Undergraduate Courses
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Art Education Courses
Spring 2026
ARED 4060S/6060S
Art Education in School, Museum, and Community
Hanawalt | Undergrads CRN 64130 | Grads CRN 64131
This course offers students interested in understanding the importance of visual arts in schools, museums, and community settings the opportunity to facilitate art experiences for learners. This course takes place at the Athenaeum, where students take on instructional roles for an after-school art program for middle school learners. More information about the program can be found on the Athenaeum website: https://athenaeum.uga.edu/programs/
Prerequisites: Undergraduate: ARED 2110S and either ARED 4350S or 4360S; Graduate: ARED 4350S or 4360S
ARED 4360S/6360S
Secondary Curriculum in Art Education
Bustle | Undergrads CRN 46006 | Grads CRN 46007
Through lecture, observation, practicum placements in schools, assigned readings, and artmaking, students will gain an understanding of theoretical foundations, content, curriculum and instructional methods used to teach art to secondary level students. This is a service-learning course, meaning that it is a credit-bearing educational experience in which students participate in an organized service activity that meets identified community needs, and reflect on the service activity to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of personal values and civic responsibility.
Offered once a year and required for all art education majors. Must be accepted to the program to take the class.
ARED 5460/7460
Student Teaching in Art Education
Bustle | Undergrads CRN 28865 | Grads CRN 67370
ARED 5470/7470
Issues and Practices in Teaching Art
Pinneau | Undergrads CRN 28871 | Grads CRN 28887
Studio Art Directed Study
Spring 2026
Directed Study: Art, Ecology, and Southern Identity: A Field Study in Coastal Georgia
This semester-long course explores the intersection of art, ecology, and Southern history, culminating in an immersive field experience at Wormsloe State Historic Site and coastal Georgia during Spring Break (March 8–13). With Wormsloe as our base, students will engage in a range of place-based investigations—from nature walks and archive visits to ecological excursions and artist dialogues. Through a combination of class meetings, fieldwork, and independent studio practice, students will develop a body of work that reflects their engagement with the region’s landscapes, histories, and environmental narratives.
This program is part of a Spring semester course focused on the connections between art, ecology, and Southern history. There will bi-weekly meetings to explore aspects of the trip. These will take place on Friday mornings. The heart of the course is a weeklong immersive experience during Spring Break (March 8–13), featuring on-site research, plein air work, museum visits, and conversations with artists and scientists. There will be an opportunity to exhibit work both at the Dodd and at the Wormsloe Visitor’s Center at the end of the trip.
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March 8 – Depart for Savannah, orientation walk & fieldwork
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March 9 – Tour Historic Site, Natural dye workshop, connect with Wormsloe Intitue of Bat Ecology
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March 10 – Telfair Museum, SCAD Museum & artist studio visits
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March 11 – Visit Marine Institute on Sapelo Island
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March 12 – Studio time, reflection, and site-based practice. Visit opening reception at the Telfair Museum
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March 13 – Morning fieldwork and debrief, return to Athens after lunch
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Transportation
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Lodging
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Museum Entry Fees
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Sapelo Ferry
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Food
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Personal art supplies
New & Special Topics Courses
ARGD 4080 Special Topics in Graphic Design: Design Studio
Camelio | CRN 26932
ARHI 6002
Greek and Roman Painting
Abbe | CRN 73729 | Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:15-2:35pm
This course offers a critical introduction to the celebrated art of painting in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, with an emphasis on new finds and research from the late fourth century BCE (the Macedonia tombs) to the third century CE (the final Roman mummy portraits). Important historical, stylistic, and material developments will be reexamined and assessed with an emphasis on the materials, techniques, and practices of both panel and mural painting.
Close readings of Pliny’s Natural History and increased cultural and philosophical understandings of the intersections between art, materials, and natural matter allow us to reframe the often-assumed aesthetic priorities of Greek and Roman viewers. We will examine the display of “collections” of painting in civic, domestic, and funerary contexts. The ancient appreciation of painting as a material crafted object will be emphasized to explore the diverse surface effects of different materials and how artistic processes and the individual hand were made visibly manifest and “legible” to contemporary eyes. Students will be encouraged to creatively engage the diverse methodologies used in the most recent scholarship in handling and questioning different forms of textual and archaeological evidence.
ARHI 6900
Topics in Ancient and Medieval Art — MEDIEVAL MAGIC
Caitlin Mims / cem76861@uga.edu | CRN 74143 | Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:55-4:15pm
This seminar will explore the medieval understanding of magic and the disparate ways it was defined and practiced by different cultures and people. We will examine the vast material evidence of magical practice, including, but not limited to amulets and magical gemstones, grimoires, and illustrations of magicians and witches. To contextualize these objects, we will read a range of sources dealing with the themes of magic, science, and medicine. We will think about topics including the rationality of magic, the role of healing miracles, the fine line between magic and the university sciences, and the persecution of witches.
(Image: London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 28, f. 51r, Florence, 1425).
ARHI 8580
Seminar in Early Modern Art – THE SCALE OF ART
Lee | CRN 73730 | Mondays 2:55–5:35
In art history, “scale” refers to the relationship between the size of an object depicted in a work of art and its expected real-life size. How large or small an object appears can feel personal and variable, since our sense of size is shaped by experience, familiarity, and curiosity. Art historians use this concept to examine how a work of art engages its viewers, emphasizing the size and physical presence of the objects represented. This seminar considers how scale becomes a problem for both artists and viewers in recalibrating their perceptions of the world through art. Readings will include major contributions by Michael Fried, T. J. Clark, Susan Stewart, Jennifer Roberts, David Summers, Joan Kee, Emanuele Lugli, and Andrew Hamilton. We will also discuss how artworks, particularly miniature and monumental works, can be displayed and interpreted in museum settings. For the final project, students will write a research paper on a work from early modern European or colonial Latin American art that addresses an issue of scale.
ARHI 8950
Seminar in Contemporary Art
Wallace | CRN 63949 | Wednesdays 2:55–5:35
Designed to elucidate dominant trends in art since 1990, this course asks that students come to terms with several new bodies of work, while engaging interpretive strategies that are both compelling and sophisticated. Because this class is grounded in the conviction that interpretation is a teachable, refinable skill, each week serves as an occasion to analyze, defend, and critique artworks grouped together because of their shared engagement with specific themes, questions, or media.
Thematic Inquiry Courses
ARST 4915/6915 – Thematic Inquiry in Contemporary Art: Geographies of Walking: Interdisciplinary Mapping, Storytelling, and Drawing
Enos | Undergrads CRN 42246 | Grads CRN 40580 | Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:55-5:35pm, Thomas Street Art Complex 202 (see Grad courses here)
ARST 4915/6915 – Thematic Inquiry in Contemporary Art: The Immersion Lab: Live, Embodied & Playable Experiences
Smith | Undergrad CRN 42248 | Grads CRN 57907 | Mondays and Wednesdays 2:55-5:35pm, Main Art Building S279/S285 (see Grad courses here)
ARST 4915/6915 – Thematic Inquiry in Contemporary Art: Dreams and the Subconscious in Studio Art
Cogan | Undergrads CRN 57906 | Grads CRN 57908 | Mondays and Wednesdays 11:35am-2:15pm, Main Art Building S280 (see Grad courses here)
Through the history of dream-based art, from ancient cultures to artificial intelligence, the course will develop the capacity to tap into the artist’s deepest levels of expression from within.
This course is project-based and will be supported by guidance, discussion, experiments and presentation. It is suggested that students approach the course with an open mind and a willingness to explore unchartered territory within their own artistic practices.
We will also research ways in which authenticity, elements of chance, spontaneity, and contemporary existence influence the creation of artworks. The course will provide clear direction and strategies for students wishing to take their work in new directions.
ARST4915/6915/4420 – Thematic Inquiry in Contemporary Art: Making Puppets for Puppetry
van Wagtendonk | Undergrads CRN 65218 & 71955 | Grads CRN 67551 | Maymester, Thomas Street Arts Complex 202 (see Grad courses here)
In this Maymester course, we’ll dive into the playful and imaginative world of puppet making. Together, we’ll explore how character, movement, and craft come together to create something that feels alive.
We’ll start by building a simple hand puppet—à la Kermit the Frog—with a mouth that comes to life through the movement of your hand. From there, each puppet will grow its own personality as we experiment with materials, techniques, and storytelling.
A field trip to the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta is also part of our adventure. There, we’ll meet the world’s largest collection of Jim Henson puppets and travel through the history of puppetry across cultures and continents.
Last updated: November 13, 2025