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Department of

Art, Architecture + Art History

Study Art Abroad

The Department of Art, Architecture + Art History 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 Paris, France

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ArtV 306 Digital Photography

Summer 2012

Summer 2013

Professor Duncan McCosker, Department of Art, Architecture + Art History

We will study photography and the camera’s fundamental operations that will enable us to make pictures in the city of Paris. The city’s rich history is reflected throughout the course-in our wanderings on foot to make photographs-through its streets, gardens, parks, public monuments and living spaces. The city’s formidable artistic past includes photography. It served as the site of the medium’s invention and announcement by Daguerre, and as the city whose great photographic traditions were established by Eugene Atget, Cartier-Bresson and others. Our travels will include some of the world’s great museums of art and photography, and we will meet photographers who speak of their specialty and who currently reside in Paris. Our final sessions in the course include seeing the results of our images, adjusted with lessons from Adobe Photoshop gathered throughout the course, and resulting in high quality Epson inkjet prints.

 

USD Program in Istanbul, Turkey

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ARTH 138 / ARCH 340 / HIST 358: Biographies of World Cities: Istanbul

Summer 2012

Dr. Can Bilsel, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Art, Architecture + Art History

This course surveys 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. Emphasis will also be given to the transformations of the city in modern times: its 18th and 19th century promenades, pleasure gardens, the Bosphorous yalis (sea-side villas), 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.

 

ARTV 115 / ARCH 494 / ArtV 306: Recording the City: Istanbul

Summer 2012

Dr. Juliana Maxim, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Architecture + Art History

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 the experience of the city.  Through drawing, visual observation, field analysis and measurements students will explore and closely study the major components of the urban fabric. The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with means of documenting the experience of the city.  It invites students to communicate, visually and in writing, objective observations as well as more personal impressions and ideas about Istanbul spaces. We will also take benefit of our travel to ancient Greek and Roman sites to learn how to sketch and survey antique monuments and sites.   This course will be offered as a "Vertical Studio": students of different levels in Architecture and Visual Arts will take the course together. All students are required to submit a sketchbook; upper-division students will participate in a full- portfolio review.