Introduction to art-historical methods, with emphasis on the historical development of current practices, critical theory, debates within the field, and cross-disciplinary dialogues.
4
UnitsOptional
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeGraduate students only
Level LimitLetters and science
CollegeImpossible to understand. Super boring lectures. The tests had nothing to do with what was on the review slides. Avoid this class at all costs.
gets mad at you for being on your phone in lecture even though most people take this class for a GE. TAs are unnecessarily hard graders and dont explain why they give you the grade you got. class covers too much material in just 10 weeks and you have to memorize useless info for the tests which youll probably forget within a day.
This professor was rather disappointing. The most difficult part of taking this course was keeping my eyes open during lecture. It is clear that the professor has a true passion for African and Indigenous art - that is about all that is clear in this class. The TA's are no better; apple doesn't fall far from the tree eh?
Class was super interesting!! Only had a few assignments and a midterm + final which were the same structure on different artworks. You do have to memorize info on a set of selected artworks but making a simple google doc with the required info and reviewing it is enough to pass. Loved him!
Very much a class designed solely for art history students with a professor who is a giant in this particular field. I'll never take another art history class again, but overall the course was interesting enough. The memorization was terrible.
2 small projects/papers and 2 exams. Exams require you to memorize some artwork, and analyze them. The projects/papers were both really easy. The lectures are mostly boring, but occasionally interesting. I took the class P/NP, but I should have taken it for a grade, because I got an A- without much effort and missing 5 classes.