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Course Listing
Fall 2009 Course Listing and Schedule
Spring 2009 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 2008-2009 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
- 611.
Oriental Carpets
- 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
- 702.
TA Cultural History of Gardens in China and Japan
- 717.
The Medieval Garden
- 731.
All that Glitters: Early Medieval Material Culture and the Making of Europe
- 752.
Antiquaries and Antiquarianism in Europe and China, 1000-1800
- 761.
Design and Material Culture of the Qing Period, 1644-1911
- 767.
Collecting Islamic Art, from Historical Sources to
Modern Times
- 770.
Glass from the Islamic Lands and Beyond
- 778.
A Survey of Islamic Art and Material Culture from Early Islam to the Ottoman Period, its Meaning, Ideas, and Development
- 779.
The City in the Middle East from Late Antiquity to the Ottoman Period
- 802.
The Arts of the Five Dynasties (907-960) and the Khitan
Empire (907-1125)
- 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
Early Modern Europe (c. 1400 - c. 1800)
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
- 548. Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000:
Diversity and Difference
- 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
- 693. Craft and Design in the USA, 1940 - Present
- 732.
Design Reform in Britain: from Pugin to Mackintosh
- 754. Film and Design in Hollywood
- 769. Designing Modernity, 1860-1900
- 758. European Modernism
- 800. Print Culture 1700-1914 (fromWilliam Hogarth to
Peter Behrens)
- 801. Other Europes: Design and Architecture in Central Europe
1880-1940
- 803. Jewish Material Culture in the Modern Period
- 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
New York & American Material Culture
Cultural Sciences
Surveys and Overviews
Core and/or Required Courses
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