Art History Summer Courses

ARHI-1100-L21 - Art History Introduction
Summer Session II, July 2 - August 6, 2024
Lincoln Center, Hybrid: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course is an introduction to the study of art history, approached from a global perspective. It reaches back to Cycladic art (c. 3300 to 1100 BCE) and ends with the present. Because most human societies have created art, this course looks at works created in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. And since art objects can and do move across cultural boundaries, it also looks at the cross-cultural transmission of artworks. Students will learn about how peoples across space and time created works of art and architecture in response to social crisis, as an aid to or container of ritual, and to express norms and ideals of gender. Students will come to understand how and why abstraction and naturalism emerged at different times and places.

CRN: 14929

Instructor: Fostano, Katherina
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: FACC, FRFA, GLBL, INST, ISIN

ARHI-1102-V31 - Introduction to Art History: Asia
Summer Session III, May 28 - August 6, 2024
Online, Asynchronous

An introduction to the study of the art of Asia. This course covers architecture, sculpture, and paintings in India, China, and Japan from the ancient to the contemporary period.

CLOSED

Instructor: Ikeda, Asato
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: AHGL, FACC, FRFA, GLBL, INST, ISAS

MUSC-1100-V11 - Introduction to Music History: African American Musical Traditions and Jazz
Summer Session I, May 28 - June 27, 2024
Online: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course presents a survey of music history, with a focus on developing the skills of thinking and writing critically about music. Students will learn to listen in a focused way and relate what they hear to issues of musical “meaning” and general culture. Students will learn some technical vocabulary that will help them describe or advocate for any music they encounter, and they will apply this vocabulary to examples throughout the semester, for instance a Beethoven Symphony or a Duke Ellington jazz arrangement. Sections may have different focuses in terms of geography or chronology.

CRN: 14881

Instructor: Yaraman, Sevin
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, ASAM, ASHS, FACC, FRFA