A HI 4943 . Fieldwork for Art History.3 Credit Hours.
(Slashlisted with A HI 5943) Prerequisite: Junior standing and permission of instructor. Students will be introduced to the idea that strategies art historians have developed to interpret art can be applied to the full range of traces left by human beings in the natural world. This course stretches the disciple of art history in experimental ways, challenging the centrality of art, understood as the sort of object that belongs in a museum. No student may earn credit for both 4943 and 5943. (Irreg.)