Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Variable topics relating to Ancient art. A specified topic is announced each time the course is offered. 

Variable topics relating to Medieval art. A specified topic is announced each time the course is offered.

Exploration of the Islamic palaces of Spain from the Middle Ages to the present with a focus on the Alhambra, its evolving material design, meaning, and representations in various media.

A survey of Italian urban history: design of cities, local rituals, politics, and patronage in ancient Rome, medieval Venice, Renaissance Florence, Baroque Turin, and modern Milan. Site visits in Florence and surrounding towns. Offered only in Florence.

Seminar explores various aspects of Michelangelo Buonarroti's long and vibrant career by focusing on his techniques, patrons, innovative style, unparalleled influence and fame, and primary sources that document them. Additional work required of graduate students.

Seminar that explores the domestic environment in Italy from c. 1300 to 1600, including palace architecture; religious and mythological images; and the visual culture of dining, marriage, and childbirth. Additional work required of graduate students.

Connects the visual culture of medieval and early modern Florence to distant places with which it had contact. Questions how Florentine art and architecture related to broader geographies and reinforced civic identity via methodologies that include Anthropology and Post-Colonial studies.

Fifteenth-century to present day woodcuts, engravings, etchings, aquatints, lithographs, and monotypes. Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, Blake, Daumier, Whistler, and others.

This course examines the production of drawings and prints, mainly in Flanders (modern-day Belgium) and the Netherlands during what is known as the early modern period: 1400-1700.

Principal Dutch masters (Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer, Ruisdael, etc.). Developments in landscape, genre, still life, portraiture, and history painting.

A consideration of music, literature, and the visual arts in the context of 17th-century life. A study of the interrelationship of the main forces in society and their expression in the arts.

Music and the visual arts in 19th-century European culture.

Variable topics relating to the history of photography. A specified topic is announced each time the course is offered.

Place of music and the visual arts in the context of contemporary life. Inter-relationship between the main forces of society and their expression in the arts.

Critical exploration of an important American movement, theme, period, or artist. Emphasizing discussion and recent scholarship. Topic announced each semester.

Problems and methods in implementing continued use for quality segments of the humanly built environment.

Variable topics relating to Native North American Art. A specified topic is announced each time the course is offered.

Variable topics relating to Global modernisms. A specified topic is announced each time the course is offered.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester. *

European art of the 15th and 16th centuries. Topic areas determined each semester.

Explores key Florentine monuments and urban spaces from 1300 to 1600, focusing on the aesthetic, political, and social implications of their contexts, patrons, and intended settings and viewers.

Provides a foundation in the history of Italian art and architecture from c. 1300 to 1600. Develops graduate-level research and writing skills and addresses the cultural diversity of the Italian peninsula, issues related to materials, techniques, patronage, historiography, and methodology.

Analyzes Botticelli and Filippino Lippi as they were understood in their lifetime and the modern era. Engages in the rebirth of interest in the Renaissance and the emerging discipline of art history. Considers methodologies such as art criticism and connoisseurship and the tensions between them.

Selected topics in the arts and their relation to relevant societies. Topics determined each semester.

Women artists and images of women in the works of their contemporaries. Students conduct original research, relating topic to their specific areas of interest (interdisciplinary studies).

Theory, practice, and issues of art conservation from the Renaissance to the present. Taught only in Florence, Italy, during the spring semester.

Variable topics relating to Italian art of the 17th century. A specified topic is announced each time the course is offered.

Variable topics relating to art produced in the Dutch Republic and/or Flanders during the 17th century.

Selected topics in iconographical problems to be determined each semester.

This course examines the art of Johannes Vermeer in relation to that of his contemporaries.

This interdisciplinary seminar will examine the nature and role of art in the celebrated Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Stuart courts of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, up until the conclusion of the reign of William III.

Survey of European architectural theory and practice from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. Discussion and analysis of major architects, buildings, and architectural treatises, principally from France, England, and Germany. Additional work required of graduate students.

Research methods and scholarly writing skills required to be successful M.A. candidates and to become competitive professionals in art history and related fields.

Leading trends in art criticism from the 16th to the early 21st century.

Early 20th-century foundations and development of criticism within the past two decades. Interpretive strategies, such as meta history, feminism, poststructuralism, and the anthropology of art.

Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.

Reviews the history and theory of photography from 1839 to the present. Presents basic texts and primary issues such as theories of representation, notions of mass cultures, and the concepts of documenting imaging.

Variable topics relating to European modernism. A specified topic is announced each time the course is offered.

A specified topic is announced each time the course is offered.

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Variable topics relating to Native North American Art. A specified topic is announced each time the course is offered.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester. *

Two-semester seminar for which students produce and present substantial and original scholarship on individual capstone research projects. Provides a forum in which students workshop and collectively critique their research and prepare a professional presentation.

Final M.A. research project, equivalent to a thesis, in which students research, write and orally present substantial and original scholarly work in art history. Permission of director of graduate studies.