Spring 2022 AMH Courses

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

Course	Title	Day	Time	Instructor	Room	Syllabus	Description
HOA 100 M001	ST: World Art and Religion	TTH	2:00 PM-3:20 PM	Peers, Glenn			No prerequisites or even experiences of art are needed for this class! This introductory course aims to provide students with an understanding and appreciation of ways in which art has played a role in our history and in our lives. In this class, we’re particularly interested in the aesthetic, social and ideological meanings of art and religion across major cultures around the world, and we’ll be using that set of themes to talk about and look at various aspects of what makes ‘world art history.’ We’ll be focusing on exhibitions and museums here on campus from this same point of view. And we’ll use permanent and temporary exhibitions as ways not only to understand what art means and does in making the divine present to us, but also how museums help and hinder that significant work.
HOA 106 M001	Art & Ideas II	TTH	11:00 AM-11:55 AM	Johnson, Sam			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 106 M002	Art & Ideas II 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 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 106 M003	Art & Ideas II 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 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 106 M004	Art & Ideas II 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 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 106 M005	Art & Ideas II 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 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 106 M006	Art & Ideas II 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 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 106 M007	Art & Ideas II 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 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 106 M008	Art & Ideas II 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 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 106 M009	Art & Ideas II discussion	W	5:15 PM-6:10 PM	TA-			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 106 M010	Art & Ideas II 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 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 106 M011	Art & Ideas II 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 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 106 M012	Art & Ideas II 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 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 106 M013	Art & Ideas II 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 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
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 126 M001	Introductory Music Theory II	TTH	3:30 PM-4:50 PM	Dubaniewicz			VPA course crosslisted with MTC 126, For Students Who Have Already Completed HOM 125 or Have Comparable Skills. Harmonic & melodic minor scales, compound intervals, modes, C clefs, symmetrical scales, dynamics, harmonic series, instrument transpositions, form, cadences, part writing. For non-music majors only.
HOM 166 M001	Understanding Music II	MW	2:15 PM-3:35 PM	Wang, Serena			Introduction to the art of music. Musical styles from early baroque to the 20th century, stressing the characteristic interests and achievements of each historical epoch. Assumes no prior musical knowledge.
HOM 166 M002	Understanding Music II	MW	3:45 PM-5:05 PM	Wang, Serena			Introduction to the art of music. Musical styles from early baroque to the 20th century, stressing the characteristic interests and achievements of each historical epoch. Assumes no prior musical knowledge.
HOM 166 M003	Understanding Music II	TTH	12:30 PM-1:50 PM	Wang, Serena			Introduction to the art of music. Musical styles from early baroque to the 20th century, stressing the characteristic interests and achievements of each historical epoch. Assumes no prior musical knowledge.
HOM 268 M001	European and American Music Since 1800	TTH	11:00 AM-12:20 PM	Fuchs, Sarah			Pre-requisites: Any completed HOM or MHL class and able to read music. Crosslisted with MHL 268. Major trends and figures in art music in the United States and Europe since 1800. Topics include nationalism, neoclassicism, serialism, indeterminacy, and minimalism. Assumes basic knowledge of music.
HOM 285 M002	Introduction to World Music	TTH	9:30 AM-10:50 AM	Moses, Warrick			Crosslisted w/ MHL 185. Introduction to world music in its social, political, and cultural contexts, with an emphasis on building listening and analytic skills. Intended primarily for music and music history and culture majors.
HOA 300 M001	ST: Contemporary Asian Art	MW	3:45 PM-5:05 PM	Jon, Ihnmi			This course introduces students to diverse practices of contemporary art in Japan, Korea, and China. We will trace a broad range of forms, styles, and media of art practices in the East Asian region since 1945, exploring multilateral factors that have entailed the unprecedented changes in painting, sculpture, architecture, and the indefinable area that exists between them. We will take a close look at political and economic changes in the region itself, geopolitical circumstances in the global context, and their impacts on various forms of art institutions that have shaped both intra-Asian and global interconnectivity. The course also addresses related critical themes, such as the role of minorities, multiculturalism, hybridity, and multiple identities, nationalism, and post-coloniality, which help us develop a better understanding of shared values and aspirations, as well as the coexistence of difference and diversity within the East Asian modern and contemporary culture.
HOM 300 M001	ST: Hip-Hop	MW	3:45 PM-5:05 PM	Opara, Ruth			Hip Hop Studies exposes students to the musical, historical, cultural, sociological, economic, and political aspects of the Hip Hop movement that simultaneously reflect and contradict the dominant social arrangements in contemporary Black communities. It takes a critical swipe in analyzing the contributions of hip hop music in the issues of race, racism, sociology of race, philosophy of race, ethnicity, identity, hybridity, gender, sexism, feminism, and womanism, class, class struggle, capitalism, (neo)colonialism, postcolonialism, decolonization, sexuality, hyper-masculinity, homophobia, and heterosexism, religion, non-traditional forms of spirituality, liberation theology, transnationalism, transculturalism, critical multiculturalism, critical pedagogy, non-traditional forms of education (i.e., Gramscian “organic intellectualism”), aesthetics and athletics, pacifism and anti-war movements, environmental rights, the culture industry, mass media, social media, and cyber-politics. This class involves the analyses Hip Hop sounds and how they inform lyrics and visual representations, the engagement of the issues and concepts raised above, and the production of Hip Hop that reflects the student’s identities, experiences, or preferred themes.
HOA 302 M001	Greek Art & Architecture	TTH	12:30 PM-1:50 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	TTH	11:00 AM-12:20 PM	Cateforis, Theo			A critical and historical examination of music videos from the 1980s to today.
HOM 378 M001	Rock Music	TTH	9:30 AM-10:50 AM	Cateforis, Theo			Pre-requisites: Any HOM/MHL course. The roots, development, and diffusion of rock music.
HOM 396 M001	Junior Seminar - Writing about Music	MW	12:45 PM-2:05 PM	Winkler, Amanda Eubanks			MH&C Major or Minor or instructor permission. Students learn to research and write about music for a variety of written genres and a wide range of audiences, both academic and public.
HOM 400 M001	ST: Music and Diaspora	TTH	3:30 PM-4:50 PM	Wang, Serena			The superspeed dissemination of arts and culture, technological innovation and espionage, the refugee crisis, a global pandemic… all have pushed diaspora and transnationalism to the forefront of both popular and academic discourse. This course considers music as a diasporic and transnational phenomenon. We begin by examining the theories on modernity, identity, and migration. We then assess recent literature on musical cultures of diverse diasporic communities, including those of the digital sphere. During class discussion we examine the intersections of the diasporic musical practices with class, race, and gender. For the final project, each student will complete a research project on a topic related to course readings and discussions.
HOM 400 M002	ST: Sound Cultures	TTH	12:30 PM-1:50 PM	Fuchs, Sarah			Meets with HOM 600 M002 This seminar-style course explores how sound inflects our understanding of culture/cultures. Over the course of the semester, our conversations will revolve around themes including: sound and representations of race, gender, and sexuality; the voice as an instrument of selfhood and subjectivity; sound, ownership, and authorship in the digital age; silence and silencing; and sound and place. Throughout the semester, we will engage in sonic experiments, take soundwalks, curate playlists, listen collectively to sound recordings, and read scholarship drawn from the interdisciplinary field of sound studies. In addition to engaging in lively in-class discussions and debates, students will work collaboratively to curate a digital exhibition on “Sound Art.”
HOM 400 M003	ST: Afrofuturism and Music	TTH	2:00 PM-3:20 PM	Moses, Warrick			Meets with HOM 600 M003 Since its formal naming as a theoretical framework in 1993, “Afrofuturism” today encapsulates an array of cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic modes. Despite subsequent revisions of the term, Mark Dery’s initial description - “African American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future” - remains a useful barometer against which to gauge relationships between race, technology, and temporality. In this reading and writing intensive course, we will look at expressions of Afrofuturism within the fields of speculative literary fiction, visual, and especially musical arts. How has the term “Afrofuturism” been expanded to include contemporary and non-US trends?
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.
HOA 446 M001	Baroque Art in Northern Europe	TTH	11:00 AM-12:20 PM	Franits, Wayne			Pre-requisite: 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 458 M001	Art of Romanticism	MW	2:15 PM-3:35 PM	Ray, Romita			Pre-requisite: HOA 106 Revival movements, landscape painting, romanticism, and realism. Developments from David to Courbet. Sometimes offered abroad.
HOM 473 M001	Women, Rap, Hip-Hop Feminism	MW	2:15 PM-3:35 PM	Pough, G			WGS course crosslisted w/WGS 473/673. 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.
HOA 479 M001	Early Modern Architecture	MW	3:45 PM-5:05 PM	Henderson, Susan			Crosslisted with ARC 431/731 Early modern architecture from the 1890s through the 1930s. Additional work required of graduate students.
HOM 494 M001	Music and Gender	MW	12:45 PM-2:05 PM	Opara, Ruth			Department Consent Required. Crosslisted with WGS 494. The impact of gender ideology and behavior on the performing arts and the role of performance in maintaining and subverting gender identities and relations.
HOA 500 M001	ST: Break That Statue: Iconoclasm	T	9:30 AM-12:15 PM	Peers, Glenn			The power and seductiveness of things have been revealed consistently through attacks and accusations against them. Things—art, propaganda, objects in the world—have often been challenging to our assumptions of control and to our fear of others’ power. This class examines incidents and explanations of iconoclasm, the willful destruction of images or objects, in order to understand more fully the roles art has played in various cultures in the past and in the present. It also takes as central themes idolatry, theoretical or religious proscription of images (such as the second commandment), historical conditions of aniconism, and active vandalism that reveals the political, religious and social power of art. The class takes an historical approach and will examine moments of iconoclasm from the past (for example, in eighth-/ninth-century Byzantium and Early Modern Europe) and into our present debates over statues of Confederate figures and Columbus. It will also look at apparent connections between monotheism and iconoclasm, and so it will raise the question of iconoclasm’s necessity in human cultures. By looking at the history of the power of images and of counter-reactions to it, the class will attempt to answer some questions about our own suspicion—and sometimes hatred—of things we make and call art.
HOA 500 M002	ST: Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting	TTH	2:00 PM-3:20 PM	Franits, Wayne			Art History grads and majors only. This course is perhaps better entitled "Dutch Genre Painting and Vermeer." We will certainly study the life and work of the famous yet still enigmatic seventeenth-century Dutch genre painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). However, his oeuvre and the scholarship that it has inspired will be examined in relation to broader issues pertaining to genre painting as a whole in the Dutch Republic during the so-called Golden Age. Problems along traditional art historical lines will be pursued--including those of stylistic development, attribution, and the critical relationship of Vermeer’s work to that of other masters--but its cultural/historical/theoretical aspects (and ramifications) will also command interest. Our in-depth study of Vermeer's work and the voluminous scholarship dedicated to it will allow us to explore the artist and genre painting in the Dutch Republic in detail. Therefore, the course consists only partly of lectures, as we will also focus upon historiography, namely, the body of scholarly literature relevant to our topic. Students will participate directly as we discuss reading assignments. The last few classes will be devoted to oral reports by participants.
HOA 576 M001	Topics in American Art: A Critical History of American Art	MW	12:45 PM-2:05 PM	Scott, Sascha			Pre-requisites: HOA 106 or 276 or any HOA 300 level. Critical exploration of an important American movement, theme, period, or artist. Emphasizing discussion and recent scholarship. This course will examine art production in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries with a focus on those artists who have been historically underrepresented, ignored, or elided. This critical history of American art will ask how and why the “cannon” (the roster of artists and movements foregrounded in American art histories) was established and will seek to disrupt dominant narratives that long excluded artists based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, and/or sexuality.
HOA 600 M001	ST: Institutional Critique	TH	3:30 PM-6:15 PM	Johnson, Sam			By the end of the 1960s, institutional critique had emerged as a new variety of avant-garde art practice. Hans Haacke, Michael Asher, Daniel Buren, and others succeeded in combining established approaches to modernist self-reflexivity with the sociological gaze of the political left. To these artists, the autonomy of the art object was the product of institutional frames, like those of galleries and museums, which succeeded first of all in depoliticizing their own cultural power. The cancellation of exhibitions by Buren and Haacke in the 1970s, widely viewed as acts of censorship at the time, showed that this approach had struck a nerve. But in the decades since, arts institutions have learned to make cultural capital from political scandal. As Andrea Frasier argued in 2005, the art world has transformed the critique of institutions into an “institution of critique.” This course will examine the canonical instances of institutional critique and its development into an identifiable approach with distinct waves of generational activity, from the 1970s to the present. We will also construct a genealogy of these practices by looking at significant encounters with institutional power in the first half of the 20th century.
HOA 600 M002	ST: Plant Worlds	M	5:15 PM-8:00 PM	Ray, Romita			This course will examine the visual cultures of plants with a focus on the interconnected histories of art, design, and science. We will study plants in botanical illustration, garden design, landscape painting, forest spaces, architecture, material culture, and advertising (food histories and grocery stores) within the broader context of the Anthropocene. We will look at the legacies of imperialism, study the impact of climate change and deforestation, and consider the forces of transnational capitalism—all with regard to plants, which have long been transformed into lucrative commodities. This course will involve field trips to the Special Collections Research Center; Syracuse University Art Museum; Light Work; various plant science laboratories at SU; Syracuse Refugee Agricultural Program (SyRAP) gardens; and (weather permitting) the Cornell Botanic Gardens. During the course of the semester, students will work in teams to develop interactive essays for a virtual garden. Students will draw on materials from the Syracuse University art collections, Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), JSTOR Global Plants, and other digital databases to craft engaging narratives and visualizations. To create these essays, we will use Juncture, a new, open access, visual essay tool developed by JSTOR Labs. We will collaborate with the Plant Humanities Lab at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks to create this virtual garden of research essays.
HOM 600 M002	ST: Sound Cultures	TTH	12:30 PM-1:50 PM	Fuchs, Sarah			Meets with HOM 400, M002 This seminar-style course explores how sound inflects our understanding of culture/cultures. Over the course of the semester, our conversations will revolve around themes including: sound and representations of race, gender, and sexuality; the voice as an instrument of selfhood and subjectivity; sound, ownership, and authorship in the digital age; silence and silencing; and sound and place. Throughout the semester, we will engage in sonic experiments, take soundwalks, curate playlists, listen collectively to sound recordings, and read scholarship drawn from the interdisciplinary field of sound studies. In addition to engaging in lively in-class discussions and debates, students will work collaboratively to curate a digital exhibition on “Sound Art.”
HOM 600 M003	ST: Afrofuturism and Music	TTH	2:00 PM-3:20 PM	Moses, Warrick			Meets with HOM 400, M003 Since its formal naming as a theoretical framework in 1993, “Afrofuturism” today encapsulates an array of cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic modes. Despite subsequent revisions of the term, Mark Dery’s initial description - “African American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future” - remains a useful barometer against which to gauge relationships between race, technology, and temporality. In this reading and writing intensive course, we will look at expressions of Afrofuturism within the fields of speculative literary fiction, visual, and especially musical arts. How has the term “Afrofuturism” been expanded to include contemporary and non-US trends?
HOA 757 M001	Art History Symposium Project		TBD	Scott, Sascha			All candidates for the M.A. degree in art history participate in the Symposium Project in their final semester of study. The goals of this 3-credit-hour course are to give graduate students experience in the research, writing, and oral presentation of substantial and original scholarly work. The Symposium Project (HOA 757) requires intensive expenditure of effort and time, both in scheduled class meetings and in private consultations with faculty advisors.