Art History Summer Courses

ARHI-1100-L21- Art History Introduction
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Hybrid LC/Online: TWR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course is an introduction to the study of art history, approached from a global perspective. It reaches back to Cycladic art (c. 3300 to 1100 BCE) and ends with the present. Because most human societies have created art, this course looks at works created in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. And since art objects can and do move across cultural boundaries, it also looks at the cross-cultural transmission of artworks. Students will learn about how peoples across space and time created works of art and architecture in response to social crisis, as an aid to or container of ritual, and to express norms and ideals of gender. Students will come to understand how and why abstraction and naturalism emerged at different times and places.

CRN: 14929

Instructor: Fostano, Katherina
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: FACC, FRFA, GLBL, INST, ISIN

ARHI-1102-V31- Intro to Art History: Asia
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: Asynchronous; synchronous oral exams required

This course offers a survey of Asian art spanning from ancient to contemporary periods. It encompasses the exploration of arts and monuments representing major religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam, as well as the important visual traditions such as Mughal miniature paintings, Chinese landscape paintings, and Japanese woodblock prints. Additionally, it covers contemporary popular culture, such as Bollywood films and Japanese animation. Utilizing critical art historical scholarship, the course seeks to examine art through various perspectives, including gender, sexuality, transcultural dialogues, and diasporic experiences, while also confronting difficult histories, including colonialism, racism, and war. Students will be assessed based on their proficiency in three key areas: 1. Delivering visual analyses effectively. 2. Demonstrating familiarity with significant Asian art objects, artists, art movements, and historical chronology. 3. Engaging in close examination of scholarly literature; encompassing understanding of historical contexts, theoretical concepts, and scholarly arguments; and expressing synthesized insights in an organized manner.

CRN: 15056

Instructor: Ikeda, Asato
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: AHGL, FACC, FRFA, GLBL, INST, ISAS

MUSC-1100-V11- Introduction to Music History: African American Musical Traditions and Jazz
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: TWR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course presents a survey of music history, with a focus on developing the skills of thinking and writing critically about music. Students will learn to listen in a focused way and relate what they hear to issues of musical “meaning” and general culture. Students will learn some technical vocabulary that will help them describe or advocate for any music they encounter, and they will apply this vocabulary to examples throughout the semester, for instance a Beethoven Symphony or a Duke Ellington jazz arrangement. Sections may have different focuses in terms of geography or chronology.

CRN: 14881

Instructor: Yaraman, Sevin
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, ASAM, ASHS, FACC, FRFA