ARTHIST courses at Stanford

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

• ARTHIST 1A: Experiencing Early Global Art and Architecture (CLASSICS 56)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 1B: How to Look at Art and Why: An Introduction to the History of Western Painting5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 2: Asian Arts and Cultures (JAPAN 60)5-5 units · 4.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 2B: Introduction to Islamic Art (ISLAMST 149C)4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 5: Art and Power5-5 units · 4.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 11N: Roman Portraits and Persons (ARCHLGY 11N, CLASSICS 11N)3-3 units
• ARTHIST 97: Curatorial Internship (ARCHLGY 97A, ARCHLGY 297A)1-5 units
• ARTHIST 101: Introduction to Greek Art I: The Archaic Period (CLASSICS 161)4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 102: Introduction to Greek Art II: From the Parthenon to Scopas (CLASSICS 162)4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 104Q: Picturing Americans (AMSTUD 104Q)3-3 units
• ARTHIST 107: Beauty and the Beast: A History of West African Fashion and Sustainability (AFRICAAM 107, DLCL 101, FEMGEN 107)3-3 units
• ARTHIST 128: Modern Africa (AFRICAAM 128C, ARTHIST 328)3-5 units
• ARTHIST 129: Fashion (ARTHIST 329)3-5 units
• ARTHIST 130N: The Age of Romanticism: Painting, Literature, Politics4-4 units
• ARTHIST 133: Introduction to Global Modern Art (ARTHIST 333)3-5 units
• ARTHIST 134: Introduction to Early Andean Visual Culture: Interspecies Value and More-than-Human Presence (NATIVEAM 134A)4-4 units
• ARTHIST 152: The American West (AMSTUD 124A, ENGLISH 124, HISTORY 151, POLISCI 124A)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 160: Censorship in American Art (AMSTUD 167, CSRE 160, FEMGEN 167)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 163: Queer America: Art, Photography, and Politics (AMSTUD 163A, AMSTUD 363, ARTHIST 363, FEMGEN 163, FEMGEN 363)5-5 units · 4.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 182B: Cultures in Competition: Arts of Song-Era China, 960-1279 CE (ARTHIST 382B)4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 185: Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800 (ARTHIST 385, CHINA 185A, CHINA 385A, EASTASN 385B)4-4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 13 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 199: Close Cinematic Analysis: Caste, Sexuality, and Religion in Indian Media (ASNAMST 108, FEMGEN 104, FILMEDIA 101, FILMEDIA 301, TAPS 101F)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 201A: Soren Kierkegaard and the Visual Arts (ARTHIST 401A)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 208B: The Art of Medieval Spain: Muslims, Christians, Jews (ARTHIST 408B)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 209C: Medieval Image Theory (ARTHIST 409, CLASSICS 158, CLASSICS 258, REES 409)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 210: Great Minds of the Italian Renaissance and their World (HISTORY 240C, ITALIAN 140, ITALIAN 240)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 211A: Andean Textile Logic: Weaving as Practice and Process in the Precontact Andes (ARTHIST 411A)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 213A: From the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (ARTHIST 413A, GERMAN 213A)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 215A: Visualizing Race in California: An Art History (AMSTUD 215A, ARTHIST 415A)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 218A: Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy (ARTHIST 418A, HISTORY 237B, HISTORY 337B, ITALIAN 237, ITALIAN 337)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 228: Curating Contemporary Chinese Art (ARTHIST 428, CHINA 228A, CHINA 328A, EASTASN 428)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 232D: Construction: The Writing of Architecture (CEE 32D)4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 238C: Art and the Market (FRENCH 238)3-5 units
• ARTHIST 258B: Introduction to Middle Byzantine Music Notation II1-4 units
• ARTHIST 264B: Starstuff: Space and the American Imagination (AMSTUD 143X, FILMEDIA 264B)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 278C: From Aksum to Athens: African Antiquity (AFRICAAM 278C, CLASSICS 278, CLASSICS 378A)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 287A: The Japanese Tea Ceremony: The History, Aesthetics, and Politics Behind a National Pastime (JAPAN 188, JAPAN 288)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 290: Curricular Practical Training1-3 units
• ARTHIST 294: Writing and the Visual: The Art of Art Writing5-5 units · 4.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 295: Visual Arts Internship1-5 units
• ARTHIST 296: Junior Seminar: Methods & Historiography of Art History5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 297: Honors Thesis Writing1-7 units
• ARTHIST 298: Individual Work: Art History1-5 units
• ARTHIST 313: Performance and Performativity (ENGLISH 313, FEMGEN 313, TAPS 313)3-5 units
• ARTHIST 328: Modern Africa (AFRICAAM 128C, ARTHIST 128)3-5 units
• ARTHIST 329: Fashion (ARTHIST 129)3-5 units
• ARTHIST 333: Introduction to Global Modern Art (ARTHIST 133)3-5 units
• ARTHIST 363: Queer America: Art, Photography, and Politics (AMSTUD 163A, AMSTUD 363, ARTHIST 163, FEMGEN 163, FEMGEN 363)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 382B: Cultures in Competition: Arts of Song-Era China, 960-1279 CE (ARTHIST 182B)4-4 units
• ARTHIST 385: Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800 (ARTHIST 185, CHINA 185A, CHINA 385A, EASTASN 385B)4-4 units
• ARTHIST 401A: Soren Kierkegaard and the Visual Arts (ARTHIST 201A)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 404: Water and the Environment in Islamic Architecture5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 18 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 408B: The Art of Medieval Spain: Muslims, Christians, Jews (ARTHIST 208B)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 409: Medieval Image Theory (ARTHIST 209C, CLASSICS 158, CLASSICS 258, REES 409)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 411A: Andean Textile Logic: Weaving as Practice and Process in the Precontact Andes (ARTHIST 211A)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 413A: From the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (ARTHIST 213A, GERMAN 213A)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 415A: Visualizing Race in California: An Art History (AMSTUD 215A, ARTHIST 215A)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 417A: Persona: The Artist as Fabricator of the Self5-5 units
• ARTHIST 418A: Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy (ARTHIST 218A, HISTORY 237B, HISTORY 337B, ITALIAN 237, ITALIAN 337)3-5 units
• ARTHIST 428: Curating Contemporary Chinese Art (ARTHIST 228, CHINA 228A, CHINA 328A, EASTASN 428)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 432A: Global Modernisms: Theories, Methods, Narratives4-5 units
• ARTHIST 442: Art History in the First Person (ARTHIST 242A)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 494: Complicating Minimal Art: Racializing, Queering, and Politicizing a Canon (CSRE 394)5-5 units
• ARTHIST 502: Methods and Debates5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ARTHIST 610: Teaching Praxis1-5 units
• ARTHIST 620: Qualifying Examination Preparation5-8 units
• ARTHIST 640: Dissertation Proposal Preparation5-5 units
• ARTHIST 650: Dissertation Research5-5 units
• ARTHIST 660: Independent Study1-15 units
• ARTHIST 660E: Extended Seminar4-4 units
• ARTHIST 670: Dissertation Seminar1-2 units
• ARTHIST 680: Curricular Practical Training1-3 units
• ARTHIST 802: TGR Dissertation

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