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2009 Summer Session Course Listings
Note: Northwestern day school students need permission from the dean of their school to enroll in School of Continuing Studies courses. SCS courses are indicated by a -CN after the course number (example: ACCOUNT 204-CN Sec. 28). The majority of Summer Session courses do not need dean approval.
Art History
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
ART HIST 340-2 Sec. 28 
Baroque Art
CAESAR Class Number: 42813
8 weeks,
EVAN,
6/23 - 8/11
Tu 6 - 9:15pm
Claudia Swan
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 3430.
Art in the Age of Rembrandt surveys the arts, popular and elite, of the newly founded Dutch Republic; its focus is on the northern visual culture of the seventeenth century. The course considers a variety of types of images in a range of media -- from genre scenes to landscapes to self-portraits, painted, drawn, and in print -- dating to what is conventionally credited as the 'Golden Age' of Dutch art; it also analyzes and assesses the various interpretive models that have been brought to bear on them. The presentation of the historical material is organized, roughly, according to the various genres whose emergence is a defining characteristic of artistic production of the time. Particular attention will be given to the socio-cultural context in which the works were produced and viewed; the rise of the open market in the Netherlands in the 17th century; and individual career trajectories (Goltzius, Steen, Rembrandt, de Keyser, Vermeer). The defining role of Rembrandt in relation to his contemporaries and in the context of the historiography of Dutch art will be critically assessed.
ART HIST 360-1 Sec. 28
Closed
20th Century European Art
CAESAR Class Number: 40628
8 weeks,
EVAN,
6/25 - 8/13
Th 6 - 9:15pm
Lynne Pudles
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 3430.
This class will cover the major movements of twentieth century western art. Included are Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Expressionism, Suprematism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and Performance Art. Some of the topics to be considered are the nature of modernism, art about art, art as idea, art and spirituality, art and politics, art and absurdity, the role of the unconscious, dreams and the imagination, art and culture, and the changing mission of the artist. Classes will consist of lecture and discussion. This course counts toward the Weinberg College literature and fine arts distribution requirement, Area VI.
ART HIST 379-0 Sec. 28
Closed
Special Topic in Architecture: Chicago Architecture and Urbanism
CAESAR Class Number: 42812
8 weeks,
EVAN,
6/24 - 8/12
W 6 - 9:15pm
Alison Fisher
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 3430.
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Chicago has held a distinctive place in American architectural history - as a creative outpost in the prairie, a burgeoning commercial landscape, a fairground, and a city marked by urban inequity and political power. This course will explore these themes while introducing the work of architects who have shaped the city and its suburbs, from William Le Baron Jenney and Louis Sullivan to Mies van der Rohe and SOM. Several site visits throughout the course will allow students to gain an appreciation for the material dimensions and urban planning of Chicago.
Indicates an Evening Course.
Indicates a Study Abroad Course.
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