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FAH 0086
LATINO ART & VIS CULT
Representations of Latinos and by Latinos across a broad range of
media, with emphasis on contemporary art and film/television, but
including literature and music. Popularity and increase of Latino culture
in the U.S. in the context of ongoing debates about immigration,
national security, and shifting demographics. Key topics include the
cultural politics of representation, the relationship of contemporary
Latino artists to the mainstream art world, debates about visual art as a
vehicle for the expression of cultural identity, the role of gender,
sexuality, class, and ethnicity in creative expression, the relationship
between Latino culture and the mainstream, the diversity of the Latino
community, how self-representation informs political dissent, and an
examination of Latinidad as an affirmative cultural construction for
people of Latin American descent in the U.S. No prerequisites. (May
be taken at the 100-level.)
Sections
01727 FAH 008601 H+TR Zavala, Adriana 1.0 C-list Amer
194-03; Meets
Wrl Civ Req
FAH 0092
SPECIAL TOPICS
Special Topics.
Please see departmental website for specific details.
Sections
EARLY IRISH ART
03803 FAH 009201 D+ Overbey, Karen 1.0
SLAVRY-FREEDOM AF-AM ART
03672 FAH 009202 F+TR Rosenberg, Eric
AMER. BUILT ENVIRONMENT
1.0 Lwr Lvl Of Dual
Lvl Course
92/192-02;
C-list
Fah019202
03677 FAH 009203 F+TR Solan, Victoria 1.0
18TH CENTRY EUROPEAN ART
Lwr Lvl Of Dual
Level Course
92/192-03; Clist
Fah19203
03683 FAH 009204 I+MW Staff 1.0 Lwr Lvl Of Dual
Level Course
92/192-04; C-l
Fah192-04
FAH 0098
INTEGRATIVE PROJECT SEM
A spring semester seminar required of all senior architectural studies
majors.
Prerequisites: Open only to senior architectural studies majors. May
be registered for by civil engineering double majors in architectural
studies as CEE 99 (Internship in Civil and Environmental Engineering)
in consultation with Professors Abramson and Sanayei.
Sections
01729 FAH 009801 2 Zavala, Adriana 1.0 Open Only To
Senior
Architectural
Studies Major
FAH 0104
GREEK ART & ARCHAEOLOGY
(Cross-listed as ARCH 164 and CLS 164.) The development of Greek
art from the Geometric Age through the fourth century B.C., studied in
architecture, sculpture, pottery, painting, and selected sites. Museum
trips will be part of the course.
Prerequisites: ARCH/CLS 27 or FAH 1, or permission of instructor.
Sections
03600
FAH 010401 L+ Harrington, Mat 1.0 C-list Cls 164,
Arch 164
Tufts University Course Listings, Spring 2013
Course Listings
Spring 2013
Art History
FAH 0115
JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE
(Cross-listed as REL 115.) Historical survey of major developments in
Japanese religious and secular architecture and gardens from
pre-Buddhist times to the modern age. (Also offered as lower-level.)
Sections
03679 FAH 011501 L+ Kaminishi, Ikum 1.0 Lwr Lvl Of Dual
Level Crs
15/115; Clist
Rel115, Fah015
FAH 0125
MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE
(Cross-listed as REL 125.) Social histories of medieval buildings from
c.300 - c. 1400 CE., with particular attention to space, audience and
experience. Course themes include: architecture and remembrance in
the early Christian period; liturgy and ritual; gendered spaces in
medieval monasteries; architects, masons and engineering; castles and
the ideology of conquest; late medieval civic architecture; timber/stone
construction; symbolism in the Gothic cathedral; and cross-cultural
forms. Also offered as lower-level.
Prerequisites: Consent
Sections
01733
FAH 012501 J+ Overbey, Karen 1.0 Upr Lv Pre-req:
Fah1 Or Fah8;
C-list Rel125,
Fah25
FAH 0128
MEDIEVAL ART MEDITERRANE
(Cross-listed as REL 128.) Integrated study of the shared art and
culture of the Mediterranean from late antiquity through medieval times
(3rd – 13th centuries CE). Architecture, painting, mosaic and luxury
objects will be considered with a focus on continuities and dynamic
cultural intersections across religious and political boundaries in
European, Islamic, and Byzantine realms. Topics include the early
church, synagogue, and mosque; figural and non-figural imagery in
Pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic contexts; relationships between
secular and sacred and between majority and minority cultures.
Research papers are required. (Also offered as lower-level.)
Sections
01734 FAH 012801 G+ Hoffman, Eva R 1.0 Upr Lv Of Dual
Lv Course
28/128; C-list
Rel128, Fah28
FAH 0131
EARLY RENAISSANCE ITALY
Art, culture, and politics in key regional centers during the fifteenth
century. Issues include the revival of antiquity, the concepts of progress
and competition, the social status of the artist, patronage, refinement of
illusionistic techniques such as linear perspective, and the expansion of
secular subjects produced for the home. Extra reading assignments
and term paper. (Also offered as lower-level.)
Sections
03680 FAH 013101 D+ Baskins, Criste 1.0 Upper Lvl Of
Dual Lvl Course
31/131; C-list
Fah31
FAH 0158
ART,VIDEO&PERF 1960-PRES
A survey of installation art, video, and performance art from 1960 to the
present. Particular focus on the transformation of the relationship
between art object, artist, and viewer by new media. An additional
emphasis on connection to social/political issues, changes in art
exhibition practices and institutions, such as rise of alternative art
spaces, and the transformation of art world by new technologies and
global communication. (Also offered as lower-level.)
Sections
03681 FAH 015801 J+ Mctighe, Monica 1.0 Upper Lvl Of
Dual Lvl Course
58/158; C-list
Fah58
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