Courses and Materials
Introduction to Art History – Renaissance to Contemporary
This course is the second part of the art history survey offered at Duke University. The syllabus shown here is from an intensive summer session version of the course. The sample assignment, an Image Book project, is one that throughout the semester and is designed to generate discussion in class and encourage students to apply ideas from the course to the larger visual environment.
- Sample Syllabus - Art History Survey
- Sample Assignment - Image Book Project
Modern Architecture (1750-1950)
- Syllabus - Modern Architecture (2006)
Art History/German Studies Seminar - Berlin: Art, Architecture, and the City
- Syllabus
- Powerpoint Presentation - "Public Space II" Poast - 1968 ideas about urban appropriation (The squatting movement, Interbau 1987, the Berlin Wall, and public art in Berlin)
