Sample Courses
- Art and politics in the ancient world looks at how leading figures and states use art and architecture to shape and express the political environment and ideologies of the ancient world from Egypt to Rome.
- History of photography examines photography from the early 19th-century to the present, including the aesthetics of the medium, its relationship to painting and the graphic arts, and its social role.
- Japanese Buddhist art focuses on the types and periods of Buddhist art and architecture in Japan, including painting, sculpture, gardens, monastic buildings and plans, ritual implements, and calligraphy with an emphasis on form and function.