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• ARTH 3600: American Art

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course explores the historical development of American art starting with pre-contact Native North American art and ending with Abstraction. The course provides a complex narrative of the art and artists in North America, including fine art, folk art, popular art, and mass culture and the built environments in which these works circulate.
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• ARTH 3610: African American Art

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course will investigate artworks created by African American visual artists and consider how Black artists are situated in the framework of American art as a whole. Students will be introduced to African American art and artists, from art and design in the Colonial era to African American art in the new millennium.
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• ARTH 3700: History of Photography as Art

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course introduces students to photographers, photographs, readings, theory, and criticism from the history of photography. The course also covers the development of photography as a process and as art, and looks at related artists, movements, various cultural perspectives, and styles of photography.
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• ARTH 3800: Modern Art

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course explores the development of Modern Art, especially the painting, sculpture, photography, design, and architecture associated with modernism. The course tracks the global expansion of modernism by analyzing ways that visual artists conceptualized the period.
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• ARTH 3810: Contemporary Art

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course examines the history of art in a global context from the 1950s to the present with an emphasis on understanding examples of global contemporary art within their specific socio-historical contexts. The course explores the ways in which the period is marked by dramatic changes in art and society.
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• ARTH 3900: Art and Society

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  The course is designed to encourage students to understand the interaction between art and society. Among topics to be discussed are the social meaning of art, institutionalization of art, art market politics, social position of the artist, social structure and style changes, and art as a purveyor of social change.
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• ARTH 3910: Women in Art

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course focuses on women as the subject and creators of art as well as their role as patrons, curators, and collectors, with a particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. The course also explores the development of debates within feminist approaches to art history.
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• ARTH 3920: Museum and Gallery Studies

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course introduces students to the art world, national and international museums and galleries, and contemporary art. Students learn about the history of the museum, different types of museums and galleries, how museums operate, and the role of the curator.
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• ARTH 3930: Museum and Gallery Field Trips

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course introduces students to the art, museum, and gallery community in Western Pennsylvania. This course includes lectures on local museums, galleries, and arts organizations, and is supplemented with field trips to museums, galleries, artists' studios, non-profit arts organizations, and/or other arts-related institutions in the region.
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• ARTH 4100: Special Topics: American Art

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  An advanced level discussion-based seminar course on a faculty-selected topic in the history of art and architecture of the Americas. Topics and class format will vary depending on faculty interest.
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