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ARTHIST courses at Stanford

125 ARTHIST courses in Stanford’s catalog, with ratings and hours per week from real student evaluations.

  • ARTHIST 1A: What is Art: Introduction to Early Global Art and Architecture (CLASSICS 56)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 1B: How to Look at Art and Why: An Introduction to the History of Western Painting5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 2: Asian Arts and Cultures (JAPAN 60)5 units · 4.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 2B: Introduction to Islamic Art (ISLAMST 149C)4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 5: Art and Power5 units · 4.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 11N: Roman Portraits and Persons (ARCHLGY 11N, CLASSICS 11N)3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 14Q: Thinking with Leonardo da Vinci: Creativity and Invention in the Renaissance (HISTORY 14Q)3 units
  • ARTHIST 20Q: War and Art3 units
  • ARTHIST 80N: Looking into Portraits: Identities in Question3 units
  • ARTHIST 97: Curatorial Internship (ARCHLGY 97A, ARCHLGY 297A)1-5 units
  • ARTHIST 101: Introduction to Greek Art I: The Archaic Period (CLASSICS 161)4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 102: Introduction to Greek Art II: From the Parthenon to Scopas (CLASSICS 162)4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 104Q: Picturing Americans (AMSTUD 104Q)3 units
  • ARTHIST 105N: Designing How We Live: Why Architecture is More Than Just Building3 units
  • ARTHIST 106: Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E. (ARTHIST 306, CLASSICS 171)3-5 units
  • ARTHIST 107: Beauty and the Beast: A History of West African Fashion and Sustainability (AFRICAAM 107, DLCL 101, FEMGEN 107)3 units
  • ARTHIST 111N: Art Worlds: Museum, Studio, Gallery, Archive3 units
  • ARTHIST 116: The American Civil War: A Ghost Story (AMSTUD 116A)4 units
  • ARTHIST 119: Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art (ARTHIST 319, FRENCH 149, FRENCH 349, ITALIAN 149, ITALIAN 349)3-5 units
  • ARTHIST 121N: Islam and Water3 units
  • ARTHIST 128: Modern Africa: Art and Decolonization (AFRICAAM 128C, ARTHIST 328)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 129: Fashion (ARTHIST 329)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 130N: The Age of Romanticism: Painting, Literature, Politics4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 133: Introduction to Global Modern Art (ARTHIST 333)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 133L: Experiencing Campus Architecture (CEE 33L)2 units
  • ARTHIST 134: Introduction to Early Andean Visual Culture: Interspecies Value and More-than-Human Presence (ARCHLGY 54, NATIVEAM 134A)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 139: East Asian Buddhist Painting: Visions and Practices (ARTHIST 339, CHINA 139, CHINA 339, EASTASN 339A)4 units
  • ARTHIST 140: An Architectural Imagination (FILMEDIA 140)4 units
  • ARTHIST 152: The American West (AMSTUD 124A, ENGLISH 124, HISTORY 151, POLISCI 124A)5 units · 4.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 160: Censorship in American Art (AMSTUD 167, CSRE 160, FEMGEN 167)5 units · 4.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 163: Queer America: Art, Photography, and Politics (AMSTUD 163A, AMSTUD 363, ARTHIST 363, FEMGEN 163, FEMGEN 363)5 units · 4.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 164: History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinemas Around the World (ARTHIST 364, CSRE 102C, CSRE 302C, FEMGEN 100C, FEMGEN 300C, FILMEDIA 100C, FILMEDIA 300C, GLOBAL 193, GLOBAL 390, TAPS 100C, TAPS 300C)3-5 units
  • ARTHIST 182B: Cultures in Competition: Arts of Song-Era China, 960-1279 CE (ARTHIST 382B)4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 185: Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800 (ARTHIST 385, CHINA 185A, CHINA 385A, EASTASN 385B)4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 13 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 186B: Asian American Art (AMSTUD 186D, ARTHIST 386B, ASNAMST 186B)4 units
  • ARTHIST 188B: From Shanghai Modern to Global Contemporary: Frontiers of Modern Chinese Art (ARTHIST 388B, CHINA 188B, CHINA 388B, EASTASN 388B)4 units
  • ARTHIST 199: Close Cinematic Analysis: Poetic Cinema (ASNAMST 108, FEMGEN 104, FILMEDIA 101, FILMEDIA 301, TAPS 101F)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 201A: Soren Kierkegaard and the Visual Arts (ARTHIST 401A)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 203: Artists, Athletes, Courtesans and Crooks (CLASSICS 163)5 units
  • ARTHIST 204: Dialogues with the Dead (CLASSICS 127)5 units
  • ARTHIST 208: Hagia Sophia (ARTHIST 408, CLASSICS 173, CLASSICS 273)3-5 units
  • ARTHIST 208B: The Art of Medieval Spain: Muslims, Christians, Jews (ARTHIST 408B)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 209C: Medieval Image Theory (ARTHIST 409, CLASSICS 158, CLASSICS 258, REES 409)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 16 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 210: Great Minds of the Italian Renaissance and their World (HISTORY 240C, ITALIAN 140, ITALIAN 240)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 211A: Andean Textile Logic: Weaving as Practice and Process in the Precontact Andes (ARTHIST 411A)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 13 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 213A: From the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (ARTHIST 413A, GERMAN 213A)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 214A: Love's Reach: A Visual and Poetic History (ARTHIST 414A, COMPLIT 214A, COMPLIT 318)5 units
  • ARTHIST 215A: Visualizing Race in California: An Art History (AMSTUD 215A, ARTHIST 415A)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 217B: Design Theory (ARTHIST 417B)5 units
  • ARTHIST 218A: Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy (ARTHIST 418A, HISTORY 237B, HISTORY 337B, ITALIAN 237, ITALIAN 337)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 226: Field Works: Contemporary Chinese Landscape Arts across Cultures (ARTHIST 426, CHINA 226, CHINA 426, EASTASN 326A)5 units
  • ARTHIST 228: Curating Contemporary Chinese Art (ARTHIST 428, CHINA 228A, CHINA 328A, EASTASN 428)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 231A: Otherized and Organized: The Politicization of Indigeneity in Colonial Latin America (ARTHIST 431A)5 units
  • ARTHIST 232: Rome: From Pilgrimage to the Grand Tour (ARTHIST 432D, HISTORY 232D, HISTORY 332D, HISTORY 432D)4-5 units
  • ARTHIST 232D: Construction: The Writing of Architecture (CEE 32D)4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 238C: Art and the Market (FRENCH 238)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 257: Making Art History: Black Mountain College (ARTHIST 457A)5 units
  • ARTHIST 258B: Introduction to Middle Byzantine Music Notation II1-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 259A: The Mongol Empire (ARTHIST 459A, HISTORY 289A, HISTORY 389A)5 units
  • ARTHIST 264B: Starstuff: Space and the American Imagination (AMSTUD 143X, FILMEDIA 264B)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 265A: Word and Image (ARTHIST 465A, COMPLIT 225, ITALIAN 265, ITALIAN 365)3-5 units
  • ARTHIST 273: What is Contemporary Art?5 units
  • ARTHIST 275: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde (ARTHIST 475A, FILMEDIA 275, FILMEDIA 475, REES 275A)5 units
  • ARTHIST 278C: From Aksum to Athens: African Antiquity (AFRICAAM 278C, CLASSICS 278, CLASSICS 378A)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 284B: Introduction to Museum Practice (ANTHRO 134D, ARCHLGY 134, ARCHLGY 234)5 units
  • ARTHIST 287A: The Japanese Tea Ceremony: The History, Aesthetics, and Politics Behind a National Pastime (JAPAN 188, JAPAN 288)5 units
  • ARTHIST 288: Putting It Together: The Art of Curating (AMSTUD 288, ARTHIST 488A)3-5 units
  • ARTHIST 290: Curricular Practical Training1-3 units
  • ARTHIST 294: Writing and the Visual: The Art of Art Writing5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 295: Visual Arts Internship1-5 units
  • ARTHIST 296: Junior Seminar: Methods & Historiography of Art History5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 297: Honors Thesis Writing1-7 units
  • ARTHIST 298: Individual Work: Art History1-5 units
  • ARTHIST 306: Byzantine Art and Architecture, 300-1453 C.E. (ARTHIST 106, CLASSICS 171)3-5 units
  • ARTHIST 313: Performance and Performativity (ENGLISH 313, FEMGEN 313, TAPS 313)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 319: Love at First Sight: Visual Desire, Attraction, and the Pleasures of Art (ARTHIST 119, FRENCH 149, FRENCH 349, ITALIAN 149, ITALIAN 349)3-5 units
  • ARTHIST 328: Modern Africa: Art and Decolonization (AFRICAAM 128C, ARTHIST 128)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 329: Fashion (ARTHIST 129)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 333: Introduction to Global Modern Art (ARTHIST 133)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 339: East Asian Buddhist Painting: Visions and Practices (ARTHIST 139, CHINA 139, CHINA 339, EASTASN 339A)4 units
  • ARTHIST 363: Queer America: Art, Photography, and Politics (AMSTUD 163A, AMSTUD 363, ARTHIST 163, FEMGEN 163, FEMGEN 363)5 units
  • ARTHIST 364: History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinemas Around the World (ARTHIST 164, CSRE 102C, CSRE 302C, FEMGEN 100C, FEMGEN 300C, FILMEDIA 100C, FILMEDIA 300C, GLOBAL 193, GLOBAL 390, TAPS 100C, TAPS 300C)3-5 units
  • ARTHIST 366: Blackness/Gender/Sexuality & Dis-ease: HIV/AIDS Art History (ARTHIST 466A, CSRE 366A, FEMGEN 466A)5 units
  • ARTHIST 382B: Cultures in Competition: Arts of Song-Era China, 960-1279 CE (ARTHIST 182B)4 units
  • ARTHIST 385: Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800 (ARTHIST 185, CHINA 185A, CHINA 385A, EASTASN 385B)4 units
  • ARTHIST 388B: From Shanghai Modern to Global Contemporary: Frontiers of Modern Chinese Art (ARTHIST 188B, CHINA 188B, CHINA 388B, EASTASN 388B)4 units
  • ARTHIST 401A: Soren Kierkegaard and the Visual Arts (ARTHIST 201A)5 units
  • ARTHIST 403: Global Arts of Guinea, West Africa4-5 units
  • ARTHIST 404: Water and the Environment in Islamic Architecture5 units · 4.5/5 rating · 15 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 405A: Graduate Pedagogy2 units
  • ARTHIST 408: Hagia Sophia (ARTHIST 208, CLASSICS 173, CLASSICS 273)3-5 units
  • ARTHIST 408B: The Art of Medieval Spain: Muslims, Christians, Jews (ARTHIST 208B)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 409: Medieval Image Theory (ARTHIST 209C, CLASSICS 158, CLASSICS 258, REES 409)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 16 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 411A: Andean Textile Logic: Weaving as Practice and Process in the Precontact Andes (ARTHIST 211A)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 13 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 413A: From the Ruins: Art, Literature, and Thought ca. 1945 and Beyond (ARTHIST 213A, GERMAN 213A)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 414A: Love's Reach: A Visual and Poetic History (ARTHIST 214A, COMPLIT 214A, COMPLIT 318)5 units
  • ARTHIST 415A: Visualizing Race in California: An Art History (AMSTUD 215A, ARTHIST 215A)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 417A: Persona: The Artist as Fabricator of the Self5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 18 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 417B: Design Theory (ARTHIST 217B)5 units
  • ARTHIST 418A: Michelangelo: Gateway to Early Modern Italy (ARTHIST 218A, HISTORY 237B, HISTORY 337B, ITALIAN 237, ITALIAN 337)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 426: Field Works: Contemporary Chinese Landscape Arts across Cultures (ARTHIST 226, CHINA 226, CHINA 426, EASTASN 326A)5 units
  • ARTHIST 428: Curating Contemporary Chinese Art (ARTHIST 228, CHINA 228A, CHINA 328A, EASTASN 428)5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 429: Magic5 units
  • ARTHIST 431A: Otherized and Organized: The Politicization of Indigeneity in Colonial Latin America (ARTHIST 231A)5 units
  • ARTHIST 432A: Global Modernisms: Theories, Methods, Narratives4-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 432D: Rome: From Pilgrimage to the Grand Tour (ARTHIST 232, HISTORY 232D, HISTORY 332D, HISTORY 432D)4-5 units
  • ARTHIST 433A: Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar (DLCL 333, ENGLISH 333, MUSIC 332, PHIL 333)3-5 units
  • ARTHIST 440: Millennium Approaches: The Art of the 1990s (ARTHIST 240)5 units
  • ARTHIST 442: Art History in the First Person (ARTHIST 242A)5 units
  • ARTHIST 457A: Making Art History: Black Mountain College (ARTHIST 257)5 units
  • ARTHIST 459A: The Mongol Empire (ARTHIST 259A, HISTORY 289A, HISTORY 389A)5 units
  • ARTHIST 465A: Word and Image (ARTHIST 265A, COMPLIT 225, ITALIAN 265, ITALIAN 365)3-5 units
  • ARTHIST 475A: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde (ARTHIST 275, FILMEDIA 275, FILMEDIA 475, REES 275A)5 units
  • ARTHIST 488A: Putting It Together: The Art of Curating5 units
  • ARTHIST 494: Complicating Minimal Art: Racializing, Queering, and Politicizing a Canon (CSRE 394)5 units
  • ARTHIST 502: Methods and Debates5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
  • ARTHIST 610: Teaching Praxis1-5 units
  • ARTHIST 620: Qualifying Examination Preparation5-8 units
  • ARTHIST 640: Dissertation Proposal Preparation5 units
  • ARTHIST 650: Dissertation Research5 units
  • ARTHIST 660: Independent Study1-15 units
  • ARTHIST 660E: Extended Seminar4 units
  • ARTHIST 670: Dissertation Seminar1-2 units
  • ARTHIST 680: Curricular Practical Training1-3 units
  • ARTHIST 802: TGR Dissertation0 units

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