ARTH 3005 is also offered in Spring 2025
ARTH 3005 is also offered in Spring 2024
ARTH 3005 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2017 | ARTH 3005 Section 001: American Art (67825)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 255
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Artistic practice in the United States: colonial period to cold war. America as idea/identity shaped, expressed, represented, and contested through art. Canon of American art history. Works by individuals outside of traditional channels of art instruction/reception. Questions about what does/does not count as art history.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?marsh590+ARTH3005+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- This course is an introductory survey of artistic practice in the United States: from the colonial period (1600s) to the cold war (1960s). Slide-based lectures introduce students to masterpieces and little-known works of American painting, sculpture, and photography, and explore the many social-historical issues that inform art's role in American life: including, but not limited to, national identity, racial politics, gender relations, religious belief, and pop culture. Grading is based on in-class participation, 3 short research papers (2 pages each), and 2 in-class exams.
- Grading:
- 30% Midterm Exam
35% Final Exam
30% Reports/Papers
5% Class Participation
- Exam Format:
- Slide ID, short-answer questions (e.g. key term definitions), and slide-based compare/contrast essays.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67825/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 July 2012
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2017 Art History Classes