Goucher College 2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Goucher College 2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

ARH 349 - History and Methods of Art History (2 Cr.)

(formerly ARH 449) (VMC 349)
This course explores modes of interpreting art artifacts from various perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, and structuralist methodologies, as well as different forms of analysis, including stylistic, iconographic, and contextual. Students will also learn methods of scholary research appropriate to the discipline, including finding, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing primary and secondary visual and textual sources. This project-based course emphasizes an object in Goucher’s Art and Artifacts Collection or documents/books in Special Collections & Archives. Prerequisite: VMC 103  (ARH 103 ) or permission of instructor. Variable semesters. VMC faculty.