{"id":15849,"date":"2023-09-21T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/?page_id=15849"},"modified":"2024-05-20T13:07:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T17:07:16","slug":"spring-2024-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/academics\/courses\/spring-2024-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2024 Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Expand<\/em> the sections below to explore our Spring 2024 course descriptions.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Undergraduate Courses<\/h3>
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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH112: Introduction to Art in Europe and the United States from Renaissance to Post-Modernism<\/strong>
\nMajor monuments and artists in Europe and the United States from the Renaissance to Post-Modernism. Sequential development of major styles in architecture, sculpture, painting, and photography. Relationship of visual art to social and cultural forces.
\nEffective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork\/Collaboration.<\/em><\/p>\n

M|W|F\u00a0 \u00a011:15-12:05\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Zell<\/a>\u00a0\/ Ribner<\/a>
\nplus<\/strong> a discussion section – see the academic planner on MyBU<\/a> for section times<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH113: Arts and Monuments of Asia<\/strong>
\nAn introduction to the art and architecture of Asia from the earliest times to the present. Course addresses not only important cultural monuments but also portable art objects within museum collections. Course examines a wide range of media, including ink painting, ceramics, textiles, photography, as well as major architectural projects, monuments, and built environments. It aims to challenge and rethink monolithic definitions of “Asian art” by allowing students to understand the complex and sophisticated processes of interregional and global cultural exchange.
\nEffective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and\/or Signed Communication, Aesthetic Exploration.<\/em><\/p>\n

T|R\u00a0 \u00a0 9:30-10:45\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Feng<\/a>\u00a0\/ Tseng<\/a><\/span>
\nplus<\/strong> a discussion section – see the academic planner on MyBU<\/a> for section times<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH201: Understanding Architecture<\/strong>
\nIntroduces a range of approaches to understanding architecture in an historical perspective. Learn how architects and others have interpreted meaning through rubrics of art, nature, and culture, focused upon European and American architecture from 1400 to the present.
\nEffective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.<\/em><\/p>\n

T|R\u00a0 \u00a012:30-1:45\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Granston<\/span><\/a>
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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH210: Learning to See<\/strong>
\nStrengthens your ability to describe and analyze the visual world. From fundamentals such as color and composition to the design of advertisements, propaganda, and appliances. A lab component provides opportunities for direct engagement with objects, images, and the built environment.
\nEffective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.<\/em><\/p>\n

M|W|F\u00a0 \u00a09:05-9:55\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Ribner<\/a><\/span>
\nplus<\/strong> a discussion section – see the academic planner on MyBU<\/a> for section times<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH215: 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.
\nEffective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. <\/em>
\nCarries humanities divisional credit in CAS.<\/em><\/p>\n

T|R\u00a0 5:00-6:15 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Foran<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH257: Renaissance Art<\/strong>
\nSurvey of the arts in the Renaissance in Italy from the communes of the early fifteenth century to the courts of the sixteenth century.
\nEffective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.<\/em>
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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH325: Art, Media, and Buddhism<\/strong>
\nExamines how textual, visual, and material forms of religious expressions have been conceptualized by Buddhists as well as how Buddhist objects are understood and re- contextualized in the West. Topics include self- immolation; museums; war propaganda, and pop culture.
\nEffective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork\/Collaboration.<\/em><\/p>\n

T|R\u00a0 12:30-1:45\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Hughes<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH331: Arts of Archaic Greece<\/strong>
\nExamines the origins of Greek art and architecture through ancient accounts, modern scholarship, and physical remains. Topics include town and sanctuary planning, theories of the orders, wooden and stone sculpture, painted pottery, miniatures, color, artists, technologies, and myth.
\nEffective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course.<\/em><\/p>\n

M|W|F\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 9:05-9:55\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Martin<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH345: Early Medieval and Romanesque Art<\/strong>
\nArt and architecture of medieval Europe from the Early Christian Catacombs to the great Gothic cathedrals. Topics include piety, the cult of relics, the Virgin, monasticism, and secular monuments such as medieval European castles and the Bayeux Tapestry.<\/p>\n

T|R\u00a0 \u00a0 11:00-12:15\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Kahn<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH386: Modern American Art<\/strong>
\nThis 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. In Spring 2024, this course will focus on the art of the Harlem Renaissance.
\nEffective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.<\/em><\/p>\n

M|W|F\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a09:00-9:55\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Prince<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH392: Twentieth Century Art from 1940 to 1980
\n<\/strong>Explores major currents in art produced around the world during the tumultuous middle decades of the 20th century. The following topics, among others, are examined in relation to postwar culture and Cold War politics: realism vs. abstraction, global pop art and conceptual art, new materials and technologies, international artists’ networks, and performative art practices.
\nEffective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.<\/em><\/p>\n

M|W|F\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01:25-2:15 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH395: 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.
\nEffective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.<\/em><\/p>\n

T|R\u00a0 \u00a011:00-12:15 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Sichel<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH398: 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.
\nEffective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.<\/em><\/p>\n

T|R\u00a0 \u00a09:30-10:45 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Alnajada<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH404: Museum Exhibits Seminar<\/strong>
\nTopic for Spring 2024: \u201cMuseum Practice Today.\u201d Art museums are at a point of inflection as they face multiple economic, social, and climate-related challenges. This course examines museums’ unique obstacles and opportunities, inviting students to critically reimagine our cultural organizations.<\/p>\n

F\u00a0 \u00a011:15-2:00\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Tanga<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH486: Architecture Capstone<\/strong>
\nThis course guides senior and eligible junior architectural studies majors through a capstone experience, which may be an internship or a research project. Open only by application. Interested students contact Professor Martin by Nov. 1, 2023.
\nEffective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Ethical Reasoning.<\/em><\/p>\n

M\u00a0 \u00a02:30-5:15 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Martin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Seminars for Undergraduate & Graduate Students<\/h3>
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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH500: Topics in History of Art & Architecture<\/strong>
\nTopic for Spring 2024: \u201cMethods of Inquiry in Architecture Studies.\u201d
\nThis seminar draws from different methods across the humanities, social sciences, and environmental design to explore the range of research methods that can be used in architecture studies and architectural history. As we work through the semester, students will do assigned readings that provide an overview of intellectual debates and methodological approaches for architectural research, including humanist, ethnographic, archival, oral historical, urban, environmental, postcolonial, forensic, photographic, and virtual. Throughout, students will work on a set of exercises specifically created to expose them to different kinds of methods.<\/p>\n

R\u00a0 \u00a0 3:30-6:15 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Alnajada<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH521: Curatorship<\/strong>
\nThis course examines the role of the curator today. The class considers strategies and concepts used by curators and institutions related to such issues as decentralizing paradigms of art, centering historically excluded artists and perspectives, and shaping innovative and inclusive approaches to exhibition-making. Student also learn practical and theoretical tools used by curators in these processes, including wall text and labels, display techniques, and educational programs supplemented by readings, class discussion, and case studies.<\/p>\n

R\u00a0 \u00a0 12:30-3:15 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Cooney<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH525: American Cultural Landscapes Studies<\/strong>
\nThis seminar provides an introduction to analyzing and interpreting American cultural landscapes and acquaints students with the historiography of interdisciplinary study of the built environment.
\nAlso offered as CAS AM 525.<\/em><\/p>\n

T|R\u00a0 \u00a0 12:30-1:45 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Moore<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH527 A1: Topics in Art & Society<\/strong>
\nTopic for Spring 2024: \u201cLandscapes: Art and Environment in China.\u201d
\nCommonly described as \u201cmountain and water\u201d, landscape imagery played a central role in Chinese visual culture. The course will examine the relationship between art and nature, power and cartographical strategies, microcosm and macrocosms, in the landscape tradition. We will look at mountain cults of early China, imperial parks of emperors, Daoist grotto-heavens, literati landscape painting and gardens, panoramic views in modern film and photography, and contemporary art projects with environmental concerns. Topics include landscape aesthetics, politics of landownership, and conceptions of transcendence.<\/p>\n

R\u00a0 \u00a0 3:30-6:15 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Feng<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH527 B1: Topics in Art & Society<\/strong>
\nTopic for Spring 2024: \u201cMaking and Meaning in Early Medieval Art.\u201d
\nIn the absence of direct observation of the natural world how was imagery conceived and developed in the early Middle Ages? Using specific manuscripts, sculpture, textiles, metalwork, and ivories as case studies this course will examine artistic process.<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH563: 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 \u00a0Zell<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CAS AH574: Topics in African Art<\/strong>
\nWith a focus on collections-based learning, this seminar explores the historical and cultural context of art of the Benin Kingdom beginning with the material culture of Ile-Ife and concluding with contemporary conversations concerning repatriation, ethical stewardship, and institutional critique.<\/p>\n

M\u00a0 \u00a02:30-5:15\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Clunis<\/p>\n

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\nCAS AH591: Seminar in Photographic History<\/strong>
\nTopic for Spring 2024: \u201cDocumentary Photography.\u201d
\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.<\/p>\n

R\u00a0 \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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\"\"<\/a>GRS AH822: Seminar in African Art
\n<\/b><\/strong>Topic for Spring 2024: \u201cArt and Trade Across the Medieval Sahara.\u201d
\nThis class highlights the artistic connections that occurred across the Sahara. It concentrates on how the movement of traders, scholars, artisans, and nomads set the stage for the emergence of richly diverse aesthetic expressions from Morocco to Timbuktu.<\/p>\n

T\u00a0 \u00a0 1:30-3:15\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Becker<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>GRS AH895 A1: Seminar in Twentieth-Century Art
\n<\/strong>Topic for Spring 2024: \u201cAfro-Latin American Art.\u201d
\nSeminar delves into the contributions and challenges of artists from the African diaspora since the colonial period (Spanish, French, and Portuguese colonies) up to present \u201cLatin\u201d America. Course will study visual culture as a terrain for social and political negotiations.<\/p>\n

W\u00a0 2:30-4:15\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Reyes<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>GRS AH895 B1: Seminar in Twentieth-Century Art
\n<\/strong>Topic for Spring 2024: \u201cModern Art and Comedy.\u201d
\nExamines modern and contemporary art through the lens of comedy and its many related forms, including humor, laughter, jokes, satire, parody, stand-up, and slapstick. Starting with theories of jokes and laughter by Freud and Bergson, students read a wide range of texts on the comic mode while exploring Dada satire, Fluxus collectivity, performance and stand-up, critical humor and marginality, and contemporary debates about the ethics of comedic practices. Students may develop research papers on topics outside of the modern field.<\/p>\n

W\u00a0 4:30-6:15\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

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Spring 2024 Registration Dates<\/h3>
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Registration for Spring 2024 opens based on your academic class standing.
\n<\/strong>Details about specific registration dates and times can be found at https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/calendars\/registration\/<\/a>
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