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HADVC100
Introduction to the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture
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Description: Introduction to the history of art, design and visual culture.
HADVC102
Introduction to the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture II
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No description available for this course.
HADVC203
History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture in the 17th Century
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Description: History of art, design and visual culture in the 17th century. Highlights the visual culture of Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands and Flanders, covering representations of the body, politics, and identity in the work of artists such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velázquez, and Rubens. Not open to students with credit in ART H 253.
HADVC205
History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture, 1700-1848
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Description: History of art, design and visual culture in Europe during the 18th and early 19th centuries, focusing on the Enlightenment and response. Includes discussion of work from the Rococo, Neoclassical, and Romantic periods.
HADVC206
History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture in the Early 20th Century
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Description: History of art, design and visual culture from the beginnings of expressionism in the early twentieth century to the onset of the Second World War. Focuses on modernist and avant-garde modes of art and design in their historical context.
HADVC208
History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture in the United States
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Description: History of art, design and visual culture in the United States from the Colonial period to World War II. Includes work created by and depicting women, Indigenous peoples, and ethnic minorities and addresses such issues as politics, religion, nature, and industry.
Description: History of design from the 18th-century Industrial Revolution to the present. This course includes examples of communication, industrial, fashion and architectural design and urban planning, considering historical socio-political and environmental contexts.
Description: History of photography, starting with its invention in the 19th century.
HADVC211
Special Topics in the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture
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Description: Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.
HADVC213
History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture in Latin America
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Description: Introduction to the historical study of art, design and visual culture in Latin America, including Mesoamerican, pre-Hispanic Andean, Colonial, and Post-Independence cultures.
Description: Chinese cultural identity as expressed in local and global economies of art, design, and visual culture from the Maoist era to the present.
Description: This course raises the question: when will China stop manufacturing and start designing? Students will study the historical foundations, theory and practice of sustainable design in China since the end of the Maoist era.
HADVC217
History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture in Japan
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Description: Introduction to the historical study of art, design, and visual culture in Japan. Includes painting, sculpture, architecture, gardens, decorative arts, prints, and anime and addresses such concerns as identity, nation, tradition, and modernity.
HADVC226
Gender, Sexuality and Visual Culture
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Description: Introduction to key themes in feminist art, design and visual culture. Examines the production and circulation of visual markers of difference (such as race, gender, sexuality, ability, size, etc.) through the media, popular culture, and contemporary art.
HADVC246
History of Art, Design and Visual Culture in the Mid-20th Century
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Description: History of art, design and visual culture in the context of the Cold War and consumer society. Focuses on the persistence of modernism in the postwar era and the diverse challenges to it from 1940 to 1975. Not open to students with credit in ART H 256 (*3) offered prior to 2012-13.
HADVC255
History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture, 1848-1900
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Description: This course examines art, design and visual culture in Europe from the socially and politically turbulent period of 1848 to the end of the long 19th century. Includes discussion of Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau.
HADVC256
History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture in the Contemporary Era
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Description: Introduction to key issues in art, design, and visual culture from 1970 to the present, including art and identity, performance and politics, social sculpture, institutional critique, new media, bio art, relational aesthetics, social practice, and the pedagogical turn.
HADVC257
History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture in Canada
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Description: History of art, design and visual culture in Canada, from the colonial period to the present. Includes work created by and depicting women and Indigenous peoples, addressing such issues as nature, religion, gender, and national identity.
HADVC301
Geographies of Art, Design, and Visual Culture
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Description: The history of art, design and visual culture of a particular geographic location (e.g. nation, city, region, continent). Prerequisite: consent of Department. Note: Students are required to have successfully completed two 200- level HADVC courses with a minimum grade of B-.
Description: Aspects of the modern as it applies to the artistic practices of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Prerequisite: consent of Department. Note: Students are required to have successfully completed two 200-level HADVC courses with a minimum grade of B-.
Description: Historical and/or contemporary issues in design practice and theory. Prerequisite: consent of Department. Note: Students are required to have successfully completed two 200- level HADVC courses with a minimum grade of B-.
HADVC311
Issues in the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture
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Description: Students are expected to have successfully completed two 200-level HADVC courses with a minimum grade of B-. Prerequisite: consent of Department. Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.
HADVC315
Chinese Urban Art and Design Now
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Description: The historical and contemporary Chinese city-as representation, model, catalyst, and socio-political construct. Prerequisite: consent of Department. Note: Students are required to have successfully completed two 200- level HADVC courses with a minimum grade of B-.
Description: The relationship between objects and their modes of interpretation, circulation and display (e.g. museums, academies, exhibitions, etc.) Prerequisite: consent of Department. Note: Students are required to have successfully completed two 200-level HADVC courses with a minimum grade of B-.
HADVC400
Theory and Methods in Art, Design and Visual Culture
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Description: Prerequisite: consent of Department.
HADVC409
Topics in the History of Design
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Description: Prerequisite: consent of Instructor. Note: Students are required to have successfully completed one 300-level ART H course with a minimum grade of B.
HADVC411
Special Topics in the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture
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Description: Prerequisite: consent of Department. Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.
HADVC412
Topics in Asian Art, Design and Visual Culture
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Description: Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. Note: Students are required to have successfully completed one 300-level HADVC course with a minimum grade of B.
HADVC418A
Special Subject, Fourth-Year Honors
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Description: Preparation of the Honors essay, required in the fourth year of the Honors Program.
HADVC418B
Special Subject, Fourth-Year Honors
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Description: Preparation of the Honors essay, required in the fourth year of the Honors Program.
HADVC455
Topics in Art, Design and Visual Culture in the Second Half of the 19th Century
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Description: Prerequisite: consent of Instructor. Note: Students are required to have successfully completed one 300-level HADVC course with a minimum grade of B.
HADVC456
Topics in Art, Design and Visual Culture from the Mid-20th Century to the Present
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Description: Prerequisite: consent of Instructor. Note: Students are required to have successfully completed one 300-level HADVC course with a minimum grade of B.
HADVC509
Advanced Studies in the History of Design
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Description: Prerequisite: consent of Department.
HADVC511
Advanced Special Topics in Art, Design and Visual Culture
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Description: Prerequisite: consent of Department. Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.
HADVC512
Advanced Studies in Asian Art, Design and Visual Culture
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Description: Prerequisite: Consent of Department.
HADVC555
Advanced Studies in Art, Design and Visual Culture in the Second Half of the 19th Century
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Description: Prerequisite: consent of Department.
HADVC556
Advanced Studies in Art, Design and Visual Culture from the Mid-20th Century to the Present
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Description: Prerequisite: consent of Department.
HADVC600
Advanced Theory and Methods in Art, Design and Visual Culture
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Description: Prerequisite: consent of Department.
HADVC611
Special Topics in Art History
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Description: Prerequisite: consent of Department. Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.