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Department of

Art

Study Art Abroad

The Department of Art offers summer programs in Visual Arts, Art History, and Architecture in Istanbul and Paris. The listed courses will be taught abroad by the USD faculty:

USD Program in Istanbul, Turkey

USD Study Abroad Program in Istanbul, Turkey

ArtV 115 Istanbul: Recording the City

July 1-30 2010

Dr. Juliana Maxim, Assistant Professor, Department of Art

To record means to commit to memory. This class serves as an introduction to ways of observing, analyzing, chronicling visually, or otherwise set down in permanent form your experience of the city. Through drawing, visual observation, field analysis, measurements, etc., you will explore and closely study the major components of the urban fabric. The purpose of this course is to explore means of documenting the experience of the city, and to learn how to communicate, visually and in writing, your observations as well as your impressions and ideas about Istanbul spaces.

ARTH 338W Biographies of World Cities: Istanbul

July 1-30 2010

Dr. Can Bilsel, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art

This course is an introductory survey of the urban and architectural history of Istanbul, from the capital of the Roman and Byzantine Empires (Constantinople), to its transformation to the capital of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th and 16th centuries. Ruled by a cosmopolitan elite, Ottoman Istanbul was home to Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities. Emphasis will also be given to the transformations of the city in modern times: its 18th and 19th century promenades, pleasure gardens, and the Bosphorous yalis, and its ever cosmopolitan and eclectic architecture. The remaking of the city under the Turkish Republic, and its present form as a global city of over 11 million inhabitants will also be studied. We will examine the historical, cultural and human geography that made the city the center of several world empires. Students will learn to read maps, identify the urban morphological traces that are left from earlier, archaeological and historical strata, and understand to interpret historical monuments as testimonies of past civilizations.

For more information, please contact Department Chair Can Bilsel.