Course Description

Focuses on select monuments of art and architecture from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, to the global contemporary. Considering content, style, and cultural context, the discussion will introduce students to the academic discipline of art history through historic trends, intellectual ideas, and contemporary methodologies.

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Athena Title

Intro Art History Ren to Cont

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Equivalent Courses

Not open to students with credit in ARHI 2400, ARHI 2411H

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Non-Traditional Format

This course will be taught 95% or more online.

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Semester Course Offered

Offered summer semester every even-numbered year.

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Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

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Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will learn the history of art as a discipline.
• Students will learn artistic traditions from the 16th-century C.E. to the present. Students will focus on developments in Europe and America, with a comparative study of material culture in Meso-America, the Near East, East Asia, and Africa.
• Students will develop vocabulary, visual acuity, descriptive and other writing skills, as well as on basic learning and study techniques appropriate for an introductory course.

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Topical Outline

• 1. Italian Renaissance 2. Meso-American/Southern Baroque 3. Northern Baroque 4. Rococo 5. Neo-classicism (Europe & USA)
• 6. Romanticism / Orientalism 7. Realism 8. Impressionism / Japanese Prints 9. Post-Impressionism / Oceania 10. Early 20th-Century Avant-Gardes / Primitivism
• 11. WWI 12. Interwar Avant-Gardes 13. WWII - Ab Ex 14. Minimalism - Pop 15. Global Contemporary

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General Education Core

CORE IV: World Languages and Global Culture
CORE IV: Humanities and the Arts

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Institutional Competencies

Critical Thinking

The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.

Social Awareness & Responsibility

The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society.

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