Art and Music History Course Offerings

Linked course titles have extended descriptions. Syllabi provided where available.

Course	Title	Day	Time	Instructor	Room	Syllabus	Description
HOA 105 M001	Art & Ideas I	TTH	12:30 PM-1:25 PM	Cornelison, Sally			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from the renaissance through the present day that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, societal values, technology, and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M002	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	8:25 AM-9:20 AM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M003	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	9:30 AM-10:25 AM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M004	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	10:35 AM-11:30 AM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M005	Art & Ideas I discussion	F	9:30 AM-10:25 AM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M006	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	11:40 AM-12:35 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M007	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	12:45 PM-1:40 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M008	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	2:15 PM-3:10 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M009	Art & Ideas I discussion	W	3:45 PM-4:40 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M010	Art & Ideas I discussion	F	10:35 AM-11:30 AM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M011	Art & Ideas I discussion	F	11:40 AM-12:35 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M012	Art & Ideas I discussion	F	12:45 PM-1:40 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOA 105 M013	Art & Ideas I discussion	F	2:15 PM-3:10 PM	TA-			Register for one Discussion M002-M013; Section M001 will auto-enroll. Introductory overview of art and architecture from antiquity through the late medieval period that emphasizes how visual culture relates to historical and intellectual circumstances, society values, technology and diverse and changing identities. Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
HOM 125 M001	Introductory Music Theory I	TTH	9:30 AM-10:50 AM	Dubaniewicz			VPA course crosslisted with MTC 125, For Students With Little or No Music Theory Background. Elementary note reading, meter, intervals; diatonic harmony including key signatures, major & minor scales, triads, 7th chords and accompanying chord symbols. For non-music majors only.
HOM 125 M002	Introductory Music Theory I	TTH	12:30 PM-1:50 PM	Dubaniewicz			VPA course crosslisted with MTC 125, For Students With Little or No Music Theory Background. Elementary note reading, meter, intervals; diatonic harmony including key signatures, major & minor scales, triads, 7th chords and accompanying chord symbols. For non-music majors only.
HOM 165 M001	Understanding Music I	MW	2:15 PM-3:35 PM	Wang, Serena			Introduction to the art of music. Development of musical styles in the West from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Assumes no prior musical knowledge.
HOM 165 M002	Understanding Music I	MW	3:45 PM-5:05 PM	Wang, Serena			Introduction to the art of music. Development of musical styles in the West from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Assumes no prior musical knowledge.
HOM 165 M003	Understanding Music I	TTH	12:30 PM-1:50 PM	Wang, Serena			Introduction to the art of music. Development of musical styles in the West from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Assumes no prior musical knowledge.
HOM 172 M001	American Popular Music	TTH	11:00 AM-12:20 PM	Cateforis, Theo			The history of American popular music from the 19th century to more recent developments.
HOA 200 M001	ST: History of Photography	TTH	3:30 PM-4:50 PM	Innes, Margaret			This class surveys the history of photography from the mid-nineteenth century to the present with an emphasis on aesthetic, cultural, and technological developments and debates. Major themes include photography's entanglement with the arts; its relationship to structures of colonialism, capitalism, and globalization; and its many vernacular and social functions. We will also devote significant attention to the analysis of photographs as images and material objects.
HOM 267 M001	European Music before 1800	TTH	11:00 AM-12:20 PM	Peñate, Cary			Crosslisted w/ MHL 267. European music before 1800 in its cultural and philosophical contexts. Extensive listening. Analytical focus on selected composers and works. Presupposes familiarity with musical notation, terms, and contexts.
HOA 300 M001	ST: Studies in Asian Art	TTH	12:30 PM-1:50 PM	Staff			This course is an introduction to the visual arts of China, Japan, and Korea, from historical to contemporary periods. In the class, students will explore the visual culture of East Asia by closely examining major artworks and sites of these regions, including bronze vessels, scroll paintings, calligraphic inscriptions, pictorial screens, ceramics, Buddhist cave-shrines, imperial palaces, and contemporary art. We will focus on political context, cultural exchange, stylistic innovation, religious tradition, social class, and gender. Students will also conduct object-based study of Asian artworks at Syracuse University Art Museum.
HOA 300 M002	ST: Latin American Contemporary Art (1960s to 2000s)	TTH	2:00 PM-3:20 PM	Staff			Latin American Contemporary Art (1960s to 2000s) explores artists and artworks from Latin America and their diasporas in the United States. Students will learn from six decades of sociopolitical conflicts in Latin America, including military dictatorships, the political imprisonment and exile of numerous artists, NGOs and the macroeconomies, rampant deforastation of the Amazon, and social and economic inequalities setting off new developments in contemporary art. Amongst art concepts and movements are Neoconcretism, Conceptual art, Group Art, Poeisis, Experimental Art, Hydrokineticism, Mail Art, Public Art, Conceptualism, Decontextualization Art, Postfiguration, Postpolitics, Language Art, Anti-Poemas and Artefactos, Bilboard Art, Figuration and Abstraction, Private Correspondence works, Happenings, Performance, Activism and Fluxus Art. The book to be used for this class is Conceptualism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation, by Luis Camnitzer, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.
HOM 300 M001	ST: Music of the 1960s	TTH	3:30 PM-4:50 PM	Wang, Serena			The 1960s was a monumental decade for musical development. Taking a global perspective, we will examine how music fueled social and political movements around the world. Our topics include the Chilean New Song movement, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, experimental music, the British Invasion, and the folk music revival in the United States. This is a discussion-based course that accumulates to a final project through which students conduct independent research on a topic of their choice.
HOA 302 M001	Greek Art and Architecture	TTH	11:00 AM-12:20 PM	Mateo, Matilde			Works of Greek art and architecture are examined in their historical, social, and cultural contexts, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period.
HOM 314 M001	Music Videos from MTV to Today	MW	3:45 PM-5:05 PM	Staff			A critical and historical examination of music videos from the 1980s to today.
HOM 372 M001	Music of Multicultural America	MW	2:15 PM-3:35 PM	Staff			Issues, concepts, and processes that have shaped ethnic musical subcultures in the U.S., with case studies such as the pow-wow, gospel blues, conjunto, klezmer, and South Asian bhangra musics.
HOA 396 M001	Art & Architecture of India	MW	12:45 PM-2:05 PM	Ray, Romita			Crosslisted w/ ARC 331, SAS 396. Art and architecture of the Indian subcontinent from the Indus Valley Civilization to the present.
HOM 400 M001	ST: Alternative Music of the 1990s	TTH	2:00 PM-3:20 PM	Cateforis, Theo			Meets w/ HOM 600. This course examines one of the defining musical styles of the 1990s: alternative. The surprise success of Nirvana’s 1991 Nevermind album catapulted what had been an underground alternative music scene into mainstream popularity, where it became a defining part of 1990s American popular culture. In class, we will consider alternative’s significance with a critical lens, drawing both from scholarly studies and selections from magazines, fanzines, press releases, music videos, documentaries, and more from the 1990s. Among the issues we will examine are alternative and grunge’s identity as a subcultural style, alternative’s use of sarcasm and irony as subversive strategies, the rise of “women in rock” and movements like Riot Grrrl that thrust feminist musical statements into the foreground, and how the music industry sought to capitalize on alternative’s sense of authentic rebellion. We will listen to and learn about a variety of alternative artists from across the 1990s and trace their influence as well into the contemporary popular music landscape.
HOA 412 M001	From Gothic to Goth	TTH	3:30 PM-4:50 PM	Mateo, Matilde			Exploration of the definition, meaning, and appeal of the Gothic through the ages as an architectural language, a literary and film genre, and the Goth subculture.
HOM 419 M001	Music and Media	TTH	2:00 PM-3:20 PM	Peñate, Cary			A critical studyof contemporary music and media in a variety of contexts, including radio, recordings, television, film and cyberspace.
HOA 446 M001	Baroque Art in Northern Europe	MW	2:15 AM-3:35 PM	Franits, Wayne			PREREQ HOA 106 Painting and sculpture in Belgium, Holland, and France during the seventeenth century; Rubens, VanDyck, Jordaens, Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Ruisdael, the Le Nains, and Georges de la Tour.
HOA 454 M001	The Architecture of Revolutions	MW	12:45 PM-2:05 PM	Bédard, Jean-François			Crosslisted w/ ARC 334, meets w/ ARC 634. Survey of European architectural theory and practice from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. Discussion and analysis of major architects, buildings, and architectural treatises, principally from France, England, and Germany. Additional work required of graduate students.
HOM 473 M001	Women, Rap, Hip-Hop Feminism	M	12:45 AM-3:30 PM	Pough, Gwendolyn			Crosslisted w/ WGS 473, WGS 673. Links between feminism, rap music and hip-hop culture. We explore the work of actual women in hip-hop, images of women, and feminist critiques of the music and the culture. Additional work required of graduate students.
HOM 493 M001	Music and Identity	MW	12:45 PM-2:05 PM	Staff			A critical study of the intersections of music and various types of identites in the world today, such as individual, ethnic, gender, religious, national, and commercial.
HOA 498 M001	Art History Senior Seminar	MW	3:45 PM-5:05 PM	Ray, Romita			Senior Art History majors Research, writing, and career exploration for senior art history majors. Students develop, edit, and revise texts spanning professional practices in art history.
HOA 577 M001	Introduction to Preservation	MW	8:00 AM-9:20 AM	Bartlett, Charles			Crosslisted w/ ARC 566 Problems and methods in implementing continued use for quality segments of the humanly built environment.
HOA 592 M001	Topics in Global Modernisms: Russian Modernism	TTH	2:00 PM-3:20 PM	Johnson, Samuel			This course gives students an in-depth look at 20th century art in Russia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR. The unusual—indeed revolutionary—circumstances of the Russian 20th century make its art especially rich and complex. Rather than a change in governments, the territories of the former Russian Empire experienced the transition to whole new society in 1917, one in which art would play an entirely different role. In this class, we will trace the assimilation of a vibrant avant-garde culture into a state-controlled propaganda system; we will look closely at the interactions between artists in Russia and Western Europe as they become increasingly regulated and infrequent; we will examine the activities of a small group of “non-conformist” artists who emerge from isolation to rejoin the international scene after World War II; and finally, we will see how artists respond to the collapse of the Soviet system and the chaotic transition to post-Soviet life.
HOA 600 M001	ST: Studies in Ancient Art: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Idea and Image	M	12:45 PM-3:30 PM	Staff			The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World—the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos at Alexandria—live in our imagination as testaments to the ingenuity and creativity of ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cultures. With all but one lost to time, we can approach these monuments in their ancient context by investigating ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek/Hellenistic material culture and text. In this class, students will investigate the archaeological and textual sources for the wonders and consider the broader visual worlds they came from. We will also look at how the list of seven came to be, the afterlives of these ancient “masterpieces,” and consider the challenges and opportunities of reconstructing lost monuments.
HOM 600 M001	ST: Alternative Music of the 1990s	TTH	2:00 PM-3:20 PM	Cateforis, Theo			Meets w/ HOM 400. This course examines one of the defining musical styles of the 1990s: alternative. The surprise success of Nirvana’s 1991 Nevermind album catapulted what had been an underground alternative music scene into mainstream popularity, where it became a defining part of 1990s American popular culture. In class, we will consider alternative’s significance with a critical lens, drawing both from scholarly studies and selections from magazines, fanzines, press releases, music videos, documentaries, and more from the 1990s. Among the issues we will examine are alternative and grunge’s identity as a subcultural style, alternative’s use of sarcasm and irony as subversive strategies, the rise of “women in rock” and movements like Riot Grrrl that thrust feminist musical statements into the foreground, and how the music industry sought to capitalize on alternative’s sense of authentic rebellion. We will listen to and learn about a variety of alternative artists from across the 1990s and trace their influence as well into the contemporary popular music landscape.
HOA 620 M001	Proseminar in the History of Italian Renaissance Art	W	12:45 PM-3:30 PM	Cornelison, Sally			This seminar is intended to provide a strong foundation in the history of Italian art and architecture from c. 1300 to 1600. It will address the geographical and cultural diversity of the Italian peninsula during this period, while also delving into the historiography, methodologies, and current issues related to the study of visual culture in early modern Italy. Special emphasis will be placed on developing graduate-level research and writing skills. Topics to be explored include primary source materials, gender, faith, the global Renaissance, ritual, and court culture, among others.
HOA 655 M001	Graduate Research & Writing	T	9:30 AM-12:15 PM	Johnson, Samuel			This proseminar teaches graduate students in art history the research methods and scholarly writing skills required to be successful M.A. candidates and to become competitive professionals in arthistory and related fields. To this end, this course provides extensive training to develop students’ skills in the following three areas: writing, research, and presentation. We will hone these skills by curating an art exhibition for the Syracuse University Art Museum.
HOA 656 M001	Literature of Art Criticism	TH	9:30 AM-12:15 PM	Innes, Margaret			This course is intended to prepare graduate students for advanced studies in the history of the visual arts. Students will familiarize themselves with several major critical approaches in art history through an intensive course of reading. This selection of historical and contemporary texts is meant to introduce some central theoretical problems in the interpretation of artworks and their ramifications in the field. Since the practice of writing about art’s history is older (and broader) than the academic discipline of art history strictly conceived, this course examines texts from a variety of humanistic studies, such as history, literature, philosophical aesthetics, psychology, and linguistics (each of which has influenced art writing at some point). We will review the fundamental art historical concepts of style and iconography before dipping into the scholarship since the 1970s encompassing postmodernism (feminist, structuralist and post-structuralist, and post-colonial approaches) and visual culture studies.