Registration for Summer 2021 in now open!
Summer Term 2021 courses will be offered via a hybrid teaching format known at BU as Learn from Anywhere (LfA). This format gives students the option to attend classes remotely or in person.
We continue to monitor closely the developing public health situation. Should safety guidelines require a change in teaching format, all updates will be posted on the Summer Term calendar page.
Register on the Summer Term Website Here!
HAA Courses for Summer Session I
(May 24 – July 2)
CAS AH 111: From Pyramids to Cathedrals – An Introduction to Ancient and Medieval Art
A chronological examination of the fundamentals of art and architectural history, this course introduces students to major monuments and works of art in their social, religious and historical contexts.
Fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.
M,W – 1:00-4:30pm Martin
CAS AH112: Survey – Renaissance to Modern
Major monuments and artists of the Western tradition. Sequential development, from the Renaissance to the modern period, of major styles in architecture, sculpture, painting, graphic arts, and photography. Relationship of visual art to social and cultural trends. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
Fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.
T,R – 1:00-4:30pm Barrett
CAS AH220: Islamic Art and Architecture
Examines key monuments of Islamic art and architecture within their historical and cultural context, and emphasizes the diversity within the visual cultures of the Islamic world. Carried humanities divisional credit in CAS.
Fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Aesthetic exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
T,R – 6:00-9:30pm Dursunoğlu
CAS AH389: The Age of Impressionism
Impressionism, its sources, and its aftermath: from the painting of modem life and leisure by Manet, Monet, Morisot, Renoir, and Degas to the evocation of spirituality, pain, and desire in the work of Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rodin, and Munch.
Fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.
M, W – 9:00-12:30pm Ribner
CAS AH393: Contemporary Art: 1980 to Now
Explores the key figures, conceptual underpinnings, and primary sites for the production and reception of contemporary art on a global scale since 1980. Painting, textiles, installation art, new media, performance, art criticism, and curatorial practice are discussed. This course can be taken either synchronously or asynchronously.
Fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.
T, R – 9:00-12:30pm Pitts
HAA Courses for Summer Session II
(July 6 – August 13)
CAS AH111: From Pyramids to Cathedrals – An Introduction to Ancient and Medieval Art
A chronological examination of the fundamentals of art and architectural history, this course introduces students to major monuments and works of art in their social, religious and historical contexts.
Fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.
M, W – 9:00-12:30pm Neill
CAS AH112: Survey – Renaissance to Modern
Major monuments and artists of the Western tradition. Sequential development, from the Renaissance to the modern period, of major styles in architecture, sculpture, painting, graphic arts, and photography. Relationship of visual art to social and cultural trends. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
Fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.
T, R – 1:00-4:30pm Soriano
CAS AH242: Latin American Art Since Contact
Course surveys Latin American art from the colonial period to present and relates it to imperial, state, institutional, and private agendas. Course interrogates both notions of art within colonial / neo-colonial contexts and changing roles of artists over past half-millennia.
Fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.
M,W – 1:00-4:30pm Serna-Lancheros
CAS AH395: History of Photography
From its invention in 1839 to the present. After lectures on photographic theory and methodology, photographs are studied both as art objects and as historical artifacts.
Fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
T, R 9:00-12:30pm Mitchell