Credits: 4
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Duration: 14 Weeks
Dates: Tue,Thu
Art History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
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East Asian Art II:China, Korea, Japan, 1000Ce-Pr (ARTH-UA 511)
Art History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ARTH-UA 511-000 (20247)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Matteini, Michele
Art in Islamic World I: from Prophet to Mongols (ARTH-UA 540)
Formerly V43.0085. Offered every year. 4 points. Provides an outline of Islamic material in its early and classical periods, from 650 to 1200. The period saw the initial formation of an Arab empire stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, a decline in centralized authority, and the rise to political prominence of various North African, Iranian, and Central Asian dynasties from the 10th century onward. These politicFormerly V43.0085. Offered every year. 4 points. Provides an outline of Islamic material in its early and classical periods, from 650 to 1200. The period saw the initial formation of an Arab empire stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, a decline in centralized authority, and the rise to political prominence of various North African, Iranian, and Central Asian dynasties from the 10th century onward. These political developments are reflected in the increasingly heterogeneous nature of Islamic material culture over this time span.
Art History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ARTH-UA 540-000 (20248)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Flood, Finbarr
Dutch &Flemish Painting, 1600-1700 (ARTH-UA 311)
In Flanders, Rubens overturned all previous concepts of painting and was the first to deserve the term “baroque.” Van Dyck, his pupil, took Rubens’s style to England. Dutch painters, including Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer, moved in a different direction, addressing every aspect of their country and society: the peasant, the quiet life of the well-ordered household, the sea and landscape, views of the cities, and church interiors.
Art History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ARTH-UA 311-000 (20246)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Rice, Louise
Modern Architecture: 1914 to The Present (ARTH-UA 409)
Considers such subjects as currents on the eve of the First World War, new technology, and the impact of the war; architecture and politics between the wars; the rise of expressionist design; the international style and the concurrent adaptation of traditional styles; art deco design; mid-century glass curtain-wall architecture; brutalism; and reactions to modernism. Includes ideological and political considerations and works by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, James Stirling, and Frank Gehry, among others.
Art History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ARTH-UA 409-000 (9884)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Krinsky, Carol
Ancient Egyptian Art (ARTH-UA 110)
Traces developments in the sculpture, painting, and architecture of ancient Egypt from pre-dynastic beginnings through the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms (3100-1080 B.C.). Special emphasis on Egyptian art in the context of history, religion, and cultural patterns. Includes study of Egyptian collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
Art History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Romanesque Art (ARTH-UA 202)
Examines architecture, sculpture, painting, manuscript illumination, and treasury arts of the Latin West during ca. 950-1200 C.E., including Ottonian, Anglo-Saxon, Mozarabic, First Romanesque, and Romanesque art. Considers visual arts of Christianity in light of the historical, religious, political, social, and cultural contexts of their creation. Topics: the cult of saints and the arts; the art and architecture of pilgrimage and crusade; monasticism and the arts; Romanesque patrons, artists, and audiences; the Romanesque revival of monumental sculpture; Christian encounters with Islam and Judaism; secular themes in Romanesque art; word and image in Romanesque art; medieval attitudes toward the classical tradition.
Art History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ARTH-UA 202-000 (20245)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Amore, Alexa
Ancient Art (ARTH-UA 3)
History of art in the Western tradition from 20,000 B.C. to the 4th century A.D. From the emergence of human beings in the Paleolithic Age to the developments of civilization in the Near East, Egypt, and the Aegean; the flowering of the Classical Age in Greece; and the rise of the Roman Empire to the beginnings of Christian domination under the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century A.D. Study of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum is essential.
Art History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
History of Western Art II (ARTH-UA 2)
Students who have taken ARTH-UA 5 or ARTH-UA 6 will not receive credit for this course. Offered every semester. 4 points. Introduction to the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the early Renaissance to the present day. Includes the study of significant works in New York museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collec-tion, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Art History (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ARTH-UA 2-000 (8167)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Karmel, Joseph
ARTH-UA 2-000 (8168)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Karmel, Joseph
ARTH-UA 2-000 (8169)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Karmel, Joseph
ARTH-UA 2-000 (8170)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Herland, Phoebe
ARTH-UA 2-000 (8171)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Herland, Phoebe
ARTH-UA 2-000 (8172)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Brown, Bentley
ARTH-UA 2-000 (8173)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Brown, Bentley
Last Hunters-First Farmers (ANTH-UA 608)
The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and animal husbandry is often called the Agricultural Revolution. This change in human subsistence strategies led to changes in many other aspects of human life, including settlement patterns, demography, social organization, and religious practices. It also provided the economic basis for the development of complex urban societies in many regions of the world. Examines the archaeological evidence for the transition from foraging to farming on a worldwide basis.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2020)
ANTH-UA 608-000 (18677)09/02/2020 – 12/13/2020 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Crabtree, Pam
Gender, Violence, and The Law (ANTH-UA 330)
Examines the global prevalence of gender violence and the varied meanings of violence against women and changes in terminology over time. Examines ways of theorizing gender and violence including performative ideas of gender. The creation of gender violence as a social problem is a product of social movements in the United States, Europe, India, and many other parts of the world. It is now understood globally as an important human rights violation. Also examines the forms of intervention that have been developed in the United States and globally for diminishing violence against women, including policing, prosecution, and punishment.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Religion and Media (ANTH-UA 220)
This course introduces the long-standing and complex connection between religious practices and various media. We’ll analyze how human hearing, vision, and the performing body have been used historically to express and maintain religious life through music, voice, images, words, and rituals. Time will then be spent on more recent electronic media such as radio, film, television, video, and the Internet. An anthropological/ historical perspective on studying religion is pursued.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2020)
ANTH-UA 220-000 (20043)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Zito, Angela · Momin, Shayan
Prehistoric Hunters and Gatherers (ANTH-UA 210)
Although they are no longer the dominant form of human sociality or adaptation, hunter-gatherers continue to play a pivotal role in anthropological theory. But who are hunter-gatherers? Some argue that the problem with trying to pigeon-hole hunter-gatherers is that this taxonomic unit holds little practical or evolutionary legitimacy. Others contend that people have evidently lived off the land without agriculture or animal husbandry, so at some level, hunter-gatherer is a meaningful category. Yet, few of the qualities assigned to hunter-gatherers hold up to detailed cross-cultural investigation. For example, hunter-gatherer subsistence is not inherently linked to peaceful coexistence, affluence, small group sizes or settlement mobility. Moreover, hunter-gatherer populations commonly thought to be deeply entrenched in evolutionary time are now known to result from complex historical processes of globalization and colonial expansion. This course will explore the diversity of lifeways subsumed under the banner of the hunter-gatherer. Drawing on a wide range of cross-cultural datasets, the course will unpack hunter-gatherer behavioral variability across broad topics, not paradigms. We will examine variations in hunter-gatherer subsistence, mobility, social organization, belief systems, landscape use, and material culture. Finally, we will ask to what degree the concept of the hunter-gatherer and the study of modern hunter-gatherers can help anthropologists understand and explore human behavior in the deeper past.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2019)
ANTH-UA 210-000 (19127)09/03/2019 – 12/13/2019 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Pargeter, Justin
Media, Culture, and Society (ANTH-UA 123)
This course examines the social and political life of media and how it makes a difference in the daily lives of people as a practice – in production, reception, or circulation. It is organized around the following key questions: What is media? What role do media play in producing or shaping our sense of reality? What is the relationship between media and culture? How are media implicated in social change? It provides an overview of the increasing theoretical attention paid to the mass media by anthropologists, and focuses on concrete ethnographic examples.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2019)
ANTH-UA 123-000 (19130)09/03/2019 – 12/13/2019 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ganti, Tejaswini
Topical Seminar in Biological Anthropology I (ANTH-UA 511)
Only open to majors in anthropology who have the permission of the director of undergraduate studies or the instructor. This seminar explores, theoretically and methodologically, selected key current issues and problems in biological anthropology. See the department?s internal catalog.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2019)
ANTH-UA 511-000 (18726)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Surveys of Regional Prehistory II: (ANTH-UA 216)
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2019)
ANTH-UA 216-000 (18731)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Thu2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Archaeology: Early Societies & Culture (ANTH-UA 3)
Introduces contemporary archaeology, its theories, practices, and early societies and cultures. Examines current methodological and theoretical viewpoints of archaeological scholarship within the discipline of anthropology. Focuses on key transformations in cultural evolution, such as the origins of modern humans, the emergence of food production, and the development of complex societies, urbanism, and early states. Explores gender roles, landscapes and settlements, technologies, art, cognitive systems, urbanism, and state formation.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2019)
ANTH-UA 3-000 (7811)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ANTH-UA 3-000 (7812)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
ANTH-UA 3-000 (7813)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Human Ecology (ANTH-UA 90)
This course seeks to assess the degree to which variations in human biology and culture can be understood as adaptations to varying external conditions. We examine the relationship of human systems of action and the natural world in order to understand the various forms of human adaptation. Case studies of several living peoples, contemporary and past biological communities, and prehistoric cultures provide the material for interpretation and evaluation of theoretical positions.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2019)
ANTH-UA 90-000 (22566)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Tue,Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Liberal Studies Elective (ELEC-UF 101)
Topics in Humanities (Undergraduate)
1-2 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2021)
ELEC-UF 101-000 (13689)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Thu6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Lin, Cammie Kim
ELEC-UF 101-000 (20703)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Tue3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gramer, Regina U
Belief and Social Life in China (ANTH-UA 351)
The Chinese word for ?religion? means ?teaching.? Explores what Chinese people ?taught? themselves about the person, society, and the natural world and thus how social life was constructed and maintained. Examines in historical perspective the classic texts of the Taoist and Confucian canon and their synthesis; Buddhist, especially Ch?an (Zen). Discusses the practices of filiality in Buddhism, Confucian orthodoxy, and in folk religion.
Anthropology (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks