Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2025

     

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HART 521 001 (CRN: 14650)

AMERICAN ART: 1800-1950

Long Title: AMERICAN ART: 1800-1950
Department: Art History
Instructor: Manca, Joseph
Meeting: 1:00PM - 2:15PM TR (25-AUG-2025 - 5-DEC-2025) 
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
 
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Section Max Enrollment: 24
Section Enrolled: 2
Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 24
Total Cross-list Enrolled: 21
Waitlisted: 0 (Max 99) 
Current members of the waitlist have priority for available seats.
Enrollment data as of: 20-APR-2025 3:33PM
 
Additional Fees: None
 
Final Exam: No Final Exam
 
Description: The course will cover art and architecture in the United States from the early national period to twentieth-century modernism. Major artists studied will include Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, James Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Mary Cassatt, Richard Morris Hunt, Frank Lloyd Wright, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, Grant Wood, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Jackson Pollock. There are weekly readings. Graduate students have more readings and occasional meetings to discuss those readings. During the first week of class, the professor and graduate students will work out a schedule to discuss the extra graduate readings, which will include the books listed in the syllabus and some supplementary articles. Graduate students will also write a research paper 13-16 pages in length. Cross-list: HART 321. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HART 521 if student has credit for HART 321.