ARTHIST courses at Stanford

96 ARTHIST courses in Stanford’s catalog, with ratings and hours per week from real student evaluations.

• ARTHIST 1A: What is Art: Introduction to Early Global Art and Architecture (CLASSICS 56)3-5 units · 4.4/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 1B: How to Look at Art and Why: An Introduction to the History of Western Painting5 units · 4.4/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 2B: Introduction to Islamic Art (ISLAMST 149C)4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 14Q: Thinking with Leonardo da Vinci: Creativity and Invention in the Renaissance (HISTORY 14Q, ITALIAN 14Q)3 units
• ARTHIST 20Q: War and Art3 units
• ARTHIST 80N: Looking into Portraits: Identities in Question3 units
• ARTHIST 97: Curatorial Internship (ARCHLGY 97A, ARCHLGY 297A)1-5 units
• ARTHIST 98: Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE 100, EDUC 166C, ENGLISH 172D, FILMEDIA 98, PSYCH 155, SOC 146, TAPS 165)5 units
• ARTHIST 101: Introduction to Greek Art I: The Archaic Period (CLASSICS 161)4 units · 4.8/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 102: Introduction to Greek Art II: From the Parthenon to Scopas (CLASSICS 162)4 units · 4.8/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 105N: Designing How We Live: Why Architecture is More Than Just Building3 units
• ARTHIST 106: Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E. (ARTHIST 306, CLASSICS 171)3-5 units
• ARTHIST 111N: Art Worlds: Museum, Studio, Gallery, Archive3 units
• ARTHIST 116: The American Civil War: A Ghost Story (AMSTUD 116A)4 units · 4.7/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 119: Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art (ARTHIST 319, FRENCH 149, FRENCH 349, ITALIAN 149, ITALIAN 349)3-5 units · 4.7/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 121N: Islam and Water3 units
• ARTHIST 128: Modern Africa: Art and Decolonization (AFRICAAM 128C, ARTHIST 328)3-5 units · 4.5/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 133: Introduction to Global Modern Art (ARTHIST 333)3-5 units · 4.5/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 133L: Experiencing Campus Architecture (CEE 33L)2 units · 4.5/5 rating · 4 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 134: Introduction to Early Andean Visual Culture: Interspecies Value and More-than-Human Presence (ARCHLGY 54, NATIVEAM 134A)5 units · 4.7/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 139: East Asian Buddhist Painting: Visions and Practices (ARTHIST 339, CHINA 139, CHINA 339, EASTASN 339A)4 units · 4.3/5 rating · 14 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 140: An Architectural Imagination (FILMEDIA 140)4 units
• ARTHIST 142: Architecture Since 1900 (CEE 32G)4 units
• ARTHIST 148C: The Life and Legends of Cleopatra VII (AFRICAAM 48C, CLASSICS 48, FEMGEN 48)4 units
• ARTHIST 152: The American West (AMSTUD 124A, ENGLISH 124, HISTORY 151, POLISCI 124A)5 units · 4.3/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 163: Queer America: Art, Photography, and Politics (AMSTUD 163A, AMSTUD 363, ARTHIST 363, FEMGEN 163, FEMGEN 363)5 units · 3.9/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 164: History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinemas Around the World (ARTHIST 364, CSRE 102C, CSRE 302C, FEMGEN 100C, FEMGEN 300C, FILMEDIA 100C, FILMEDIA 300C, GLOBAL 193, GLOBAL 390, TAPS 100C, TAPS 300C)3-5 units · 4.6/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 168A: AI 360: What's Critical to Know about AI (AFRICAAM 106C, AMSTUD 106B, CSRE 106A, ENGLISH 106A, SYMSYS 168A)5 units · 4.4/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 186B: Asian American Art (AMSTUD 186D, ARTHIST 386B, ASNAMST 186B)4 units · 4.2/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 188B: From Shanghai Modern to Global Contemporary: Frontiers of Modern Chinese Art (ARTHIST 388B, CHINA 188B, CHINA 388B, EASTASN 388B)4 units · 4.3/5 rating · 33 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 199: Close Cinematic Analysis: Poetic Cinema (ASNAMST 108, FEMGEN 104, FILMEDIA 101, FILMEDIA 301, TAPS 101F)3-5 units · 4.4/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 201A: Soren Kierkegaard and the Visual Arts (ARTHIST 401A)5 units · 4.6/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 203: Artists, Athletes, Courtesans and Crooks (CLASSICS 163)5 units · 4.6/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 204: Dialogues with the Dead (CLASSICS 127)5 units · 4.6/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 208: Hagia Sophia (ARTHIST 408, CLASSICS 173, CLASSICS 273)3-5 units · 4.5/5 rating · 15 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 214A: Love's Reach: A Visual and Poetic History (ARTHIST 414A, COMPLIT 214A, COMPLIT 318)5 units
• ARTHIST 217B: Design Theory (ARTHIST 417B)4-5 units · 4.4/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 218A: Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy (ARTHIST 418A, HISTORY 237B, HISTORY 337B, ITALIAN 237, ITALIAN 337)3-5 units · 4.6/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 226: Field Works: Contemporary Chinese Landscape Arts across Cultures (ARTHIST 426, CHINA 226, CHINA 426, EASTASN 326A)5 units · 4.2/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 231A: Otherized and Organized: The Politicization of Indigeneity in Colonial Latin America (ARTHIST 431A, NATIVEAM 231A)5 units
• ARTHIST 232: Rome: From Pilgrimage to the Grand Tour (ARTHIST 432D, HISTORY 232D, HISTORY 332D, HISTORY 432D, ITALIAN 232D, ITALIAN 332D)4-5 units · 4.4/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 255A: Aura, AI, and Sports (AFRICAAM 155, ENGLISH 155A, TAPS 155A)5 units
• ARTHIST 257: Making Art History: Black Mountain College (ARTHIST 457A, ARTSINST 257)5 units
• ARTHIST 259A: The Mongol Empire (ARTHIST 459A, HISTORY 289A, HISTORY 389A)5 units
• ARTHIST 265A: Word and Image (ARTHIST 465A, COMPLIT 225, ITALIAN 265, ITALIAN 365)3-5 units
• ARTHIST 267A: The Avant Garde (ARTHIST 467A, TAPS 167H, TAPS 267)4 units
• ARTHIST 273: What is Contemporary Art?5 units
• ARTHIST 275: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde (ARTHIST 475A, FILMEDIA 275, FILMEDIA 475, REES 275A)5 units
• ARTHIST 278C: From Aksum to Athens: African Antiquity (AFRICAAM 278C, CLASSICS 278, CLASSICS 378A)5 units · 4.4/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 284B: Introduction to Museum Practice (ANTHRO 134D, ARCHLGY 134, ARCHLGY 234)5 units · 4.7/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 288: Putting It Together: The Art of Curating (AMSTUD 288, ARTHIST 488A)3-5 units · 3.6/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 290: Curricular Practical Training1-3 units
• ARTHIST 294: Writing and the Visual: The Art of Art Writing5 units · 4.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 295: Visual Arts Internship1-5 units
• ARTHIST 296: Junior Seminar: Methods & Historiography of Art History5 units · 4.4/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 297: Honors Thesis Writing1-7 units
• ARTHIST 298: Individual Work: Art History1-5 units
• ARTHIST 306: Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E. (ARTHIST 106, CLASSICS 171)3-5 units
• ARTHIST 313: Performance and Performativity (ENGLISH 313, FEMGEN 313, TAPS 313)3-5 units · 4.5/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 319: Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art (ARTHIST 119, FRENCH 149, FRENCH 349, ITALIAN 149, ITALIAN 349)3-5 units · 4.7/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 328: Modern Africa: Art and Decolonization (AFRICAAM 128C, ARTHIST 128)3-5 units · 4.5/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 333: Introduction to Global Modern Art (ARTHIST 133)3-5 units · 4.5/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 339: East Asian Buddhist Painting: Visions and Practices (ARTHIST 139, CHINA 139, CHINA 339, EASTASN 339A)4 units · 4.3/5 rating · 14 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 363: Queer America: Art, Photography, and Politics (AMSTUD 163A, AMSTUD 363, ARTHIST 163, FEMGEN 163, FEMGEN 363)5 units · 3.9/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 364: History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinemas Around the World (ARTHIST 164, CSRE 102C, CSRE 302C, FEMGEN 100C, FEMGEN 300C, FILMEDIA 100C, FILMEDIA 300C, GLOBAL 193, GLOBAL 390, TAPS 100C, TAPS 300C)3-5 units · 4.6/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 366: Blackness/Gender/Sexuality & Dis-ease: HIV/AIDS Art History (ARTHIST 466A, CSRE 366A, FEMGEN 466A)5 units
• ARTHIST 388B: From Shanghai Modern to Global Contemporary: Frontiers of Modern Chinese Art (ARTHIST 188B, CHINA 188B, CHINA 388B, EASTASN 388B)4 units · 4.3/5 rating · 33 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 401A: Soren Kierkegaard and the Visual Arts (ARTHIST 201A)5 units · 4.6/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 403: Global Arts of Guinea, West Africa4-5 units
• ARTHIST 405A: Graduate Pedagogy2 units · 4.4/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 408: Hagia Sophia (ARTHIST 208, CLASSICS 173, CLASSICS 273)3-5 units · 4.5/5 rating · 15 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 414A: Love's Reach: A Visual and Poetic History (ARTHIST 214A, COMPLIT 214A, COMPLIT 318)5 units
• ARTHIST 417B: Design Theory (ARTHIST 217B)4-5 units · 4.4/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 418A: Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy (ARTHIST 218A, HISTORY 237B, HISTORY 337B, ITALIAN 237, ITALIAN 337)3-5 units · 4.6/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 426: Field Works: Contemporary Chinese Landscape Arts across Cultures (ARTHIST 226, CHINA 226, CHINA 426, EASTASN 326A)5 units · 4.2/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 429: Magic5 units
• ARTHIST 431A: Otherized and Organized: The Politicization of Indigeneity in Colonial Latin America (ARTHIST 231A, NATIVEAM 231A)5 units
• ARTHIST 432D: Rome: From Pilgrimage to the Grand Tour (ARTHIST 232, HISTORY 232D, HISTORY 332D, HISTORY 432D, ITALIAN 232D, ITALIAN 332D)4-5 units · 4.4/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 433A: Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar (DLCL 333, ENGLISH 333, MUSIC 332, PHIL 333)3-5 units · 4.6/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 440: Millennium Approaches: The Art of the 1990s (ARTHIST 240)5 units
• ARTHIST 457A: Making Art History: Black Mountain College (ARTHIST 257, ARTSINST 257)5 units
• ARTHIST 459A: The Mongol Empire (ARTHIST 259A, HISTORY 289A, HISTORY 389A)5 units
• ARTHIST 465A: Word and Image (ARTHIST 265A, COMPLIT 225, ITALIAN 265, ITALIAN 365)3-5 units
• ARTHIST 467A: The Avant Garde (ARTHIST 267A, TAPS 167H, TAPS 267)4 units
• ARTHIST 475A: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde (ARTHIST 275, FILMEDIA 275, FILMEDIA 475, REES 275A)5 units
• ARTHIST 488A: Putting It Together: The Art of Curating (AMSTUD 288, ARTHIST 288)3-5 units · 3.6/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 502: Methods and Debates5 units · 4.5/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 610: Teaching Praxis1-5 units
• ARTHIST 620: Qualifying Examination Preparation5-8 units
• ARTHIST 640: Dissertation Proposal Preparation5 units
• ARTHIST 650: Dissertation Research5 units
• ARTHIST 660: Independent Study1-15 units
• ARTHIST 660E: Extended Seminar4 units
• ARTHIST 670: Dissertation Seminar1-2 units
• ARTHIST 680: Curricular Practical Training1-3 units
• ARTHIST 802: TGR Dissertation0 units

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