{"id":11107,"date":"2020-09-23T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T21:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/?page_id=11107"},"modified":"2021-06-01T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:24:00","slug":"spring-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/academics\/courses\/spring-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2021 Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Expand the sections below to explore our Spring 2021 course descriptions.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Undergraduate Courses<\/h3>
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AH 112 – Introduction to Art History II: Renaissance to Today<\/strong>
\nMajor monuments and artists. 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.
\nCarries humanities divisional credit in CAS.<\/em>
\nBU Hub areas as of Fall 2018: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.<\/em><\/p>\n

T, R \u00a011:00 – 12:15 \u00a0plus Discussion Section \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Zell<\/a><\/span>\/Ribner<\/a>
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\"\"<\/a>AH 215 – Arts of Africa and Its Diaspora<\/strong>
\nExploration of a diversity of visual and performing arts from Africa, including royal regalia, masquerades, and contemporary painting. Examines how the dispersal of Africans, due to the transatlantic slave trade and immigration, contributed to the cultural richness of the Americas.
\nCarries humanities divisional credit in CAS<\/em>.
\nBU Hub areas as of Fall 2019: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

T, R\u00a0 12:30 – 1:45\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Becker<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 225 – The Arts of Asia<\/strong>
\nSurveys of the major artistic traditions of Asia. Important monuments are examined analytically in order to explain why certain forms and styles are characteristic of specific times and places, and how these monuments functioned in their cultural contexts.
\nCarries humanities divisional credit in CAS.<\/em>
\nBU Hub areas as of Fall 2018: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.<\/em><\/p>\n

M,W, F\u00a0 10:10 – 11:00\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Feng<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 240 – Medieval Art in Europe<\/strong>
\nFocuses on architecture, manuscript illumination, metalwork and ivory carving, wall-painting, textiles and monumental architectural sculpture. Topics include iconoclasm, monasticism, women in medieval art, patronage, materials and techniques, iconography, representation and model books and regional and international styles and trends.
\nBU Hub areas as of Fall 2018: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.<\/em><\/p>\n

M, W, F\u00a0 2:30 – 3:20<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Kahn<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 333 – Arts of Classical Greece<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Examines architecture, sculpture, painting, and other arts of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Topics include: the concept of classicism, how art was made, the “Greek revolution” and consequences of naturalism, the artist as individual.
\nBU Hub areas as of Fall 2018: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.<\/em><\/p>\n

M, W, F\u00a0 9:05 – 9:55 <\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Martin<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 386 – Modern American Art<\/strong>
\n<\/span>This class explores the diverse and contested field of modern art in the United States, examining the broad range of artists and art practices that laid claim to aesthetic modernism in the years between 1890 and 1945.
\nBU Hub areas as of Fall 2018: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.<\/em><\/p>\n

M, W, F\u00a0 1:25 – 2:15 <\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Barrett<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 387 – Boston Architecture and Urbanism<\/strong>
\nThis class presents a history of Boston from the seventeenth through twenty- first centuries, as seen through the region’s architectural and urban history. Major buildings, architects, and urban planning schemes are examined in terms of economic, political, social, and institutional histories.
\nBU Hub areas as of Spring 2020: Social Inquiry I, Oral and\/or Signed Communication, Teamwork\/Collaboration.<\/em><\/p>\n

M, W\u00a0 \u00a02:30 – 5:15\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Abramson<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 392 – Twentieth Century Art from 1940 to 1980<\/strong>
\nExplores major currents in European and American art made between 1940 and 1980. Examines the following movements and media in relation to postwar culture and politics: abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, conceptual art, earthworks, performance, and video.
\nBU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.<\/em><\/p>\n

M,W,F\u00a0 11:15 – 12:05\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Matyczyk<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 395 – History of Photography<\/strong>
\nAn introduction to the study of photographs. The history of the medium in Europe and America 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.
\nBU Hub areas as of Fall 2018: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking<\/em><\/p>\n

T, R\u00a0 11:00 – 12:15<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Sichel<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH – 398 Twentieth-Century Architecture<\/strong>
\nThis course provides an introduction to the major developments in architecture and urban planning from ca. 1900 to the present. It traces the proliferation of modernist thought through key projects but also to everyday buildings and landscapes.
\nBU Hub areas as of Fall 2018: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.<\/em><\/p>\n

T, R\u00a0 2:00 – 3:15 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bozdo\u01e7an<\/a><\/p>\n

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AH 399 – History and Theory of Landscape Architecture
\n<\/strong>Explores man\u2019s relationship with nature by a study of selected built environments from antiquity to the present. Focus on both the private garden and the public park\u2014here considered as works of art\u2014and their changing forms, meaning, and interpretations.
\nBU Hub areas as of Spring 2021: Writing- Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.<\/em><\/p>\n

T, R 9:30 – 10:45\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Haenraets<\/a><\/p>\n

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AH 404 – Museum Practice Today<\/strong>
\n<\/span>May be repeated for credit as topics change. Considers and uses the methods and tools of curators and other museum professionals in gallery arrangement and exhibition- making. Taught around specific projects, with visits to museums and meetings with practitioners as can be arranged.<\/p>\n

R 3:30 – 6:15\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Linssen<\/a>\/Tanga<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 486 \u2013 Architecture Capstone
\n<\/strong>This course guides senior architectural studies majors through a capstone experience as an internship or research project. It focuses on integrating competencies gained through the major and BU Hub, and on developing post-graduate directions.
\nBU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Ethical Reasoning<\/em><\/p>\n

T 12:30 – 3:15 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Abramson<\/a><\/p>\n

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500 Level Seminars for Undergraduate & Graduate Students<\/h3>
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AH 500 – Twentieth-Century Architecture Seminar<\/strong>
\nTopic for Spring 2020: Shaping Boston\u2019s Public Realm: From Commons, to Parks, to Playgrounds, to Greenway
\nThis seminar will examine the design and politics of Boston\u2019s park movement. Drawing on primary sources, public debates, and scholarly accounts of park history, the class will explore the ways that changing ideas of public health, cultivation, and citizenship were embodied in landscape. The seminar will include class lecture and discussion sessions as well as site visits.<\/p>\n

M\u00a0 \u00a02:30 – 5:15\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bluestone<\/a><\/p>\n

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AH 521 – Curatorial Seminar<\/strong>
\nTopic for Spring 2020: Museums, Politics, and Representation. Examines the politics of cultural representation in art museums, galleries, and cultural spaces. Through different case studies, this course engages with the ways in which museums, exhibitions, and curators articulate and exercise their relationship to different communities, identities, and “Others.”<\/p>\n

W\u00a0 \u00a011:15 – 2:00\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Cooney<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 527 B1 – The Bayeux Tapestry in Context<\/strong>
\nThe Bayeux Tapestry – an eleventh century textile over 230 feet long – depicts the conquest of Anglo-Saxon England by the Normans in 1066. The historical and performative aspects of the work will be considered as will contemporary castles, monasteries and cathedrals. The significance of the work down the ages – as was most recently indicated by President Macron\u2019s promise of the loan of the textile to the British nation in 2022 – will be considered.<\/p>\n

M\u00a0 11:15-2:00\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Kahn<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 533 – Greek Art and Architecture Seminar<\/strong>
\nThis course will explore visual art and texts related to the life cycle of the earth and its peoples from cosmogony\/creation to destruction\/death. Throughout the term we will juxtapose maps and works of art with textual accounts to work toward a deeper understanding of how Greeks perceived of their environment and how they understood themselves and others in physical, behavioral, and ideological terms. This semester we will make special address to these topics as they relate to prejudice: in Greek antiquity, in scholarship, and in popular reception of Greek art. Students from all fields and backgrounds are welcome.<\/p>\n

F\u00a0 11:15 – 2:00\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Martin<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 563 – Global Baroque: Art and Power in the Seventeenth Century<\/strong>
\nInvestigates the interaction between art and structures of power in 17th- century Europe, with particular attention to its global dimensions. Focus on Rubens, Rembrandt, Velazquez, and Bernini but also other forms of cultural production that circulated through global trade.<\/p>\n

W\u00a0 2:30 – 5:15 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Zell<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 589 – Impressionism Through Symbolism<\/strong>
\nThis seminar addresses the period that saw the Impressionist commitment to the visual facts of contemporary society and landscape transformed by new structural and emotional demands (in the work of Seurat, C\u00e9zanne, and Van Gogh), and eclipsed by the preoccupation of the Symbolists (e.g. Gauguin, Munch, and Rodin) with elusive and mysterious aspects of sexual, spiritual, and artistic experience. In addition to providing an opportunity to produce a professionally sound oral report and paper based on specialized research, the course offers a broad foundation in major European artistic currents of the second half of the nineteenth century. There is weekly discussion of readings from the art-historical literature, both current and classic.<\/p>\n

W\u00a0 \u00a08:00-10:45\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ribner<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 591 – Documentary Photography<\/strong>
\nA study of changing uses, definitions, and archives of documentary photography from 1839 to the present. Topics will include urban photography, war imagery, topographical and survey landscapes, architectural records, social reform photography, New Deal imagery, and digital documents. We will concentrate on the rich archival resources available in the museums, university archives, and historical societies in the greater Boston area.<\/p>\n

T\u00a0 3:30 – 6:15\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Sichel<\/a><\/p>\n

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Graduate Courses<\/h3>
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Graduate Courses<\/h2>\n
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\"\"<\/a>AH 820 – Japan on Display<\/strong>
\nThis seminar explores the various ways that Japan \u2013 as a national entity, cultural entity, and artistic entity- has been presented, reformed, and received in the last 150 years. We will investigate Japan\u2019s participation in major world\u2019s fairs, with attention to some domestic fairs, design exhibitions, and the Olympics hosted in Japan. In studying the architecture and visual culture of national display, the course seeks to understand the conditions surrounding, and motivations for, the creation of national narratives and nationalist ideologies- intertwined with concepts of race, gender, and cultural authenticity- in an era of intensifying international encounters.<\/p>\n

M\u00a0 \u00a010:10 – 11:55\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Tseng<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 822 – Photography in Africa<\/strong>
\nPhotographs of Africa between 1890 and the 1930s are typically understood as a part of colonial discourse, reflecting European stereotypes and enacting imperialistic political agendas. This course considers the role images play in determining how the world views Africa. It also examines images created and published by contemporary African photographers in order to address how people in Africa have played an active role in confronting colonialism and manipulating their own self-image.<\/p>\n

T\u00a0 3:30 – 5:15\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Becker<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>AH 887 American Art and the Ocean<\/strong>
\nThis seminar explores the wide body of American art made on, around, and about the ocean during the long nineteenth century. Focusing on artistic imaginings of the Atlantic, we will consider seascapes, ship portraits, representations of the slave trade, figureheads, expeditionary images of polar ice, paintings of shipwrecks and naval battles, and many other cultural productions, while taking up critical approaches from environmental history and the blue humanities.<\/p>\n

W\u00a0 \u00a010:10-11:55 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Barrett<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Click here<\/a><\/strong> to view a gallery page of our Spring 2021 course offering posters. (not mobile-friendly)<\/em><\/p>\n

Spring 2021 Registration Dates<\/h3>

\nRegistration for Spring 2021 courses opens based on your academic class standing as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Academic Class Year:<\/strong><\/td>\nStart Date:<\/strong><\/td>\nStart Time:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graduate Students in COM, LAW, MET, SAR, SHA, SPH, SSW and STH<\/td>\nSat, Nov 21<\/td>\n9:00 a.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graduate Students in CFA, EGS, ENG, GRS, MED, QST, SOM and SEO<\/td>\nSun, Nov 22<\/td>\n9:00 a.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MET Evening Undergraduate Degree Students<\/td>\nSat, Nov 28<\/td>\n9:00 a.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seniors*<\/td>\nSat, Nov 28<\/td>\n9:00 a.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Juniors*<\/td>\nSat, Nov 28<\/td>\n12:00 p.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sophomores*<\/td>\nSun, Nov 29<\/td>\n7:00 a.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Freshmen*<\/td>\nSun, Nov 29<\/td>\n12:30 p.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Non-Degree Students<\/td>\nTue, Nov 1<\/td>\n9:00 a.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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