Graduate Courses
To check information and important dates for registration, visit our Dodd Class Registration page. Full course descriptions can be found in the UGA Bulletin. Athena is the source of the most up-to-date information on class times and locations.
Students on assistantship during the summer semester are required to enroll in a minimum of 9 graduate level credits, including ARTS 7005/9005 for 3 credits. The School of Art offers fewer traditionally scheduled classes in the summer, but some options are listed here.
Students may take directed study courses at the discretion of graduate faculty. Many faculty are not contracted in the summer, so please reach out early if you would like to undertake directed research.
Students in the art history MA program (thesis-track) may take ARHI 7000 and ARHI 7300 towards thesis research and writing as appropriate. The summer is also a popular time to take undergraduate-level foreign language coursework as needed to meet the Research Requirement.
Doctoral students admitted to candidacy may take ARTS 9000 and ARTS 9300 towards dissertation research and writing as appropriate.
CLASSES OFFERED IN THE SCHOOL OF ART
ARST 4420/4915 /6915 – Thematic Inquiry in Contemporary Art: Making Puppets for Puppetry | Martijn van Wagtendonk | CRN 67551
ARED 7310E – Critically and Culturally Responsive Art Education | Hanawalt *For online MAEd students
ARED 7130E – Studio Techniques for Art Education | Kim * For online MAEd students and EDS students
COURSES OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL OF ART
Students may also take graduate coursework outside of the school of art to meet enrollment requirements.
Featured class:
ENGL 6900w / GRSC 8300w – Academic Writing | Maymester | Rebecca Hallman Martini
In this cross-disciplinary writing workshop-style course, students will learn to develop a craft of writing that establishes them as professional, academic writers. We will consider academic genres including journal articles, abstracts, grant applications, job market materials, dissertations, and MA theses, among others. Drawing on the field of writing studies, students will learn the processes, skills, knowledge, and general dispositions that scholars bring to the writing processes in their fields. Can be taken as S/U (via GRSC 8300) or A-F (via ENGL 6900).
Art Education
Fall 2026
ARED 4350S/6350S – Elementary Curriculum in Art Education
Hanawalt | Grad CRN 38306 | MW 11:35 am-2:15 pm | Main Art Building, N311
ARED 7460 – Student Teaching in Art Education
Pinneau | Grad CRN 53263
ARED 7470 – Issues and Practices in Teaching Art
Pinneau | Grad CRN 18725 | T 5:00-7:45 pm | Main Art Building, N315
ARED 7390 – Supervision of Art
Pinneau | Grad CRN 64605 | T 5:00-7:45 pm | Main Art Building, N315
ARED 8370 – Curriculum Theory in Art Education
Bustle | CRN 65889 | M 5:00-7:45 pm | Main Art Building, N315
ARED 8470 – Disability Studies
Kallio-Tavin | CRN 65890 | W 5:00-7:45 pm | Main Art Building, N315
ARED 9630 – Writing Critique in Art Education
Hanawalt | CRN 53266 | W 5:00-7:45 pm | N311
Coursework for students in the MAEd program
ARED 7400E – Introduction to Inquiry in Art Education
Kallio-Tavin |CRN 62847 | This class is not appropriate for students outside of the MAEd program.
ARED 7380E – Contemporary Art and Pedagogy
Kim | CRN 64503 | This class is not appropriate for students outside of the MAEd program.
ARED 7410E – Digital Art Education
Kim | CRN 65887 | This class is not appropriate for students outside of the MAEd program.
ARED 7230E – Topics in Art Education
Bustle | CRN 65888 | Course description TBA. This class is not appropriate for students outside of the MAEd program.
Art History
Fall 2026
ARHI 4400/6400 – Natural History of Art
Browne | Grad CRN 62845 | TT 11:35-12:55 pm | Main Art Building, N100
ARHI 4230/6230 – Early Modern Hispanic World
Lee | Grad CRN 65866 | TT 1:15-2:35 pm | Main Art Building, N100
ARHI 4510/6510 – Modern Art 1880-1918
Andrew | Grad CRN 65870 | MW 1:15-2:35 pm | Main Art Building, N104
ARHI 8700 – Seminar in Greco-Roman Art
Abbe | CRN 53258 | Main Art Building, N320
*Course description TBA
ARHI 7770 – Teaching Seminar
Kirin | CRN 65871 | Main Art Building, N320
Studio Art & Seminars
Fall 2026
ARST 7110 – Grad Painting
Hocking | CRN 51382 | TT 8:35-11:15 am | Main Art Building, S350
ARST 4251/6250 – Constructed Image in Photography
TBA | Grad CRN 56995 | TT 2:55-5:35 pm | Main Art Building, S285M and S279
ARST 4210/7210 – Special Topics in Photography: The Photographic Portrait Jacobsen | Grad CRN 38792 | MW 2:55-5:35 pm | Main Art Building, S280
The Photographic Portrait examines portrait-making as both a technical discipline and a critical, ethical, and social practice. Through hands-on lighting workshops using both studio and natural light, students will develop the technical skills needed to create intentional and compelling portraits. Alongside these practical exercises, the course will engage how contemporary portraiture intersects with questions of representation, visibility, power, and identity. Lectures, readings, and discussions explore critical texts on portraiture and examine historical and contemporary tensions within the genre—such as In the American West by Richard Avedon and The Ninety Nine and the Nine by Katy Grannan—as well as contemporary notions of post-documentary portraiture through projects by Kristine Potter, Rahim Fortune, Tommy Kha, José Ibarra Rizo, and others. Students may work in analog and/or digital formats, exploring how camera choice and format shape the portrait experience. We will compare the intimacy and slowness of large-format portraiture to the speed and volume afforded by digital approaches, for instance. By the end of the course, students will understand portraiture not simply as image-making, but as a relational practice rooted in care, consent, and responsibility.
ARST 4315/6315 – Introduction to Book Arts
Wallace | Grad CRN 46207 | MW 2:55-5:35 pm | Main Art Building, S165
ARST 4325/6325 – Introduction to Papermaking
Wallace | Grad CRN 57429 | TT 11:35-2:15 pm | Main Art Building, S165
ARST 4345/6345 – Advanced Print Studio
Vogt | Grad CRN 38577 | TT 8:35-11:35 am | Main Art Building, S265
ARST 7900 – Graduate Research Studio (Sculpture)
Lyle | CRN 57229 | TT 6:00-8:40 pm | TSAC, Room 202
ARST 4440/7420 – Construction in Metal
Boyd | Grad CRN 66008 | MF 11:35 am-2:15 pm | TSAC, Room 202
ARST 6500 – Grad Ceramics
Yuh | CRN 43945 | TT 2:55-5:35 pm | Ceramics Building, Room 109
ARST 4600/4620/7620 – Jewelry and Metalwork
Thomloudis | CRN 53923 | TT 2:55-5:35 pm | TSAC, Room 121
ARST 4915/6915 – Thematic Inquiry: Research & Creative Practice
Wallace | Grad CRN 38942 | MW 8:35-11:15 am | Main Art Building, N140
This non-media specific course provides an opportunity for visual artists and designers to develop a research practice centered on primary source materials. We will delve deeply into the resources of the special collections libraries to investigate primary source materials as inspiration and content for studio artists & designers.
Students will work in all three special collections libraries to develop and refine their research skills. We will combine the history of materials and methods with our interpretations, reactions, and perceptions of these materials to create new works of art. Students will have the opportunity to identify their research topic and develop a body of work around their original research. Research outside of special collections will also be discussed. While our primary source materials will be books, letters, photographs, audio and video recordings, archives and manuscripts, students may choose any media for their artwork.
Course Objectives
This course is designed to:
- Introduce students to the materials, concepts, techniques, and processes necessary to accessing and researching the special collections libraries at the University of Georgia
- Enhance the ability of students to generate ideas and explore the narrative and formal means of developing content via primary source research and interpretation
- To integrate a research practice with a studio practice for both formal technique and conceptual foundations
ARST 4915/6915 – Thematic Inquiry: Speculative Futures – From Utopia to Dystopia
Marshall | Grad CRN 35502 | TT 11:35 am-2:15 pm | Main Art Building, S285M
This course is an upper-level studio course that invites students to imagine the world in the year 2100 through the lens of contemporary art. Working in any medium of their choosing, students will explore how environmental change, technology, culture, and social systems shape possible futures, from the optimistic to the catastrophic, and everything in between. The course begins with a close examination of, and visual response to, a research study conducted in Iceland, a region warming four times faster than the Northern Hemisphere average. Students will engage directly with survey responses from Icelandic residents reflecting on their expectations for the future. Using this study as a model, students will then design and conduct their own surveys, either self-reflective or community-based, and translate these collective hopes, fears, and projections into a series of conceptually driven artworks. Emphasizing research, experimentation, and critical dialogue, the course positions art-making as a speculative tool for understanding and questioning the trajectories of our shared future.
ARST 4915/6915 – Thematic Inquiry: Thermocline: The Liminal Space of Conflict
Oliveri | Grad CRN 57172 | MW 2:55-5:35 pm | Main Art Building, N211 and N215
Conflict doesn’t always arrive as a dramatic event. More often it shows up at the edges—where rules shift, language tightens, spaces feel different, and “normal” quietly becomes “controlled.” This studio uses the idea of a thermocline—an unseen boundary where conditions change fast—as a guide for making work about those in-between zones.
You’ll create projects in any medium (object, image, installation, sound, performance, video) that make hidden boundaries visible: borders and checkpoints, interfaces and algorithms, social codes and policies, redactions and missing records. We’ll work indirectly when needed—through proxy, mapping, omission, and translation—so the work can stay clear and powerful without leaning on spectacle. Research supports the studio work, but the goal is to turn what you find into form, structure, and experience.
We’ll also keep ethics practical: how to use sources responsibly, how to handle real stories with care, and how to make strong work that holds complexity. The course ends with a final body of work and a small exhibition or showcase.
ARTS 8100 – MFA 1st Year Seminar
Reynolds | CRN 46373 | M 2:55-5:35 pm | Main Art Building, N104
ARTS 8900 – MFA 3rd Year Seminar
Waldrop | CRN 32185 | F 12:40-3:50 pm | Main Art Building, N100
ARTS 6930 – Critical Evaluation Methods in Art
Callahan | CRN 66291 | MWF 9:55 – 10:50 am | Main Art Building, N120
Coursework outside of the Dodd
Some graduate degree programs allow for elective coursework on the program of study. As appropriate, students may apply graduate level coursework (6000 and above) taken across the university towards their programs of study. When enrolling in a class outside of the School of Art, students should contact the instructor listed in Athena for permission to register. Some classes are more specialized than others, and the instructor will be able to let you know if the class will be a good fit. Some classes will have a “permission of department” (aka POD) restriction in place. You can contact the instructor listed in Athena to request an override. Right click the instructor’s name in Athena to copy their email address.
Graduate students may concurrently enroll in certificate programs at UGA. The following options have been pursued by graduate students at the Dodd in the past:
Last updated: March 24, 2026