| World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century |
Art History, Theory, and Criticism |
1001 (007) |
Fall 2025 |
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Description
This course is an introduction to art and design. Specific content varies by instructor and covers diverse ways of seeing and understanding the visual world. The course articulates connections between selected art of the past and contemporary practices. Students will gain first-hand knowledge from visits to and exercises in the Art Institute of Chicago and other collections.
Ultimately, the course teaches skills that enable students to understand their own practices better, orient themselves in relation to theories of art and design, and navigate our present moment where visual literacy is increasingly crucial.
This course introduces students to key aspects of the history and theory of art and design. Students will become familiar with selected art of the past and how it has been connected to contemporary practices.
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Class Number
1060
Credits
3
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| World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century |
Art History, Theory, and Criticism |
1001 (008) |
Fall 2025 |
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Description
This course is an introduction to art and design. Specific content varies by instructor and covers diverse ways of seeing and understanding the visual world. The course articulates connections between selected art of the past and contemporary practices. Students will gain first-hand knowledge from visits to and exercises in the Art Institute of Chicago and other collections.
Ultimately, the course teaches skills that enable students to understand their own practices better, orient themselves in relation to theories of art and design, and navigate our present moment where visual literacy is increasingly crucial.
This course introduces students to key aspects of the history and theory of art and design. Students will become familiar with selected art of the past and how it has been connected to contemporary practices.
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Class Number
1102
Credits
3
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| World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century |
Art History, Theory, and Criticism |
1001 (009) |
Fall 2025 |
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Description
This course is an introduction to art and design. Specific content varies by instructor and covers diverse ways of seeing and understanding the visual world. The course articulates connections between selected art of the past and contemporary practices. Students will gain first-hand knowledge from visits to and exercises in the Art Institute of Chicago and other collections.
Ultimately, the course teaches skills that enable students to understand their own practices better, orient themselves in relation to theories of art and design, and navigate our present moment where visual literacy is increasingly crucial.
This course introduces students to key aspects of the history and theory of art and design. Students will become familiar with selected art of the past and how it has been connected to contemporary practices.
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Class Number
1103
Credits
3
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| Survey of Modern to Contemporary Art and Architecture |
Art History, Theory, and Criticism |
1002 (001) |
Spring 2025 |
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Description
This course builds on the lessons of ARTHI 1001 by discussing specific issues in modern and contemporary art and design. It focuses on examining objects and concepts, addressing theoretical and critical issues. It also explores the historical, intellectual, and socioeconomic changes reflected in the works of artists and designers, highlighting their relevance to contemporary practices. Museum visits and group exercises supervised by the instructor and the teaching assistants will contribute to the important hands-on experience of works of art.
Note: ARTHI 1001 is the recommended prerequisite for ARTHI 1002.
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Class Number
1029
Credits
3
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| Tragic Beauty: English Gardens, Settler Colonialism and Trans-Atlantic Slavery |
Art History, Theory, and Criticism |
4024 (001) |
Spring 2025 |
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Description
This course contextualizes English gardens and their design features within larger ideas of land ownership at the level of private ownership, the nation, and Empire. It examines the way the design of 18th and 19th century British landscapes served the needs of early modern industrialists in England and shaped the identity of colonizer in relation to colonized subjects.
In this course, we will study examples of private gardens, early botanic gardens, and other colonial gardens, including plantations, in order to explore at the critical way plants and gardens were used to dispossess people of land and culture in Europe and abroad. In Europe, we will look at the way land enclosure might be said to have produced a British working class. In the colonies, we will look at the role plants and gardens played in extending British authority over its colonial subjects and how the deep knowledge that indigenous and slave communities had about plants was stolen, lost or engaged in that process.
There are weekly readings for this course, and a final scaffolded research paper. Although a final research paper is submitted, students are expected to submit along the way other smaller assignments related to that final research project, such as a paragraph thesis statement, a bibliography, an outline, a full draft and then the final revision.
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Class Number
1049
Credits
3
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| Contemporary Cartography |
Art History, Theory, and Criticism |
4887 (001) |
Spring 2025 |
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Description
Maps feature significantly in contemporary artistic practice as both subject and method. In contemporary art, they often serve as a device that resists fixed borders, both national and personal. As contemporary artists collapse the idea that the map is the territory, so too do they make a radical break with the seemingly permanent boundaries of nationality, race and gender and their ideological institutions.
A variety of topics such as nationalism, migration, and the use of surveillance technology in art will be explored primarily through readings, art, film screenings, and conversations. Artists include, for example, Francis Alys, Libia Posada, Bouchra Khalili, Harun Farocki and more.
Students should expect weekly readings, in-class assignments, and the completion of a final essay
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Class Number
1067
Credits
3
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| Research Studio |
Arts Administration and Policy |
5999 (001) |
Fall 2025 |
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Description
Research Studio is designed to provide students with the skills and support necessary to generate research questions, organize conceptual frameworks, critically evaluate research methodologies and construct research design, to generate viable thesis proposals in advance of completing a Master of Arts Administration and Policy thesis. This will be accomplished through readings, lecture, discussion and workshopping activities, in conjunction with individual advising opportunities. Students will develop a research proposal of their own design, with the option to focus on preparing a proposal for a project or paper thesis. The overall concern is that students develop thesis proposals which promise to yield timely research of value to the field.
Prerequisite: You must be a Master of Arts in Arts Administration or Dual Degree student to enroll in this course, or by instructor consent.
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Class Number
2196
Credits
3
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| Thesis II |
Arts Administration and Policy |
6095 (004) |
Spring 2025 |
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Description
A master's thesis is required for completion of the master's degree in arts administration. The thesis should demonstrate a student's ability to design, justify, execute, evaluate, and present the results of original research or of a substantial project. In this class students work closely with an MAAAP program advisor, and meet frequently with other MAAAP participants in groups and in individual meetings. The thesis is presented, in both written and oral form, to a thesis committee for both initial and final approval. You must be a Master of Arts in Arts Administration and Policy student to enroll in this course.
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Class Number
2445
Credits
3
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