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 2024 | ARTH 3005 Section 001: Identity and American Art (65264)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 317
- Enrollment Status:
Open (38 of 60 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Where do we see American identity? How was it invented? What difference do different identities make in a nation of over 330 million people? This class explores the history of visual culture and the fine arts in the United States, from the 1600s to the present. Our goal is to understand how images and objects define what being "American" means - for individuals and for the public - and to see how art is a place where identity can be challenged, expanded, and transformed. Through interactive, art-based lectures, you will learn the skills of visual analysis, historical research, and art appreciation. Whether looking at a tea set designed by Paul Revere, poppies painted by Georgia O'Keeffe, or a Midwestern landscape fashioned out of wood by George Morrison: we'll use art to ask big questions about American experience.
- 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/65264/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 July 2012
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