Courses

• GRS AA 716: African Diaspora Arts in the Americas
  Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing.
  Study of the transmission of African artistry in the Caribbean, South America, and the United States from the period of slavery to the present. Topics include Kongo and Yoruba arts and their influence on the arts of Santería, Vodun, and carnival. Also offered as GRS AH 716.
• GRS AA 871: African American History
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: graduate standing.
  The history of African Americans from African origins to the present; consideration of slavery, reconstruction, and ethnic relations from the colonial era to our own time. Also offered as GRS HI 871.
• GRS AA 885: Atlantic History
  Examines the various interactions that shaped the Atlantic World, connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas between 1400 and 1800. Begins by defining the political interaction, then emphasizes cultural exchange, religious conversion, and the revolutionary era. Also offered as GRS HI 750.
• GRS AA 888: Black Radical Thought
  Black radical thought in America, Europe, and Africa since the eighteenth century through writings of abolitionists, leaders of revolutions and liberation movements, Black nationalists, and Black socialists. Emphasizes the global nature of the "Black World" and its role in world history. Also offered as GRS HI 761.
• GRS AA 901: Directed Study in African American Studies
  Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor.
  
• GRS AA 902: Directed Study in African American Studies
  Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor.
  
• GRS AH 699: Teaching College Art History I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in art history. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS AH 733: Colloquium in Greek Art and Architecture
  Greek architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts. Emphasis on developments in Athens and on the creation of the classical style in art and architecture.
• GRS AH 776: American Vernacular Architecture
  Study of interpretive approaches known as Vernacular Architecture, as they are employed in the study of American buildings and the historic landscape. Emphasis on the role of social and cultural forces in the production, use, and understanding of the built environment. Also offered as GRS AM 765.
• GRS AH 782: Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century Architecture in Europe and America
  Dilemma of style in nineteenth-century architecture; study of the relationship of architectural theory to the changing philosophy and aesthetic theory of the period. Development of functionalist theory.
• GRS AH 786: Colloquium in Twentieth-Century American Painting
  The colloquium, which accompanies the lecture course for CAS AH 386, focuses on critical and theoretical readings that relate to twentieth-century American painting, photography, sculpture, installation and performance art, and criticism.
• GRS AH 798: Colloquium in Twentieth-Century Architecture
  In conjunction with the CAS AH 398 lecture course, this colloquium focuses on main figures, events, artifacts of twentieth-century architectural history.
• GRS AH 802: Seminar: A-H Writing
  This seminar will consider the history and methods of art history through the writings of Vasari, Bellori, Winkelmann, Kant, Hegel, Wolfflin, Riegel, Warburg, Panofsky, Gombrich, among others.
• GRS AH 820: Seminar: Asian Art
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: graduate standing.
  Topics vary. Topic for Spring 2012: TBD.
• GRS AH 822: Seminar: African Art
  Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
  In-depth discussion of special topics in the study of African art and architecture. Topic for Fall 2011: Material Journeys: Contact Zones and Borderlands in Africa and Its Diaspora. Considers art produced at contact zones to rethink concepts of tradition, authenticity, diaspora, and commodity. Focuses on northwestern Africa and the Caribbean from the fifteenth century to present. Sapi-Portuguese ivories, Islamic architecture in West Africa, and Berber art are addressed.
• GRS AH 846: Seminar: Romanesque and Gothic Art
  Detailed study of the castles, cathedrals, and works of art produced in Anglo-Norman England. Topics include contemporary attitudes toward images, monastic art, allegory, nostalgia, symbolism, parody, the grotesque, building techniques, and patronage. Among the works studied are Canterbury Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, the Tower of London, and the Bayeux Tapestry.
• GRS AH 863: Seminar: Baroque Art and Architecture
  Topics vary annually. Topic for Spring 2012: TBD.
• GRS AH 867: Material Culture
  Introduction to the theory and practice of the interdisciplinary study of material culture, which includes everything we make and use, from food and clothing to art and buildings. Explores contemporary scholarship from a range of disciplines. Also offered as GRS AM 867.
• GRS AH 886: Seminar: American Painting
  Topics vary annually. Topic for Spring 2012: TBD.
• GRS AH 891: Seminar: Photography
  Historical, archival, and theoretical examinations of photography, with emphasis on its role both as document and as art. Topic for Fall 2011: Documentary Photography. Studies changing uses, definitions, and archives of documentary photography from 1839 to present. Addresses urban photography, war imagery, architectural records, social reform photography, and New Deal imagery. Concentrates on rich archival resources available in the museums and societies in Boston.