History of Art | Winter 2025 Courses

T Th 11:30 AM-1:00 PM

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 232-001

Visualizing Power and Resistance in Colonial Latin America

T Th 1:00 PM-2:30 PM

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 243-001

Home and the World: Introduction to South Asian Art

T Th 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 265-001

Arts and Cultures of Star Wars

Miller, Bryan

M W 10:00 AM-11:30 PM

4 Credit Lecture

HISTART 272-001

Modern Art

Vinson, Heather Jeanne

T Th 11:30 AM-1:00 PM

4 Credit Lecture

HISTART 294-001

Special Topics:
Medieval Animals: Introduction to Medieval Visual Art and Material Culture

Bawden, Tina

T Th 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 347-001

Sports and Art in the Middle Ages

Paroma Chatterjee

M W 10:00 AM-11:30 AM

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 348-001

The Medieval Book as Object

Bawden, Tina

M W 10:00 AM-11:30 AM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 351-001

Imaginary Worlds in Renaissance Italy

Gear, Jennifer

M W 10:00 AM-11:30 AM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 370-001

Realism and Impressionism

Lay, Howard G

T Th 4:00 PM-5:30 PM

4 Credit Lecture

HISTART 372-001

Global Modern Art

Daniel Herwitz

T 10:00 AM-1:00 PM

3 Credit Seminar
Fulfills LSA Race & Ethnicity Requirement

HISTART 392-001

Anime to Zen: Japanese Art through Contemporary Popular Culture

Carr, Kevin Gray

M W 11:30 AM-1:00 PM

4 Credit Lecture

HISTART 393-001

Undergradute Seminar:
Visual Art and Incarceration

Holmes, Megan L

T Th 4:30 PM-5:30 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-002

Undergradute Seminar
On Railways and Dwellings. History of the Built Environment in Africa

Thomas, Gaetan Johanny

M W 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-003

Undergradute Seminar:
Masculinities and Modernisms, 1860-1960

Vinson, Heather Jeanne

T Th 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-004

Undergradute Seminar:
Venice: Timeless City, 697-1797

Gear, Jennifer

T Th 4:00 PM-5:30 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-006

Undergradute Seminar:
Sound Art

neal, julia elizabeth

M W 4:00 PM-5:30 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-008

Undergradute Seminar:
The Matter of Art History: Problems in Object Based Thinking

M W 10:00 AM-11:30 AM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-009

Undergradute Seminar:
Fantastic Beasts (and How to See Them)

T Th 10:00 AM-11:30 AM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 393-011

Undergradute Seminar:
Wearing Art: Body Modification in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ebeheakey, Alice Korkor

T Th 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 394-002

Special Topics in the Humanities:
The Art of Chinese Garden

Liu, Lihong

M W 10:00 AM-11:30 AM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 394-003

Special Topics in the Humanities:
The Black Death and Beyond: Art and Plague in Early Modern Italy

Gear, Jennifer

T Th 10:00 AM-11:30 AM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 394-004

Special Topics in the Humanities:
Black Feminist Art & Visual Culture

neal, julia elizabeth

M W 11:30 AM-1:00 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 394-006

Special Topics in the Humanities:
Art and Archaeology of Ancient Mesopotamia

Burge, Katherine

M W 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 394-007

Special Topics in the Humanities:
From Past to Present: Exploring Contemporary Art in Africa

Ebeheakey, Alice Korkor

M W 4:00 PM-5:30 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 395-001

Mini Seminar Course:
Gaming as Method: Japanese Art, Role-Playing Games, and Creative Scholarship in the Humanities

Carr, Kevin Gray

T Th 12:30 PM-2:30 PM

2 Credit Mini Seminar
Meets first half of the semester

MUSEUMS 401-001

Contemporary Issues in Museums

Hennebury, Deirdre L

T Th 1:00 PM-2:30 PM

3 Credit Seminar

MUSEUMS 409-003

Practicum in Museums

Hennebury, Deirdre L

ARRANGED

3 Credit Experiential

HISTART 489-001

Special Topics:
Soviet Visual Culture: 1917-1953

Toman, Jindrich

M W 4:00 PM-5:30 PM

3 Credit Lecture

HISTART 497-003

Upper-Level Seminar:
Curatorial Seminar: Gallery Installation at the Art Institute of Chicago

Th 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 497-005

Upper-Level Seminar:
Modern Islamic Art and Visual Culture

Gruber, Christiane

M 1:00 PM-4:00 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 497-006

Upper-Level Seminar:
Transparency and Metamorphosis

Liu, Lihong

T 1:00 PM-4:00 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 497-007

Upper-Level Seminar:
Art and Race in Nineteenth Century America: An Exhibition Seminar

M W 1:00 PM-2:30 PM

3 Credit Seminar

MUSEUMS 498-003

Upper-Level Seminar:
Curatorial Seminar: Gallery Installation at the Art Institute of Chicago

Th 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

3 Credit Seminar

MUSEUMS 498-007

Upper-Level Seminar:
Art and Race in Nineteenth Century America: An Exhibition Seminar

M W 1:00 PM-2:30 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 499-001

Honors Thesis

Lay, Howard G

M 4:00 PM-7:00 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 689-003

Upper-Level Seminar:
Curatorial Seminar: Gallery Installation at the Art Institute of Chicago

Th 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 689-006

Upper-Level Seminar:
Transparency and Metamorphosis

Liu, Lihong

T 1:00 PM-4:00 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 689-007

Upper-Level Seminar:
Art and Race in Nineteenth Century America: An Exhibition Seminar

M W 1:00 PM-2:30 PM

3 Credit Seminar

HISTART 689-009

Undergradute Seminar:
Fantastic Beasts (and How to See Them)