Jun 25, 2024  
2016-2017 Graduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Theatre

  
  • THEA 7222 - Graduate Voice II

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: THEA 7221 .

    Intermediate study in theatre voice pedagogies, including Linklater, Berry, Rodenberg.
  
  • THEA 7223 - Graduate Voice III

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: THEA 7222 .

    Advanced study in voice pedagogies, including, Linklater, Berry, Rodenberg and Hart, applied to works of Shakespeare and other classic authors.
  
  • THEA 7224 - Graduate Voice IV

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: THEA 7223 .

    Applying techniques from voice pedagogies to challenges in heightened language and highly theatrical events.
  
  • THEA 7251 - Graduate Speech I

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in MFA Acting Track.

    Introduction to major speech pedagogies, identification and management of habitual speech.
  
  • THEA 7252 - Graduate Speech II

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: THEA 7251 .

    Intermediate work in major speech pedagogies, Standard British dialect.
  
  • THEA 7253 - Graduate Speech III

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: THEA 7252 .

    Advanced work in speech and dialects; Transcription.
  
  • THEA 7254 - Graduate Speech IV

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: THEA 7253 .

    Advanced work in speech and dialects; Transcription and replication of interviewed subjects.
  
  • THEA 7302 - Graduate Acting II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 6301 .

    Continuation of acting progression, focusing on Action/Objective and Characterization using techniques developed by Stanislavski, Hagen, Lewis, Meisner, Adler, Strassberg, Bogard and Suzuki.
  
  • THEA 7303 - Graduate Acting III

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7302 .

    Continuation of acting progression, focusing on language plays (Shakespeare, Moliere).
  
  • THEA 7304 - Graduate Acting IV

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7303 .

    Continuation of acting progression, focusing on plays of heightened theatricality (Shakespeare, Greeks, Comedy).
  
  • THEA 7305 - Graduate Acting Creative Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7303 .

    Research, rehearsal and performance of a major role.
  
  • THEA 7311 - Graduate Movement I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Graduate Acting Track.

    Study of stage combat skills and techniques with additional emphasis on acting and performance of fight scenes for theatre.
  
  • THEA 7312 - Graduate Movement II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7311 .

    Continuation of stage combat skills, techniques, and focus on acting and performance; leading towards skills proficiency adjudication via the Society of American Fight Directors.
  
  • THEA 7313 - Graduate Movement III

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7312 

    Acting and character analysis through physical exploration, mask work and movement analysis principles.
  
  • THEA 7314 - Graduate Movement IV

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7314 

    Study of Physical Theatre and the use of movement exploration and innovation, leading toward public performances of solo and ensemble works. Emphasis to understand, utilize and manipulate a creative process.
  
  • THEA 7321 - Graduate Voice/Speech I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Graduate Acting Track.

    Voice and speech training using techniques of Fizmaurice and Linklater, an introduction to phonetics and articulation, and learning the General American and Standard British dialects.
  
  • THEA 7322 - Graduate Voice/Speech II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7321 .

    Advanced voice and speech training, including articulation, phonetics and dialects.
  
  • THEA 7323 - Graduate Voice/Speech III

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7322 .

    Advanced voice and speech training, including work in verse, heightened language, rhetoric and dialects.
  
  • THEA 7324 - Graduate Voice/Speech IV

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7323 .

    Advanced voice and speech training in dialects.
  
  • THEA 7333 - Graduate Directing III

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7332 .

    Language and rhetoric, as well as directing a full-length realism work.
  
  • THEA 7334 - Graduate Directing IV

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7333 .

    Advance study of Master Directors, as well as directing a Shakespeare workshop production.
  
  • THEA 7335 - Graduate Directing Creative Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7334 .

    Research, design development, rehearsal and presentation of a mainstage production.
  
  • THEA 7342 - Direct/Design Collaboratn II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7341.

    Advanced work in text analysis, collaborative projects leading to white models and renderings.
  
  • THEA 7351 - Scenic Design I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor

    The theory, practice, and history of scenic design with emphasis on the development and communication of ideas, script analysis, visual research, and design concepts.
  
  • THEA 7352 - Scenic Design II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7351 or consent of instructor

    Implementation of design concepts; practice in problem-solving, and use of two-dimensional and three-dimensional presentation techniques.
  
  • THEA 7353 - Period Styles

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor

    Established an in depth working knowledge and vocabulary of the significant periods in architecture, decorative arts, and clothing as they are used in and apply to theatrical design.
  
  • THEA 7355 - Design Portfolio

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7351 , THEA 7361 and THEA 7371 

    Integration, consolidation, and coordination of previous design work in scenic, costume, and/or lighting design to achieve professional presentation standards. Prepares student to meet professional expectations in portfolio presentation.
  
  • THEA 7361 - Lighting Design I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor

    The theory, practice, and history of lighting design with emphasis on the development and communication of ideas, script analysis, visual research, and design concepts.
  
  • THEA 7362 - Lighting Design II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: THEA 7361 or consent of instructor

    Implementation of lighting ideas, practice in the translation of ideas into actual designs, light plots, paperwork, use of equipment and the exploration of lighting styles.
  
  • THEA 7371 - Costume Design I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor

    The theory, practice and history of costume design with emphasis on the development and communication of ideas, script analysis, visual research, and design concepts.
  
  • THEA 7372 - Costume Design II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: THEA 7371 

    Implementation of design concepts; practice in problem-solving, and development of presentation techniques.
  
  • THEA 7399 - Masters Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0

World Cultures and Literatures

  
  • WCL 6198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate status or consent of instructor.

    Independent graduate-level study focused on special research projects.
  
  • WCL 6301 - Methods in Linguistic Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or PB status.

    Explores the multiple methodologies for researching language as a mode of communication and interaction within the field of linguistic anthropology.
  
  • WCL 6305 - Fifth-Century Athens: Readings in Intellectual, Literary, and Political History

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Overview of intellectual trends and political history of fifth-century BCE Athens. Topics include the development of Democracy, birth of tragedy, Persian Wars, Athenian Empire, court system, Peloponnesian Wars, and death of Socrates. Taught in English.
  
  • WCL 6330 - Translation Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Investigates major concepts in translation theory, history of translation, and contemporary, interdisciplinary translation studies scholarship within their historical and cultural contexts. Case studies of texts from different traditions of thought, world regions, and periods and/or individual translation projects.
  
  • WCL 6351 - Frames of Modernity

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate or Postbaccalaureate status.

    Advanced view of major theoretical trends in Western Culture from the French Revolution to World War II. Non-Western cultural areas are also addressed through presentations by specialists.
  
  • WCL 6352 - Postmodernity & Globalization

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate or Postbaccalaureate status.

    Advanced view of the major theoretical trend in contemporary World Cultures from the end of WWII to the present time.
  
  • WCL 6353 - Frames of Modernity III: Classics and Modernity

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    An exploration of the use of ancient Greek and Roman concepts by modern and postmodern thinkers, artists, and authors. Taught in English.
  
  • WCL 6354 - Studies in Global Cinema

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Advanced approach to artistic and cultural aspects of world cinema. Analysis of directors, trends, and critical literature in world cinema. Taught in English.
  
  • WCL 6355 - Utopias and Dystopias

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Utopian and dystopian literatures and cinema from different traditions of thought and world regions. Taught in English.
  
  • WCL 6361 - Advanced Topics in Italian Culture in English

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Analysis of major themes in Italian Culture, Literature, Art, History, Government, Italian Civilization in the European and World Context, current issues such as immigration, and Mediterranean context. Taught in English.
  
  • WCL 6362 - Latin American & Latino Literatures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Works of Latino Literature in English and Latin American Literature in translation in relation to other U.S. and worldwide literary works as well as different theoretical frames.
  
  • WCL 6363 - Drama of North-Central Europe

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    A historical and critical analysis of European theater from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Readings include dramas and theoretical essays as a means for understanding and representing cultural norms.
  
  • WCL 6364 - Holocaust Representations

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Comparative analysis of representations and conceptualizations of the Holocaust in literature, autobiography, film, architecture, and art. Taught in English.
  
  • WCL 6365 - World Documentary Film

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or post-baccalaureate status.

    Explores the history, theory, and evolution of documentary film in a global perspective, and through the examination of significant filmmakers from all parts of the world.
  
  • WCL 6366 - Latin American & Latino Film Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Latin American and Latino films and film industries: telenovelas and TV documentaries. Issues regarding immigration, urban/rural, ethnic, gender and class, border and transnational, poverty, violence, and aesthetics. Taught in English.
  
  • WCL 6370 - Comparative Epic

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Examination of epic poetry from ancient Greece and Rome with a comparative approach drawing on other cultures, which may include the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, medieval Europe, and/or modern oral epic traditions. Taught in English.
  
  • WCL 6372 - Seminar in Scholarly Production

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Advanced manuscript critique and selection, editing, translating, proofing and other skills related to scholarly publications. Related to WCL’s Global CASA/ LACASA Publications series.
  
  • WCL 6373 - Introduction to Second Language Acquisition

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Completion of B.A. or equivalent.

    Second Language Acquisition theories via examining critical issues such as learning processes, comprehensible input, and learning through interactions, authentic materials, and task-based instruction. The course introduces research-based language instruction and helps students understand the theoretical background of interactive teaching approaches.
  
  • WCL 6378 - Cultures of Dissent: A Global Perspective

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    An examination of global opposition movements as reflected in literary, autobiographical, and theoretical writings of 19th through 21st century authors as well as in film and the visual arts.
  
  • WCL 6379 - Critical Theory & Globalization

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Intense study of critical theory in light of globalization, migration shifts, and late capitalism.
  
  • WCL 6380 - Jewish Expulsion From Spain

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Study of events leading to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 and its consequences.
  
  • WCL 6385 - Sem in Latin American-Latino Cultural Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Theoretical backgrounds, key themes and debates over Latin American/ Latino cultural processes. Modernity/postmodernity, coloniality/postcoloniality, globalization, urban, border, transnational, ethnic, gender and subalternist perspectives. In English.
  
  • WCL 6395 - Sexuality in Latino Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Sexual relationships in Latino culture and literature: gender theory, art, politics, everyday life. Theoretical and transnational perspectives.
  
  • WCL 6397 - Selected Topics in WCL

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

    Advanced topics in cultural and literary theory, criticism, and history; major trends in postmodernity and globalization.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • WCL 6398 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate status or consent of instructor.

    Independent graduate-level study focused on special research projects.
  
  • WCL 6399 - Master’s Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in WCL.

    Master’s thesis.

Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

  
  • ILAS 6391 - Collaboration Among The Arts

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Permission of graduate adviser in Art, Music, Theatre, or Creative Writing.

    Study and practice of collaboration between the arts, to involve at least two of the following areas: art, creative writing, music, and/or theatre.
  
  • ILAS 6397 - Selected Topics - Interdisciplinary

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0

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.
  
  • ARTH 6322 - 17th Century Dutch Art

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

    The rich artistic production of Holland’s “Golden Age of art,” including history, painting, genre, portraiture, landscape and still life. Rembrandt, Vermeer and many other artists.
  
  • ARTH 6323 - Seminar on Rembrandt

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

    The work and legacy of the most important artist in the 17th Century Holland, Rembrandt van Rijin, through readings, class discussion and research.
  
  • ARTH 6324 - Landscape in Western Tradition

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

    Landscape as a subject in European and American art from Antiquity to the present.
  
  • ARTH 6325 - 18th Century European 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.

    Painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative and graphic arts of the 1700’s in relation to important social and ideological developments of the period.
  
  • ARTH 6326 - European Romanticism

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

    French, Spanish, British and German Romanticism with special attention on the political context including the rise of the Napoleonic Empire, the conservation Restorations after its fall and resistance to both.
  
  • ARTH 6327 - Visual Culture of French Revolution

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

    Visual culture of the period of the French Revolution (1789-1799) including popular and ephemeral phenomena and traditional art forms, and their social and political aims.
  
  • ARTH 6328 - Late 19th Century Art & Culture

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

    Late 19th Century European art from the vantage point of the collaborations of writers, artists, musicians and critics.
  
  • ARTH 6330 - Impressionism

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

    Themes from everyday life painted by the Impressionists and the various factors that affected their art and their perception of the world around them.
  
  • ARTH 6331 - Contemporary Painting

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

    Painting since 1945 with an emphasis on the past two decades.
  
  • ARTH 6332 - 20th Century Design

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

    History, development and key innovators of design of the 20th Century, and assessment of the era’s burgeoning culture of design.
  
  • ARTH 6333 - Issues in Contemporary Design

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

    Issues facing design in the 21st Century, including issues of sustainability and environmental design, exposure in museums and galleries, global design and national identity, impact of technology and conceptual design.
  
  • ARTH 6340 - Pre-Columbian Art

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

    Art and architecture of the Aztec, Maya and their predecessors.
  
  • ARTH 6341 - Human Body in Non-Western Art

    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.

    Representation of the human body in the artistic traditions of Africa, Oceania and the Pre-Columbian Americas.
  
  • ARTH 6373 - Readings in 19th 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 the 19th Century Photography.
  
  • ARTH 6374 - Readings in 20th 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 the 20th Century Photographers.
  
  • ARTH 6380 - Museums and the Problem of Display

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

    Development of the culture if display and the impact of art institutions, curators and exhibitions on our understanding of artworks and their history.
  
  • ARTH 6394 - Sel Top in Art History

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

    Sel Top in Art History
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • ARTH 6395 - Selected Topics in Critical Theory and Criticism

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

    Selected topics in theory and criticism from modernism to the present.
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • ARTH 6399 - Master’s Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in art history, and 18 hours of graduate level art history.

  
  • ARTH 7310 - Italian Gothic Images and Society

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

    Explores the relationship between images and visual and social cultures in 14th Century Italy. Topics vary.
    May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor

  
  • ARTH 7320 - Dutch Art in Houston

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

    Explores Dutch art in public and private collections in the Houston area.
  
  • ARTH 7321 - Problems in Dutch Genre Paintings

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

    Examines themes and interpretive problems in Dutch genre painting. Topics vary.
    May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.

  
  • ARTH 7330 - Issues in Avant-Garde & Kitsch

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

    Explores tension between high art and mass culture from the 1940’s to the present, especially in the context of museum exhibitions, advertising, marketing and art criticism. Topics vary.
    May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.

  
  • ARTH 7331 - Text and Image

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

    Examines the interaction of text and image in visual culture, including its use by avant-garde artists, advertisers, curators and art historians.
  
  • ARTH 7340 - Non-Western Objects & Histories

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

    Intensive study with readings and discussions of a major theme or issue in the study of non-Western art, focusing on local collections. Topics vary.
    May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.

  
  • ARTH 7341 - Ancient Traditions of Veracruz

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

    Examines the tradition of stone sculpture in Classic Veracruz, Mexico (c. A.D. 100-1000) with focus on sculptural form, object function and historiography.
  
  • ARTH 7380 - Graduate Art History Methods I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: ARTH 7380 - Methodologies of Art History.
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in art history.

    Historiography and current methods of Art History.
    Note: Required for all first-year Art History graduate students.
  
  • ARTH 7381 - Graduate Art History Methods II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Art History.

    Historiography and current methods of individual sub-fields.  Specific cultures and periods vary depending on instructor.
    Note: Required for all second-year Art History graduate students.
 

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