500

Prerequisites: ARTS 543 or ARTS 564; or Permission of Instructor

Designed for art history and studio art graduate students, this course focuses on various modes of iconography and its interpretation (iconology) in the visual arts.

Prerequisite: 6 credits of ART or ARTS courses at the graduate level. 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: INST 512 or 3 credits of 500-level ART. 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.

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.

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.

Reading and/or research in a selected field. An approved title for the independent study must be submitted with the registration forms. Prerequisite: permission of the chair of the department. A maximum of 6 credits may be applied to a degree program. (1-3 credits per independent study)