Art History Courses

Note: For Sophmore planning and other projected planning, please view the Projected New Art History Courses page for new program offerings available over the next two years.

Poster for Art History course, Fall 2025, ARTH083

ARTH083: A wide-ranging introduction to the detective work of analyzing objects and material culture, with an emphasis on Asian objects and cultural histories. In addition to learning how to study media such as metals and ceramics, textiles and paper, glass and animal horn, among others, this course considers theories of materiality and the material histories of different media.

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Spring 2025

ARTH 003. Asian Art: Past and Present
- Eberhard.
ARTH 026. Painting, Chemistry and Conservation
- Cross-Listed: CHEM 003B.
- Reilly. Beaulac.
ARTH 048. 20th Century Latin American Art
- Checa-Gismero.
ARTH 061. Art and Culture of Indigenous Philadelphia: From Shackamaxon to the Present
- Cross Listed with (ENVS 056)
- Green.
ARTH 073. Global History of Architecture: 1800-Present
- Goldstein.
ARTH 079. Indigenous Arts of the Americas
- Cross-Listed with (ENVS 056A)
- Green.
ARTH 081. Uncovering Philadelphia's Asian Art
- Eligible for ASIA
- Eberhard.
ARTH 082. Histories of Modern Craft
- Eligible for GLBL and ESCH
- Checa-Gismero.
ARTH 100. Senior Capstone
- Reilly.
ARTH 153. Modern Architecture and Urbanism: Honors Seminar
- Goldstein.

Fall 2025

ARTH 001N. First Year Seminar: Indigenous Art, Land, and Environment.
- Cross-Listed: ENVS 002
- Green.
ARTH 001S. FYS: Uncovering Philadelphia's Asian Art
- Eligible for ASIA, ASAM
- Eberhard.
ARTH 002. Cave Painting to the Sistine Ceiling
- Reilly.
ARTH 046. Socially Engaged Art in the Americas
- Checa-Gismero.
ARTH 067. Building Architecture from Dirt to Dust
- Goldstein.
ARTH 083. Object, Media, Matter: Introduction to Material Culture and Material Histories
- Eberhard.
ARTH 094. Transnational Modernisms
- Checa-Gismero.
ARTH 138. Renaissance Art & Global Expansion: Honors Seminar
- Reilly.

Spring 2026

ARTH 001J. First Year Seminar: Arts of Everyday Life
- Checa-Gismero.
ARTH 003. Asian Art: Past and Present
- Eberhard.
ARTH 029. Architecture and Urbanism of Philadelphia
- Goldstein.
ARTH 051. Renaissance Florence and Environs
- Reilly.
ARTH 074. Histories of Photography
- Eberhard.
ARTH 076. Art Museums: History, Theory, Controversy
- Reilly.
ARTH 100. Senior Capstone
- Goldstein.
ARTH 160. Global Contemporary Art: Honors Seminar
- Checa-Gismero.

Fall 2026

ARTH 001M. First-Year Seminar: Leonardo
- Reilly
ARTH 005. Modern Art in Europe and the United States
- Staff.
ARTH 010. Art and Climate Change
- Eligible for ENVS.
- Staff.
ARTH 013. Ancient Greece and Rome
- Reilly.
ARTH 066. Colloquium: Race, Space, and Architecture
- Goldstein.
ARTH 084. Asia/Americas: Art Across the Pacific, 1571 to Today
- Eberhard.
ARTH 154. Art of Modern China: Honors Seminar
- Eberhard.

Spring 2027

ARTH 001J. First Year Seminar: Arts of Everyday Life
- Staff.
ARTH 008. Built Ecologies: Architecture, Landscape, and Environment in East Asia
- Eberhard.
ARTH 026. Painting, Chemistry and Conservation
- Cross-Listed: CHEM 003B.
- Reilly.
ARTH 040. Michelangelo to Mussolini: The Classical Tradition in Rome
- Reilly.
ARTH 048. 20th Century Latin American Art
- Staff.
ARTH 072. Global History of Architecture: Prehistory to 1750 CE
- Goldstein.
ARTH 100. Senior Capstone
- Eberhard.
ARTH 153. Modern Architecture and Urbanism: Honors Seminar
- Goldstein.