| Credits | 1 |
| Restrictions | No 2022 2021 2020 Open to first-years only |
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| Area of Inquiry | Human Thought and Expression |
| Liberal Arts Practices |
Faculty Profile for Professor McVaugh
The seminar will enrich and sharpen your understanding of buildings and the built environment. We spend most of our lives immersed in that environment without being really attentive to its qualities. Students develop techniques for seeing architecture clearly and analytically. Students build a conceptual framework and vocabulary that will enrich your appreciation of environments you know well; at the same time it will make you more astute as you visit unfamiliar places. Moreover, through a number of case studies, including St. Peter's in Rome, the Ise Shrine in Japan, and Washington, D. C., we will explore the myriad ways in which the built environment reflects and influences culture and history. Extensive use will be made of the campus as an architectural laboratory. Students who successfully complete this seminar will receive course credit for ARTS 105 and satisfy one half of their Human Thought and Expression area of inquiry requirement.
Professor Robert McVaugh is an art historian with research interests in Modern European Art and Modern Architecture. He is currently researching the Architectural History of the Colgate Campus.