ARTS-1304 Art History II (14th Century to the Present)
Roberta Weston
Credit Fall 2023
Section(s)
ARTS-1304-001 (66323)
LEC TuTh 10:30am - 11:50am HLC HLC1 2210
Student Learning Outcomes/Learning Objectives
Course Description: A critical and analytical study of the great historical works of art in architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts from the Renaissance to the present.
Course Rationale: The purpose of Art History II is to introduce students to the development of period styles in the Western tradition from the early Renaissance to the present. Students will also acquire knowledge of the principal artists and architects of this period. This class also fulfills the Creative Arts requirement of the Core Curriculum outline.
Common Course Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, students will
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Identify and describe works of art based on their chronology and style, using standard categories and terminology
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Investigate major artistic developments and significant works of art from the 14th century to the present day
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Analyze the relationship of art to history by placing works of art within cultural, historical and chronological contexts
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Critically interpret and evaluate works of art.
Discipline Specific Program Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, students will:
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Write meaningful formal and critical analyses of art works
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Explain how formal and compositional properties express and convey content
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Recognize, contextualize, and comparatively analyze differences in artistic styles
Gain insight to diverse perspectives and relate art history to broader life experiences
General Education Outcomes:
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Communication Skills: Develop, interpret, and express ideas and information through written, oral and visual communication that is adapted to purpose, structure, audience,and medium.
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Critical Thinking Skills: Gather, analyze, synthesize, evaluate and apply information for the purposes of innovation, inquiry, and creative thinking.
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Personal Responsibility: Identify and apply ethical principles and practices to decision-making by connecting choices, actions and consequences.
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Social Responsibility (Civic and Cultural Awareness): Analyze differences and commonalities among peoples, ideas, aesthetic traditions, and cultural practices to include intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities.
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Teamwork: Consider different points of view to work collaboratively and effectively in pursuit of a shared purpose or goal.
Course Requirements
Prerequisites: College level Reading and Writing Requirements.
Art History I (ARTS 1303) is not a prerequisite for ARTS 1304. Note: Students will need strong, college-level reading, writing and study skills to succeed in this Distance Learning online course. Students are expected to read online support material (study guides, PowerPoint presentations, and artwork focus lists) and will be expected to read about 450 pages of the textbook. Students will be required to write a paper of three pages and post short essays (500 words each) to four online forums. Students will be expected to observe standard English grammar and spelling rules in writing assignments. Online courses typically require more reading and independent studying than a face-to-face class. Much of the material covered in the course comes from the textbook and illustrated PowerPoint presentations. Strong reading and critical thinking skills are important for students’ success.
Course Evaluation and Grading System:
- 60% = Four Exams, each earns 15% for total of 60% of final course grade
- 24% = Contributions to four image forums, each earns 6% of course grade. Each image forum is coordinated with first, second, third, and fourth course units (tests 1, 2, 3, 4).
- 16% = Contemporary Art Project and Paper. Graded components of project include 12% for research paper, 4% for contribution to a shared google slide presentation.
60%=Exams: there are four exams. Each earns 15% of the final course grade. The last exam is not comprehensive. Note: there are no make-up exams in this class. A student will receive a grade of zero if a test deadline is missed unless a valid medical excuse is promptly produced in writing. Students must contact me immediately by email is a test deadline is missed (within 12 hours of the deadline)
Exam Format:
- Multiple choice questions: 70% of each exam consists of multiple-choice questions and matching of terms to definitions. Learning guides for each exam are posted on the Blackboard site.
- One comparative essay related to images from the unit and covered by the learning guide, slide lessons, zoom sessions and textbook. 30% of each exam will consist of students writing one comparative analysis essay focusing on two works, selected by the instructor. Essay prompt options will be provided to students 5-7 days before the test deadline. Students will select one prompt of their choice and prepare their essays in advance. Generally, the essay prompts ask students to describe the examples, the subject matter, and analyze stylistic features. Students will explain how the works reflect the period styles to which they belong and will compare/contrast the examples.
Given that the exams are open book and open note (non-proctored), the comparative essays (provided in advance), are important tools to assess students’ learning, comprehension, and ability to synthesize course content into original descriptive and critical analysis.
24% = Contributions to four forums, each earns 6% of total course grade, and each coordinated with course units 1, 2, 3, and 4. Students will be assigned or will choose one artwork from each unit. Each student will research the example in more depth using the textbook, class material (slide and zoom sessions), and may also use material from smarthistory.org. Students are discouraged from using other online materials as they may distract students from the focus of the course content and the assignment requirements. Students will describe and analyze their example using their own words in an online forum. In addition to providing a descriptive analysis, students will explain the historical and stylistic context of the work. The goal is for students to describe their assigned artwork in detail, as if viewers have not seen it, while analyzing the content/subject matter, the larger meaning or significance of the work. Students will also address how the work reflects the artistic style to which it belongs. Postings will be 500 words or more, and students will upload an image of the work into the forum posting. Assignment directions and list of works for each unit will be available on Blackboard.
16% = Contemporary Art Project: The contemporary art project is coordinated with second half of the class. Students will research and write 3-4-page research paper on one work by a contemporary artist from a pool of choices (see assignment folder and slide presentation in Blackboard to review choices). Students will consider general thematic issues explored and presented in the contemporary art world. Prevalent issues in include social justice, gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, ecology/environmentalism/climate science, spirituality/religion, technology/science, borders/immigration, community engagement/public spaces, and a broad range of other issues. Each student will choose one artist from the list of suggested themes and artists located in the Blackboard folder. The final project includes a paper (12% of course grade) and contribution to a shared Google slide presentation (4% of course grade).
1. Each student will write a well-researched essay of 3-4 pages (900-1200 words, or more) on one work by a chosen artist. The essay will formally describe and critically analyze the artwork and how it engages with a larger thematic issue (gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity . . . etc. from assignment’s list of general themes). Final essays will be uploaded to SafeAssign for grading. Final Essays due no later than Friday, ____. Essay = 12% of course grade.
2. Each student will contribute to a shared Google Slide Presentation in which they will add a slide and descriptive text/audio on their selected artist and artwork. Each student’s slide or slides should provide an image (or several images) of the artwork, a description of the work, and critical analysis of what the work aims to express or convey and the larger theme it engages. The content on the slide(s) will reflect the student’s research paper work. Contributions to the shared Google Slide Presentation are due no later than Wednesday, May 10. Google Slide contribution = 4% of course grade.
Further instructions will be provided after the 9th week of class, but students may view the assignment and supporting materials in the folder in Blackboard labeled “Project on Contemporary Art.”
Extra credit opportunities: There will be extra credit opportunities provided throughout the semester. While students are encouraged to concentrate first and foremost on doing well on required assignments, there may be opportunities for students to claim an extra forum assignment for each unit or to complete an extra comparative essay for unit exams.
Instructional Methodology: Classroom Course Delivery, Online Content, and Computer Technology
Instructional Methodology: Structured chronologically, this survey of Western art establishes through in-class meetings, slide presentations, online forum postings, a research project on contemporary art, and textbook readings a historical framework of important styles, artists, iconographies, and techniques. Students will critically analyze works of art in terms of their formal and stylistic properties, purpose, meaning and socio-historical context.
Classroom Course Delivery, Online Course Content, and Computer Technology: Required face-to-face meetings on TTH, 10:30-11:50 a.m., (HLC, 1.2210). Although our class meets in person, students need reliable internet, computer access, and an ACC student email account in order to access instructor-designed course materials in the course Blackboard site.
Students are responsible for completing text book readings and keeping up with instructor-designed course content posted on the course Blackboard site. Instructor-designed BB course content includes slide lessons for each chapter, learning guides, and pre-recorded zoom lectures (in case students miss class). Students will also find optional chapter “practice test questions” in the support material. Although optional (not for course credit), the chapter “practice test questions” help gauge student learning.
Each of the Unit Exams will be taken online through the Blackboard site. Although each exam will be open-notes, open-book, students must be well-prepared to work through the exam within a time limit of two hours. Additionally, each exam includes a comparative essay asking students to compare/contrast examples from the unit (selected by the instructor). The comparative essay for each exam will require students’ advanced preparation. The essay prompts for each exam will be provided 5-7 days before the exam deadline allowing time for students to prepare their responses. In preparing their essays, students should use notes from class sessions (or recorded zoom sessions on BB), the textbook, BB slide presentations, and the learning guide to establish a solid understanding of the works. Essay prompts ask students to: 1. describe the examples and their stylistic features; 2. explain subject matter/meaning; 3. place the works into historical/social context; and 4. explain the larger significance of how the works reflect the styles to which they belong.
Students must have computer and internet skills, be able to send and receive email, attach and upload files to Blackboard, navigate the course’s Blackboard site, and open course documents in Blackboard. Students are obligated to activate, use, and regularly check their ACC email for course announcements and communication. Logging in to the course Blackboard site to access, use, and review course support materials (learning guides, slide lessons, zoom recordings, class announcements) is essential for student success.
The slide class presentations, which are posted to Blackboard, are coordinated with learning guides for each unit. The learning guides provide outlines of course material, essential terms, concepts, artists, and artworks for each chapter.
Readings
Required Textbook:
Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Vol. 2. Feel free whichever edition is least expensive. The bookstore is stocking the 15th, but students can get the 14th or 13th edition. Try to get the version subtitled “Western Perspective,” Vol. 2. It is also fine to get the version subtitled “A Global History,” vol. 2 if less expensive.
Course Subjects
Schedule and Reading Assignments: Fall 2023 |
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START UNIT ONE: Chapters 14, 15, 16, 17 -- Pre-Renaissance through High Renaissance and Mannerism) Italy: Late Medieval/Proto-Renaissance Art of 1200-1400-- chapter 14 in “The Western Perspective” =WP (chapter 14 in “Global History” = GH)*. EACH WEEK: -- USE LEARNING GUIDE --ATTEND CLASS TO COLLECTIVELY VIEW SLIDE PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSS ARTWORKS --OPTIONAL: WATCH RECORDED ZOOM SESSIONS, PARTICULARLY IF A CLASS IS MISSED AND TO REVIEW OR PREPARE FORUM OR PREPARE FOR TEST --READ TEXTBOOK AS OUTLINED HERE Late Medieval/Proto-Renaissance-- chapter 14 |
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Complete chapter 14 – Late Medieval/Proto-Renaissance Early Italian Renaissance (“Quattrocento”): 1400-1500—chapter 16 WP (21 GH). Note: we’re covering Italy in 1400s before Northern Europe in 1400s. |
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Week 3:
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Complete chapter 16 -- Early Italian Renaissance (“Quattrocento”): 1400-1500—chapter 16 WP (21 GH). Late Medieval/Early Renaissance in Northern Europe, 1400-1500--chapter 15 WP (ch. 20 GH). |
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Week 4: |
High Italian Renaissance and Mannerism (“Cinquecento”), 1500-1525--chapter 17 WP (ch. 22 GH). *Post to the image forum no later than Wednesday
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*Take First Exam no later than Monday Chapters 14, 15, 16, 17 -- Pre-Renaissance through High Renaissance and Mannerism). START UNIT TWO: Chapters 18, 19, 20, 21 --Northern High Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and 18th century. Northern High Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation, 1500-1600—chapter 18 WP (ch. 23 GH). |
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Week 6:
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Baroque art in Italy and Spain and the Catholic Counter-Reformation, 1600-1700—chapter 19 WP (ch. 24 GH). |
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Week 7: |
Baroque in Northern Europe, Holland and France, 1600-1700—chapter 20 (ch. 25 GH). |
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Week 8: |
18th century European Art: French Rococo, first part of chapter 21 WP (ch. 26 GH). *Post to the image forum no later than Saturday |
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Take Second Exam no later than Wednesday (Chapters 18, 19, 20, 21 -- Northern Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and 18th c). START UNIT Three: Chapters 21 (second part), 22, 23 (Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism) The Enlightenment and Neoclassicism second part of chapter 21 WP (ch. 26 GH). Romanticism, 19th century—22WP (ch. 27 GH). |
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Week 10: |
Romanticism, 19th century—22WP (ch. 27 GH). Realism, 19th century—chapter 22 WP (ch. 27 GH). |
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Week 11: |
French Impressionism, chapter 23 WP (ch. 28 GH). Post Impressionism, chapter 23 WP (ch. 28 GH). |
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Week 12:
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Post Impressionism, chapter 23 WP (ch. 28 GH). *Post to the image forum no later than Wednesday *Take Exam no later than Monday (Chapters 21, 22, 23 --Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism). |
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START UNIT Four: Chapters 24, 25, 26 (20th – 21st Century Art). Early 20th century Modernism: Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism and Futurism--chapter 24 WP (ch. 29 GH). |
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Week 14: |
Final Withdrawal Date: Early 20th century Modernism: Non-Objective art, Dada and Surrealism, International style, Social Realism—chapter 24 WP (ch. 29 GH). |
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Week 15: |
Mid-Century Modernist art after WWII: Abstract Expressionism—chapter 25 WP (ch. 30 & 31 GH). Art of the 1960s—chapter 25 WP (ch. 30 and 31 GH). |
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*Post to the image forum no later than Wednesday *Contribute to shared Google slide presentation no later than Wednesday Continue chapter 25 WP (Ch. 30 & 31 GH): Art of the 1970s and contemporary trends. Parts of chapter 26. *Papers due no later than Friday (uploaded to the Blackboard site). *Take Fourth Exam no later than Saturday (Chapters 24-26-- 20th -21st Century Art). |
Course Policies
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Attendance: Coming to class in order to collectively look at and discuss the images shown in slide presentations is necessary. Attendance for this face-to-face course is required and will be monitored daily. After five class absences, additional absences will lower the final course average by 5% or 10%. 6 absences lower the final grade by 5%; 7 or more absences lower the final course grade by 10% or one letter grade. Students may use one of the allowable absences (up to 5 classes) to cover any need to miss class. I reserve the right to withdraw a student from the class if the student misses 7 or more classes and is not making satisfactory progress in the class.
Electronic devices: no texting or use of phones during class. While I discourage students using laptops since studies show the use of laptops to decrease students’ success levels, with special permission, a student may use a laptop for note taking. Surfing the Internet, checking email, doing other work . . . etc. is not permitted. If students seem more engaged in their devices than class lecture/discussion, they will be asked to turn them off. The misuse of electronic devices in the classroom is disrespectful and disruptive of the learning environment. It decreases students’ engagement with the course material, decreases success in the course, and can contribute to a disengaged or negative classroom environment. Students that repeatedly violate restrictions on computer use will be counted absent and may be asked to leave. If computers are persistently misused in class, the professor may prohibit their use entirely.
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Prior to the end of the semester in which the “I” is to be awarded, the student must meet with the instructor to determine the assignments and exams that must be completed prior to the deadline date. This meeting can occur virtually or in person. The instructor should complete the Report of Incomplete Grade form.
- The faculty member will complete the form, including all requirements to complete the course and the due date, sign (by typing in name) and then email it to the student. The student will then complete his/her section, sign (by typing in name), and return the completed form to the faculty member to complete the agreement. A copy of the fully completed form can then be emailed by the faculty member to the student and the department chair for each grade of Incomplete that the faculty member submits at the end of the semester.
- The student must complete all remaining work by the date specified on the form above. This date is determined by the instructor in collaboration with the student, but it may not be later than the final withdrawal deadline in the subsequent long semester.
- Students will retain access to the course Blackboard page through the subsequent semester in order to submit work and complete the course. Students will be able to log on to Blackboard and have access to the course section materials, assignments, and grades from the course and semester in which the Incomplete was awarded.
- When the student completes the required work by the Incomplete deadline, the instructor will submit an electronic Grade Change Form to change the student’s performance grade from an “I” to the earned grade of A, B, C, D, or F.
- If an Incomplete is not resolved by the deadline, the grade automatically converts to an “F.” Approval to carry an Incomplete for longer than the following semester or session deadline is not frequently granted.”
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NOTE And by appointment. Email me (rweston@austincc.edu) and we can arrange another time to meet either in person or by zoom or a phone conference.Published: 06/07/2023 09:52:37