History of Art at Bryn Mawr College
PS#CRS#CRTITLE OF COURSEProfessor(s)/Instructor(s)DIV
1395B105 011.0Poetry & Politics in Landscape
Enrollment limited to 20 students.
Hertel
MWF 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
HU III
CARP25
1396B108 011.0Women/Feminism/History of Art
Enrollment limited to 20 students. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Studies concentration.
Easton
MWF 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
HU III
CARP25
1420B206 011.0Hellenistic & Roman Sculpture
Cross listed with ARCH B206
Donohue
MW 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
HU III
TH104
1397B230 011.0Renaissance Art
Enrollment limited to 40 students.
Cast
TTH 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
HU III
CARP21
1484B238 011.0History of Cinema:1895-1945
International Film to 1945
This course serves as an introduction to the international history of film as a narrative and aesthetic form from its beginnings in 1895 to 1945, with consideration of cultural, social, political, technological and economic determinants that allowed film across the world to evolve, thrive and become the defining artistic medium of the 20th century. Please note: Monday evening screenings are required. Cross listed with ENGL B238.
Gorfinkel
TTH 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
M 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Screenings
HU III
TH110
CARP25
1505B239 011.0Women and Cinema
Social Agency and Cultural Representation
Enrollment limited to 30 students. Cross-listed with ENGL B239. Tuesday evening screenings are required. Counts toward Gender and Sexuality Concentration. Counts toward Film Studies minor.
Gorfinkel
TTH 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
T 7:00 PM-10:00 PM
Social Agency and Cultural Representation
Social Agency and Cultural Representation
HU III
CARP21
DAL119
1398B241 011.0Art of Spanish-speaking World
Counts towards the Hispanic American Studies Concentration. Limited to 20 students.
McKim-Smith
MWF 10:00 AM-11:00 AM
HU III
CARP25
1399B250 011.019th Century Art in France
Enrollment limited to 30 students.
Levine
TTH 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
HU III
CARP21
1426B254 011.0History of Modern Architecture
Enrollment limited to 40 students, with preference given to Cities and History of Art majors and minors. Cross-listed with CITY B254.
Hein
MWF 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
F 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
break out
HU III
TH110
TH224
1417B260 011.0Modern Art and Abstraction
Enrollment limited to 40 students.
Saltzman
TTH 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
HU III
TH111
1434B272 011.0Topics in Early & Med China
Material, Social, and Philosophical Cultures
Cross listed with EAST B272 and CITY B273.
Lin
TTH 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Art, Society and Culture
SO III
DAL212E
1952B282 011.0Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa
New Course: Examines the artistic and architectural traditions of African cultures South of the Sahara in their religious, philosophical, political and social aspects. Emphasis on aesthetic canons, systems of thoughts, mythology, rituals and masquerades. Thematically addresses the production, meaning and use of art in African traditional and contemporary cultures. Finally looks at the influence of African sculpture and contemporary art on global markets. Counts toward Africana Studies Concentration. Enrollment limited to 25 students.
Toure
TTH 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
HU III
CARP21
1401B308 011.0Topics in Photography:
Photography and War
New Course: Examining photographic practices between the 1850’s and the 1970’s, this seminar seeks to move beyond the reflective analysis of the city in the image and as the subject of representation to the relationship between photography and urbanization. Taking up various theories and models it explores how making records and reorganization of space developed as related means of modernization. Cross listed with CITY B308. Enrollment limited to 15 students, with preference to HART and CITY majors.
Schwartz
TH 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
HU III
CARP15
1402B311 011.0Topics in Medieval Art
Illuminated Manuscripts
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Easton
W 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
HU III
CARP13
1442B334 011.0Topics in Film Studies:
Queer Cinema
The course explores how communities and subjects designated as “queer” have been rendered in/visible in the cinema. It also examines how queer subjects have responded to this in/visibility through non-normative viewing practices and alternative film and video production. We will consider queer traditions in documentary, avant-garde, transgender, AIDS, and global cinemas. Cross-listed with ENGL B334. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Counts toward Film Studies minor.
Nguyen
F 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
SU 7:00 PM-10:00 PM
Queer Cinema
Film Sessions
HU III
DAL119
TH224
1428B359 011.0Topics in Urban Cult & Society
Latin American Social Movements
This course sets out to explore social movements in urban Latin America as concrete manifestations of a growing discontent with local/national/global forms of social organization, but also as ways to promote broad social transformations. In other words, these movements are not only resisting, they are also proposing. Counts toward the Hispanic and Hispanic American Studies Concentration. Enrollment limited to 20 students, with preference to Cities majors and concentrators in Hispanic and Hispanic American Studies. Cross listed with ANTH B359 and CITY B360.
Arbona
TH 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Latin American Social Movements
discussion sessions
SO I or III
TH224
1429B377 011.0Topics in Modern Architecture
War, Catastrophes, and Reconstruction
Natural and manmade catastrophes have shaped the city over centuries. As wars and catastrophes continue to ravage cities, this course will explore various historic cases of destruction and rebuilding around the world, analyze reconstruction in regard to local conditions and trauma, and investigate continuities and changes. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Cross listed with CITY B377.
Hein
W 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
War, Catastrophes, and Reconstruction
HU III
CARP15
1403B380 011.0Topics in Contemp Art
Visual Culture & the Holocaust
Enrollment limited to 15 students.
Saltzman
M 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Visual Culture & the Holocaust
HU III
CARP15
1404B397 011.0Junior SeminarLevine
T 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
HU III
CARP15
1528B403 011.0Supervised WorkHU
History of Art at Haverford College
H236A011.0Art, Politics, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe

NEW COURSE.This course explores European art in the context of political, social, and cultural developments in the period from the late eighteenth century to the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism are the artistic movements of this period. Artists discussed will include David, Goya, Friedrich, Turner, Constable, and Gericault among others. Course will include at least one visit to the Phila Museum of Art.
C.Solomon
MW 2:30-4:00

HU III
Hall 106