Corcoran College of Art and Design

+ Academic Studies and Art History

Where History Comes Alive: Museums & Monuments in Washington, D.C.

AH3393 (3.0 credits)
This intensive one-week seminar examines the major monuments, memorials, and museums of Washington, D.C. as well as their social, political, and historical significance.

Where History Comes Alive: Museums & Monuments in Washington, D.C.

AH6393 (3.0 credits)
This intensive one-week seminar examines the major monuments, memorials, and museums of Washington, D.C. as well as their social, political, and historical significance. (Graduate level)

Medieval Legends in Art

No sections available this semester

AH2300 (3.0 credits or audit)
This course examines the relationship between medieval epic tales and artistic representations of those stories from the 11th-14th centuries in Western Europe. (CE students may request special permission to enroll in this 3 credit undergraduate course.)

Survey of Decorative Arts II

No sections available this semester

AH3020 (3.0 credits)
Students examine the decorative arts from the 19th century to the present.

History of Design

No sections available this semester

AH3060 (3.0 credits or audit)
This wide-ranging survey from 1850 to the present presents a history of designed objects, images, and spaces. (CE students may request special permission to enroll in this 3 credit undergraduate course.)

Digital Media Culture

No sections available this semester

AH3065 (3.0 credits)
Focusing on both contemporary and obsolete technologies and mediums, this course covers the impact of the digital revolution on culture, business, and the individual.

Theories and History of Graphic Design

No sections available this semester

AH3150 (3.0 credits)
This course investigates traditional and contemporary ideas, language, and theories of graphic design. (CE students may request special permission to enroll in this 3 credit undergraduate course.)

Arts of the Caribbean and its Diaspora

No sections available this semester

AH3375 (3.0 credits)
Focusing on the work of artists in Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, and the United States, topics of study will include representation, resistance, religion, migration, and more.

Postmodernism: Beginning and End?

No sections available this semester

AH4201 (3.0 credits)
This course investigates the formative texts and seminal theorists that define and develop the concept of the postmodern.

Icons and Iconoclasm

No sections available this semester

AH4210 (3.0 credits)
This seminar explores the destruction or obliteration of images with religious and political significance in history and in recent art.