Janet Snyder
Associate Professor
Teaching
Award for Outstanding Teaching, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, October 2003
Award for Outstanding Teaching, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, September 2002
Award for Outstanding Teaching, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, May 2001
Academic Advising
Art History undergraduate students and Masters candidates
Member, graduate committees: MFA, M.A., Ph.D.
History of Art Courses
Undergraduate classes with additional graduate sections offered for upper-division courses
Introductory courses:
Western Art and Culture Before 1400; Western Art and Culture After 1400; Survey of Western Art I & II
Period Surveys:
Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Medieval Art and Architecture; Medieval Art: Artists, Images, and Patronage Introduction to Medieval Art
Northern Renaissance Art and Architecture
Art and Architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the Baroque
The American Experience: Arts and Architecture
Nineteenth-Century Art and Architecture
Special Topics and Seminars
Medieval Painting
Building Medieval Cathedrals
Gothic sculpture 1130-1350
Crossing the Channel: gothic architecture in France and England
Native American (Art) Visual Culture
The History of Stained Glass, Europe and North America
The Representation of the Body on Art
SEM: The Body in Art: the canon of proportions (Spring 2004)
SEM: THe Body in Art: Gothic Sculpture
Senior Projects (advisor)
Readings Classes
Art Theory / Research Methods
Freshman/Sophomore Tutorial: research methods
Chinese Art of the Middle Ages (ceramics)
Special Studies course, The Chautauqua Institution, NY
Summer, 2001; 2002 (one-week session): “The History of Architecture, Alive in the buildings of Chautauqua!”
