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Prerequisites: Junior standing, completion of 12 credits in ART or ARTS courses with 3 credits at the 300-level or above, cumulative gpa of 2.00 and ART 221. Designed for advanced art history and studio art majors, this course focuses on contemporary topics in the visual arts with an emphasis on important developments in North American and European theory and criticism from the 1960s to the present.

Prerequisites: ART 220 and two courses in art history at the 300-level; open to juniors and seniors only. This seminar course will be devoted to various important subjects in archaeology. Topics will be issues of concern to professional archaeologists today; possible topics include archaeological ethics; religion and archaeology; ceramics and archaeology; and science in archaeology.

Prerequisites: Three courses in art history at the 200-level or above or permission of the instructor. Open to juniors and seniors majors in art history and archaeology only. This capstone course will be dedicated to various important subjects in art history, archaeology and visual culture. Part will be devoted to lecture and discussion of key readings, images and objects, part to the presentation and consideration of directed research by students.

Prerequisites: ART 370, and permission of the Archaeology concentration coordinator. May be repeated. Designed for students with some experience in archaeological fieldwork, who would like to gain greater hands-on experience at an archaeological site selected in collaboration between the student and archaeology concentration coordinator. Students will be expected to acquire one or more advanced archaeological skills.

Prerequisite: By invitation of the department. The departmental honors paper is a two-semester senior-year program designed for students who wish to pursue intensive research or special projects in close coordination with faculty advisers. Departmental honors students are known as the Christine P. Tischer Scholars and receive 6 credits for this work.