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Bryn Mawr College
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Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899
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Course Information

This page displays the schedule of Bryn Mawr courses for this academic year. It also displays descriptions of courses offered by the department during the last four academic years.

For information about courses offered by other Bryn Mawr departments and programs or about courses offered by Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, please consult the Tri-College Course Guide.

For information about the Academic Calendar, including the dates of first and second quarter courses, please visit the College's master calendar

Spring 2012

COURSE	TITLE	SCHEDULE/ UNITS	MEETING TYPE TIMES/DAYS	LOCATION	INSTRUCTOR(S)
HART B100-001	The Stuff of Art	Semester / 1	LEC: 2:00 PM- 5:00 PM T	Park 278	Burgmayer,S.
			LEC: 2:00 PM- 3:30 PM TH	Park 278
HART B104-001	Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: The Classical Tradition	Semester / 1	Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF	Carpenter Library 25	Cast,D., Teaching Assistant,T.
HART B107-001	Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Self and Other in the Arts of France	Semester / 1	Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF	Carpenter Library 25	Levine,S., Teaching Assistant,T.
HART B190-001	The Form of the City: Urban Form from Antiquity to the Present	Semester / 1	Lecture: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM MWF	Thomas Hall 110	Hein,C.
HART B204-001	Greek Sculpture	Semester / 1	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:00 PM MWF	Thomas Hall 102	Donohue,A.
HART B205-001	Introduction to Film	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:15 PM- 3:45 PM TTH	Thomas Hall 224	Tratner,M.
			Film: 7:00 PM- 9:30 PM M	Carpenter Library 25
HART B209-001	Topics in Chinese Cultural History	Semester / 1	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW	Dalton Hall 10	Bower,V.
HART B229-001	Topics in Comparative Urbanism: Colonial and Post -Colonial Reflections	Semester / 1	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM MW	Taylor Hall F	McDonogh,G.
HART B242-001	Material Identities in Latin America 1820 - 2010	Semester / 1	Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF	Carpenter Library 15	McKim-Smith,G.
HART B253-001	Before Modernism: Architecture and Urbanism of the 18th and 19th Centuries	Semester / 1	LEC: 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM MW	Thomas Hall 102	Cohen,J.
HART B266-001	Contemporary Art : 1945 to the Global Present	Semester / 1	Lecture: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM TTH	Carpenter Library 21	Saltzman,L.
HART B268-001	Greek and Roman Architecture	Semester / 1	Lecture: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM MWF	Carpenter Library 21	Wright,J.
HART B299-001	History of Narrative Cinema, 1945 to present	Semester / 1	Lecture: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM TTH	Carpenter Library 21	King,H.
			Film: 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM M	Carpenter Library 21
HART B323-001	Topics in Renaissance Art: Palladio and neo-Palladianism	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM W	Carpenter Library 15	Cast,D.
HART B348-001	Advanced Topics in German Cultural Studies: The Trans Cosmo of Swiss Lit	Semester / 1	LEC: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM W	Thomas Hall 104	Seyhan,A., Werlen,H.
HART B350-001	Topics in Modern Art	Semester / 1	Lecture: 1:00 PM- 3:30 PM F	Carpenter Library 17	Levine,S.
HART B399-001	Senior Conference	Semester / 1	Lecture: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM T	Carpenter Library 17	Dept. staff, TBA
HART B610-001	Topics in Medieval Art: Constantinople, Queen of Cities	Semester / 1	LEC: 2:00 PM- 4:00 PM M	Carpenter Library 17	Walker,A.
HART B680-001	Topics in 20th C. Art: Photography and its Afterlife	Semester / 1	LEC: 4:00 PM- 6:00 PM TH	Carpenter Library 15	Saltzman,L.
HART B701-001	Supervised Work	Semester / 1

Fall 2012

(Class schedules for this semester will be posted at a later date.)

Spring 2013

(Class schedules for this semester will be posted at a later date.)

HART B100 The Stuff of Art Spring 2012 An introduction to chemistry through fine arts, this course emphasizes the close relationship of the fine arts, especially painting, to the development of chemistry and its practice. The historical role of the material in the arts, in alchemy and in the developing science of chemistry, will be discussed, as well as the synergy between these areas. Relevant principles of chemistry will be illustrated through the handling, synthesis and/or transformations of the material. This course does not count towards chemistry major requirements, and is not suitable for premedical programs. Lecture 90 minutes, laboratory three hours a week. Enrollment limited to 20. (Burgmayer,S. -- Division II with Lab) Cross-listed as CHEM B100

HART B103 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Icons and Idols Not offered 2011-12 What is an icon? What is an idol? How do they differ or are they the same? And what is the relation between icons, idols, and images? This course treats potent image-objects across cultures and across time, including religious icons (Madonnas), pop icons (Madonna), and comparable image-objects of other traditions, such as African minkisi and Native American totems. Readings range from Plato and the Old Testament to contemporary criticism. (Kinney,D. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B104 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: The Classical Tradition Spring 2012 An investigation of the historical and philosophical ideas of the classical, with particular attention to the Italian Renaissance and the continuance of its formulations throughout the Westernized world. (Cast,D., Teaching Assistant,T. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B105 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Poetry and Politics in Landscape Art Not offered 2011-12 An introduction to the representation and perception of nature in different visual media, with attention to such issues as nature and utopia; nature and violence; natural freedom; and the femininity of nature. (Hertel,C. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B107 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Self and Other in the Arts of France Spring 2012 A study of artists' self-representations in the context of the philosophy and psychology of their time, with particular attention to issues of political patronage, gender and class, power and desire. (Levine,S., Teaching Assistant,T. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B108 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Women, Feminism, and History of Art Fall 2011 An investigation of the history of art since the Renaissance organized around the practice of women artists, the representation of women in art, and the visual economy of the gaze. (Saltzman,L., Teaching Assistant,T. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B110 Critical Approaches to Visual Representation: Identification in the Cinema Fall 2011 An introduction to the analysis of film through particular attention to the role of the spectator.
Current topic description: An introduction to the analysis of film through particular attention to the role of the spectator. (King,H., Teaching Assistant,T. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B115 Classical Art Not offered 2011-12 An introduction to the visual arts of ancient Greece and Rome from the Bronze Age through Late Imperial times (circa 3000 B.C.E. to 300 C.E.). Major categories of artistic production are examined in historical and social context, including interactions with neighboring areas and cultures; methodological and interpretive issues are highlighted. (Donohue,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B115 Cross-listed as CITY B115 Cross-listed as CSTS B115

HART B125 Classical Myths in Art and in the Sky Not offered 2011-12 This course explores Greek and Roman mythology using an archaeological and art historical approach, focusing on the ways in which the traditional tales of the gods and heroes were depicted, developed and transmitted in the visual arts such as vase painting and architectural sculpture, as well as projected into the natural environment. (Lindenlauf,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B125 Cross-listed as CSTS B125

HART B140 The Visual Culture of the Ancient Near East Not offered 2011-12 (Evans,J. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B140

HART B190 The Form of the City: Urban Form from Antiquity to the Present Spring 2012 This course studies the city as a three-dimensional artifact. A variety of factors--geography, economic and population structure, politics, planning, and aesthetics--are considered as determinants of urban form. (Hein,C., Steffensen,I., Cohen,J. -- Division I or Division III) Cross-listed as CITY B190

HART B204 Greek Sculpture Spring 2012 One of the best-preserved categories of evidence for ancient Greek culture is sculpture. The Greeks devoted immense resources to producing sculpture that encompassed many materials and forms and served a variety of important social functions. This course examines sculptural production in Greece and neighboring lands from the Bronze Age through the fourth century B.C.E. with special attention to style, iconography and historical and social context. (Donohue,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B205

HART B205 Introduction to Film Spring 2012 This course is intended to provide students with the tools of critical film analysis. Through readings of images and sounds, sections of films and entire narratives, students will cultivate the habits of critical viewing and establish a foundation for focused work in film studies. The course introduces formal and technical units of cinematic meaning and categories of genre and history that add up to the experiences and meanings we call cinema. Although much of the course material will focus on the Hollywood style of film, examples will be drawn from the history of cinema. Attendance at weekly screenings is mandatory. (Tratner,M. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ENGL B205

HART B206 Hellenistic and Roman Sculpture Not offered 2011-12 This course surveys the sculpture produced from the fourth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E., the period beginning with the death of Alexander the Great that saw the transformation of the classical world through the rise of Rome and the establishment and expansion of the Roman Empire. Style, iconography, and production will be studied in the contexts of the culture of the Hellenistic kingdoms, the Roman appropriation of Greek culture, the role of art in Roman society, and the significance of Hellenistic and Roman sculpture in the post-antique classical tradition. (Donohue,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B206

HART B209 Topics in Chinese Cultural History
Section 002 (Spring 2011): The Chinese Visual Imagination Spring 2012 This is a topics course. Topics vary. (Bower,V. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as EAST B210

HART B210 Medieval Art Not offered 2011-12 An overview of artistic production in Europe antiquity to the 14th century. Special attention will be paid to problems of interpretation and recent developments in art-historical scholarship. (Easton,M. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B211 Topics in Medieval History Not offered 2011-12 Cross listed with HIST B211 when the topic is appropriate. (Radhakrishnan,M. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B212 Medieval Architecture
Section 001 (Spring 2011): Islamic Cities Fall 2011 This course takes a broad geographic and chronological scope, allowing for full exposure to the rich variety of objects and monuments that fall under the rubric of "medieval" art and architecture. We focus on the Latin and Byzantine Christian traditions, but also consider works of art and architecture from the Islamic and Jewish spheres. Topics to be discussed include: the role of religion in artistic development and expression; secular traditions of medieval art and culture; facture and materiality in the art of the middle ages; the use of objects and monuments to convey political power and social prestige; gender dynamics in medieval visual culture; and the contribution of medieval art and architecture to later artistic traditions. (Walker,A., Radhakrishnan,M. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as CITY B212

HART B213 Theory in Practice:Critical Discourses in the Humanities Fall 2011 This seminar provides exposure to influential 20th-century French thinkers. It will examine three major currents: Postcolonial Theory; Feminist Theory; Post-Structuralist Theory. The primary goal here is to introduce students to exciting and difficult critical thought that will prove useful to their future studies and will begin to develop necessary critical skills. While the materials covered are primarily grounded in French intellectual history, the course will also spend time situating these intellectual currents in broader transnational and transdisciplinary contexts. This is a required course for the French major. Course taught in English and serving the humanities. (Dostal,R. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as PHIL B253 Cross-listed as COML B213 Cross-listed as ENGL B213 Cross-listed as FREN B213

HART B215 Russian Avant-Garde Art, Literature and Film Fall 2011 (Harte,T. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as RUSS B215

HART B225 Topics in Modern Chinese Literature Not offered 2011-12 This a topics course. This course explores modern China from the early 20th century to the present through its literature, art and films, reading them as commentaries of their own time. Topics vary. (Lin,P. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as EAST B225 Cross-listed as HIST B220

HART B227 Topics in Modern Planning Not offered 2011-12 This course examines topics in planning as defined by specific areas (modern European metropoles) or themes (the impact of oil). It is a writing intensive course. (Hein,C. -- Division I: Social Science) Cross-listed as CITY B227 Cross-listed as FREN B227 Cross-listed as GERM B227

HART B229 Topics in Comparative Urbanism
Section 001 (Spring 2012): Colonial and Post -Colonial Reflections Spring 2012 This is a topics course. Topics vary. Enrollment limited to 25 with preference to Cities majors. (McDonogh,G. -- Division I: Social Science) Cross-listed as CITY B229 Cross-listed as ANTH B229 Cross-listed as EAST B229

HART B230 Renaissance Art Not offered 2011-12 A survey of painting in Florence and Rome in the 15th and 16th centuries (Giotto, Masaccio, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael), with particular attention to contemporary intellectual, social, and religious developments. (Cast,D. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B234 Picturing Women in Classical Antiquity Not offered 2011-12 We investigate representations of women in different media in ancient Greece and Rome, examining the cultural stereotypes of women and the gender roles that they reinforce. We also study the daily life of women in the ancient world, the objects that they were associated with in life and death and their occupations. (Lindenlauf,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B234 Cross-listed as CSTS B234

HART B238 The History of Cinema 1895 to 1945 Silent Film: From United States to Soviet Russia and Beyond Not offered 2011-12 This course will explore cinema from its earliest, most primitive beginnings up to the end of the silent era. While the course will focus on a variety of historical and theoretical aspects of cinema, the primary aim is to look at films analytically. Emphasis will be on the various artistic methods that went into the direction and production of a variety of celebrated silent films from around the world. These films will be considered in many contexts: artistic, historical, social, and even philosophical, so that students can develop a deeper understanding of silent cinema's rapid evolution. (Harte,T., Gorfinkel,E. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ENGL B238 Cross-listed as COML B238 Cross-listed as RUSS B238

HART B239 Women and Cinema Not offered 2011-12 This course will examine the particular challenges that women filmmakers face, as well as the unique and innovative contributions they have made to film aesthetics and narrative form. The class will address central debates within feminism from the 1970s to the present, in particular, feminism's influence on women's independent film production and the question of female authorship. (Gorfinkel,E. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ENGL B239

HART B241 New Visual Worlds in the Spanish Empire 1492 - 1820 Fall 2011 The events of 1492 changed the world. Visual works made at the time of the Conquest of the Caribbean, Mexico and South America by Spain and Portugal reveal multiple and often conflicting political, racial and ethnic agendas. (McKim-Smith,G. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B242 Material Identities in Latin America 1820 - 2010 Spring 2012 Revolutions in Latin America begin around 1810. By the 20th and 21st centuries, there is an international viewership for the works of Latin American artists, and in the 21st century the production of Latina and Latino artists living in the United States becomes particularly important. (McKim-Smith,G. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B250 Nineteenth-Century Art in France Not offered 2011-12 Close attention is selectively given to the work of Cézanne, Courbet, David, Degas, Delacroix, Géricault, Ingres, Manet, and Monet. Extensive readings in art criticism are required. (Levine,S. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B253 Before Modernism: Architecture and Urbanism of the 18th and 19th Centuries Fall 2011, Spring 2012 The course frames the topic of architecture before the impact of 20th century Modernism, with a special focus on the two prior centuries - especially the 19th - in ways that treat them on their own terms rather than as precursors of more modern technologies and forms of expression. The course will integrate urbanistic and vernacular perspectives alongside more familiar landmark exemplars. Key goals and components of the course will include attaining a facility within pertinent bibiographical and digital landscapes, formal analysis and research skills exercised in writing projects, class field-trips, and a nuanced mastery of the narratives embodied in the architecture of these centuries. (Cohen,J., Cast,D. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as CITY B253 Cross-listed as CITY B253

HART B254 History of Modern Architecture Fall 2011 A survey of the development of modern architecture since the 18th century. The course concentrates on the period since 1890, especially in Europe and North America. (Hein,C. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as CITY B254

HART B255 Survey of American Architecture Not offered 2011-12 An examination of landmarks, patterns, landscapes, designers, and motives in the creation of the American built environment over four centuries. The course will address the master narrative of the traditional survey course, while also probing the relation of this canon to the wider realms of building in the United States. (Steffensen,I. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as CITY B255

HART B260 Modern Art Not offered 2011-12 This course will involve an inquiry into the history of 20th-century visual culture, European and American, through an exploration of art practice, art history, art criticism and art theory. Against the dominant and paradigmatic theorization of modernism, the course will introduce and mobilize materials aimed at its critique. (Dietrich,D., Saltzman,L. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B266 Contemporary Art : 1945 to the Global Present Spring 2012 America, Europe and beyond, from the 1950s to the present, in visual media and visual theory. (Saltzman,L. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B268 Greek and Roman Architecture Spring 2012 The course will introduce the structure of Greek and Roman cities and sanctuaries, the variety of building types and monuments found within them, and how local populations used and lived in the architectural environment of the classical world. (Wright,J.) Cross-listed as ARCH B268 Cross-listed as CITY B268

HART B271 History of Photography: The American Century Not offered 2011-12 Examines the development of photography, from its invention to contemporary artistic practices. Beginning with an investigation of the scientific origins, traces the complex functions of the photographic image. Familiarizes students with key figures in European and American photography as well as key texts reflecting the unstable status of the photographic object between technology and aesthetics, mass culture and the avant-garde, art and document. (Schwartz,S. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as CITY B271

HART B272 Topics in Early and Medieval China Not offered 2011-12 This is a topics course. Course content varies. (Lin,P. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as EAST B272 Cross-listed as CITY B273

HART B280 Video Practices: Analog to Digital Not offered 2011-12 (Nguyen,H. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ENGL B280

HART B282 Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa Not offered 2011-12 This course examines the significant artistic and architectural traditions of African cultures south of the Sahara in their religious, philosophical, political, and social aspects. (Toure,D. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B299 History of Narrative Cinema, 1945 to present Spring 2012 This course surveys the history of narrative film from 1945 through the contemporary moment. We will analyze a series of styles and national cinemas in chronological order, including Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, and other post-war movements and genres. Viewings of canonical films will be supplemented by more recent examples of global cinema. While historical in approach, this course emphasizes the theory and criticism of the sound film, and we will consider various methodological approaches to the aesthetic, socio-political, and psychological dimensions of cinema. Fulfills the history requirement or the introductory course requirement for the Film Studies minor. (King,H. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ENGL B299

HART B305 Classical Bodies Not offered 2011-12 An examination of the conceptions of the human body evidenced in Greek and Roman art and literature, with emphasis on issues that have persisted in the Western tradition. Topics include the fashioning of concepts of male and female standards of beauty and their implications; conventions of visual representation; the nude; clothing and its symbolism; the athletic ideal; physiognomy; medical theory and practice; the visible expression of character and emotions; and the formulation of the "classical ideal" in antiquity and later times. (Donohue,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B303 Cross-listed as COML B313

HART B306 Film Theory Not offered 2011-12 An introduction to major developments in film theory and criticism. Topics covered include: the specificity of film form; cinematic realism; the cinematic "author"; the politics and ideology of cinema; the relation between cinema and language; spectatorship, identification, and subjectivity; archival and historical problems in film studies; the relation between film studies and other disciplines of aesthetic and social criticism. Each week of the syllabus pairs critical writing(s) on a central principle of film analysis with a cinematic example. Class will be divided between discussion of critical texts and attempts to apply them to a primary cinematic text. (King,H. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ENGL B306 Cross-listed as COML B306

HART B308 Topics in Photography: Photography and War Not offered 2011-12 Examining photographic practices between the 1850's and the 1970's, this seminar seeks to move beyond the reflective analysis of the city in the image and as the subject of representation to the relationship between photography and urbanization. Taking up various theories and models it explores how making records and reorganization of space developed as related means of modernization. (Schwartz,S. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as CITY B308

HART B311 Topics in Medieval Art
Section 001 (Fall 2011): Sacred Spaces of Islam Fall 2011 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Through case studies of specific cultural groups and their architectural traditions, this seminar traces the development of Islamic sacred space during the seventh to the twentieth centuries, from North America to India. Readings address both the historical contexts in which buildings were produced as well as the rituals and beliefs that gave them meaning. Critical texts from architectural theory provide students with a foundation in the methods and concepts that have shaped scholarly discourse on sacred space in the modern era. (Walker,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as CITY B312 Cross-listed as HIST B311

HART B323 Topics in Renaissance Art
Section 001 (Spring 2012): Palladio and neo-Palladianism
Section 001 (Spring 2011): The Fresco as Public Art Spring 2012 Selected subjects in Italian art from painting, sculpture, and architecture between the years 1400 and 1600.
Current topic description: The subject of this seminar is both the history of architectural forms, derived from the work of Andrea Palladio and the idea of suburban or country living as defined in his villas, from the Renaissance to the present day. (Cast,D. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as CITY B323

HART B331 Palladio and Neo-Palladianism Not offered 2011-12 A seminar on the diffusion of Palladian architecture from the 16th century to the present. (Cast,D.) Cross-listed as CITY B331

HART B334 Topics in Film Studies
Section 001 (Fall 2011): Picturing the Invisible Fall 2011 This is a topics course. Content varies.
Current topic description: In what ways do film, photography, and digital media shape the space of public appearance? Who and what can be represented, who and what remain on the fringes of the visible world? To what extent are political, social, and cultural recognition predicated on the capacity to appear in photographs, on film, on television, on the internet, and in classrooms and musuems? Starting from the premise that political potential and recognition are firmly tied to the ability to appear in lensed images, we will explore topics such as 1) how invisible and marginal subjects are to be pictured, 2) how existing repertoires of images affect who and what can appear, 3) how the censorship, circulation, and exhibition of images factor into public visibility. Films may include Standard Operating Procedure, A Fire in My Belly, and others; readings include texts by Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, and others. (King,H. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ENGL B334

HART B336 Topics in Film Not offered 2011-12 This course examines experimental film and video from the 1930's to present. It will concentrate on the use of found footage: the reworking of existing imagery in order to generate new aesthetic frameworks and cultural meanings. Key issues to be explored include copyright, piracy, archive, activism, affect, aesthetics, interactivity and fandom. (Nguyen,H. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ENGL B336

HART B340 Topics in Baroque Art:
Section 001 (Spring 2011): Costume&Consumer Culture in Spain & Latin America Not offered 2011-12 This is a topics course. Course content varies. (McKim-Smith,G. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as COML B340

HART B341 Cult Genres Not offered 2011-12 Serving to theorize and historicize cult film and questions of the aesthetic and cultural value, this class will examine conceptual issues of taste, reception, and mass culture as they have accrued around cult film phenomena such as the midnight movie, the cult horror film, exploitation film, underground, and camp cinema. Prerequisite: One course from: ENGL/HART B205; HART B110; HART/ENGL B299; or consent of instructor. (Gorfinkel,E. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ENGL B341

HART B348 Advanced Topics in German Cultural Studies
Section 001 (Spring 2011): Last Days of Habsburg: Vienna 1900 & End of Empire
Section 001 (Spring 2012): The Trans Cosmo of Swiss Lit Spring 2012 This is a topics course. Course content varies. (Seyhan,A., Werlen,H., Hertel,C., Meyer,I. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as GERM B321 Cross-listed as CITY B319 Cross-listed as COML B321

HART B350 Topics in Modern Art Spring 2012 This is a topics course. Topics vary.
Current topic description: Portraiture and Self-Portraiture, from sixteenth-century courts to the internet today. (Levine,S. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B354 Topics in Art Criticism Not offered 2011-12 Individual topics in art-historical methodology, such as art and psychoanalysis, feminism, post-structuralism, or semiotics are treated. (Levine,S. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as COML B354 Cross-listed as HEBR B354

HART B355 Topics in the History of London Not offered 2011-12 Selected topics of social, literary, and architectural concern in the history of London, emphasizing London since the 18th century. (Cast,D. -- Division I or Division III) Cross-listed as CITY B355 Cross-listed as HIST B355

HART B358 Topics in Classical Art and Archaeology Not offered 2011-12 A research-oriented course taught in seminar format, treating issues of current interest in Greek and Roman art and archaeology. Prerequisites: 200-level coursework in some aspect of classical or related cultures, archeology or art history. (Donohue,A. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ARCH B359 Cross-listed as CSTS B359

HART B362 The African Art Collection Not offered 2011-12 This seminar will introduce students to the African art holdings that are part of the Art and Archaeology Collections. (Toure,D. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B367 Asian American Film, Video and New Media Not offered 2011-12 The course explores the role of pleasure in the production, reception, and performance of Asian American identities in film, video, and the internet, taking as its focus the sexual representation of Asian Americans in works produced by Asian American artists from 1915 to present. In several units of the course, we will study graphic sexual representations, including pornographic images and sex acts some may find objectionable. Students should be prepared to engage analytically with all class material. To maintain an atmosphere of mutual respect and solidarity among the participants in the class, no auditors will be allowed. (Nguyen,H. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as ENGL B367

HART B377 Topics in Modern Architecture Fall 2011 This is a topics course on modern architecture. Topics vary. (Hein,C. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as CITY B377

HART B380 Topics in Contemporary Art
Section 001 (Fall 2011): Body Politic: Performance and Performativity
Section 001 (Spring 2011): Visual Culture & the Holocaust Fall 2011 This is a topic course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: Even as "performance art," as it emerged in the 1960s, came to stand as a dynamic site of aesthetic experimentation and critical inquiry, it was only the most explicit instance of the ethical and political claims to "representation" at work and at play across a history of twentieth century visual practice. Portraiture and photography, video and film, even, for that matter, abstract painting, became sites and situations of expressions and subversions of categorical identities. And it will be the challenge of the seminar to immerse students in the project of re-thinking the aesthetic and ethical implications of the bodies that structure visual modernity and its inheritance. (Saltzman,L. -- Division III: Humanities) Cross-listed as GERM B380 Cross-listed as HEBR B380

HART B397 Junior Seminar Fall 2011 Designed to introduce majors to the canonical texts in the field of art history and to formalize their understanding of art history as a discipline. Required of and limited to History of Art majors. (Levine,S., Hertel,C. -- Division III: Humanities)

HART B398 Senior Conference A critical review of the discipline of art history in preparation for the senior paper. Required of all majors. (Kinney,D., Dietrich,D., Cast,D., Easton,M.)

HART B399 Senior Conference A seminar for the discussion of senior research papers and such theoretical and historical concerns as may be appropriate to them. Interim oral reports. Required of all majors; culminates in the senior paper. (Cast,D., Walker,A., Saltzman,L.)

HART B403 Supervised Work Advanced students may do independent research under the supervision of a faculty member whose special competence coincides with the area of the proposed research. Consent of the supervising faculty member and of the major adviser is required. (King,H.)

HART B425 Praxis III Students are encouraged to develop internship projects in the college's collections and other art institutions in the region. (Cast,D.)

HART B610 Topics in Medieval Art
Section 001 (Spring 2012): Constantinople, Queen of Cities Spring 2012 This is a topics course. Course content varies. (Walker,A.)

HART B630 Topics in Renaissance Art Not offered 2011-12 This seminar is concerned with the history and the historiography of Mannerism. The first subjects are those works of art, described as Mannerist, produced in Italy and then in the rest of Europe in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. But we are also concerned with the critical reception of these works and the attention they have gathered within the history of criticism, from the XVIIth century onwards to the writings of historians of art, especially in Germany, at the beginning of the last century. We will also examine how far, and how usefully, such a term can be used today in criticism, as it is still so often. (Cast,D.)

HART B636 Vasari Not offered 2011-12 This seminar focuses on Giorgio Vasari as painter and architect and above all as a founder of the Florentine Academy and the writer of the first modern history of the arts. Topics covered range across the arts of that time and then the questions any such critical accounting of the arts calls up, imitation, invention, the notion of the artist and however it is possible to capture in words what seems often to be beyond them. (Cast,D.)

HART B645 Problems in Representation
Section 001 (Fall 2011): Realism Fall 2011 This seminar examines, as philosophy and history, the idea of realism, as seen in the visual arts since the Renaissance and beyond to the 19th and 20th centuries. (Cast,D.)

HART B650 Topics in Modern Art Fall 2011 This is a topics course. Topics vary. Admission by permission of the instructor.
Current topic description: Manet, Monet, and Modernism (Levine,S.)

HART B655 Topics in Contemporary Art Not offered 2011-12 If the "origins" of video art date to 1965, when Sony introduced its Portapac to the United States and Jam Jun Paik shot his first piece in New York, its theorization dates to 1976, when Rosalind Krauss published her field defining essay. This course functions as both an introduction to and an immersion in the history and theory of video art. Limited to 15 students. (Saltzman,L.)

HART B662 The African Art Collection Not offered 2011-12 This seminar will introduce students to the African art holdings that are part of the Art and Archaeology Collections. (Toure,D.)

HART B671 Topics in German Art Not offered 2011-12 In his introduction to The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, Erwin Panofsky observes that "German psychology is marked by a curious dichotomy clearly reflected in Luther's doctrine of "Christian Liberty," as well as in Kant's distinction between an 'intelligible character' which is free even in a state of material slavery and an 'empirical character' which is predetermined even in a state of material freedom. The Germans, so easily regimented in political and military life, were prone to extreme subjectivity and individualism in religion, in metaphysical thought, and, above all, in art." In part this observation resonates with the book's date of publication, 1943; in part it addresses German Renaissance culture. In this seminar we will explore the possibility in German Renaissance art of the simultaneous affirmation and negation of a topic, point of reference or tradition iconographically represented or invoked by a work of art. This practice may be implicit or explicit, an inadvertent byproduct or a form of resistance; it may stay within the parameters of an established genre and/or medium (altarpiece, portrait, history; sculpture, painting, print) or use a satirical mode. We will explore this phenomenon empirically, through a series of case studies in the art of Veit Stoss, Tilman Riemenschneider, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Holbein and others. We will also explore it theoretically, for example as dialectic (Benjamin), atency (Freud), melancholia (Kristeva), negativity Agamben), and through particluar interpretive paradigms in art history (Panofsky, Baxandall, Hults, Koerner and others). In their research projects seminar participants will work with these or choose their own artistic examples and interpretive paradigms. (Hertel,C.)

HART B678 Portraiture Not offered 2011-12 (Levine,S.)

HART B680 Topics in 20th C. Art
Section 001 (Spring 2012): Photography and its Afterlife Spring 2012 This is a topics course. Course content varies.
Current topic description: This seminar will engage the history and theory of photography, as well as its "afterlife" in contemporary art and other forms of visual culture. (Saltzman,L.)

HART B701 Supervised Work Fall 2011, Spring 2012 (Saltzman,L., King,H., Cast,D., Levine,S., McKim-Smith,G., Hertel,C.)

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