AHIS GR8000

This course offered a very nuanced and alternate take of the historiography of art history. I really appreciated works highlighted including Linda Nochlin, less known texts by Panosky, Allan Sekula and Zoe Strother. We learned on how to thoughtfully construct one's sources of evidence, archive, approaches to narrative and, most importantly, problematizing the idea of globalizing the discipline.

This course was very helpful in learning about methodologies and why methodologies are important.

Expanded knowledge of art historical methodologies. Thought I've take methods at both the undergraduate and graduate level before, this course was different and didn't list the methods in a typical chronology but rather critically and productively combined them with each other so that each class built on the knowledge acquired in the last. I feel much more secure and confident in my command of art historical methodologies.

Through this course I have learned about key figures and different approaches to the theorization and study of the history of art. Not only the course introduced me to different methods, it also introduced me to different writing styles and ways of addressing art hisorical topics. The course also allowed me to improve my writing skills. The written assignments were an excellent way to engage with some of the course's authors and ideas at a deeper level, to think thoroughly about their methods, and through this, to rethink my own approach to the study of art history.

This discussion-intensive course offered a critical historiography of art history and related disciplines. It included "modules" or series of weeks on the historical epistemology of the discipline and on specific thematic lenses with methodological implications. This course helped me situate my affinities in the history and contemporary landscape of the field and encouraged me to think more critically about the practice of research and writing. The peer-review aspect of the exercises in different "genres" was very helpful in both practicing how to read and make suggestions for colleagues in different fields, and in receiving comments and writing for a scholarly but non-expert audience.

This course introduced me to foundational art historical theory and touched upon the way bodies of theory evolved in relation to historical changes. More intangibly, this course introduced me to methods for applying art historical theory in my work and writing at the graduate level.

This course exposes students to major methods and theories in the discipline. The weekly writing assignments help sharpen skills throughout the term, building towards the final paper.