IART 117
Introduction to the Fine Arts
This course is designed to develop and increase the perceptual skills of students in the field of the arts through an examination of subject-matter, form, and content in each art by means of a critical method of analysis. The arts covered in this introductory course include painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, and music. The class provides opportunities for student participation with the arts through class lectures, technical demonstrations, campus field trips, and small group discussions.
IART 118
Introduction to the Fine Arts
This course is designed to develop and increase the perceptual skills of students in the field of the arts through an examination of subject-matter, form, and content in each art by means of a critical method of analysis. The arts covered in this introductory course include photography, film, theater, dance, and opera. The class provides opportunities for student participation with the arts through class lectures, technical demonstrations, campus field trips, and small group discussions.
IART 360J
Writing in the Arts
This course provides critical analyses of form, media, and content in fine arts stressing instruction in critical writing.
T3 464A,B,C (Tier 3)
Cultural Traditions and the Arts
This senior level course surveys some of the principle concerns and developments of Western art as mirrored in selected masterpieces of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature. It may be offered in any of the following three time periods: Ancient/Medieval, Renaissance/Baroque, or 19th/20th Centuries. Specific works of art are examined in relationship to one another and against the ideas that animated the life of their times. The course incorporates class discussion, small group projects, lectures, and guest artists to provide a broad base for the study of the arts in their cultural context.
T3 464E (Tier 3)
Madness in Culture
A senior undergraduate seminar devoted to the study of different expressions of 'madness' in paintings, literature, theatre and film. Without presupposing the validity of any existing concepts of madness (e.g., sociological, medical, etc.), the students examine its various formulations in theory, and philosophy, and their relations to the selected artists and works of art.
T3 464F (Tier 3)
Art and Morality
Moral thought has always grappled with artistic expression. From Plato's demand that poetry serve the interests of the state to Nietzsche's claim that the artist is man at his freest, philosophers, artists, and politicians have tried to resolve the tension between what humanity can, and what it should do. The debate is as alive in the twentieth century as it was in Plato's time and the wrestling match between morality and art goes on. Should there be censorship in the arts? In this course we shall look at a variety of solutions that have been formulated in the history of western thought, and shall also ask whether the relationship between artistic expression and morality must be a wrestling match or, perhaps, it may be based on alternative models?
T3 464G (Tier 3)
The Classical Tradition in Literature and the Arts: The Hero and Heroic Culture Since Antiquity
The influence of ancient Greek and Roman civilization on subsequent world history has been profound. In this course we will synthesize Greco-Roman civilization and the literature and arts of five subsequent periods: the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque, the Revolutionary Age (1750-1848), and the Modern World.