Graduate Course Schedules

ARTHIST 592H/210: Architectural Visualization and Modeling Lab

Chloe Newton     T 6:00pm-9:00pm    M&S E301A    Class #2932

Creating architecture within the digital world has given the designer the power to showcase their ideas in new and unimaginable ways. The creator is no longer limited by their physical capabilities and can explore ideas in 2-D, 3-D, and simple motion. This class serves as an introduction to software mediums in which you can tell the story of architecture. This class is open to all students with a variety of backgrounds.

ARTHIST 596R: Internship in Art History

Coordinator: Giovanni Lovisetto

May be repeated with permission from the director of internships. Interns must be nominated by the department for internships at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, the High Museum of Art, and elsewhere. Variable credit.

ARHIST 597R: Directed Study

Variable credit.

ARTHIST 599R: Thesis Research

ARTHIST 719R-1/470RW-1: Readings in Ancient Egyptian

Rune Nyord    T 8:30am-11:15am    Carlos Hall Conf Rm    Class #2918

This seminar consists of close reading of original texts in ancient Egyptian language, introducing new stages and scripts of the language as necessary. The precise focus in terms of text selection, language stages, and scripts is chosen to reflect the interests and research needs of participants. Note that this is an intermediate/advanced seminar requiring previous knowledge of Middle Egyptian corresponding to at least one semester's study. Enrollment by permission of the instructor.

ARTHIST 719R-2: Conceptions and Experiences of Images in Ancient Egypt

Rune Nyord    Th 10:00am-12:45pm    Carlos Hall Conf Rm    Class #3505

Images in ancient Egypt were ubiquitous and used for a wide variety of purposes, perhaps most famously hieroglyphic writing, reliefs, and paintings on the walls of temples and tombs, as well as cultic and monumental statues. Drawing on different types of ancient sources as well as theoretical discussions from Egyptology and beyond, this course explores the various ways in which the relationship between an image and that which it represents could be understood and utilized, covering the full cycle of attested practices of planning, making, using, altering, and destroying images.

ARTHIST 759R: Envisioning Baroque Rome

Sarah McPhee    T 2:30pm-5:15pm    Tate Room - Carlos Museum    Class #2935

This seminar will explore the buildings, topography, processions, and festivals of the seventeenth-century, through maps, printed views, manuscripts, and guidebooks, with the goal of rebuilding the Baroque city in the digital humanities project Envisioning Baroque Rome (baroquerome.org). With specific focus on the work of the etcher Giovanni Battista Falda (1643-1678), students will immerse themselves in the neighborhoods of Baroque Rome, researching the history of specific monuments, streetscapes, and events. Paired with digital modelers, students will then collaborate to build, texture, and document their research for inclusion in the project. Throughout, we will study original materials in the Stuart A. Rose Library, the Michael C. Museum, and in private collections.

ARTHIST 769L: The Project of Description

C. Jean Campbell & Lisa Lee    M 2:30pm-5:15pm    Carlos Hall Conf Rm    #2936

Reflecting on the potential of description within an art-historical practice, Michael Baxandall once characterized the verbal description of a work of art as "alarmingly mobile and fragile," on the one hand, and "excitingly flexible and alive," on the other. This seminar will inhabit the anxious and exciting space thus articulated and address the potential of description as a creative, analytical, interpretive, and communicative act. We will both study the role of description in exemplary art-historical writing from a range of sub-disciplines and regularly practice the art, exploring its foundations in rhetoric and its multiple uses (in art criticism, in historicizing discourses, in the didactic materials produced by museums, etc.). The primary goal of this seminar is to refine our own descriptive capacities as they operate in our own research, and we welcome participation of students from across fields and disciplines in the humanities.