Off-campus Programs

This course will examine Italian art and architecture from the early 14th to mid 16th Centuries in Rome, Venice, and Florence. The content and context of the artwork will be the primary focus, along with discussions of major innovations in style and technique. Pivotal artists covered will be Giotto, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Donatello, the Bellini, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Bramante, Raphael, Titian, Palladio, and the Mannerists, as well as others, in order to develop a general understanding of the changes over the centuries and regions. Prerequisites: ARTH 110, ENGL 123.  Contact Professor Michael Morford for more information.

This course examines cities, the theaters in which history performs. The processes of building and rebuilding leave behind countless layers of evidence. Reading urban form is a key to understanding the real meaning of places. This course offers a hands-on exploration of transformations and continuities in urban design over two millennia from some of the richest examples in the world. Prerequisites: ARTH 110, ENGL 123.  Contact Professor Christian Sottile for more information.

This course offers the unique photographic opportunity and challenge of finding intimacy and familiarity in the foreign portrait and the foreign landscape. Slide lectures explore important aspects of traveling with a camera in a foreign country and investigate how other photographers have faced this challenge. Assignments focus on urban and rural landscapes and populations. Students may work in black-and-white and/or color and may use large- or small-format cameras. Prerequisite: PHOT 113.  Contact Dean Steve Bliss for more information.