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2009-2010 Graduate Seminars

SUMMER 2009!
ARHS 540: Vernacular Architecture & Popular Design in America
(Victoria Young, Wednesdays, May 27 - July 29, 5:30-9 pm)

ARHS 500: Methods and Approaches to Art History
(Victoria Young & Heather Shirey, team teaching, with Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell, Fall 2009
Wednesdays 5:30-8:30 p.m.)

ARHS 525: New Deal Art and Photography
(Elizabeth Avery, Fall 2009, Thursdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.)
ARHS 530: Painting and Place in China
(Elizabeth Kindall, Fall 2009, Mondays 5:30-8:30 p.m.)
ARHS 550: The Vast "Waist" Land: Costume and the Body Ideal in Western Visual Culture
(Shelly Nordtorp-Madson, Fall 2009, Tuesdays 5:30-8:30 p.m.)
ARHS 510: Defining the Classical
(Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell, Spring 2010, Day TBD  5:30-8:30 p.m.)
ARHS 535: African American Art
(Heather Shirey, Spring 2010, Mondays 5:30-8:30 p.m.)
ARHS 535: From Splendor to Survival: Aztecs Before and After the Conquest
(William Barnes, Spring 2010, Day TBD 5:30-8:30 p.m.)

2008-2009 Graduate Seminars

ARHS 500: Methods and Approaches to Art History

(Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell, Fall 2008, Thursdays 5:30-8:30 pm)

ARHS 510: The Way of the Pilgrim: Medieval Art & Culture of the Pilgrimage Roads
(Shelly Nordtorp-Madson, Fall 2008, Tuesdays 5:30-8:30 pm)

ARHS 520: After Dada
(Craig Eliason, Spring 2009, Wednesdays 5:30-8:30 pm)

ARHS 520: Mythic Narrative and Quiet Spaces: Topics in Modern Nordic Art, Architecture and Design
(Claire Selkurt, Fall 2008, WEDNESDAYS 5:30-8:30 pm)

ARHS 530: Art and Politics in China

(Elizabeth Kindall, Spring 2009, Tuesdays 5:30-8:30 pm)

ARHS 530: Chinese Gardens
(Carol Brash, SUMMER 2008, May 22-July 31 (no class 7/3) Thursdays 5-8:30 pm)

ARHS 535: African Art in Transition
(Heather Shirey, Fall 2008, Mondays 5:30-8:30 pm)

ARHS 535: Collecting & Exhibiting Asmat Art
(Julie Risser, Spring 2009, Mondays 5:30-8:30 pm)