• ARTH 5730: The Art Museum

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  The history of museums and display practice has become a significant field in studies of contemporary art and art history. Topics covered include: cabinets of curiosity and historical origins, art museums and their publics, blockbusters, revisionism, architecture, museums, and memory.
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• ARTH 5740: Art and Religion: Topics in Sacred Art

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Discussion-based course investigating relationships between religion and the arts. May focus on any period of history or region of the world, depending on scholarly interests of instructor. Cross-listed as: RELS 5740.
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• ARTH 6270: Graduate Native North American Art

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Through geographically and thematically oriented slide lectures, class discussions, online video, independent research, local event attendance and displays at NEHMA and the Anthropology Museum, the students will become familiar with the people, the lifestyles and the objects of material culture of several different geographical areas of Native North America. We will look at ancient traditions, how the arts changed after European contact and briefly, more contemporary art forms as well. Prerequisites: Graduate Status
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• ARTH 6310: Common Threads: History of Fiber Arts

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Looking at the traditions of North and South Euro- and Native America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific Islands and Africa, this course will introduce students to some of the many ways fiber has been used. Cross Listed: ARTH 4310 Prerequisites/Restrictions: Graduate Status
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• ARTH 6320: Graduate Pre-Columbian Art

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Through thematically oriented slide lectures, class discussions, online video, independent research, local event attendance and displays at NEHMA and the Anthropology Museum, the students will become familiar with several different art forms from Native Meso-, Central and South America. While we will be looking primarily at the art and architecture popularly termed "Pre-Columbian", I will also include some more contemporary forms of Latin American art. Prerequisites: Graduate Status
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• ARTH 6340: Graduate African Art

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Through geographically and thematically oriented Power Point based lectures, online video and DVD, class discussions, independent research, local event attendance and displays at NEHMA and the Anthropology Museum, the students will become familiar with a broad range of arts, primarily of West and Central Africa, as well as North, East and Southern Africa. While we will look at a few instances of contemporary art, the course will concentrate primarily on how the arts were and are used in the daily life of the traditional small scale societies of these particular areas of Africa. The last set of lectures will be devoted to contemporary African and African-American Art. Prerequisites: Graduate Status
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• ARTH 6410: Art of Small Scale Cultures

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Students will become familiar with a broad range of arts of native North, Meso, Central and South America, Aftrica, and the South Pacific regions. Cross listed: ARTH 4410 Prerequisites/Restrictions: Graduate Standing
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• ARTH 6430: Curatorial Seminar -- Rare Books and Manuscripts

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Provides a wide-ranging introduction to the interdisciplinary field of book and manuscript studies, with an emphasis on the history of the book in the medieval and early modern eras. Organized around the collaborative curation of an exhibition. Cross list: ARTH 4630
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• ARTH 6500: Graduate Art History Section

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  A contract-based course for graduate students interested in studying upper-level art history to complement their degree program. Is particularly directed towards MFA students in the Department of Art and Design. Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status Repeatable for credit
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• ARTH 6510: Graduate Islamic Visual Cultures c. 600-1500

  3.00 Credits

  Utah State University

  
  Graduate level study of Islamic art and visual culture from origins to the early modern period.
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