Courses

Traces the history and aesthetics of avant-garde/ experimental films in light of similar ideas found in the other arts, particularly painting, poetry, photography and music. Topics covered include Dadaand the early avant-garde; surrealism and psychodramas; Brakhage and abstract expressionism; feminist arts and film since the 1980s; the idea of the sublime in painting, music, and film; landscape in painting, photography, and film; post-modernism and the cinema; queer theory, gender/identity politics, and aesthetics of recent films; and specific multiple disciplinary artists such as Andy Warhol, Michael Snow,Helen Levitt, and Gunvor Nelson. Prereq., FILM 1502. Same as FILM 4453. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Same as ARTS 4453. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Advanced exploration of creative cinema production through short production and post-production projects. Course focuses on the tactics and strategies of independent cinema production exploring either documentary, experimental, or narrative genres. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prereq., FILM 3400. Same as FILM 4500. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

May be repeated up to 18 credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Same as ARTS 4540.

Explores creative approaches to single camera digital cinematography through short projects, discussions, and screenings. Relates creative photography and poetic approaches to the digital camera cinema. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prereqs., FILM 2000, 3600, or ARTS 4246 or 5346 or instructor consent. Restricted to FILM majors. Same as FILM 4600.

Seminar for the serious round table discussion and critique of film as an art form, emphasizing development of appropriate verbal and written language skills for description of film. May be repeated upto 6 total credit hours. Same as FILM 4604. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Explores advanced graduate studio work in a seminar setting. The course will focus on the development of ideas and activities which advance creative image making. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours with any single faculty member. Prereq., graduate standing and/or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours with any single faculty member. Prereq., graduate standing and/or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Participate in graduate independent study. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

Participate in graduate independent study. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours. Same as ARTH 4929. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as ARTH 4939.

Brings speakers to campus to work with seminar students, usually four guest scholars per semester, subjects vary. Students read scholar's work and discuss methodological issues. Focuses on the research and insight of scholars who are currently shaping the field and defining research agendas. Required for all MA art history students, open to others. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Provides overview for critical theory from Marx to contemporary writers with emphasis on their relevance to visual studies. Addresses issues that underlie a wide range of academic discussion in arts and sciences. Foucault, Derrida, Said, Lacan and other authors will be subject to weekly discussions leading to research papers, presentations, and projects. Class fulfills critical theory requirement for MFA and MA students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Investigates key problems facing museum institutions and studies the staging and representation of historical knowledge, the ethics of collecting and display, the changing nature and uses of historical evidence, and relations between curatorial practice, collecting, and field work. Critically examines different approaches to museums and museology in various disciplines, both past and present. Prereq., MUSM 5011 or instructor consent. Same as MUSM 6150, HIST 6150, and ANTH 6150. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Provides a systematic critical overview of the development of art history as a discipline beginning with 18th century theories of aesthetics and ending with current interdisciplinary models of critical interpretation. Weekly readings, discussions, reports, and written papers constitute the format of this seminar in methodology. Topics vary from semester to semester. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours within a term. Required for MA (art history) students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Subjects and topics vary. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Preparation, research, writing of critical studies Master's thesis in fulfillment of concurrent BAMA in Film. Prereq., ARTF 5004. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.