Apr 19, 2024  
2021-2022 General Catalog 
    
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Art

  
  • ART 6650 - Graduate Ceramic Studio


    3-9 credits

    Arranged to provide time, equipment, and facilities for graduate students to pursue directed studies. Tutorial format with group critiques.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status

    Repeatable for credit.
  
  • ART 6660 - Graduate Sculpture Studio


    3-9 credits

    Advanced individual problems in various media and technique.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status

    Repeatable for credit.
  
  • ART 6800 - Graduate Photography Studio


    3-9 credits

    Designed to cover several phases of photography, with emphasis on composing what we see in an artistic manner. Allows graduate students to further emphasize their thesis project area of study.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status

    Repeatable for credit.
  
  • ART 6900 - Professional Practices


    3 credits

    Designed to familiarize graduate students with practical experiences shared by all studio disciplines, including researching opportunities, financing, and practicing a post-graduate career in the studio. Explores preparation of a portfolio, writing materials, and documentation of studio works for individualized application strategies. Details extensive research into employment possibilities, such as teaching, gallery and museum positions, and artist residencies.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status

    Repeatable for credit.


  
  • ART 6910 - Graduate Interdisciplinary Critique


    3 credits

    Focuses on current work of critique participants. Brings disciplinary analysis to specific problem.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status

    Repeatable for credit.
  
  • ART 6920 - Graduate Independent Projects in Art


    1-9 credits

    Advanced problems in emphasis, medium, and idiom of student’s choice. Student plans project and executes it through individual initiative and scheduled consultation with the instructor.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Instructor permission and graduate status

    Repeatable for credit.
  
  • ART 6940 - Graduate Internship/Coop


    1-9 credits

    Internship/cooperative education work experience in art. Designed to allow graduate students to receive more complex and professional workplace experience.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status

    Repeatable for credit.
  
  • ART 6970 - Research and Thesis


    3 credits

    This course is designed for students preparing a master’s degree thesis.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Candidacy status

    Repeatable for credit.
    Pass/Fail only.
  
  • ART 6990 - Continuing Graduate Advisement


    1-3 credits

    This course provides graduate students with continued support and advisement. It is usually taken following completion of all coursework required for the degree.

    Repeatable for credit.
    Pass/Fail only.

Art History

  
  • ARTH 1270 - Native American Arts and Crafts


    3 credits

    Introduces prehistoric, historic, and contemporary Native American art forms and the underlying philosophical belief systems that gave rise to them. Goal is to provide basic principles for understanding and evaluating the artistic expression of Native Americans. Organized around geographical regions and cultural types.

    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • ARTH 2710 - Survey of Western Art: Prehistoric to Medieval (BHU)


    BHU Breadth Humanities
    3 credits

    Prehistoric art through the end of the Gothic era.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Art & Design Department only or instructor permission 

  
  • ARTH 2720 - Survey of Western Art: Renaissance to Post-Modern (BHU)


    BHU Breadth Humanities
    3 credits

    Renaissance through modern.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Art & Design Department only or instructor permission  

  
  • ARTH 2730 - Art of the African Diaspora (BHU)


    BHU Breadth Humanities
    3 credits

    Examination of the visual arts rooted in the broad experience of the of the global African diaspora from the 18th century onwards.

  
  • ARTH 3110 - Ancient Near East (CI/DHA)


    CI, DHA Communications Intensive, Depth Humanities and Creative Arts
    3 credits

    Survey of history and civilization of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Israel, from prehistory to 500 B.C. Writing intensive.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Fulfillment of Communications Literacy CL2 requirement

    Cross-listed as: HIST 3110 .

  
  • ARTH 3200 - Experiential Learning in Art History-Study Abroad


    1-3 credits

    Learning from travel-based experience in museums, galleries, and historic cities/sites worldwide is an invaluable part of the education of artists, designers, and art historians.  This course is designed to allow student to earn credit in structured, professor-led study aboard programs.

    Repeatable for credit


  
  • ARTH 3210 - Classical Mythology


    3 credits

    This course introduces major myths of the Classical world and explores how these myths serve as keys to understanding the documents and arts of Classical civilization.

    Cross-listed as: CLAS 3210 , ENGL 3210 HIST 3210  and RELS 3210   

  
  • ARTH 3215 - Art of Ancient Greece


    3 credits

    This course teaches contexts and processes for the making and viewing of ancient Greek art. Using artwork as a lens for understanding the ancient Greeks, students will also consider the ongoing significance of classical culture in the modern age.

    Prerequisite/Restriction:
    • ARTH 2710  and one of the following or instructor permission:

      • Accepted into the Art major
      • Accepted into the Art History major
      • Accepted into the Art History minor


    This listing includes updates which are effective beginning Spring 2022.

  
  • ARTH 3220 - The Art & Architecture of Ancient Rome


    3 credits

    This course teaches contexts and processes for the making and viewing of ancient Roman art. Using artwork as a lens for understanding the ancient Romans, students also consider the ongoing significance of classical culture in the modern age.

    Prerequisite/Restriction:
    • ARTH 2710  and one of the following or instructor permission:
      • Accepted into the Art major
      • Accepted into the Art History major
      • Accepted into the Art History minor


    This listing includes updates which are effective beginning Spring 2022.
  
  • ARTH 3250 - The New Hollywood: American New Wave Cinema of the 1970s (CI/DHA)


    CI, DHA Communications Intensive, Depth Humanities and Creative Arts
    3 credits

    This course covers the history of the “New Hollywood” American cinema that emerged in the late 1960s and lasted through the end of the 1970s.

    Repeatable
    This listing includes updates which are effective beginning Summer 2021.
  
  • ARTH 3270 - Native North American Art (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    Through geographically and thematically oriented slide lectures, class discussions, video, independent research, local event attendance and displays at the University Museum Study Gallery, the students will become familiar with the people, the lifestyles and the objects of material culture of several different geographical areas of Native North America. We will look at ancient traditions, how the arts changed after European contact and briefly, more contemporary art forms as well.

     

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710  and ARTH 2720 ; Art majors, Art History majors, Art History minors or instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 3295 - Latinx Art


    3 credits

    This course teaches modern and postmodern art made by Americans of Latin American descent and/or artwork exploring the American experience through the lens of Latinx issues and concepts.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710  and ARTH 2720  

    This listing includes updates which are effective beginning Spring 2022.
  
  • ARTH 3310 - History of Asian Art: Ancient to Modern


    3 credits

    This course introduces students to the arts of Asia from antiquity to the modern period.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710  and ARTH 2720  

  
  • ARTH 3320 - Pre-Columbian Art (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    Through geographically and thematically oriented PowerPoint-based lectures, online video presentations, class discussions, independent research and an opportunity for a field trip to the NEHMA, the USU Museum of Anthropology and local cultural events. Students will become familiar with several different art forms from Native Meso-America, Central, and South America. While we will be looking primarily at the art and architecture popularly termed “Pre-Columbian,” I will also include more contemporary forms of Latin American art as well.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710  and ARTH 2720 ; ART majors, ARTH majors, and ARTH minors or instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 3340 - African Art (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    Through geographically and thematically oriented Power Point based lectures, online video presentations, class discussions, independent research and an opportunity to attend a field trip to the NEHMA, the USU Museum of Anthropology and local cultural events, the students will become familiar with a broad range of arts, primarily of West and Central Africa, as well as North, East and Southern Africa.  While we will look at a few instances of contemporary art, the course will concentrate primarily on how the arts were and are used in the daily life of the traditional small scale societies of these particular areas of Africa. The last set of lectures will be devoted to contemporary African and African-American Art.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710  and ARTH 2720 ; Art majors, Art History majors, Art History minors or instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 3360 - Bad Cinema (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    As a fascinating and unusual way of developing the critical language and evaluative skills of Film Studies, this course analyses some of the very worst movies ever made with the conviction that bad films are just as worthy of academic study, and revealing of the culture that produced them, as great films.

  
  • ARTH 3510 - Islamic Visual Cultures (CI/DHA)


    CI, DHA Communications Intensive, Depth Humanities and Creative Arts
    3 credits

    Explores the emergence and development of Islamic visual cultures in Asia and around the Mediterranean between 622 and 1250.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710  or instructor permission

    Cross-listed as: RELS 3510  

  
  • ARTH 3540 - The African American Cinematic Experience (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    From the earliest days of Hollywood through the Race Movies of the 1920s and 1930s and on to the contemporary scene, this course will examine the African American cinematic experience in its myriad of social, political and cultural contexts.

  
  • ARTH 3610 - Classical Art History: Greece and Rome (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    This course focuses on the art of the ancient Mediterranean world with an emphasis on the Greek and Roman traditions. It is writing and reading intensive. 

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710 , ART Majors, ARTH Majors, ARTH Minors or instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 3615 - Pompeii: Roman Domestic Art and Architecture (CI/DHA)


    CI, DHA Communications Intensive, Depth Humanities and Creative Arts
    3 credits

    This course teaches ancient Roman art and architecture in the domestic context. Students learn about the everyday lives and environments of ordinary Romans, as evidenced in the archaeological remains of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Bay of Naples. 

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710  or instructor permission

    This listing includes updates which are effective beginning Summer 2021.
  
  • ARTH 3620 - Early Christian and Byzantine Art (DHA)


    DHA Depth Humanities and Creative Arts
    3 credits

    This course focuses on the art of the period between about 300-1000 CE in the Mediterranean and western Europe. Some prior knowledge of art history is advantageous.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710  or instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 3630 - Medieval Art (CI/DHA)


    CI, DHA Communications Intensive, Depth Humanities and Creative Arts
    3 credits

    Covers art and architecture in Europe between 450 and 1450, with an emphasis on cultural diversity and artistic variety. Study of the visual arts is complemented by readings in history and literature.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710 , ART Majors, ARTH Majors, ARTH Minors or instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 3640 - British Cinema of the 1960s (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    This course is an examination of films, directors, and actors in British film of the 1960s whose work embodies the shifting sensibilities of a new social order in which British cinema culture reflected a new vitality, dynamism, and confidence.

  
  • ARTH 3710 - Art, Culture and Crisis in Postwar Britain (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    Examination of visual culture in Britain during the years 1945-1960.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Instructor permission

    Repeatable for credit.


  
  • ARTH 3720 - Renaissance Art (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    This writing and reading intensive course takes a comparative approach to Northern and Italian art in the period 1300-1550.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2720 , ART Majors, ARTH Majors, ARTH Minors or instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 3730 - The Documentary (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    Examination of history of documentary filmmaking, along with multiple forms of the genre (i.e., newsreel, romantic, verite, propaganda, etc.).

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Instructor permission

    Repeatable for credit.
  
  • ARTH 3740 - Art of the Avant-Gardes: 1872-1945 (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    This course examines the role of the avant-garde in developing new forms of visual art and artistic engagement from 1872 to 1945.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2720 , ART Majors, ARTH Majors, ARTH Minors or instructor permission  

  
  • ARTH 3750 - High-Modernism to Post-Modernism: 1945-1989 (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    This course examines the aesthetic and theoretical shifts in global artistic productions, visual culture, and art criticism from 1945 to 1989.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2720 , ART Majors, ARTH Majors, ARTH Minors or instructor permission  

  
  • ARTH 3755 - Contemporary Art: 1989 to the present (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    This course focuses on the artistic production, visual culture, and theoretical development of the contemporary period, 1989 to the present, in a thematic investigation of the transition from modernism to postmodernism to contemporary.  

    Prerequisite/Restriction:
    • ARTH 2720  
    • ART Majors, ARTH Majors, ARTH Minors, or instructor permission


  
  • ARTH 3760 - American Art and Visual Culture (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    This course examines the development of art and visual culture from the Colonial Period to WWII.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2720 , ART Majors, ARTH Majors, ARTH Minors or instructor permission  

  
  • ARTH 3770 - American Apocalypse: Disaster and Dystopia in Hollywood Film (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    Examination of Hollywood films dealing with apocalypse scenarios through war, famine, disease, alien invasion, religious rapture, etc.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 3780 - 19th Century European Art (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    This course will explore nineteenth-century European art through a thematic approach, addressing the movements of Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Academicism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, and Symbolism.  We will address the artistic production of “the long nineteenth century,” roughly 1750-1914, through a variety of methodological approaches, specifically focusing on the way art is influenced by, as well as influential on, the society in which it is produced. 

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2720  

  
  • ARTH 3810 - Film Genres (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    This course engages with the history and nature of film genres. It examines specific genres in detail to determine how they are structured and what particular appeal they have for audiences. Students look at the emergence of sub-genres and more recent developments in the classificatory project that is genre film.

  
  • ARTH 3820 - The History of Photography


    3 credits

    This course explores the history of photography from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Particular emphasis is placed on photography’s intersection with social change and representations of reality.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Admission to a major in Art, Art History, or an Art History minors, or instructor permission 

  
  • ARTH 3840 - Race and Visual Culture (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    Examination of ways in which visual culture constructs and represents racial identities.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ART Majors, ARTH Majors, ARTH Minors or instructor permission 

  
  • ARTH 3850 - Foundations in Film Studies (CI/DHA)


    CI, DHA Communications Intensive, Depth Humanities and Creative Arts
    3 credits

    This course covers an overview of key histories, methodologies and concepts in film studies and investigates aesthetic, stylistic, political, and theoretical approaches to the study of cinema. Students explore Expressionism, the French New Wave, Neo-Realism and Third Cinema.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Art Majors, Art History Majors, or Art History Minors or instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 3910 - Introduction to Film Theory (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    Introductory survey of major theoretical and critical approaches to the study of film.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 4210 - Celtic Europe


    3 credits

    History of Celtic peoples in British Isles, Scandinavia, and continental Europe, from Neolithic times to the Norman Conquest in 1066. Computer intensive.

  
  • ARTH 4260 - Latin American Art (CI/DHA)


    CI, DHA Communications Intensive, Depth Humanities and Creative Arts
    3 credits

    This course teaches the modern and postmodern art of Latin America, and material production from the late 19th century to the present. Students also learn about Latin American culture in the context of the United States, regarded as Latina/o/x.

    Prerequisite/Restriction:

    This listing includes updates which are effective beginning Summer 2021.
  
  • ARTH 4310 - Common Threads: History of Fiber Arts (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    Looking at the traditions of North and South Euro-and Native America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacifica Islands and Africa, this course will introduce students to some of the many ways fiber has been used. 

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710  ARTH 2720   Art and Art History majors, or Art History minors only

    Cross-listed as: ARTH 6310  

  
  • ARTH 4410 - Art of Small Scale Cultures (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    Students will become familiar with a broad range of arts of Native North, Meso, Central and South America, Africa, and the South Pacific regions.
     

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710  ARTH 2720  ART Majors, ARTH Majors or ARTH Minors only

    Cross-listed as: ARTH 6410  

  
  • ARTH 4520 - The Visual Cultures of Empire (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    Examining a wide variety of visual formations of the last 200 years this course will investigate the multiple ways in which “empire” has been imagined and constituted in Western European visual culture since the early 19th century. This is not a social or political history of colonialism but an analysis of the visual articulations of empire as they are culturally and creatively expressed.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ART Majors, ARTH Majors, ARTH Minors or permission

  
  • ARTH 4630 - Curatorial Seminar – Rare Books and Manuscripts


    3 credits

    This course provides a wide-ranging introduction to the interdisciplinary field of book and manuscript studies, with an emphasis on the history of the book in the medieval and early modern eras. It is organized around the collaborative curation of an exhibition.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Consultation with the instructor is advised for those with no background in history, museum studies, literature, or art history.

    Cross-listed as: ARTH 6430  

  
  • ARTH 4710 - Feminist Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    This course examines contemporary feminist theory and practice in the arts from the beginning of the women’s movement in the 1960’s to the present. Course takes an in-depth look at feminist manifestos and political protests, organizations and art education programs, art and aesthetics, critiques of art history and visual culture, and impact of the movement.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ART Majors, ARTH Majors, ARTH Minors or instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 4725 - Contemporary Land, Earth, and Eco Art (CI)


    CI Communications Intensive
    3 credits

    This course examines the history of contemporary Land, Earth, and Ecological/Environmental Art from Earthworks created in the late 1960s and early 1970s to today’s Ecological and Environmental Art movement. 

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ART majors, ARTH majors, ARTH minors, or permission of instructor 

  
  • ARTH 4730 - Baroque and Rococo Art


    3 credits

    Development of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe from the late sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710  and ARTH 2720  or instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 4790 - Art History Seminar and Special Problems


    1-6 credits

    Capstone course for art history emphasis area. Focuses on special topics in the discipline of art history. Allows students to develop advanced research projects related to the topic of the course. Covers critical theory and methods of art history research and writing.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Completion of at least one art history course at the 3000 level or above; or instructor permission

    Repeatable for credit.
  
  • ARTH 4800 - Directed Reading and Research in Art History


    1-3 credits

    Directed reading, writing, and research in art history.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 4810 - Museum Internship


    1-3 credits

    Through this course, advanced art history students may arrange for credit in conjunction with a local museum. Supervisor at museum oversees student’s work. A faculty member in Art History oversees the written component, including portfolio, documentation, and research paper, depending on number of credits student is enrolled for.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Instructor permission

  
  • ARTH 4900 - Senior Capstone Research Seminar in Art History


    3 credits

    Current issues in art historical research and theory, emphasizing student-driven learning and original research. Topics may include the history of the discipline, ethical considerations, and methodologies.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: One 3000 or 4000 level Art History course

  
  • ARTH 4910 - Senior Thesis in Art History and Visual Studies


    3 credits

    An intensive, one-on-one research-based course for advanced students in art history intended to facilitate the writing of a senior thesis.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Instructor signature

  
  • ARTH 5730 - The Art Museum


    3 credits

    The history of museums and display practice has become a significant field in studies of contemporary art and art history. Topics covered include: cabinets of curiosity and historical origins, art museums and their publics, blockbusters, revisionism, architecture, museums, and memory.

  
  • ARTH 5740 - Art and Religion: Topics in Sacred Art


    3 credits

    Discussion-based course investigating relationships between religion and the arts. May focus on any period of history or region of the world, depending on scholarly interests of instructor.

    Cross-listed as: RELS 5740 .

  
  • ARTH 6270 - Graduate Native North American Art


    3 credits

    Through geographically and thematically oriented slide lectures, class discussions, online video, independent research, local event attendance and displays at NEHMA and the Anthropology Museum, the students will become familiar with the people, the lifestyles and the objects of material culture of several different geographical areas of Native North America. We will look at ancient traditions, how the arts changed after European contact and briefly, more contemporary art forms as well.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate Status

  
  • ARTH 6310 - Graduate Common Threads: History of Fiber Arts


    3 credits

    Looking at the traditions of North and South Euro-and Native America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacifica Islands and Africa, this course will introduce students to some of the many ways fiber has been used. 

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status

    Cross-listed as: ARTH 4310  

  
  • ARTH 6320 - Graduate Pre-Columbian Art


    3 credits

    Through thematically oriented slide lectures, class discussions, online video, independent research, local event attendance and displays at NEHMA and the Anthropology Museum, the students will become familiar with several different art forms from Native Meso-, Central and South America. While we will be looking primarily at the art and architecture popularly termed “Pre-Columbian”, I will also include some more contemporary forms of Latin American art.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate Status

  
  • ARTH 6340 - Graduate African Art


    3 credits

    Through geographically and thematically oriented Power Point based lectures, online video and DVD, class discussions, independent research, local event attendance and displays at NEHMA and the Anthropology Museum, the students will become familiar with a broad range of arts, primarily of West and Central Africa, as well as North, East and Southern Africa.  While we will look at a few instances of contemporary art, the course will concentrate primarily on how the arts were and are used in the daily life of the traditional small scale societies of these particular areas of Africa. The last set of lectures will be devoted to contemporary African and African-American Art.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate Status

  
  • ARTH 6410 - Graduate Art of Small Scale Cultures


    3 credits

    Students will become familiar with a broad range of arts of Native North, Meso, Central and South America, Africa, and the South Pacific regions.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status

    Cross-listed as: ARTH 4410  

  
  • ARTH 6430 - Curatorial Seminar – Rare Books and Manuscripts


    3 credits

    This course provides a wide-ranging introduction to the interdisciplinary field of book and manuscript studies, with an emphasis on the history of the book in the medieval and early modern eras. It is organized around the collaborative curation of an exhibition.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Consultation with the instructor is advised for those with no background in history, museum studies, literature, or art history.

    Cross-listed as: ARTH 4630  

  
  • ARTH 6500 - Graduate Art History Section


    3 credits

    A contract-based course for graduate students interested in studying upper-level art history to complement their degree program. Is particularly directed towards MFA students in the Department of Art and Design.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status

    Repeatable for credit


  
  • ARTH 6510 - Graduate Islamic Visual Cultures ca. 600-1500


    3 credits

    Graduate level study of Islamic art and visual culture from origins to the early modern period.

  
  • ARTH 6610 - Greek and Roman Art


    3 credits

    Origin and development of art and architecture of Crete, Mycenae, Greece, and the Roman world.

  
  • ARTH 6620 - Byzantine Art


    3 credits

    Focuses on the art and architecture of the Byzantine empire from late antiquity to the fifteenth century. In addition to including study of the visual arts, course incorporates readings in the history of religion and gender studies.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2710  (recommended)

  
  • ARTH 6630 - Graduate Medieval Art


    3 credits

    Graduate level study of medieval art and visual culture from 400-1500.

  
  • ARTH 6720 - Graduate Renaissance Art


    3 credits

    Development of European art and architecture from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status

  
  • ARTH 6730 - Graduate Baroque and Rococo Art


    3 credits

    Development of art and architecture in Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status

  
  • ARTH 6740 - Art of the Avant-Gardes: 1872-1945


    3 credits

    This course examines the role of the avant-garde in developing new forms of visual art and artistic engagement from 1872 to 1945.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: ARTH 2720  or instructor permission and graduate status

  
  • ARTH 6750 - High-Modernism to Post-Modernism: 1945-1989


    3 credits

    This course examines the aesthetic and theoretical shifts in global artistic productions, visual culture, and art criticism from 1945 to 1989.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status

  
  • ARTH 6755 - Contemporary Art: 1989 to the present


    3 credits

    This course focuses on the artistic production, visual culture, and theoretical development of the contemporary period, 1989 to the present, in a thematic investigation of the transition from modernism to postmodernism to contemporary.  

  
  • ARTH 6760 - American Art and Visual Culture


    3 credits

    This course examines the development of art and visual culture from the Colonial Period to WWII.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status

  
  • ARTH 6770 - Graduate Gender Issues in Art


    3 credits

    Discussion of major issues and debates regarding gender in the visual arts. Topics include: revising the canon, representing gender, and theories of gender and spectatorship. Readings are discussed and applied to visual works of art.

  
  • ARTH 6790 - Art History Seminar and Special Problems


    1-6 credits

    Focuses on special topics in the discipline of art history. Allows students to develop advanced research projects related to the topic of the course. Covers critical theory and methods of art history research and writing.

    Prerequisite/Restriction: Graduate status and instructor permission

    Repeatable for credit.
  
  • ARTH 6900 - Graduate Seminar: Issues in Contemporary Art


    3 credits

    Sessions devoted to select issues prevalent in contemporary art, including the body, the real, text, gender, display, and conceptualism. Requires intensive verbal and written participation.


Automotive Technology (USU Eastern)

  
  • AUTO 0010 - AUTO I Introduction to Automotive Technology


    1-180 contact hours

    Students will learn basic safety and shop practices, different automotive systems and how they work. They will learn proper vehicle care and be able to demonstrate proper oil change and tire repair techniques and preventative maintenance.

    Pass/Fail only
    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0020 - AUTO II Suspension/Alignment


    1-180 contact hours

    Students will learn the different steering and suspension systems and their proper parts and locations. They will learn how to diagnose and repair the different systems. Students will learn how to properly perform a front end and a four wheel alignment on the vehicles.

    Pass/Fail only
    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0021 - AUTO II Brakes


    1-180 contact hours

    Students will learn the basics of brake system operations, the difference between service and parking brakes, drum and disc brake systems, hydraulics, and ABS systems. Students will also be instructed in diagnosis and repair of problems and proper inspection techniques.

    Pass/Fail only
    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0030 - AUTO III Engine Performance


    1-180 contact hours

    Students will learn drive ability, diagnosis and repair. They will use scan tools, scopes and other equipment to work on tune-up, fuel systems, air induction, and emissions.

    Pass/Fail only
    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0031 - AUTO III Electrical


    1-180 contact hours

    Students will learn basic electricity schematics and symbols, batteries, charging and starting systems, multimeter use and maintenance, lighting and horn systems, and supplemental restraint systems.

    Pass/Fail only
    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0035 - AUTO IV Electrical Lab


    1-180 contact hours

    Shop laboratory where students do live work to demonstrate their knowledge and hands-on skills for electrical problems.

    Pass/Fail only
    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0040 - AUTO IV Heating and Air Conditioning


    1-180 contact hours

    Students will learn the different parts and their functions of the heating and air conditioning systems. They will learn the proper technique for discharging and recharging the air conditioning system.

    Pass/Fail only
    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0045 - AUTO V Engine Performance Lab


    1-180 contact hours

    Shop laboratory where students do live work to demonstrate their knowledge and hands-on skills for engine performance problems.

    Pass/Fail only
    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0050 - Vehicle Maintenance


    1-180 contact hours

    The purpose of this class is to give students a basic understanding of the operation of an automobile.  Whether or not they currently own or drive a car, the time will come when they will.  If the student learns some basic things about a car it can save them thousands of dollars in their lifetime and maybe at some specific time when they look into purchasing or repairing a car.

    Pass/Fail only
  
  • AUTO 0099 - ASE Test Prep


    3 contact hours

    This course prepares technicians for the ASE certification exams. Different subject areas will be covered each week. Students may enroll for the entire course or just for the areas needed.

    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0100 - Basic Auto for Beginners


    21 contact hours

    This course begins from under-the-hood checks to changing tires and minor repairs.  It is geared towards those who have no experience or knowledge regarding the upkeep and maintenance.

    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0110 - Basic Alignment


    12 contact hours

    This course is designed for the technician or service writer who is new to car and light truck alignments or has been working in the industry for up to one year.

    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0111 - Alignment Diagnostics


    16 contact hours

    This course is designed for an experienced alignment technician. Instruction covers in-depth equipment operation including advanced diagnostic procedures and steering and suspension system related problems. Specialized OEM adjustment schemes and other alignment related diagnostic procedures are also covered.

    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0121 - Engine Performance I


    18 contact hours

    Tune-up from points to computerized systems. Using meters and scan tools for diagnosis. Also, emissions and fuel delivery systems.

    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0122 - Engine Performance II


    21 contact hours

    This course takes all the elements of AUTO 0121  to a more advanced level.

    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0123 - Engine Rebuild


    36 contact hours

    This course includes some engine theory, as well as all aspects of engine tear-down, cleaning, boring, components servicing, and rebuilding.

    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0130 - Basic Air Conditioning


    18 contact hours

    This course includes environmental issues, different refrigerants, basic systems and retrofitting older systems over to R134A.

    Campus: USU Eastern only



  
  • AUTO 0140 - Basic Electrical


    21 contact hours

    Students will learn battery testing, refilling and fitting, headlight adjustment, ignition timing check, and fan belt adjustment. Basic starting and changing system check. Electrical measurements values and units, circuits, conductors and connectors, basic multimeter use. Use of Bosch Test and Diagnostic equipment.

    Campus: USU Eastern only



 

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