological, scientific, cultural and political developments.
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ART 6383 - Intermedia Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of instructor.

    Interdisciplinary arts laboratory that fuses emergent media, computer science, performance, music and digital art with emphasis on research, practice and theory.
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ART 6385 - Interdisciplinary Practice and Emerging Forms Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Formerly/Same as: ART 6385 - Interdisciplinary Studio.
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in art or consent of instructor.

    Project and concept-based studio research in areas that operate between and beyond traditional disciplines, with an emphasis on developing critical thinking and contextual skills.
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ART 6386 - Professional Practices

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Art or consent of the instructor.

    Business practices, grant applications, and residency and exhibition opportunities for the working artist including strategies for Curriculum Vitae, proposal and portfolio presentation.
  
  • ART 6394 - Sel Tops in Contemporary Art

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of instructor.

    Will be identified by a specific title each time it is offered.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • ART 6395 - Selected Topics in Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of instructor.

    Will be identified by a specific title each time it is offered.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • ART 6396 - Selected Topics in Fine Arts Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 6397 - Selected Topics in Studio Arts

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 6398 - Independent Graduate Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • ART 6399 - Masters Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • ART 7310 - Printmaking Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
  
  • ART 7330 - Graphic Design Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Formerly/Same as: ART 7330 - Graphic Communications Studio.
  
  • ART 7360 - Sculpture Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • ART 7385 - Interdisciplinary Practice and Emerging Forms Studio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Formerly/Same as: ART 7385 - Interdisciplinary Studio.
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in art or consent of instructor.

    Project and concept-based studio research in areas that operate between and beyond traditional disciplines, with an emphasis on developing critical thinking and contextual skills.
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ART 7398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art and consent of instructor and the graduate advisor.

    Supervised independent study in studio art and design.
    May be repeated for a maximum of nine semester hours.


Art Education

  
  • ARED 6345 - Art in Elem & Secondary School

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Admission to Professional Development Sequence.

    Field-based course that introduces curriculum planning and organization, instructional methods, and management strategies for teaching art in the elementary and secondary schools.
    Additional Fee $2.00 Fee Type Lab Fee
  
  • ARED 6350 - Art Education Technology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • ARED 6365 - Integrative Art Teaching

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Methods of integrating art criticism, art history, aesthetics, studio art, museum practices, and contemporary issues into K-12 art curricula.
  
  • ARED 7305 - History of Art Education

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Art education as a social instrument is studied in the context of general culture.
  
  • ARED 7315 - Philosophy of Art Education

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Exploration of philosophy of art education. Aesthetics is studied in terms of its application to contemporary issues in art education.
  
  • ARED 7340 - Theory & Prac To Art Museum Ed

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Exploration of historical and contemporary theories and practice in art museums. Students actively use Houston area museums and community arts organizations as sites of learning for the course.
  
  • ARED 7350 - Curric Devel in Art Ed

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARED 63060 or equivalent.

    Study and application of principles of art education curriculum design, development, and evaluation.
  
  • ARED 7352 - Issues&Trends in Art Ed

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Examination and analysis of selected current issues, trends, and problems in art education.

Art History

  
  • ARTH 6301 - Critical Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor.

    Survey of the major concepts and methods employed in the analysis of art practice.
  
  • ARTH 6302 - Contemporary Art Criticism

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor.

    Reading, writing and analysis of contemporary art criticism.
  
  • ARTH 6303 - After Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in art or art history, or consent of instructor.

    Exploration of discourses that can inform contemporary artistic practice from political critique to literature, music, and film.
  
  • ARTH 6304 - Virtual Curating

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in art or art history, or consent of instructor.

    Working in collaboration, students develop a concept for a large-scale exhibition.
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ARTH 6310 - Greek Art

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or art history, or consent of instructor.

    The art and architecture of Ancient Greece and the Aegean World.
  
  • ARTH 6311 - Roman Art

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or consent of the instructor.

    The art and architecture of Rome through the Republic and Empire periods.
  
  • ARTH 6312 - Ancient Near Eastern Art

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in art or art history, or consent of instructor

    Art and architecture of Mesopotamia from its beginnings to the Persian Period.
  
  • ARTH 6313 - Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in art or art history, or consent of instructor

    Medieval illuminated manuscripts with emphasis on book types and their audiences.
  
  • ARTH 6314 - Medieval Arts, Artist, Patrons

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    European Arts in the Middle Ages: professional lives of artists, art-making and art patronage.
  
  • ARTH 6315 - Italian Gothic Art and Patrona

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Art or consent of the instructor.

    Italian art of the 13th and 14th centuries and the role of the art patron.
  
  • ARTH 6320 - Readings in 20th and 21st Century Photography

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art or art history, or consent of the instructor.

    Study of the practice and theory of twentieth and twenty-first century photography.
  
  • ARTH 6321 - Northern Renaissance Art

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    German and Netherlandish art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
 

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