ART 140 The Art of the Comic (4-0-4). This course is a historical survey of the comic from 19th century European caricature to the art of the graphic novel. The course traces  the history and artistic development of the comic in America from its roots, examining its growth in popularity with it's zenith in the mid-20th century, to the post paper world of the internet. The course  also pays particular attention to the part played by artists and writers from Cleveland. The students  use their written and oral communication skills to demonstrate what they have learned. Return to top

ART 150 Introduction to Art History and Appreciation (4-0-4). This is the study of the visual arts from the observer's point of view, with emphasis on the awareness of historical and critical functions.Return to top

ART 252 Introduction to Early Western Art (4-0-4). This course covers the history of Western art and crafts from the prehistoric era through the Middle Ages. Return to top

ART 253 Introduction to Western Art Since 1400 (4-0-4).). This course covers the history of Western art and crafts from the Renaissance to the present. Return to top

ART 253H Introduction to Western Art Since 1400 - Honors (4-0-4). Prerequisite: Honors standing or permission of university Honors Program. This course covers the history of Western art and crafts from the Renaissance to the present. This course focuses upon two major themes. The first is the human figure as it is expressed through various media. The second is the influence of art and science upon each other. Students  complete writing assignments outside of class that demonstrate their ability to analyze and synthesize materials related to the subject matter of the course. Return to top

ART 256 History of Photography (4-0-4).This is a general survey of the history of photography from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. Return to top

ART 281 History of Far Eastern Art (4-0-4).This class covers the history of the art and crafts of China and Japan. Return to top

ART 286 Introduction to African Art (4-0-4).This course covers the history of the art and crafts of Black Africa. Return to top

ART 350 Women in Art (4-0-4). This course is a survey of women's involvement in the western tradition from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world and examines representations of women along with women as patrons and viewers of art and the work of women artists. Return to top

ART 353 Islamic Art (4-0-4). This is a survey of Islamic art from the period of the early caliphates (c. 700) to the heights of the Islamic empires (c. 1700), combined with close examinations of the issue of aniconism in the Islamic artistic tradition and of relationships between the Islamic and western traditions. Return to top

ART 354 Medieval Art (4-0-4)This is a survey of Western art from the late Roman Empire (c. 300) through the late Middle Ages (c. 1400), including architecture, manuscript illumination, metalwork, sculpture, and textile production. The focus of the course is on the interactions of artworks and audiences in producing meaning within specific historical circumstances. Return to top

ART 356 Gothic Art (4-0-4).This course covers the history of the art and crafts of Western Europe in the later Middle Ages. Return to top

ART 363 The Early Renaissance in Italy (4-0-4).This course covers the history of art and architecture in Italy from the rise of the city-state to the voyages of Christopher Columbus, from Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci.Return to top

ART 364 The High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy (4-0-4).This course covers the history of art and architecture in Italy during the time of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and their followers. Return to top

ART 365 The Renaissance in Northern Europe (4-0-4).This course covers the history of art in the court of the dukes of Flanders and of the Kings of France, from Pucelle to Bruegel.Return to top

ART 370 American Visual Culture (4-0-4).This course is a consideration of American visual culture from the late 19th through the 20th centuries, focusing on the interrelationship between artists and/or movement in traditional art media with the visual forms of American popular and mass culture. These widely divergent forms of visual culture are  considered within their appropriate social and political contexts. Return to top

ART 371 Art in the 19th Century (4-0-4).This course is a survey of the major social and artistic developments of the 19th century across several national cultures - France, Germany, England, the United States, Italy - focusing on particular themes including romanticism and landscape painting; the deterioration of the distinction between "high" and "low" art forms; the transformation of Paris into the first modem metropolis; and the place of women, the "Orient," and the "primitive" within 19th-century art and society. Return to top

ART 372 Art in the 20th Century (4-0-4). This class is the survey of 20th-century modernism and visual culture in its historical context, focusing on particular national cultures - France, the United States, Mexico, Soviet Russia, Germany, Holland, Italy, England - and themes including the concept of the avant-garde, the place of the gendered body, the development of differing modes of abstraction, art censorship from fascism to the present, the role of photography and mechanization, and the rise of the postmodern. Return to top

ART 373 On the Edge: Art Since 1968 (4-0-4). This is the study of international directions in visual culture since 1968 with emphasis on the development of new media forms such as performance, conceptualism, video, film, installation, and the expansion of older ones such as photography. New contexts for exhibition and the increasing importance of race, class, gender, and sexual identity within a global culture are also discussed. Return to top

ART 374 American Architecture (4-0-4). This is an historical analysis of the built environment from the 17th century to the present. Various styles and types of buildings are related to time and place, defining and identifying central characteristics, social function, cultural expression, technology, and changes in architectural practice. It is cross-listed with UST 374. Return to top

ART 375 Cities and Planning (4-0-4). This course covers what man has done to form his communal environment since ancient times; social, symbolic, functional, biotechnical domains as generators of architecture and urban planning; value systems in environmental change; policies, plans, and design proposals as the record of the humanized environment. It is an Urban Studies course. It is cross-listed with UST 375. Return to top

ART 376 Architectural History: Great Monuments of Western Architecture in the Urban Context (4-0-4).This is an inquiry into the forms and meaning of architecture from antiquity to the present.Return to top

ART 380 Art of China (4-0-4). This course explores the art and visual culture of China (including mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan). The political, religious, social, and visual aspects of the art will be stressed in class. In order to understand Chinese art and civilization, students examine art objects from terra-cotta pottery of the Neolithic period, bronze vessels, Buddhist murals and sculptures of the Tang era, literati paintings and imperial tastes of medieval China up to contemporary art.Return to top

ART 383 Indian Art (4-0-4).This course covers the history of Indian art from the neolithic period through the late medieval period. Return to top

ART 384 Buddhist Sculpture (4-0-4).This course is an in-depth study of Buddhist sculpture in India and its spread to Tibet, China and Japan with special emphasis on iconography and stylistic development.Return to top

ART 385 The Hindu Temple (4-0-4). This course is a historical study of the development of the Hindu temple beginning with the simple flat-roofed Gupta structure and culminating with the multi-structured temple complexes of the 17th and18th centuries. Architectural form and iconographical program are equally stressed as well as Indo-Aryan (northern) and Dravidian (southern) styles of temple construction. Return to top

ART 386 Regional Art in Africa (4-0-4). This course examines the historical arts of a selected region of Africa from the archaeological past to contemporary movements. The course may be repeated for credit when the treated region changes. The changing areas to be treated are Western Sudan, Upper Guinea Coast, Lower Guinea Coast, Central Africa, and South and East Africa. It may be repeated for credit. Return to top

ART 388 African-American Art (4-0-4).). The course covers the history of African-American art from Colonial times to the present. Return to top

ART 390 Internship (1 to 8 credit hours).Prerequisite: Written permission of supervising instructor. This is an independent learning experience involving theory and practice in a specific area of art, such as art education, art conservation, museology, and graphic or product design. Approved internships are usually with an external museum or an appropriate institution or commercial enterprise. Grading is on an S/U basis. This course cannot be substituted for other art courses in the degree requirements. Return to top

ART 394 History of Japanese Art (4-0-4).This course is a historical survey of Japanese painting, sculpture, ceramics, functional arts, and architecture from the prehistoric era to the Meiji period. It introduces students to Japanese art and culture through slide lectures, individual research projects, and group research online.Return to top

ART 475 Cleveland: Form and Development of an Urban Environment (4-0-4).This is a workshop which examines aspects of visual communication relative to the city. It is an Urban Studies course. It is cross-listed with UST 475. Return to top

ART 485 Art History: Theory and Methods (4-0-4). Prerequisites: One introductory Art History course (ART 252, 253, 256, 281, or 286) and one 300 or 400 level Art History course. This course is an examination of the various investigative and interpretive methods used by art historians. The course is divided into two parts; the first on traditional methodologies along with their contemporary critiques and the second on a range of "new" art histories. At the end of the course students are both competent in traditional methodologies and cognizant of contemporary debates within art history as a discipline. Return to top

ART 495 Art Seminar (4-0-4).Prerequisite: Written permission of instructor. This is a close examination of a topic to be selected jointly by instructor and students through research and discussion, with emphasis on artists at work in their milieu. It may be repeated for credit.Return to top

ART 497 Independent Reading and Research: Art History (1 to 4 credit hours).Prerequisite: Written permission of instructor. This is a study of a topic of special interest to the particular student; subject and plan of study to be decided jointly by student and instructor. It may be repeated for credit. Return to top

ART 499 Honors Thesis (4 to 8 credit hours).). Prerequisite: Admission to the Honors Program. This involves directed research under supervision, culminating in the writing of a thesis required of honors students in art history and art education. Return to top