feminist movement, and new technologies on the visual arts and culture. May be taken twice for degree or certificate credit. Prerequisite: ENGL 109. Offered: Occasionally. Three lecture hours. TH
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AHST 208 19 AND 20 CENTURY HISTORY (3) OF PHOTOGRAPHY Covers the history of photography from its discovery until the 1980s. The medium of photography is researched and discussed in relationship to its practitioners and movements in a social and historical context. Some of the many aspects of photography that are explored include aesthetic, documentary, street, staged, altered and commercial. This course emphasizes photography within and outside mainstream art movements. Site-specific works, multimaterial approaches and new digital technologies are also addressed. Prerequisite: ENGL 109. Offered: Fall. Three lecture hours. AHST 209 CENSORSHIP AND THE VISUAL ARTS (3) A seminar course exploring historical and contemporary examples of censorship in the visual arts. Conflicts around artistic expression and the responses of institutions and the state are examined, including social pressures on the visual arts stemming from racial, cultural, sexual and religious sources. Prerequisite: ENGL 109. Offered: Occasionally. Three lecture hours AHST 215 ARTISTIC TRADITIONS OF THE (3) SOUTHWEST This course examines the major artistic traditions and their historical bases in the area’s many cultures, from prehistoric times of the Southwest to the present. Through a combined anthropological and art history approach, slide lectures are supplemented by videos, fieldwork and visits to museums and art studios. May be taken twice for degree or certificate credit. Cross-listed as ANTH 215. Offered: Occasionally. Three lecture hours. AHST 220 ARTS OF NATIVE AMERICA (3) Explores the visual art and material culture of indigenous peoples of Native North America within historical and contemporary contexts. This course focuses on the rich artmaking practices of men and women from cultural groups in the Southwestern United States/Northern Mexico, the East, the West, the Far North, and the Northwest Coast of the United States and Canada, from pre-history to contemporary times. Emphasis is on the study of indigenous art within cultural, spiritual, social, political and changing historical contexts including the effects of new economies, marketplaces, materials, technologies and patronage.
Prerequisite: ENGL 109. Offered: Occasionally. Three lecture hours. AHST 235 STUDY ABROAD: IMAGES AND (3) INSIGHTS A study abroad class in which students visit ancient sites in Greece. The influence of the classical Greek archetypes and their mythic patterns on human experience and behavior will be studied. The powerful inner forces of the archetypes personified by Greek gods, goddesses and heroes will be explored. The Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic images of the gods, goddesses, heroes and mythological stories as they are represented on architecture and in sculpture and painting will be examined from an art historical perspective. Art from the Byzantine period including Christian archetypal imagery in the form of icon painting will be introduced in both a historical and contemporary context. Students will be responsible for additional costs for this course, which will include airfare, travel costs while abroad, hotel, food and miscellaneous expenditures. Prerequisite: PSYC 111 or AHST 201 and permission. Offered: Occasionally. Three lecture hours. AHST 240 THE ART EXPERIENCE OF (3) BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE Explores the legacy of Black Mountain College, its progressive arts education and art historical significance through a historical, theoretical and project-based approach. The material is presented through both lecture and experiential participation in activities, such as actual artmaking projects based on Josef Albers Foundation’s course. Study includes an examination of the experience, experimentation and collaboration in the arts practiced by artists, students, and the faculty at Black Mountain College. Prerequisite: ENGL 109. Offered: Occasionally. The lecture hours. AHST 261 HISTORY OF WORLD ARCHITECTURE I (3) An introduction to the history of architecture from prehistory to the Renaissance. The major movements in architecture of the Western world will be emphasized while the non-Western tradition will be presented. Architectural works will be examined from an historical perspective that will include the consideration of the political, social, philosophical, intellectual and spiritual climate of the period during which they were built. Buildings will also be examined as works of art and seen in the context of prevailing movements and styles in painting and sculpture. In addition, urban design will be introduced. Students will learn to appreciate architecture in the larger social context, in terms of its engineering genius and to train their eye to 150