Art History

The Department of Art History offers a wide range of courses in European, American, Latin American, Asian, and Middle Eastern/Islamic art history. The major in art history is structured to expose students to the chronological, geographical, and methodological breadth of the field of scholarship.

Upon completing the BA degree, a student majoring in Art History will be able to:

1. Understand the historical, social, cultural and political contexts and traditions of art. Students will develop an understanding of the multiple contexts of art, including its relationship to religion, politics, gender and sexuality, urbanism, history, culture and other domains of human social experience.
2. Demonstrate effective use of specialized disciplinary vocabulary and appropriate methodologies to analyze works of art and communicate their form, function, and meaning orally and in writing.
3. Demonstrate ability to perform comparative analyses of art works based on differences or similarities in cultural context, form, content, artist, materials, and time and place of production.
4. Demonstrate specialized knowledge about, and be able to identify, art from specific geographical locations, periods, artists, and/or artistic movements.
5. Evaluate and use primary and secondary sources to generate and answer original research questions and produce independent research.
6. Understand major artistic movements, common themes, trends, and the styles of major artists. They will demonstrate generalized knowledge of major figures in art history, major art movements and traditions, and major artistic styles.

Students pursuing the BA degree with a major in Art History (HART) must complete:

• A minimum of 10 courses (30 credit hours) to satisfy major requirements.
• A minimum of 120 credit hours to satisfy degree requirements.
• A minimum of 5 courses (15 credit hours) at the 300-level or above.
• One area of specialization (see below for each area of specialization).

Additionally, undergraduates may not take HART courses at the 500 level or above.

The Art History major offers two areas of specialization:

• Art History 
• History of Architecture  

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Students must complete a total of 10 courses (30 credit hours) as listed in the requirements for one of the Art History areas of specialization. Note that the course lists to satisfy each requirement can be found below the specialization requirements.

Art History Specialization 
To satisfy the requirements for the Art History Specialization, Art History majors must complete 10 courses (30 credit hours) as listed below.

• A minimum of 1 course (3 credit hours) at the 200-level or above from the Ancient–Medieval (Pre-Modern) category.
• A minimum of 1 course (3 credit hours) at the 200-level or above from the Renaissance–18th century (Early Modern) category.
• A minimum of 1 course (3 credit hours) at the 200-level or above from the 19th century–Present (Modern through Contemporary) category.
• A minimum of 2 courses (6 credit hours) from the Seminar course offerings.
• A minimum of 1 course (3 credit hours) from the Outside the European and American Traditions category.
• A minimum of 4 additional courses as Electives (12 credit hours) from departmental course offerings (HART).

History of Architecture Specialization
To satisfy the requirements for the History of Architecture Specialization, Art History majors must complete 10 courses (30 credit hours) as listed below.

• A minimum of 6 courses (18 credit hours) from the History of Architecture category.
• A minimum of 1 course (3 credit hours) at the 200-level or above that can be found in in two of the following three categories: Ancient–Medieval (Pre-Modern); Renaissance–18th century (Early Modern); or 19th century–Present (Modern through Contemporary).
• A minimum of 2 courses (6 credit hours) from the Seminar course offerings.
• A minimum of 1 course (3 credit hours) from the Outside the European and American Traditions category.  

Ancient-Medieval (Pre-Modern) Courses  

• HART 201 Rome: Inception to Empire [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 214/CLAS 236 Art & Politics in Ancient Rome [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 240/HUMA 108/MDEM 108 Late Medieval & Renaissance [ 3 credit hours ]
• HART 309/CLAS 309 The Dawn of Rome [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 311/ANTH 331 Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 316/ANTH 346/ARCH 310/COMP 316 Virtual Reconstruction of Historical Cities [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 318/CLAS 321 Special Topics in Ancient Art [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 326/ARCH 326/CLAS 326 Material, Form, Space, Time [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 327 The Genesis of Roman Art [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 330/MDEM 330 Early Medieval Art [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 331/MDEM 331 Gothic Art [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 332/MDEM 332 Art of the Courts [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 345/ARCH 345 History and Theory II – Pre 1890 [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 350/MDEM 352 Science and Medicine in Medieval Visual Culture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 369/CLAS 323 Redefining Classical Art History [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 376/ASIA 376/MDEM 376 East and West [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 377 Medieval Manuscripts [ 3 credit hours ]
• HART 394/RELI 394 The Sacred Arts of Secular Modernism [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 410/CLAS 417 Architecture and Dynasty in the Early Roman Empire [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 431/MDEM 431 Architecture of the Gothic Cathedral [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 437/FREN 437/MDEM 437 Visual Culture of Medieval Pilgrimage [ 3 - 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 482/CLAS 482 Caesar’s Palace [ 3 credit hours ]  

Renaissance–18th century (Early Modern) Courses  

• HART 240/HUMA 108/MDEM 108 Art in Context: Late Medieval and Renaissance Culture [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 307 Technical Art History [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 308/ARCH 318 Living in the City in the Ottoman Empire [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 310/ARCH 315 Brazil Built: The Clinic, The Tropical, and the Aesthetic [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 320 18th Century European Art [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 321/ARCH 331 Imperial City: Istanbul 1453-1922 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 322/ARCH 332 Jerusalem to Isfahan [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 326/ARCH 326/CLAS 326 Material, Form, Space, Time [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 329/ARCH 329/HIST 329 Streets and Urban Life: Paris to Istanbul [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 333 Looking at European Prints 1400-1700 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 339 American Art and Architecture I: 1620-1800 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 340/MDEM 340 Northern Renaissance Art  
• HART 341 Early Renaissance Art In Italy [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 342 The High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 343 Masters of the Baroque Era [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 345/ARCH 345 History and Theory II – Pre 1890 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 346/SWGS 346 Seminar on Love: Making Love in Modern Art and Thought [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 354 Age of Romanticism in Europe [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 355 Jacques-Louis David: Revolution [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 357 Constable and Turner [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 358 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 360/ARCH 360 American Architecture and Decorative Arts Before 1900 [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 378/MDEM 378 The Age of Rembrandt [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 400 Bayou Bend Undergraduate Internship I [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 401 Bayou Bend Undergraduate Internship II  [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 406 Iconoclasms: The Destruction of Images [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 434/MDEM 434/SWGS 434 Seeing Sex in European Art, 1400-1700 [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 435/HIST 443/MDEM 435 Multicultural Europe, 1400-1700 [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 440 Issues in History of Prints [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 450 Early Modern Art [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 452 Manet(s) and Modernism(s) [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 487/FREN 487 Literature, Art, and Coloniality [ 4 credit hours ]  

19th century–Present (Modern through Contemporary) Courses 

• HART 202 Avant-Garde and After: Modern Art in Europe, 1900-1945 [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 205 Art Since 1945 [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 207 Fourteen Artworks at the MFAH [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 225/ARCH 225 History and Theory I (Intro) [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 250/FILM 250 Contemporary European Cinema [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 265 A Visual Culture Travelogue: Art and Politics in Modern Latin America [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 280/ARTS 280/FILM 280 History and Aesthetics of Film [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 281/FILM 281 The Beginnings of Cinema [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 283/FILM 285 Auteur Film: Case Studies of Three Authors [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 284/FILM 284 Nonfiction Film [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 285/ENGL 275/FILM 273 Introduction to Film [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 286/ENGL 286 Classical and Contemporary Film and Theory [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 288 Special Topics in Film and Media Studies [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 302 From the Sublime to the Sustainable: Art, Architecture, and Nature [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 304/FILM 339/SPPO 375 Trends in Contemporary Cuban Culture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 307 Technical Art History [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 308/ARCH 318 Living in the City in the Ottoman Empire [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 321/ARCH 331 Imperial City: Istanbul 1453-1922 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 322/ARCH 332 Jerusalem to Isfahan [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 326/ARCH 326/CLAS 326 Material, Form, Space, Time [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 328/RELI 375 Epiphanies: Seeing in a New Light and Recognizing the Radiance [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 329/ARCH 329/HIST 329 Streets and Urban Life: Paris to Istanbul [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 334 Picasso, Pollock, Warhol [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 336 Cinema and the City [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 345/ARCH 345 History and Theory II – Pre 1890 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 346/SWGS 346 Seminar on Love: Making Love in Modern Art and Thought [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 348 A Revolution from Within: Trends in Contemporary Cuban Culture [ 1 credit hour ]  
• HART 349 Trends in Contemporary Art [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 351 Art, Revolution, War: Modern Art in Violent Times [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 354 Age of Romanticism in Europe [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 355 Jacques-Louis David: Revolution [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 357 Constable and Turner [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 358 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 359/ARCH 359/FILM 359 Cinemas of Urban Alienation [ 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 360/ARCH 360 American Architecture and Decorative Arts Before 1900 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 365 Art Between the Wars: European Modernism, 1918-1940 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 367 Modern and Contemporary Art: From Pollock to the Present [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 379/ARCH 371/ASIA 379 Post-1945 Japanese Art & Architecture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 380/ENGL 373/FILM 373 Survey of American Film and Culture [ 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 381 Collage and its Histories [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 382/FILM 382 Modalities of Cinema [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 383/FILM 383 Global Cinema [ 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 385/GERM 321/HUMA 321/SWGS 358 European Women Filmmakers [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 386 Dada [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 387 Holocaust Memory in Modern Germany [ 3 - 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 389/FILM 389 Film Melodrama [ 4 credit hours ] 
• HART 394/RELI 394 The Sacred Arts of Secular Modernism [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 398/GERM 339 From Expressionism to Fascism: Art and Film in Germany [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 400 Bayou Bend Undergraduate Internship I [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 401 Bayou Bend Undergraduate Internship II  [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 406 Iconoclasms: The Destruction of Images [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 413 Murder and Modernism [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 451Models of Abstraction [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 452 Manet(s) and Modernism(s) [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 457/FILM 455 Video and Expanded Cinema [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 460 Mass Culture & the Avant-Garde [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 461 Art of the 60s and 70s [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 463/ARCH 452 Practicing Utopia: Architecture, Eugenics and the Modern Latin City [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 465 Latin American Bodies: On Modernism [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 467/ARCH 462 Nature In-Vitro: Bodies, Gardens, and Built Forms [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 480/ARTS 435/FILM 435 Seminar on Film Authorship: The New Hollywood [ 4 credit hours ] 
• HART 481/FILM 485 Auteur Film: Case Studies of Three Auteurs [ 4 credit hours ] 
• HART 485/SWGS 485 Gender and Hollywood Cinema in the 1950’s [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 493 Walter Benjamin, Media & Modernity [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 494/ARCH 484/ASIA 484 Modern and Contemporary East Asian Art and Architecture [ 3 credit hours ] 

Seminar Courses  

• HART 110/ARCH 110/CLAS 103/FSEM 113 The Parthenon and Periklean Athens [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 117/FSEM 117 From Freud to Lecorbusier: Psychoanalysis, Art and Architecture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 120/FSEM 181 Cinema and Modernity [ 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 179/CLAS 179/FSEM 179 Roman vs Greek [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 180/FILM 180 14 Films You Should See Before You Graduate From Rice University [ 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 211/ASIA 211/HIST 206 Introduction to Asian Civilizations [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 250/FILM 250 Contemporary European Cinema [ 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 280/ARTS 280/FILM 280 History and Aesthetics of Film [ 4 credit hours ] 
• HART 281/FILM 281 The Beginnings of Cinema [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 284/FILM 284 Nonfiction Film [ 4 credit hours ] 
• HART 285/ENGL 275/FILM 273 Introduction to Film [ 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 288 Special Topics in Film and Media Studies [ 1 - 6 credit hours ]  
• HART 297 Special Topics in Museum Curatorial Studies [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 298 Special Topics in Art Theory and Criticism [ 1 - 6 credit hours ] 
• HART 302 From the Sublime to the Sustainable: Art, Architecture, and Nature [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 304/FILM 339/SPPO 375 Trends in Contemporary Cuban Culture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 308/ARCH 318 Living in the City in the Ottoman Empire [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 309/CLAS 309 The Dawn of Rome [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 310/ARCH 315 Brazil Built: The Clinic, The Tropical, and the Aesthetic [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 316/ANTH 346/ARCH 310/COMP 316 Virtual Reconstruction of Historical Cities [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 318/CLAS 321 Special Topics in Ancient Art [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 321/ARCH 331 Imperial City: Istanbul 1453-1922 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 322/ARCH 332 Jerusalem to Isfahan [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 326/ARCH 326/CLAS 326 Material, Form, Space, Time [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 328/RELI 375 Epiphanies: Seeing in a New Light and Recognizing the Radiance [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 333 Looking at European Prints 1400-1700 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 334 Picasso, Pollock, Warhol [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 336 Cinema and the City [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 346/SWGS 346 Seminar on Love: Making Love in Modern Art and Thought [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 347/RELI 343 Seminar on Love [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 348 A Revolution from Within: Trends in Contemporary Cuban Culture [ 1 credit hour ]  
• HART 349 Trends in Contemporary Art [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 351 Art, Revolution, War: Modern Art in Violent Times [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 354 Age of Romanticism in Europe [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 355 Jacques-Louis David: Revolution [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 357 Constable and Turner [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 365 Art Between the Wars: European Modernism, 1918-1940 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 369/CLAS 323 Redefining Classical Art History [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 371/ASIA 371 Chinese Painting [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 373 Methodology Seminar: Wood and Image [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 375 Latin-Europe/Latin-America: The Aesthetics and Politics of Modern Cities [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 376/ASIA 376/MDEM 376 East and West [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 377/MDEM 377 Medieval Manuscripts [ 3 credit hours ]
• HART 379/ARCH 371/ASIA 379 Post-1945 Japanese Art & Architecture [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 380/ENGL 373/FILM 373 Survey of American Film and Culture [ 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 381 Collage and its Histories [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 382/FILM 382 Modalities of Cinema [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 383/FILM 383 Global Cinema [ 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 386 Dada [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 387 Holocaust Memory in Modern Germany [ 3 - 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 389/FILM 389 Film Melodrama [ 4 credit hours ] 
• HART 392 Latin American Art and Cinema Since 1960 [ 4 credit hours ] 
• HART 394/RELI 394 The Sacred Arts of Secular Modernism [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 396 Medical Humanities Visual Culture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 397 Special Topics: HART in the World [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 398/GERM 339 From Expressionism to Fascism: Art and Film in Germany [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 399/SWGS 321 Exhibiting Sexualities [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 406 Iconoclasms: The Destruction of Images [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 410/CLAS 417 Architecture and Dynasty in the Early Roman Empire [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 412/ARCH 412 Advanced Seminar in Architecture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 413 Murder and Modernism [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 420 Europe and the Islamic World [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 430/ENGL 438 The Grotesque [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 431/MDEM 431 Architecture of the Gothic Cathedral [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 435/HIST 443/MDEM 435 Multicultural Europe, 1400-1700 [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 437/FREN 437/MDEM 437 Visual Culture of Medieval Pilgrimage [ 3 - 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 451Models of Abstraction [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 452 Manet(s) and Modernism(s) [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 454/ANTH 454 The Artist as the Ethnographer – The Ethnographer as Artist [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 457/FILM 455 Video and Expanded Cinema [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 460 Mass Culture & The Avant-Garde [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 461 Art of the 60s and 70s [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 463/ARCH 452 Practicing Utopia: Architecture, Eugenics and the Modern Latin City [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 465 Latin American Bodies: On Modernism [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 467/ARCH 462 Nature In-Vitro: Bodies, Gardens, and Built Forms [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 480/ARTS 435/FILM 435 Seminar on Film Authorship: The New Hollywood [ 4 credit hours ] 
• HART 487/FREN 487 Literature, Art and Coloniality [ 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 493 Walter Benjamin, Media & Modernity [ 3 credit hours ]  

Outside European and American Traditions Courses 

• HART 103 Introduction to the History of Asian Art [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 211/ASIA 211/HIST 206 Introduction to Asian Civilizations [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 265 A Visual Culture Travelogue: Art and Politics in Modern Latin America [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 304/FILM 339/SPPO 375 Trends in Contemporary Cuban Culture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 308/ARCH 318 Living in the City in the Ottoman Empire [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 310/ARCH 315 Brazil Built: The Clinic, the Tropical, and the Aesthetic [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 322/ARCH 332 Jerusalem to Isfahan [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 329/ARCH 329/HIST 329 Streets and Urban Life: Paris to Istanbul [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 348 A Revolution from Within: Trends in Contemporary Cuban Culture [ 1 credit hour ]  
• HART 359/ARCH 359/FILM 359 Cinemas of Urban Alienation [ 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 360/ARCH 360 American Architecture and Decorative Arts Before 1900 [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 371/ASIA 371 Chinese Painting [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 372/ASIA 372/MDEM 373 Chinese Art and Visual Culture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 375 Latin-Europe/Latin-America: The Aesthetics and Politics of Modern Cities [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 376/ASIA 376/MDEM 376 East and West [ 3 credit hours ]    
• HART 379/ARCH 371/ASIA 379 Post-1945 Japanese Art & Architecture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 392 Latin American Art and Cinema Since 1960 [ 4 credit hours ] 
• HART 420 Europe and the Islamic World [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 463/ARCH 452 Practicing Utopia: Architecture, Eugenics and the Modern Latin City [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 465 Latin American Bodies: On Modernism [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 467/ARCH 462 Nature In-Vitro: Bodies, Gardens, and Built Forms [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 494/ARCH 484/ASIA 484 Modern and Contemporary East Asian Art and Architecture [ 3 credit hours ] 

History of Architecture Courses  

• HART 101/CLAS 102/MDEM 111 Introduction to the History of Western Art I [ 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 110/ARCH 110/CLAS 103/FSEM 113 The Parthenon [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 117/FSEM 117 From Freud to Lecorbusier [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 201 Rome: Inception to Empire [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 214/CLAS 236 Art & Politics in Ancient Rome [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 225/ARCH 225 History and Theory I (Intro) [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 265 A Visual Culture Travelogue: Art and Politics in Modern Latin America [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 302 From the Sublime to the Sustainable: Art, Architecture, and Nature [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 304/FILM 339/SPPO 375 Trends in Contemporary Cuban Culture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 308/ARCH 318 Living in the City in the Ottoman Empire [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 310/ARCH 315 Brazil Built: The Clinic, The Tropical, and the Aesthetic [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 311/ANTH 331 Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 316/ANTH 346/ARCH 310/COMP 316 Virtual Reconstruction of Historical Cities [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 318/CLAS 321 Special Topics in Ancient Art [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 321/ARCH 331 Imperial City: Istanbul 1453-1922 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 322/ARCH 332 Jerusalem to Isfahan [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 326/ARCH 326/CLAS 326 Material, Form, Space, Time [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 329/ARCH 329/HIST 329 Streets and Urban Life: Paris to Istanbul [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 330/MDEM 330 Early Medieval Art [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 331/MDEM 331 Gothic Art [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 332/MDEM 332 Art of the Courts [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 339 American Art and Architecture I: 1620-1800 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 345/ARCH 345 History and Theory II – Pre 1890 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 348 A Revolution from Within: Trends in Contemporary Cuban Culture [ 1 credit hour ]  
• HART 360/ARCH 360 American Architecture and Decorative Arts Before 1900 [3 credit hours] 
• HART 369/CLAS 323 Redefining Classical Art History [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 372/ASIA 372/MDEM 373 Chinese Art and Visual Culture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 375 Latin-Europe/Latin-America: The Aesthetics and Politics of Modern Cities [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 379/ARCH 371/ASIA 379 Post-1945 Japanese Art & Architecture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 410/CLAS 417 Architecture and Dynasty in the Early Roman Empire [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 431/MDEM 431 Architecture of the Gothic Cathedral [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 437/FREN 437/MDEM 437 Visual Culture of Medieval Pilgrimage [ 3 - 4 credit hours ]  
• HART 463/ARCH 452 Practicing Utopia: Architecture, Eugenics and the Modern Latin City [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 465 Latin American Bodies: On Modernism [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 467/ARCH 462 Nature In-Vitro: Bodies, Gardens, and Built Forms [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 482/CLAS 482 Caesar’s Palace [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 494/ARCH 484/ASIA 484 Modern and Contemporary East Asian Art and Architecture [ 3 credit hours ]  

At Least Two Areas Between Pre-Modern, Early Modern, and Modern Through Contemporary Fields Courses  

• HART 240/HUMA 108/MDEM 108 Art in Context: Late Medieval and Renaissance Culture [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 307 Technical Art History [ 3 credit hours ]    
• HART 308/ARCH 318 Living in the City in the Ottoman Empire [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 321/ARCH 331 Imperial City: Istanbul 1453-1922 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 322/ARCH 332 Jerusalem to Isfahan [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 326/ARCH 326/CLAS 326 Material, Form, Space, Time [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 329/ARCH 329/HIST 329 Streets and Urban Life: Paris to Istanbul [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 345/ARCH 345 History and Theory II – Pre 1890 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 346/SWGS 346 Seminar on Love: Making Love in Modern Art and Thought [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 354 Age of Romanticism in Europe [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 355 Jacques-Louis David: Revolution [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 357 Constable and Turner [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 358 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 360/ARCH 360 American Architecture and Decorative Arts Before 1900 [ 3 credit hours ] 
• HART 394/RELI 394 The Sacred Arts of Secular Modernism [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 400 Bayou Bend Undergraduate Internship I [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 401 Bayou Bend Undergraduate Internship II [ 3 credit hours ]  
• HART 406 Iconoclasms: The Destruction of Images [ 3 credit hours ]   
• HART 452 Manet(s) and Modernism(s) [ 3 credit hours ] 

• The Coalition Application, or theCommon Application and Rice Writing Supplement, or the Universal College Application and the Rice Supplement
• $75 nonrefundable application fee orfee waiver
• Official high school transcript. Transcripts must be submitted by your high school and will not be accepted by fax or email.
• Official Test Scores: either the SAT and two Subject Tests related to your proposed area of study, or the ACT.
• School Report (counselor recommendation)
• One Teacher Evaluation (teacher recommendation)
• Midyear Report (to be submitted when senior midyear grades become available)
• The Rice International Student Financial Statement
• If English is not your first language or your language of instruction in school, you must submit official TOEFL or IELTS scores.

Scholarships

Rice University will offer need-based financial aid to a limited number of international undergraduate applicants entering Fall 2017. Citizens of foreign countries who apply under Early Decision or Regular Decision and request need-based aid will be reviewed as a separate group.