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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Art History
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Professor Adam Herring, Department Chair
Professors: Roberto Conduru, Randall C. Griffin, Adam Herring
Associate Professors: Amy Freund, Adam Jasienski, Stephanie Langin-Hooper, Anna Lovatt, Abbey Stockstill
Assistant Professors: Elizabeth Eager, Elyan Hill, Tashima Thomas
The study of art history trains students to negotiate a world saturated with images. It challenges students to confront critically the issues posed by the visual culture that mediates their understanding of the past, present and future. Built on the fertile exchange between the arts and the humanities, art history at SMU subscribes to an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to learning. Students are taught to think across current categories and boundaries and practice a socially responsible art history.
In addition to developing acute visual sensibilities, students acquire the ability to evaluate and organize information, conduct scholarly research and articulate their ideas in both written and spoken language. Students completing this course of study are prepared for advanced training in the field of art history; museum and gallery professions; or work in a broad range of other fields, including publishing, arts administration, teaching and public policy.
ProgramsMajor(s)Minor(s)CoursesArt History
- ARHS 1300 - From Mummies to Gladiators: Art of the Ancient Mediterranean and Ancient Middle East
- ARHS 1301 - Catacombs, Cathedrals, and Flying Machines: Art and People of the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
- ARHS 1302 - From the Baroque to the Digital Age: Art and People of the Modern World
- ARHS 1303 - Introduction to Western Art I
- ARHS 1304 - Introduction to Western Art II
- ARHS 1305 - Introduction to African Arts
- ARHS 1306 - Introduction to Architecture
- ARHS 1307 - Introduction to Art History
- ARHS 1308 - Epic of Latin America
- ARHS 1313 - Pharaohs, Pyramids, and Other Wonders of the Nile: Introduction to the Art of Ancient Egypt
- ARHS 1318 - Monsters, Mayhem, and Miracles: Art and Life in the Medieval World
- ARHS 1319 - Architecture of the Islamic World
- ARHS 1322 - Architecture of the Ancient Americas: Aztec, Maya, and Inca
- ARHS 1325 - The Global Baroque
- ARHS 1330 - The Visual Arts in France, 1500-1914
- ARHS 1351 - Visual Cultures: Topics in Art History
- ARHS 1359 - Impressionism
- ARHS 1360 - Picturing the American West
- ARHS 1375 - Art of the Selfie: Self-Portraiture from the Renaissance to the Present
- ARHS 1380 - Introduction to African American Art
- ARHS 3301 - Art and Experience in Inka Peru
- ARHS 3302 - The Ancient Maya: Art and History
- ARHS 3304 - Aztecs of Mexico: Art and History
- ARHS 3305 - Arts of the American Southwest: Crossroads of Cultures
- ARHS 3307 - Photography in Taos; Photographic Art, Photographic History
- ARHS 3309 - Museum Ethics
- ARHS 3310 - War, Looting, and Collecting of Ancient Art
- ARHS 3311 - Mortals, Myths, and Monuments of Ancient Greece
- ARHS 3312 - Myth in Ancient and Renaissance Art
- ARHS 3315 - Classical Sculpture
- ARHS 3316 - Art in Rome
- ARHS 3317 - Land Between Two Rivers: Art of Ancient Iraq and Its Neighbors
- ARHS 3319 - Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Dialogue between Art and Text
- ARHS 3320 - Medieval Art and Architecture
- ARHS 3321 - The Art of Medieval Science and Magic
- ARHS 3322 - Heaven on Earth: Art, Order, and Environmentalism in the Islamic Garden
- ARHS 3324 - Art and Cultures of Medieval Spain
- ARHS 3326 - How It’s Made: Art Historical Approaches to the Art Object
- ARHS 3329 - Paris Art and Architecture I
- ARHS 3330 - Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
- ARHS 3331 - Art and Culture of the Italian Renaissance
- ARHS 3332 - 16th-Century Italian Art
- ARHS 3333 - Special Topics in Italian Art and Architecture
- ARHS 3335 - Meadows Museum Spotlight: Art History One Object at a Time
- ARHS 3336 - Power and Spectacle: The Arts of the Early Modern Hispanic World
- ARHS 3337 - The Baroque From a Northern Perspective
- ARHS 3338 - Sacred and Profane: Spanish Art and Architecture
- ARHS 3339 - El Greco to Goya: Spanish Painting of the Golden Age
- ARHS 3340 - Visual Culture in Colonial Mexico
- ARHS 3341 - Portraiture and Selfhood
- ARHS 3342 - The Art Market: Making, Selling, and Displaying Art in Early Modern and Modern Europe
- ARHS 3343 - The Decorative Arts and the History of Dress in 18th-Century Europe
- ARHS 3344 - Paintings at the Prado
- ARHS 3345 - Animals in Art
- ARHS 3346 - Paris Art and Architecture II
- ARHS 3347 - Longhouse to Land Art: A History of the American Built Environment
- ARHS 3348 - 18th-Century Art
- ARHS 3349 - Hieroglyphs to Hypertext: The Art and History of the Book
- ARHS 3350 - The Making of Modern Life: Art and Design in the 19th Century
- ARHS 3351 - British Art and Architecture: The Making of Modern Britain
- ARHS 3352 - Art and Science: Scientific Revolution to the Information Age (17th Century to Present)
- ARHS 3353 - American Art and Architecture to 1865
- ARHS 3354 - History and Theory of Prints
- ARHS 3355 - Exhibiting Cultures: Curating and Interpreting the Arts of the Global South
- ARHS 3356 - Modern Architecture
- ARHS 3359 - Topics in Art History: International Studies
- ARHS 3360 - Modern Painters in Spain
- ARHS 3361 - Special Studies in Art History
- ARHS 3362 - Decolonizing the Art Museum
- ARHS 3363 - ‘Sleeping Giant’: Arts and Architecture of Brazil
- ARHS 3365 - Race and Gender in Visual Culture
- ARHS 3366 - Picasso, O’Keeffe, and Dali: The Rise of Modern Art
- ARHS 3367 - History of Photography I: Origins-1940
- ARHS 3368 - Art and Context: 1940-1970
- ARHS 3369 - Contemporary Art: 1965-Present
- ARHS 3372 - African Art
- ARHS 3373 - African Festival and Masquerade
- ARHS 3374 - American Art and Architecture, 1865-1940
- ARHS 3375 - Art in the Fight for Freedom: Afro-Latin American Art
- ARHS 3376 - Latin American Art
- ARHS 3377 - Art and Architecture of Hispanic New Mexico
- ARHS 3379 - The Art of Curatorship: The Role of the Curator and Curatorial Practice
- ARHS 3380 - History of Photography II: 1940-Present
- ARHS 3381 - Gender and Sexuality in the Visual Arts
- ARHS 3382 - Culture Shock: Museums as Sites of Protest
- ARHS 3387 - Picturing Children and the Family in Art: 1850 to the Present
- ARHS 3389 - Art of the Moving Image
- ARHS 3390 - Art of the Afro-Fantastic: Visualizing Contemporary Black Imaginaries
- ARHS 3391 - Museum Futures and New Technologies
- ARHS 3393 - Culture of Oaxaca: A Sense of Place
- ARHS 3394 - Art and Architecture of Japan
- ARHS 3398 - Introduction to Museum Studies
- ARHS 4101 - Directed Studies and Tutorials
- ARHS 4102 - Directed Studies and Tutorials
- ARHS 4111 - Undergraduate Museum Internship
- ARHS 4201 - Directed Studies and Tutorials
- ARHS 4202 - Directed Studies and Tutorials
- ARHS 4211 - Undergraduate Museum Internship
- ARHS 4301 - Directed Studies and Tutorials
- ARHS 4302 - Directed Studies and Tutorials
- ARHS 4303 - Art Museum Teaching Practicum
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