This fall, we offer four courses that are specifically designed for new undergraduate students and that satisfy the Sector Requirement of the College:

ARTH 001 is a sweeping, interdisciplinary survey of the "built environment" that introduces students to the field of architecture. Professor Lothar Haselberger, trained as an engineer and archaeologist as well as a historian, will reveal the secrets of the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids, Pantheon, the soaring Gothic cathedrals, St. Peter's, St. Paul's, and a sampling of the masterpieces of modern architecture.

ARTH 101 looks at all the arts of Europe, from the birth of visual communication in prehistoric times up to the dawn of the Renaissance. Professor Robert Ousterhout, a historian of medieval architecture, will take students into the painted caves of southern France, up the Nile valley, onto the Acropolis in Athens, into the forum in ancient Rome, along the route that led medieval pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela, and up to the top of Brunelleschi’s dome
for Florence cathedral.

ARTH 104 introduces the vast variety of art created in South Asia—in the modern nations of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. From prehistory until the present, this enormous territory has been both the incubator of distinctive, new artistic ideas and a participant in the global exchange of visual culture. The instructor is Professor Michael Meister.

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