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A team-taught course led by the DGS based on exemplary readings designed to introduce students to a wide range of art-historical methods.

Individual work in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD degree or, by arrangement, on special topics not included in the announced course offerings.

This seminar explores the art of Indian Esoteric Buddhism from various interpretive vantage points. After a brief historiographical introduction, we will examine scholarly discourses on Esoteric or Tantric Buddhism in relation to the artistic productions...

A seminar focusing on primary sources in classical languages, as well as recent scholarship and theoretical texts. This semester, the course centers on medieval Japanese manuscripts in the collections of the Harvard Art Museums and Harvard University...

People change. They grow up and grow old, each differently but in ways divisible into stages. Different cultures and different eras understand and number these stages differently, but between birth and death bodies and minds develop and age. This...

Note: May not be counted toward course requirements for the PhD degree.

A team-taught course led by the DGS based on exemplary readings designed to introduce students to a wide range of art-historical methods. Course is required of HAA G1s and open solely to HAA G1s

Note: May not be counted toward course requirements for the PhD degree.

Individual work in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD degree or, by arrangement, on special topics not included in the announced course offerings.