Contemporary Art History and Theory (CAHT) is built around a series of lectures presented by a team of professors that explores diverse episodes in art since about 1960 presented in a roughly chronological order. Art historical and discursive in nature, CAHT offers incoming students both a body of shared knowledge and a common language for talking about recent-historical and contemporary art. CAHT presents an array of ideas, artists, artworks, and theoretical frameworks with particular focus on how works of art of various media engage with their social, political, and cultural contexts. The course is by no means a comprehensive survey, but rather a polyvocal view of the field, with varied artists, ideas, places, politics, and notions of history brought to bear over the semester's duration.

Each weekly CAHT module includes a set of pre-recorded lectures to view and significant texts to read before attending the synchronous weekly discussion section. Assessment of student learning in CAHT is based on: active participation in the small-group discussions of critical texts (with professor and peers); several short written critical summaries; and individual oral presentations, including leading the discussion of readings/texts when assigned to do so. Due to the relevance of readings/written summaries to the weekly discussions, late work will not be accepted. Online course sections will be delivered mostly asynchronously, with some synchronous components that will be outlined in the course syllabus if applicable.This course has two components and you are required to register for both. There is a Lecture section for the asynchronous portions of the course and a Workshop section that is for required synchronous components of the course. The asynchronous work will be done on your own time while the required online synchronous meeting times are listed as the meeting pattern for this course section.

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