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Regularly Offered Graduate Courses

The following is a sampling of graduate courses regularly offered.

Courses Title Faculty Instructor
Lecture    
30100 Art of Ancestral Worship: Chinese Art from Prehistorical to the Third Century Wu
30200 The Greek Revolution Revisited: Rethinking Naturalism Neer
30400 Athenian Vase-Painting: Depiction and Ideology Neer
32700 High Renaissance Painting in Florence and Rome Cohen
32800 The Renaissance in Venice Cohen
35000 European Romanticism Stafford
35400 Ideas of the City in the Early 20th Century Taylor
35600 Ancients and Moderns Stafford
35800 Visual Culture Mitchell
35900 19th Century American Landscapes Harris
36000 Art and Film in the Weimar Republic Heller
36100 French Art and Its Reception, 1848-1914 Ward
36200 Cinema and Magic Gunning
36300 20th Century American Landscapes Harris
36400 History of Photography 1839-1969 Snyder
36500 The Sites of Twentieth Century Art Ward
36700 Manifestations of Modernism: The Year 1913 Heller
36800 Modern Dwelling Taylor
36900 Perspectives on Imaging Stafford
37000 "As the Century Turns": German and Scandinavian Art and Culture around 1900 Heller
37104 American Graphic Design and Commerical Culture, 1870 to 1960 Harris
37200 Theories of the Photographic Image and Film Snyder
37304 Photography, Modernism, Esthetics Snyder
37500 Eisenstein and Soviet Aesthetic Theory Tsivian
37904 Philosophy and Film Snyder, Conant
38004 Russian Modernism, Films, Art, Books Tsivian
38104 The Detective and Crime Film Gunning
38300 Chinese Scroll Painting: Medium and Representation Wu
38500 History of International Cinema I: Silent Era Tsivian
38600 History of International Cinema II: Sound Era to 1960 Gunning
38704 Styles of Performance: Expression from Stage to Screen Tsivian
38900 Charlie Chaplin: The Man, The Artist, The Cultural Hero Tsivian
39504 Art, Community, and Activism Zorach
39700 Historiography of Modern Architecture Taylor
39704 Objects of Japanese History Thomsen
39900 Methods and Issues in Cinema Studies Gunning
Seminar    
40100 Art Historical Methodology  
40300 The Treasury-Buildings at Delphi and Olympia Neer
40404 The 'Imegines" of Philostratus Elsner
40600 What is Style? Neer
41004 Classical Arts and its Histories Neer
41404 Japanese Woodblock Prints: Issues and Problems Thomsen
41904 Mapping Africa Levin
42004 Rethinking Tombs Wu
42300 North Italian Painters: Lotto and Pordenone Cohen
43000 Giorgione: Connoisseurship and Meaning Cohen
43300 Roman Mannerism: Art and Historiography Cohen
44004 Anachronism Zorach
44100 Text and Image in Victorian Britain Helsinger
45500 Neuronal Aesthetics Stafford
44900 Picturing Natural History Stafford
45000 Art and Medicine: From the Enlightenment to Postmodernism Stafford
45200 19th Century Cinema Gunning
45400 Landscapes Mitchell
46100 Expressionism in the Visual Arts, Literature and Film Heller, Tsivian
46200 Der Blaue Reiter Heller
46400 A Voyage to Abyssinia: Mixed Media of Travel Stafford
46500 Cultural History of Architecture at the University of Chicago Campus Taylor
46504 Art Museum Display Ward
46600 Pop Art and Popular Culture of the 1950's and 60's Heller
46604 Whose Paris? Taylor
46800 The Museum: Collecting Ward
47000 The Skyscraper Taylor
47200 The Ends of American Photography Mitchell, Snyder
47400 Rethinking Chinese Tombs Wu
47500 Materiality of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Wu
47700 Female Images and Feminine Space in Chinese Art Wu
48200 Dunhuang Sutra Painting Wu
48300 Film and Melodrama Gunning
49300 Symbolism and Film Tsivian
48504 Alternative Approaches to the Visual English
48704 The Films of Josef von Sternberg Gunning
48904 Film and Art Movement Tsivian, Heller
49600 Museum Cultures Harris
49900 Historiography