This team-taught course analyzes exemplary works of art-historical scholarship that illustrate the deep history of the discipline and showcase current methods for studying the arts of different eras, with their distinct problems and bodies of evidence. Organized in a series of units taught by MA faculty specialized in diverse periods and media, the curriculum is devised to bring out the variety within art historical methods, as well as possibilities for compelling methodological borrowings across traditional period boundaries. The class meets in classroom, with on-site preparatory assignments and investigations to consider readings, questions and methods through firsthand analysis of pertinent objects, materials, and physical contexts. There will be two sections of AH 601 in Fall 2020: 601-1 and 601-2. Meeting days and times may vary. This course is required of all first-year students.