Courses

• CAS AH 527: Topics in Art and Society
  May be repeated for credit as topics change. Two topics are offered Fall 2017. Section A1: American Art and the Civil War. Explores the ways that Northern and Southern painters, sculptors, photographers, illustrators, and popular image makers interpreted slavery and sectional strife in the years surrounding the Civil War. Section C1: Global Heritage Conservation. Examines global approaches towards heritage conservation guidelines and philosophies together with conservation practice case studies from around the world. Focus on themes such as world heritage, underwater cultural heritage, contemporary architecture at historic and ancient sites.
• CAS AH 531: Modern Asian Art in a Global Context
  Topic for Spring 2017: Tokyo: City and Concept. Explores Tokyo from its eighteenth-century origins as a castle town to its present status as a world city. Buildings, spaces, networks, and boundaries that have defined Tokyo are investigated. Also considered are visual representations of the city.
• CAS AH 532: Japanese Print Culture
  Seminar on print culture of Japan from the eighteenth century to the present. Study of woodblock prints, photographic prints, book art, print advertisements, postcards, and manga. Focus on their function as both artistic expression and instruments of mass communication.
• CAS AH 533: Seminar: Greek Art and Architecture
  Topic for Fall 2016: Greek Sculpture. Greek sculpture in all of its monumental forms, focusing on particular debates regarding technique, workshop practices, and artistic style.
• CAS AH 534: Seminar in Roman Art
  In-depth examination of varying topics in the study of Roman art and architecture. Topic for Fall 2017: Pompeii. Art and life in Pompeii and the other cities buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Urban planning; civic, religious, and domestic architecture; tombs; mural painting; mosaics; sculpture; minor arts; and the history of the excavations. Also offered as CAS AR 534.
• CAS AH 539: Muslim Societies: An Interdisciplinary History
  Examines the states, empires, faiths, and ideologies of the Muslim world over a 1500-year period, including states from North and West Africa, through the Middle East, to Turkey, Iran, and then to Central and Southeast Asia. Also offered as CAS AN 548, HI 596, IR 515, and RN 563.
• CAS AH 541: Courtly Commissions: Ottoman Art and Architecture
  Explores the artistic patronage of the Ottoman court, fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Questions of self-fashioning, artistic agency, courtly behavior, decorum, and the formation of an imperial style frame the discussion of specific works of art and architecture.
• CAS AH 543: Latin American Art and the Cold War
  Study of Latin American artistic practices in relation to Cold War political frameworks, such as development and dependency discourses, the impact of the Cuban Revolution, U.S. and Soviet cultural policies, and the rise of numerous political dictatorships.
• CAS AH 546: Places of Memory: Historic Preservation Theory and Practice
  Covers key aspects of the history, theory, and practice of historic preservation. Preservation is discussed in the context of cultural history and the changing relationship between existing buildings and landscapes and attitudes toward history, memory, invented tradition, and place. Also offered as CAS AM 546 and CAS HI 546.
• CAS AH 553: Documenting Historic Buildings and Landscapes
  A seminar designed to train students in architectural research techniques through supervised reading, fieldwork, and writing. Students are introduced to the skills needed to conduct research on both individual resources and groups of resources, clustered within an area or scattered throughout a community. Also offered as CAS AM 553.
• CAS AH 554: Boston Architectural and Community History Workshop
  This course focuses on class readings, lectures, and research on a single neighborhood or community in Boston (or Greater Boston). Greatest emphasis is on using primary sources-- land titles and deeds, building permits, fire insurance atlases and other maps. There are both group and individual research projects. Also offered as CAS AM 555 and CAS HI 569.
• CAS AH 557: High Renaissance and Mannerist Art in Italy
  Topic for Fall 2017: Drawing in Early Modern Italy. This seminar considers the role of drawings in workshop practice, the transition to drawings as autonomous artworks, and the relationship between invention and sketches. Attention also will be given to the history of materials and of drawing connoisseurship.
• CAS AH 563: Global Baroque: Art and Power in the Seventeenth Century
  Investigates interactions between art and structures of power in seventeenth-century Europe, with particular attention to the global dimensions of this phenomenon. Primary focus on painting, sculpture, and architecture by Baroque artists, including Rubens, Rembrandt, Velazquez, and Bernini.
• CAS AH 574: Topics in African Art
  An in-depth study of selected topics in the history of African art. May be repeated for credit as topics change. Topic for Fall 2017: Morocco & Zanzibar. Highlights artistic connections that historically occurred across geographic cultural, and intellectual crossroads. A case-study approach focussing on Morocco and Zanzibar, examining how trade and movement across land and sea resulted in intersecting artistic traditions and cultural fusion.
• CAS AH 580: Architectural Technology and Materials
  An introduction to the history of architectural construction, technologies, and materials, and their consequences in the built environment. Students receive a practical understanding of the building process and of its social and cultural contexts.
• CAS AH 584: Greater Boston: Architecture and Planning
  May be repeated for credit as topics change. Topic for Spring 2017: Boston Architecture. A project- and research-based seminar on Boston's most famous modern renewal project. Students visit and conduct in-depth research on Government Center's spaces and buildings, seen in the context of mid-century American urban, social, and architectural history.
• CAS AH 585: Twentieth-Century Architecture and Urbanism
  Topic for Spring 2015: TBA.
• CAS AH 587: Green Design
  Explores sustainability and green architecture from the eighteenth century to present. Charts intersections of nature and built environments through methods from architectural and urban history, history of technology, and environmental history. "Green architecture" examined within historical and spatial context.
• CAS AH 589: Topics in Nineteenth-Century Art
  Topic for Spring 2017: Impressionism through Symbolism. European art, 1848-1900, is examined in light of contemporary developments in politics, science, religion, literature, music, and the history of ideas.
• CAS AH 591: Seminar in Photographic History
  Topic for Spring 2017: Documentary Photography. A study of changing uses, definitions, and archives of documentary photography from 1839 to the present. Topics include urban photography, war imagery, topographical and survey landscapes, architectural records, social reform photography, New Deal imagery, and digital documents.

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