ARTH 395 - Senior Seminar: Approaches to Art History

Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Senior art history major. This capstone seminar studies the origins, applications, strengths, and weaknesses of various methodological approaches that art historians use to study art. Topics include Formalism; Iconography and Iconology; Social History and Marxism; Feminism; Psychoanalysis; Semiotics; Structuralism and Post-Structuralism; Deconstruction; Reception Theory; Post-Colonialism; and Critical Race/Ethnicity Theories. Students employ these frameworks in their senior theses. Staff. Planned Offering: Fall