Fall 2008 Course Listing and Schedule | Spring 2008 Course Listing and Schedule

August Orientation Session

The August Orientation Session is required of all incoming master's degree students. It is designed to introduce new students to the field, research technique and the range of resources available within the city. Intensive language courses are offered to students to prepare them to complete the BGC language requirement.

The Academic Programs Office offers three intensive, noncredit, two-week classes, in French, Italian, and German, to prepare students for the language proficiency examination. Classes meet four days a week.

Students are initially tested for language proficiency upon arrival. Those who require additional instruction will be tested again at the end of the orientation session. All entering BGC students must fulfill the language requirement by April 15 of their first year.

Core Courses
The list below gives some sense of the range and depth of courses offered in the last few years. Detailed course descriptions for courses to be offered in academic year 2007-2008 follow.

Arts of Antiquity, Asia, and Islam

• 510. Islamic Decorative Arts up to the Mongol Conquest
• 519. Arts of the Ancient World
• 520. Medieval Art and Society
• 526. Arts of China Decorative Arts of Later Imperial China, 1000-1900
• 540. Later Medieval Decorative Arts
• 542. Ancient Ceramics and Glass
• 564. Ritual and Design in Imperial China
• 567. Art and Material Culture of the Tang Period, 618-907
• 572. Arts of Song Period China
• 602. Attic Red Figure Vases and their Influence
• 604. Japanese and Korean Ceramics
• 613. Ancient Jewelry and Metalwork
• 627. Western Luxuries and Chinese Taste
• 632. Topics in Ancient Furniture
• 648. Arts and Ornament in Early China
• 683. Islamic Decorative Arts after the Mongol Conquest
• 694. Landscape and Rusticy in the Chinese Living Environment
• 695. The Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
• 717. The Medieval Garden
• 761. Design and Material Culture of the Qing Period, 1644-1911
• 815. Islamic Art and Its Figurative Tradition 1, 7th Century-ca.1250
• 816. Japanese Textiles: A Kaleidoscopic View
• 817. The Archaeology of China's Decorative Arts
• 818. Islamic Art Survey
• 820. Chinese Ceramics
• 826. Islamic Art Seminar: The Islamic World and Artistic Exchanges with the Far East, South Asia, and Europe
• 827. Issues in the Study of Ancient Art
• 839. Islamic Art and Its Figurative Tradition II, ca. 1250 - Present
• 840. The Medieval Sumptuous Arts: Collecting, Consumption, and Display

Renaissance and Early Modern Europe (c. 1400 - c. 1800)

• 521. Decorative Arts of the Renaissance
• 522. Arts of the Baroque
• 539. Mode and Manners in the 18th Century, 1675-1815
• 541. Northern European Interiors, 1550-1680
• 555. History of European Tapestry: Tapestry in the Renaissance
• 583. The Norther Renaissance: The Arts in an Age of Uncertainty
• 592. Origins of Commerical Society in 17th-Century Holland and 18th-Century Britain
• 608. Western Europe in the 18th Century
• 621. Collecting and Collections in the Early Modern Era
• 624. Classicism in the North, 1500-1620
• 634. Supply and Demand: The Decorative Arts Marketplace 1662-1889
• 652. City and Country in the Italian Renaissance
• 654. Objects of Virtue: Material Culture and the Moral Order in 16th-Century Northen European Society
• 655. Markets to Manners: Cooking and Eating in Early Modern Europe
• 656. Eighteenth-Century European Ceramics: A Social and Cultural History
• 671. Fifteenth-Century European Decorative Arts
• 674. Society and Arts in 18th-Century France
• 675.Le Siècle De Louis le Grand: Art And Court Culture At Versailles
• 678. Arts and Crafts in Early Modern Europe: The Case of the Kitchen
• 679. Neoclassicism and the Arts in Europe and America, 1740-1840
• 684. Backgrounds to European Culture: Political, Economic, and Social History of the Age of Renaissance and Enlightenment
• 686. Furniture and Furnishings in Early Modern France
• 706. The Art and Architecture of the Baroque Garden
• 724. Villas and Gardens in Renaissance and Baroque Italy
• 725. The 18th-Century Garden in Britain
• 759. Arts of Love and Marriage in the Renaissance
• 763. The Monument: Designs and Meanings
• 821. Hispanic Arts of Design, 1300-1900
• 831. Decorative Arts of 16th-Century Italy

Modern Design History

• 524. From Morris to the Mackintoshes: Arts and Crafts in Britain and Europe, 1860-1900
• 536. The Aesthetic Movement
• 543. Nineteenth-Century European Furniture
• 552. The Gothic Revival
• 554. Art Nouveau in Europe
• 562. Politics and the Design of World's Fairs
• 565. Twentieth-Century Fashion
• 571. Fragmenting Modernism, Desconstructing Postmodernism: Design, Architecture, and Film
• 573. Graphic Design in Europe. 1890-1940
• 594. The Material Culture of Childhood
• 595. Aspects of Domestic Interiors, 1850-1920
• 596. Aspects of Domestic Interiors, 1920-1970
• 622. From "Wild Things" to "A Sense of Things": Issues in Design History and Material Culture Studies
• 625. Architecture and Design in the Weimar Republich
• 650. Issues in Modern and Contemporary Architecture
• 672. Design and Architecture, 1950-1972
• 681. Swedish Modernism
• 691. Nineteenth-Century Fashion
• 754. Film and Design in Hollywood
• 758. European Modernism
• 824. Twentieth-Century Interiors-Domestic and Nondomestic/Public and Private
• 825. Text and Image in the Modern Book
• 829. Industrial Design in the 20th-Century United States
• 839. Modern Textiles, 1850-1970
• 835. Charles and Ray Eames and Mid-Century Modern Design
• 837. The Exotic in Western Art during the 19th- and 20th-Centuries

History and Theory of Museums

• 585. The Museum
• 586. Inside Today's Musuem
• 587. Object Exhibition and Display
• 589. Historic House Mueseum
• 597. BGC and MMA Student Exhibition
• 682. The Anthropology of Museums
• 753. 'Twixt Art and Nature'. English Embroidery of the Tudor and Stuart Era
• 762. The Exhibition Experience: Design and Interpretation. BGC/MET Exhibition Collaboration
• 765. New Amersterdam in the Dutch Atlantic: BGC/N-YHS Collaboration
• 766. Material Culture in New Netherland: BGC/N-YHS Collaboration
• 834. American Collectors and Collections

New York & American Material Culture

• 514. The Arts and Crafts Movement in America
• 527. American Decorative Arts and Design to 1820
• 528. Decorative Arts and Design in America, 1820 -1914
• 548/49. Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference
• 559 Domesticity, House, and Home in 19th Century America
• 568. American Silver
• 589. Historic House Museums
• 591. American Furniture of the 19th Century
• 593. American Furniture of the 17th and 18th Centuries
• 606. The Colonial Revival
• 615. Ceramics in the American Marketplace
• 680. Survey of American Glass
• 692. American Material Culture Studies: Methods and Models
• 693. Craft and Design in the U.S.A., 1940-Present
• 704. Reading the American Landscape
• 726. North American Frontiers: The Landscape of Early North America
• 727. New York as Cultural Capital
• 760. American Production: Making and Manufacturing
• 764. The Material Culture of New York City
• 823. American Consumer Culture
• 829. Industrial Design in the 20th-Century United States
• 834. American Collectors and Collections (Charles Wilson Peale to the Present)
• 835. Charles and Ray Eames and Mid-Century Modern Design

Cultural History and Theory

• 523. Ornament, Primitivism, and the Idea of Decoration
• 647. Thinking About Things: Walter Benjamin as Hisorian
• 752. Antiquaries and Antiquarianism in Europe and China, 1000-1800
• 755. Thinking with Technology in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
• 756 History of the Body as Matter: From High Paleolithic to Postmodern
• 822. Foundations of Material Culture
• 830. 'Orientalism': Meetings of East and West from the Crusades to Post-colonialism
• 838. Technical Cultures of 19th- and 20th-Century America

Surveys and Overviews

• 500-01. Survey of the Decorative Arts and Design
• 506. European Gold and Silver
• 509. History of European Textiles
• 518. History of European Jewelry
• 530. English and American Ceramics
• 544. The Rediscoveryof Antquity and Its Influence on the West in the Postmedieval Period
• 561. The Arts of the Books
• 574. History of Glass
• 581. Studies in Culinary History and the Decorative Arts
• 584. Survey of Eruopean Ceramics, 1400 to the Present
• 605. European Carpets
• 611. Oriental Carpets
• 612. History of European Clothing
• 832. English Silver

Core and Required Courses

• 500-501. Surevey of the Decorative and Design
• 598. Master's Thesis Seminar
• 599. Master's Thesis
• 698 Seminar on Dissertation Topic
• 699. Doctoral Dissertation
• 750. Thesis Workshop
• IND. Independent Study
• INT. Internship