Art and Music History Course Offerings

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Course	Title	Day	Time	Instructor	Room	Syllabus	Description
HOA 105 M001	Art & Ideas I	TTH	12:30 PM-1:25 PM	Cornelison, Sally			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from the renaissance through the present day that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, societal values, technology, and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M002	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	8:25 AM-9:20 AM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M003	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	9:30 AM-10:25 AM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M004	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	10:35 AM-11:30 AM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M005	Art & Ideas I discussion	F	9:30 AM-10:25 AM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M006	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	11:40 AM-12:35 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M007	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	12:45 PM-1:40 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M008	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	2:15 PM-3:10 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M009	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	3:45 PM-4:40 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M010	Art & Ideas I discussion	F	10:35 AM-11:30 AM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M011	Art & Ideas I discussion	F	11:40 AM-12:35 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M012	Art & Ideas I discussion	F	12:45 PM-1:40 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M013	Art & Ideas I discussion	F	2:15 PM-3:10 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOM 125 M001	Introductory Music Theory I	TTH	9:30 AM-10:50 AM	Dubaniewicz			VPA course crosslisted with MTC 125, For Students With Little or No Music Theory Background. Elementary note reading, meter, intervals; diatonic harmony including key signatures, major & minor scales, triads, 7th chords and accompanying chord symbols. For non-music majors only.
HOM 125 M002	Introductory Music Theory I	TTH	12:30 PM-1:50 PM	Dubaniewicz			VPA course crosslisted with MTC 125, For Students With Little or No Music Theory Background. Elementary note reading, meter, intervals; diatonic harmony including key signatures, major & minor scales, triads, 7th chords and accompanying chord symbols. For non-music majors only.
HOM 165 M001	Understanding Music I	MW	2:15 PM-3:35 PM	Wang, Serena			Introduction to the art of music. Development of musical styles in the West from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Assumes no prior musical knowledge.
HOM 165 M002	Understanding Music I	MW	3:45 PM-5:05 PM	Wang, Serena			Introduction to the art of music. Development of musical styles in the West from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Assumes no prior musical knowledge.
HOM 165 M003	Understanding Music I	TTH	12:30 PM-1:50 PM	Wang, Serena			Introduction to the art of music. Development of musical styles in the West from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Assumes no prior musical knowledge.
HOM 172 M001	American Popular Music	TTH	2:00 PM-3:20 PM	Cateforis, Theo			The history of American popular music from the 19th century to more recent developments.
HOA 200 M001	ST: Arts of Native America	TTH	2:00 PM-3:20 PM	Scott, Sascha			Crosslisted w/ NAT 200. This course provides a survey of Native visual and material culture from the ancient world to the present. We will study a wide range of artists and objects, including pictographs, pottery, textiles, paintings, carvings, sculpture, photography, land-based art, architecture, and performance art. We will consider the complex cultural contexts in which these objects were created. We will think about how Native art speak to issues of cultural continuity, change, exchange, and resistance. We will also critically examine a number of concepts, including art, cultural identity, authenticity, indigeneity, tradition, transculturation, epistemology, preservation, visual sovereignty, and survivance.
HOM 267 M001	European Music before 1800	TTH	11:00 AM-12:20 PM	Kaplan, Kyle			Crosslisted w/ MHL 267. European music before 1800 in its cultural and philosophical contexts. Extensive listening. Analytical focus on selected composers and works. Presupposes familiarity with musical notation, terms, and contexts.
HOA 300 M001	ST: Art After the Second World War	TTH	12:30 PM-1:50 PM	Johnson, Sam			In the years before the second World War, avant-garde artists in Europe and around the globe had optimistically participated in transformative projects to remake the whole of human existence in a suitably modern guise. But the horrors of the war, culminating in Nazi concentration camps and American nuclear aggression, put the virtues of modernity in question. How could cultural activities go on in the wake of such traumas? Could artistic practice avoid Theodor Adorno’s conclusion that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric”? This class focuses on the imbrication of the visual arts in Cold-War cultural politics and decolonial struggles around the world. Students will compare responses in to American cultural and political hegemony in Europe and Japan, resistance to European colonialism in Africa and Latin America, and non-conformism in the mass societies of the U.S. and USSR. Artistic practices will include painting and performance; sculpture and object-based installation; photography and appropriation.
HOA 300 M002	ST: Photography and Empire	TTH	11:00 AM-12:20 PM	Innes, Margaret			Histories of photography tend to account for the medium’s development in technological and aesthetic terms. By contrast, recent critical scholarship has urged us to address photography’s entanglement with histories of nation-building, conquest, and exploitation. This course will explore photography’s role in the consolidation of empire (broadly construed), from nineteenth-century colonial visual cultures to the image networks of capitalist globalization. How has photography served to naturalize, legitimize, critique, and contest imperialist expansion and the erasure of indigenous sovereignties? What role does it play in the construction of social categories of citizenship, race, gender, and class? And what strategies of assimilation and resistance does it permit? Drawing insight from case studies spanning vernacular and art historical practices, we will consider these questions from a global perspective.
HOA 302 M001	Greek Art and Architecture	TTH	11:00 AM-12:20 PM	Mateo, Matilde			Works of Greek art and architecture are examined in their historical, social, and cultural contexts, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period.
HOM 313 M001	Film Music	TTH	2:00 PM-3:20 PM	Peñate, Cary			Survey of film music, from the era of silent film to the present day.
HOM 314 M001	Music Videos from MTV to Today	MW	2:15 PM-3:35 PM	Kaplan, Kyle			A critical and historical examination of music videos from the 1980s to today. Shared Competencies Critical and Creative Thinking; Communication Skills
HOM 386 M001	Sounds of the Silk Road	TTH	3:30 PM-4:50 PM	Wang, Serena			Crosslisted w/ MES 386, SAS 386 The soundscapes of the overland Silk Road as a window into history, commerce, migration, social life, values, faith, tolerance and conflict. Case studies from Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Central Asia, and Southwest Asia musics.
HOM 393 M001`	Music and Sports	TTH	11:00 AM-12:20 PM	Cateforis, Theo			A consideration of the strong relationships between music and sports in culture and society. Repeatable
HOA 396 M001	Art & Architecture of India	MW	12:45 PM-2:05 PM	Ray, Romita			Crosslisted w/ ARC 331, SAS 396. Art and architecture of the Indian subcontinent from the Indus Valley Civilization to the present.
HOA 410 M001	Art and Ideology in Medieval Spain	TTH	3:30 PM-4:50 PM	Mateo, Matilde			Examines works of art and architecture from Medieval Spain, within their multicultural Christian/Islamic/Jewish context. Emphasizing their ideological value as vehicles for identity, authority, and spiritual ideals.
HOA 445 M001	Baroque Art in Southern Europe	MW	12:45 AM-2:05 PM	Franits, Wayne			Prereq: HOA 106. Painting and sculpture in Italy and Spain during the 17th century; Caravaggio, the Carracci, Bernini, Poussin, Lorrain, and Velázquez.
HOA 454 M001	The Architecture of Revolutions	MW	5:15 PM-6:35 PM	Bédard, Jean-François			Crosslisted w/ ARC 334, ARC 634. Survey of European architectural theory and practice from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. Discussion and analysis of major architects, buildings, and architectural treatises, principally from France, England, and Germany. Additional work required of graduate students.
HOA 458 M001	Art of Romanticism	MW	3:45 PM-5:05 PM	Ray, Romita			Prereq: HOA 106. Meets w/ HOA 600. Revival movements, landscape painting, romanticism, and realism. Developments from David to Courbet.
HOM 473 M002	Women, Rap, Hip-Hop Feminism	W	9:30 AM-12:15 PM	Pough, Gwendolyn			Crosslisted w/ WGS 473, WGS 673. Links between feminism, rap music and hip-hop culture. We explore the work of actual women in hip-hop, images of women, and feminist critiques of the music and the culture. Additional work required of graduate students.
HOM 494 M001	Music and Gender	MW	12:45 PM-2:05 PM	Kaplan, Kyle			The impact of gender ideology and behavior on the performing arts and the role of performance in maintaining and subverting gender identities and relations.
HOA 498 M001	Art History Senior Seminar	TTH	3:30 PM-4:50 PM	Johnson, Sam			Research, writing, and career exploration for senior art history majors. Students develop, edit, and revise texts spanning professional practices in art history.
HOA 600 M001	ST: The Art of Romanticism	MW	3:45 PM-5:05 PM	Ray, Romita			Meets w/ HOA 458. Romanticism was distinguished by a deep desire for freedom—freedom of thought, political freedom, and freedom of feeling, action, worship, speech, taste, and many other freedoms. For the French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), “Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subjects nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling.” Romanticism in art cannot be identified by a single style, technique, or aesthetic approach. Instead, it is characterized by an emotional intensity, and in some cases, by a visionary, dream-like quality—a reaction against the clear objectives of the Enlightenment. Chronologically, Romanticism extends from about 1800 to 1850, and is a function of the radical political and social changes in Europe. This was an era when patriotism and imperialism went hand in hand. Napoleon dominated European history in the first decade of the 19th century, leading French armies to victory until he controlled most of Europe. Revolution was everywhere. The British Empire was at its height, an early precursor to what we know today as globalization. From Lord Byron and Johann Goethe to Frédéric Chopin and Richard Wagner, an explosion of activity took place among writers and musicians. Swept up in this exciting yet at times, challenging, tide of change, artists experimented with new approaches to art. We will look closely at how Romanticism evolved in the hands of key artists like Eugène Delacroix, Francisco de Goya, Caspar David Friedrich, and J. M. W. Turner, among many others. We will think about art, aesthetics, politics, and the natural environment--themes we will explore during fieldtrips to the Special Collections Research Center in Bird Library and the Syracuse University Art Museum.
HOA 600 M003	ST: Art and Ideology in Medieval Spain	TTH	3:30 PM-4:50 PM	Mateo, Matilde			Meets w/HOA 410. This course Examines works of art and architecture from Medieval Spain, within their multicultural Christian/Islamic/Jewish context. Emphasizing their ideological value as vehicles for identity, authority, and spiritual ideals.
HOA 620 M002	Seminar in Italian Renaissance Art: Art and Ritual in Renaissance Italy	W	12:45 PM-3:30 PM	Cornelison, Sally			Pilgrimages, relic and image processions and the popular devotions they elicited, political ceremonies, ritual entries of rulers, visiting dignitaries, and high-ranking ecclesiastics, the celebration of saints' canonizations and feast days, and the rituals associated with birth, marriage, and death were all important aspects of Renaissance visual and performative culture. This course will explore the history of art, architecture, and ritual performance in Italy from c. 1300 to 1650. It will examine a wide variety of objects and images such as relics and reliquaries, painted processional banners, miraculous images, birth trays, and commemorative paintings, as well as the urban and domestic settings in which rituals took place and ritual objects were displayed.
HOA 655 M001	Graduate Research & Writing	T	9:30 AM-12:15 PM	Scott, Sascha			This proseminar teaches graduate students in art history the research methods and scholarly writing skills required to be successful M.A. candidates and to become competitive professionals in arthistory and related fields. To this end, this course provides extensive training to develop students’ skills in the following three areas: writing, research, and presentation. We will hone these skills by curating an art exhibition for the Syracuse University Art Museum.
HOA 656 M001	Literature of Art Criticism	T	3:30 PM-6:15 PM	Innes, Margaret			This course prepares graduate students for advanced studies in history of the visual arts by examining some major contributions to the rigorous study visual artifacts. Since the practice of writing about art’s history is older than the academic discipline of art history, the literature of art criticism includes texts from a variety of humanistic studies, including history, literature, philosophical aesthetics, psychology, and linguistics, all of which have influenced the discipline at various times. In addition to its focus on the fundamental art historical concepts of style and iconography, this course reviews the debates in contemporary scholarship that are sometimes grouped under the heading of postmodernism (feminist, structuralist and post-structuralist, and post-colonial approaches) or visual culture studies. Course readings will familiarize students with some central theoretical problems in the interpretation of artworks and their ramifications in the field.