USC Catalogue 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]
Art History
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Return to: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Von KleinSmid Center 351
(213) 740-4552
FAX: (213) 740-8971
Email: arthist@dornsife.usc.edu
dornsife.usc.edu/ahis
Chair: Amy Ogata, PhD
Faculty
University Professor and Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature and Professor of English, Art History and History: Leo Braudy, PhD (English)
Provost Professor of English and Art History: Kate Flint, PhD (English)
Professors: John Bowlt, PhD (Slavic Languages and Literatures); Diane Ghirardo, PhD (Architecture); Selma Holo, PhD; Eunice Howe, PhD*; Amelia Jones, PhD (Fine Arts); Carolyn M. Malone, PhD; Amy Ogata, PhD; John Pollini, PhD; Vanessa Schwartz, PhD (History)
Associate Professors: Daniela Bleichmar, PhD*; Jennifer Greenhill, PhD; Sonya Lee, PhD; Ann Marie Yasin, PhD (Classics)
Assistant Professors: Suzanne Hudson, PhD; Megan Luke, PhD
Assistant Professor (Teaching): Hector Reyes, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Practice: Miya Mizuta Lippit
*Recipient of university-wide or school teaching award.
Art history combines the study of art with the study of culture. The undergraduate major not only receives sound training in the history of art but also a basis in other humanistic disciplines. The curriculum is designed to guarantee students a general knowledge of both western and eastern art, and to offer a variety of upper-division courses in specialized areas. Majors are exposed to a diversity of theoretical approaches and encouraged to sharpen their critical and conceptual thinking. This foundation has enabled many art history graduates to pursue advanced degrees in nationally recognized programs, to enter diverse fields, including law or business, and to pursue careers in the arts.
A special feature of the undergraduate program is the apprenticeship, which affords upper-division students the opportunity to work in the professional art world in return for elective credit. Students gain valuable job skills in local museums, galleries, auction houses, and art foundations. Apprenticeship placement is also available during the summer months throughout the United States.
Graduate students in art history pursue a wide range of subject matter, using a variety of methodologies and techniques. Graduates may also pursue parallel interests by taking courses in outside departments such as history, classics, East Asian languages and cultures, Slavic languages and literatures, French, German, Italian and others.
Graduate students are encouraged to participate in annual conferences and symposia. Travel grants are available through the department. In addition to an excellent slide library, electronic access to university library catalogues from home or office, courtesy privileges and cross-registration of course work at UCLA, our graduate students have access to numerous research opportunities in and around Southern California at institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum, the Huntington Museum, the Archives of American Art, the Institute for Modern Russian Culture, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities.
Undergraduate Degree Information
Art History Honors Program
Candidates for the BA in the Department of Art History can earn a designation on their transcripts of departmental honors. Admission to the Honors Program is required.
Prerequisites: 3.5 overall GPA, 3.5 major GPA or better, completion of at least three upper-division art history courses at the time of admission, submission of an application form to the undergraduate faculty adviser.
Required for departmental honors: maintain GPA requirements stated above and complete AHIS 495a and AHIS 495b Undergraduate Honors Thesis.
Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Archaeology
See Religion for a complete listing.
Interdisciplinary Minor in Early Modern Studies
This minor brings together the resources of the Departments of English, History and Art History to study the literatures and cultures of Europe and the Americas from the late medieval period to 1800. For complete listing of requirements, see the Department of English .
Graduate Degrees
Admission
Admission to all programs is granted through the Graduate School in conjunction with the Department of Art History; all applicants must meet the requirements of both. Interviews are strongly encouraged.
All applicants must complete the department’s supplemental application form, which may be obtained by writing: Graduate Programs, Art History Department, Von KleinSmid Center 351, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0047.
Complete details for all graduate programs can be found in the Guidelines for Graduate Studies in Art History, obtainable upon admission.
Areas of Concentration
Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology, Medieval Art, Renaissance Art, Baroque Art, 18th and 19th Century European Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, Chinese and Japanese Art, Latin American art and art of the ancient Americas.
Bachelor’s Degree
Minor
Master’s Degree
University Certificate
Doctoral Degree
Art History
- • AHIS 001 x Web Site Authoring and Design
- • AHIS 100g Introduction to Visual Culture
- • AHIS 120gp Foundations of Western Art
- • AHIS 121gp Art and Society: Renaissance to Modern
- • AHIS 125gp Arts of Asia I: Antiquity to 1300
- • AHIS 126g Arts of Asia II: 1300 to the Present
- • AHIS 127g Arts of the Ancient Americas
- • AHIS 128g Arts of Latin America
- • AHIS 201g Digging into the Past
- • AHIS 220g Medieval Visual Culture
- • AHIS 230 Art and Culture in Early Modern Europe
- • AHIS 250m Modernity and Difference: Critical Approaches to Modern Art
- • AHIS 255g Culture Wars: Art and Social Conflict in the Modern World
- • AHIS 270 L.A. Now: Contemporary Art in Los Angeles
- • AHIS 282 Korean Art
- • AHIS 284g Art in Context: Introduction to the Chinese Visual World
- • AHIS 304m Italian Renaissance Art: Old Masters and Old Mistresses
- • AHIS 318 Arts of the Ancient Andes
- • AHIS 319 Mesoamerican Art and Culture
- • AHIS 320 Aegean Archaeology
- • AHIS 321 Greek Art and Archaeology
- • AHIS 322 Roman Art and Archaeology
- • AHIS 324 Late Antique Art and Archaeology
- • AHIS 325 Roman Archaeological Excavation: Methods and Practice
- • AHIS 326 Archaeology of Religion in the Greco-Roman World
- • AHIS 328 Colonial Latin American Art
- • AHIS 330 Medieval Art
- • AHIS 343 Renaissance Art
- • AHIS 344 Baroque Art
- • AHIS 357 History of French Art 1860–1920
- • AHIS 361 British Art, 1730–1890
- • AHIS 363m Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Art
- • AHIS 364 Myths, Arts, Realities: Visual Culture in California, 1849 to the Present
- • AHIS 365m African American Art
- • AHIS 368 Modern Art I: 1700–1850
- • AHIS 369 Modern Art II: 1851–1940
- • AHIS 370g Modern Art III: 1940 to the Present
- • AHIS 373g History and Theory of Photography
- • AHIS 376 Introduction to African Art
- • AHIS 377 Spanish Colonial Art and Architecture
- • AHIS 378 Modern Russian Art
- • AHIS 381g Visual Culture of Asia
- • AHIS 384 Early Chinese Art
- • AHIS 385 Later Chinese Art
- • AHIS 386 Early Japanese Art
- • AHIS 387 Later Japanese Art
- • AHIS 390 Special Problems
- • AHIS 400x Undergraduate Apprenticeship
- • AHIS 411 Studies in Arts of the Ancient Americas
- • AHIS 415 Object-Worlds: Histories and Theories of Things
- • AHIS 420 Studies in Ancient Art
- • AHIS 425 Interdisciplinary Studies in Classical Art and Archaeology: Research and Methodology
- • AHIS 427 Archaeological Theories, Methods, and Practice
- • AHIS 428 Studies in Colonial Latin American Art
- • AHIS 429 Studies in Art, Science, and Technology
- • AHIS 430 Studies in Renaissance Art
- • AHIS 433 Studies in Medieval Art
- • AHIS 449 History of Prints and Drawings
- • AHIS 453 Studies in Baroque Art
- • AHIS 460 Studies in 18th and 19th Century Art
- • AHIS 465 Studies in American Art
- • AHIS 466 Studies in the Decorative Arts and Design
- • AHIS 467 19th Century French Art
- • AHIS 468 Studies in Modern Art
- • AHIS 469 Critical Approaches to Photography
- • AHIS 470 Studies in Contemporary Art
- • AHIS 475m Blackness in American Visual Culture
- • AHIS 477 Studies in Visual and Material Culture
- • AHIS 481 Studies in Japanese Art
- • AHIS 484 Studies in Chinese Art
- • AHIS 486 Introduction to Museums: Past, Present, and Future
- • AHIS 490x Directed Research
- • AHIS 494 Undergraduate Proseminar in Art History
- • AHIS 495a Undergraduate Honors Thesis
- • AHIS 495b Undergraduate Honors Thesis
- • AHIS 496 Paintings in the Prado Museum
- • AHIS 497 Senior Seminar in Early Modern Studies
- • AHIS 499 Special Topics
- • AHIS 500 Methods and Theory of Art History
- • AHIS 501 Problems in the History and Theory of Collecting and Display
- • AHIS 502 Markets, Value and the Institutions of Art
- • AHIS 503 Categories and Collections
- • AHIS 504 Museum Research Assistantship
- • AHIS 505 Seminar in Feminist Theory and Visual Culture
- • AHIS 509 Seminar in Arts of the Ancient Americas
- • AHIS 510 Seminar in Ancient Art
- • AHIS 511 Seminar in Medieval Art
- • AHIS 512 Seminar in Renaissance Art
- • AHIS 513 Seminar in Baroque Art
- • AHIS 514 Seminar in 18th and 19th Century European Art
- • AHIS 515 Seminar in Contemporary Art
- • AHIS 517 Seminar in Korean Art
- • AHIS 518 Seminar in Chinese Art
- • AHIS 519 Seminar in Japanese Art
- • AHIS 520 Seminar in Modern Art
- • AHIS 521 Seminar in Modern German Art
- • AHIS 522 Writing (and) the History of Art
- • AHIS 524 Readings in Greek and Roman Authors on Ancient Art and Monuments
- • AHIS 525 Seminar in American Art
- • AHIS 528 Seminar in Colonial Latin American Art
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