University of Arkansas at Little Rock

ARHA 2200 Introduction to Visual Art
Recommended prerequisite: RHET 1311. Introduction to the creative process and history of art, vocabulary and descriptive terms used in the visual arts, and how to write about them. Attendance at arts events is required. Students will learn through writing, reading, discussing, listening, and participating in critical thinking and problem‐solving activities. Fulfills core requirement in aesthetics along with MUHL 2200 and DRTH 2200. (2 credit hours)

ARHA 2310 Survey of the History of Art I
Survey of the art history from prehistoric times to the Renaissance. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 2311 Survey of the History of Art II
Prerequisite: ARHA 2310 or consent of instructor. Survey of the history of art from the Renaissance through the contemporary period. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 2312 Survey of Non-Western Art
Prerequisite: ARHA 2310 or consent of instructor. Introduction to art outside the Western European tradition which focuses on the major artistic traditions of India, China, Japan, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Emphasis is placed on recognition of major works of art and artistic style and what these reveal about the cultures that produced them. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 3301 American Art
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. American art from the colonial period to early twentieth century. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 3302 History of Photography and Related Visual Arts
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. Major figures in the history of art who used the camera as their medium, beginning with the nineteenth‐century figures such as Daguerre and Fox‐Talbot and continuing to the present. Emphasis on the analysis of photographs, motion pictures, and video works in terms of style, iconography, social history, and connoisseurship. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 3304 Medieval Art
Prerequisite: ARHA 2310 or consent of instructor. Early Christian, Byzantine, Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque, and Gothic art. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4297 Capstone in Art History
Prerequisite: 21 hours in art history including ARHA 4300. Required of art history majors. An independent research project under faculty guidance. The project must be presented in writing and orally. Normally taken in a studentʹs last semester. (2 credit hours)

ARHA 4300 Studies in the History of Art
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. A seminar for advanced students involving research on topics in art history, criticism, and aesthetics selected for study by students in consultation with art history faculty. Dual‐listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as ARHA 5300. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4301 Art and Architecture Study Tour
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. Travel study tour involving directed reading and research on objects to be seen during the tour. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4302 Art Museum Studies
Prerequisite: 6 hours of upper‐level art history courses or permission of instructor. An introduction to art museum operation, topics covered will include the acquisition, management, and care of works of art, exhibition planning and installation, administration functions, educational and community roles of museums, finance and fundraising. The goals of the course are to familiarize students with the day‐to‐day work of an art museum and to engage them in critical thinking about the broader context in which it operates. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4304 Ancient Art
Prerequisite: ARHA 2310 or consent of instructor. A study of the history of ancient art and architecture with emphasis on the Greek and Roman periods. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4305 Italian Renaissance Art
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Italy from c. 1300 to c. 1600. Dual‐listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as ARHA 5305. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4306 Renaissance Art in Northern Europe
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. Painting, sculpture, architecture, and graphic arts in northern Europe (especially the Low Countries, France, and England), from the end of the Gothic period through the Reformation. Dual‐listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as ARHA 5306. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4307 Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. Painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Duallisted in the UALR Graduate Catalog as ARHA 5307. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4308 Twentieth-Century Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts Since 1945
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. Painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from 1945 to the present. Dual‐listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as ARHA 5308. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4309 History of Arkansas Architecture
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. The development of architecture in Arkansas from its origins to the present. Dual‐listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as ARHA 5309. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4315 Modern Architecture
Prerequisite: ARHA 2301. A study of the major architectural developments in European and American architecture from 1900 to the present. The focus will be upon European architecture from 1900 to 1930, and upon architecture in the U.S. from 1930 to 1970. Consideration will be given to both technological innovations and to issues current in architectural design, such as preservation and adaptive reuse of historic buildings. Dual‐listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as ARHA 5315. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4384 Baroque Art
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. Painting, sculpture, and architecture in northern Europe (the Netherlands, France), Spain, and Italy from 1600 to c. 1725. Dual‐listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as ARHA 5384. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4385 Seminar in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. Directed research for advanced students on various problems of Italian Renaissance or Baroque art from c. 1300 to 1725. Taught by the seminar method. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4386 Problems in Northern European Renaissance and Baroque Art
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. Directed research for advanced students on various problems of northern European art. Taught by the seminar method. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4387 Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Art in Europe
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. Painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture from the postimpressionist period until WW II. Dual‐listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as ARHA 5387. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4388 Problems in Modern Art
Prerequisite: ARHA 2311 or consent of instructor. Discussion of selected problems in painting, sculpture, or architecture of the eighteenth, nineteenth, or twentieth centuries. Taught by the seminar method. (3 credit hours)

ARHA 4110, 4210, 4310 Special Topics in Art History
Special topics for the study of individual artists, or particular periods, geographic areas, or media in the history of art, especially areas not covered by normal course offerings. Course content, subtitle, and organization vary. (1, 2, or 3 credit hours)

ARHA 4191, 4291, 4391 Independent Study
Prerequisite: consent of Department of Art faculty. Open only to superior students who seek to do special research on a topic selected in consultation with the instructor. (1, 2, or 3 credit hours)