Courses
The following is a list of undergraduate course descriptions for the 2024-2025 academic year.
- For previous years, visit our archives.
- Please review the grading system for all courses offered by the Department of Art History.
Summer 1 term (May–June)
Group A ─ Media Based Studies
Group E — Art and Society
Group F — Tutored Studies
Summer 2 term (July–August)
Group B — Period Studies
Group F — Tutored Studies
Fall term (September–December)
Group A ─ Media Based Studies
- ARTH 267 Aspects of the History of Photography
- ARTH 348 Special Topics in Art and Film: Sound / Art / Consciousness
- ARTH 350 Studies in the History of Ceramics: Ceramic Bodies
- ARTH 351 Studies in the History of Sculpture
- ARTH 357 Studies in the History of Craft and the Decorative Arts: Gender, Sexuality and the French Interior During the Long 19th Century
- ARTH 358 Studies in the History of Media Art: Video Art and the Dissident Moving Image
Group B — Period Studies
- ARTH 364 Studies in Renaissance Art and Architecture
- ARTH 365 Studies in 17th and 18th-Century Art and Architecture
- ARTH 366 Studies in 19th‑Century Art and Architecture: Romanticism and Modernism
- ARTH 368 Studies in Contemporary Art & Architecture: The Monstruous Feminine
- ARTH 369 Studies in Middle Eastern Art and Architecture: Medieval Armenian Art & Architecture
- ARTH 498 Special Topics in the History of Art and Architecture: Archeoastronomy and Celestial Phenomena
Group C — Art in Canada
Group D — Theory and Criticism
Group E — Art and Society
Group F — Tutored Studies
Winter term (January–April)
Group A ─ Media Based Studies
- ARTH 267 Aspects of the History of Photography
- ARTH 352 Studies in the History of Fibre Art: Hybridity in 20th Century Textile
- ARTH 353 Technology and Contemporary Art
- ARTH 355 Studies in Architecture
- ARTH 356 Studies in the Materials and Processes of Art: Fabricatory Knowledge
- ARTH 359 Studies in Contemporary Photographic Art
- ARTH 448 Advanced Seminar in Art and Film: The Hallucinogenic Imagination
Group B — Period Studies
- ARTH 362 Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture
- ARTH 364 Studies in Renaissance Art and Architecture
- ARTH 366 Studies in 19th-Century Art and Architecture: European Art and Design
- ARTH 367 Studies in 20th‑Century Art and Architecture: Global Modernism and Political Ideology
- ARTH 368 Studies in Contemporary Art and Architecture: Brazilian Art
- ARTH 450 Advanced Seminar in the History of Art and Architecture: Paris 1925: Fashion & Interior Design
Group C — Art in Canada
Group D — Theory and Criticism
Group E — Art and Society
- ARTH 298 Special Topics in Genre Studies: LANDBACK: Nationalisms and the Landscape
- ARTH 388 Narration and Art
- ARTH 391 Art & its Changing Contexts: Nature, Science and Politics (1000-1800)
- ARTH 392 Gender Issues in Art and Art History: The Personal and the Political in Womxn Art
- ARTH 398 Special Topic in Art & Society: Chinese Visual Culture
