Our Courses

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 1050

First-Year Seminar: Topics in Art History: Islamic Art

Instructors: Mihan

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 1061

First Year Seminar: Pleasure and Pain: European Fashion as (Art) History

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 1071

First-Year Seminar: Whose Art Is It Anyway?: St. Louis Art Museums and Their Audiences

Instructors: Kroeber

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 1075

First-Year Seminar: What's New? Contemporary Art in St. Louis and Beyond

Instructors: Kroeber

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 1095

First-Year Seminar: Art in the Golden Age of Venice

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 111

Introduction to Asian Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 113

History of Western Art, Architecture & Design

Instructors: Lepek

Instructors: Childs, Stefaniak

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 1171

First Year Seminar: Beethoven and Van Gogh: Myths of Creativity, Genius and Madness

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 118

Introduction to Illuminated Manuscripts

Instructors: Maciak, Kirkwood

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 1250

St. Louis and the Documentary Image

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 144

FYS: Collecting Art/Excluding People: The Contradictions of Chinese Art in U.S. Museums

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 146

First Year Seminar: Beijing and the Forbidden City

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 2009

World Archaeology

Instructors: Olson

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 215

Introduction to Modern Art, Architecture and Design

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 2153

Topics in African American Studies: Afro-Latin America on Camera

Instructors: Mundell

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 220

Introduction to Film Studies

Instructors: Fleury

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 232

Myths and Monuments of Antiquity

Instructors: Weiss

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 236

Cities and Towns of the Ancient World

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 238

Gothic Art: Patronage, Piety, and Power

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 2396

The "Orient": Europe and Islamic Art from 1851 to Today

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 2397

Art, Agency, and the Arab World: From Decolonization to the War on Terror

Instructors: Messbarger

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 2471

First-Year Seminar: Italy's Invention of the Modern Museum

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 2510

Africa's Struggle for its Art: Debating Critical Topics in Museology, Art History, and Culture

Instructors: Miller, Swan

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 280

Picturing Race

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 290

Latinx Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 299

Internship in the Art Community

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3001

Writing Intensive Topics

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 320

Independent Study

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3211

Art in the Egypt of the Pharaohs

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3212

Art & Archaeology of Cleopatra's Egypt

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 326

Archaeology of Roman Slavery

Instructors: Weiss

Instructors: Dingwall

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3261

Design within Context: Scroll to Screen

Instructors: Dingwall

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3321

African American Design History

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3330

Greek and Roman Painting

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 334

Roman Art and Archaeology

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3415

Early Chinese Art: From Human Sacrifice to the Silk Road

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3422

Art of the Islamic World

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3426

Modern & Contemporary Chinese Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3442

Chinese Painting, Then and Now

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3482

The Floating World of Japanese Prints

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3533

Pilgrimage and the Medieval City

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3553

Party Like It's 1499: Court Culture and Spectacle in the Italian Renaissance

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 361

Art of the Early Italian Renaissance

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3613

Women of the Renaissance: Artists, Patrons, and Subjects

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 362

High Renaissance Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3625

Global Renaissance

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3627

By Sea and Sand: Modern Art in the Mediterranean

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3634

Pleasure and Pain: European Fashion as (Art) History

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3654

Baroque Art: Materiality and Experience

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3655

The Baroque: Art in an Age of Crisis

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3681

Rembrandt's Amsterdam: Piety, Profit, Prostitution

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3682

Mirrors of Nature, Dreams of Art: Northern Renaissance Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3683

Global Baroque: Art and World-Making

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3684

Picturing Race in the Early Modern World

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 372

American Art to 1970

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3741

From Ancient Tichitt to Zimbabwe: The Archaeology and Arts of the Urban Past in Africa

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3763

Bodymorph: Fantasy Worlds of American Visual Culture, Animation, and Product Design

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3783

The Modernist Project: Art in Europe and the United States, 1905-1980

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3785

Photography in America

Instructors: Sánchez Prado

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3810

Mexican Visual Culture

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3815

Rococo to Revolution: Art in Eighteenth-Century Europe

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3830

Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Spectacular Blackness, Race, Gender, and Visual Cult

Instructors: Wanzo

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3838

Modern Art in Fin-de-Siecle Europe, 1880-1907

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3874

The Modern and Contemporary Art Market, 1863 - Present

Instructors: Read

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3875

Rejecting Reason: Dada and Surrealism in Europe and the United States

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 388

Contemporary Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3892

Modern Sculpture: Canova to Koons

Credits: 3 | Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3961

Art & Ecology

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3973

New Media, New Technologies

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4000

Topics in Art History and Archaeology

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4002

The Decorative Aesthetic in Modernism, 1860-1960

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4013

The Digital Art Historian

Instructors: Whitlow

Credits: 2 | Frequency: None

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4230

The Reception of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman World

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4235

Rome in Egypt: The Archaeology of an Oasis City

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4250

The Archaeology of Christian Monasticism

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 429

Art and Death in Ancient Rome

Instructors: Wallace, Jones

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4395

Rome: The First 2,000 Years

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 444

The Forbidden City

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4494

East, Meet West: Asia Encounters Europe

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4496

Porcelain and Lacquer Abroad: Europe Encounters Asia

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4616

Lasting Impressions: Early Modern Print Culture

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4624

Michelangelo

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4625

Venice

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4629

Caravaggio: Master and Murderer

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4652

Worldly Goods: Early Modern Art, Trade, Knowledge, Possession

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4674

Revisiting the Dutch Golden Age: Amsterdam as and at the Center of the Early Modern World

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4675

Picturing Race in the Early Modern World

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4677

Early Modern Art, Science, Collecting

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4678

Bosch and Bruegel

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4721

Hydrogen Jukebox: American Art and Culture, 1945-1960

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4745

Cahokia to Contemporary: Native American Arts, Past(s) and Future

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4746

California Dreamin': Los Angeles Culture and the Making of the 20th Century

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 475

The City in American Arts and Popular Culture

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4770

Native and Cosmopolitan Modernisms: American and European Art Between the Two World Wars

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4774

The Age of Gatsby: American Art and Culture from World War I to the Great Crash

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4776

The Arts of Cultural Democracy: America in the 1930s

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4860

Van Gogh: Creativity, Mythology, and Commodity

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4861

Gauguin Then and Now: Art, Myth, and Controversy

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4864

Exoticism and Primitivism in Modern Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4867

The Impressionist Landscape: Style, Place and Global Legacies 1870-1920

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4877

Critical Studies in Portraiture, Ancient to Contemporary

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4900

Independent Study and Research

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4914

Beyond Limits: Transgression, Controversy, and Censorship in Modern Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4918

Modern War in Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4924

1968 and its Legacy

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4930

Picturing the Anthropocene: Landscape, Land Art, and Eco Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4977

Mapping Art, Race, & Community in the US-Mexico Borderlands

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 499

Honors Art History and Archaeology

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 500

Independent Study

Credits: Variable | Frequency: Every Semester

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5000

Topics in Art History: Rethinking Matisse

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5001

Writing Intensive Topics

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5013

The Digital Art Historian

Instructors: Whitlow

Credits: 2 | Frequency: None

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 505

Graduate Internship in the St. Louis Art Community

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 510

Graduate Seminar: Methods in Art History

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 513

The Digital Art Historian

Instructors: Whitlow

Credits: 1 | Frequency: None

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5211

Art in the Egypt of the Pharaohs

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5212

Art and Archaeology of Cleopatra's Egypt

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5230

The Reception of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman World

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5235

Rome in Egypt: The Archaeology of an Oasis City

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 526

Archaeology of Roman Slavery

Instructors: Weiss

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5292

Art and Death in Ancient Rome

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5330

Greek and Roman Painting

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 534

Roman Art and Archaeology

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5361

Art of Early Italian Renaissance

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5415

Early Chinese Art: From Human Sacrifice to the Silk Road

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5422

Art of the Islamic World

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5426

Modern & Contemporary Chinese Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5442

Chinese Painting, Then and Now

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5444

The Forbidden City

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5482

Topics in Japanese Prints: The Floating World of Japanese Prints

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5533

Pilgrimage and the Medieval City

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5616

Lasting Impressions: Early Modern Print Culture

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5620

Venice

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5624

Michelangelo

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5627

By Sea and Sand: Modern Art in the Mediterranean

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5629

Caravaggio: Master and Murderer

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5634

Pleasure and Pain: European Fashion as (Art) History

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5652

Worldly Goods: Early Modern Art, Trade, Knowledge, Possession

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5654

Baroque Art: Materiality and Experience

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5655

The Baroque: Art in an Age of Crisis

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5678

Bosch and Bruegel

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5681

Rembrandt's Amsterdam

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5682

Mirrors of Nature, Dreams of Art: Northern Renaissance Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5683

Global Baroque: Art and World-Making

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5684

Picturing Race in the Early Modern World

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5720

Hydrogen Jukebox: American Art and Culture, 1945-1960

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5722

US Arts and Visual Culture, 1890-1980

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5745

Cahokia to Contemporary: Native American Arts, Past(s) and Future

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5746

California Dreamin': Los Angeles Culture and the Making of the 20th Century

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5763

Bodymorph: Fantasy Worlds of American Visual Culture, Animation, and Product Design

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5783

The Modernist Project: Art in Europe and the United States, 1905-1980

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5785

Photography in America

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5815

Rococo to Revolution: Art in Eighteenth-Century Europe

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5838

Modern Art in Fin-de-Siecle Europe, 1880-1907

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 585

Master's Examination Preparation

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5860

Van Gogh: Creativity, Mythology, and Modern Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5875

Rejecting Reason: Dada and Surrealism in Europe and the United States

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 588

Contemporary Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5892

Modern Sculpture

Credits: 3 | Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 590

Master's Research Instruction

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5914

Beyond Limits: Transgression, Controversy, and Censorship in Modern Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5918

Modern War in Art

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 595

Qualifying Papers for the MA degree

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5961

Art & Ecology

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5973

New Media, New Technologies

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 5977

Mapping Art, Race, & Community in the US-Mexico Borderlands

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 650

PhD Comprehensive Exam Preparation

L01 ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 670

Dissertation Prospectus