Semester Requirements
The American art minor provides students with an opportunity to study the American arts in a variety of disciplines, including painting, architecture, film, photography, music, theatre, and mass media. Each course will present American art within the context of the broader current of American life, including its history, philosophy, social, and cultural traditions.
| Course | |
|---|---|
| Electives | |
| Choose five courses from the following (students must take at least one course in each of the three disciplines): | |
| Visual culture | |
| FNRT-206 | Queer Looks |
| FNRT-370 | American Painting |
| FNRT-371 | African-American Art |
| FNRT-372 | American Film of the Studio Era |
| FNRT-373 | American Film Since the Sixties |
| FNRT-374 | Art in the Age of the New Deal |
| FNRT-377 | Imagining Rochester |
| FNRT-378 | Memory, Memorials, and Monuments |
| FNRT-383 | Traumatic Images |
| FNRT-384 | Art of Dying |
| Performing arts | |
| FNRT-201 | Music in the U.S. |
| FNRT-203 | American Popular and Rock Music |
| FNRT-322 | Survey of Jazz |
| FNRT-323 | Survey of African-American Music |
| FNRT-324 | Sounds of Protest |
| FNRT-325 | American Popular Song |
| FNRT-327 | American Musical Theatre |
| Literature | |
| ENGL-411 | Topics in American Literature |
| ENGL-412 | American Studies |
| ENGL-413 | African-American Literature |