ARH 1000 – Understanding Art face-to-face Tarpon Springs campus – Spring 2017
Instructor’s Name: Michaela Oberlaender
Email: contact me within MyCourses email only Phone: (727) 791-2405
Office Hours/Instructor Availability: Mondays after class, 4:40-5:10 p.m. in CR 142 on SPC’s Clearwater campus and Tuesdays & Thursdays after class, 3:15-3:30 p.m. in BB 210 on SPC’s Tarpon Springs campus. By appointment, I will also be glad to meet at the SPC Tarpon Springs library upon request.
Primary office Location: SPC Clearwater campus, CR Room 146B
Instructor Web Page: http://it.spcollege.edu/course_info/inquiry.cfm?number=806
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT:
Dean: Dr. Jonathan Steele
Office Location: Main office, Crossroads Building, SPC Clearwater campus, CR 154-C
Office Number: (727) 791-5987
Academic Chair: Dr. Kevin Stanley
Office Location: Lyceum building 239, TS campus Office Number: 727-712-5717
Course Objectives
Prerequisites (Course & Skill Set): ENC 0020 or EAP 1695 or appropriate score on the CPT.
ARH 1000, Face-to-face format
This section of ARH 1000 will be delivered in a face-to-face format on SPC’s Tarpon Springs campus, although portions of it will be uploaded into the MyCourses platform. To succeed in this course, you need to:
· Get a copy of the Gateways to Art textbook, 2nd edition. You have to have the InQuizitive access code to be able to take the quizzes in this course! See the links for the eBook and for InQuizitive in MyCourses for more information and listen about the various options on the first day of class. Your most economical option is to make your purchase directly via the link within MyCourses.
· Attend class regularly. Pay attention & keep your cell phones off!
· Have access to a computer with a high-speed internet connection, since the image files are large and take a long time to download on dial-up connections. If you do not have this access, there are computers available on all SPC campuses for your use. Please check the schedules at each campus for hours.
· Have enough computer knowledge to access and navigate the MyCourses website, prepare keyboarded documents, and use email. You need to be able to view streaming videos, open Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, and navigate through the MyCourses system to see the course content and to be able to take quizzes and submit information to dropboxes.
· Have time throughout the semester for traditional homework assignments such as readings, study questions, a museum visit, an architectural scavenger hunt, and quiz & exam preparation.
Course Goals:
Major Learning Outcomes:
1. The student will demonstrate an understanding of the elements of the visual language.
2. The student will understand the dynamics of visual form.
3. The student will understand the various modes of seeing in the visual arts.
4. The student will understand the content of visual form.
5. The student will demonstrate ability in writing.
6. The student will demonstrate an understanding of the relationships and contrasts among different cultural ideas and arts.
Course Objectives Stated in Performance Terms:
· The student will demonstrate an understanding of the elements of the visual language by:
a. identifying and/or discussing the two dimensional elements.
b. identifying and/or discussing the three dimensional elements.
· The student will understand the dynamics of visual form by:
a. identifying and/or discussing the principles of design in two dimensional and three dimensional elements.
b. discussing the interaction of illusion and pure plastic form.
c. discussing the interaction of media, the principles of design, illusion, and pure plastic form.
· The student will understand the various modes of seeing in the visual arts by:
a. discussing the naturalistic, expressive, and conceptual modes in the visual arts.
b. discussing the process of perception.
· The student will understand the content of visual form by:
a. discussing the relationship of form to content.
b. identifying and discussing the content of a specific work.
· The student will demonstrate an ability in writing by planning and writing one or more papers completed outside of the direct classroom experience.
· The student will demonstrate an understanding of the relationships and contrasts among different cultural ideas and arts by visiting and writing a critical report on a cultural activity that includes the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art.
Criteria Performance Standard:
Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.
Course Materials
· Understanding Art (ARH 1000) Textbook
Below are the ISBNs and prices for the various Gateways to Art packages by Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, and M. Kathryn Shields. We are using the 2nd edition of this book.
· A notebook if you take hard copy notes, or a Word file if you take notes on your computer. If you want to do well in this class, you should take notes on your reading and treat this as a serious college-level class. Just skimming the text and then taking the quizzes will likely yield a low grade.
Library: http://www.spcollege.edu/central/libonline/.
MEETING INFORMATION:
Course Location: BB210, TS campus
Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays from 2-3:15 p.m.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Course Dates: 1/10/2017-5/2/2017
Drop/Add: by 1/13/2017
Withdrawal Date: 3/22/2017
Financial Aid: http://www.spcollege.edu/central/SSFA/HomePage/calendar.htm
Quizzes and Final Exam
Your quizzes will be taken via the InQuizitive platform provided by the Norton publisher, so you will have to have a valid access code in order to be able to take them. As they comprise 55% of your overall grade, it is important that you have this access code. Within MyCourses in the “InQuizitive” folder, you may click on the link and either activate a code you already have (bundled with a textbook purchase) or you may purchase an eBook for $50 that includes the access code. After purchasing the eBook within the InQuizitive link inside the MyCourses class, you will get an email from the Norton Publisher offering you the opportunity to purchase a 3-hole punched paper version of the book for only an additional $15. That means you can get the paper book, the eBook and the access code for a grand total of $65, which is considerably cheaper than if you purchase your book via Barnes & Noble or Amazon. The stand-alone access code via that link is only $20, according to the Norton textbook representative.
There are 12 quizzes in this class and they will make up 55 % of your final grade. In your grade book, they are averaged together in one line that says InQuizitive in the grade report. The grades will change as you take more of the quizzes. You can see your individual quiz grades when you’re logged in to InQuizitive, but not within the MyCourses grade report. The quizzes are already open, so you may work ahead. Each quiz has a minimum number of questions you have to answer, but if you are not satisfied with your grade at that point, you may keep working on it, ostensibly until you earn 100%. That way, you truly have the best chance to earn the grade you want to have in this class via the quizzes just by working longer, if necessary.
Your final exam will consist of objective questions, based on the material found in the chapters that is covered in the Gateways textbook. The questions are formatted as multiple-choice and may include images or just text. The quizzes and the final exam will be taken online via the MyCourses platform and require a good high-speed internet connection. If you do not have a reliable one, then take the exam and your quizzes in one of the computer labs on campus.
On the final exam, which is taken directly within MyCourses, pay special attention to learning the title, artist (where applicable), medium, period, and identifying the artistic significance of works of art, as some of the test questions will be based on these criteria. You will not need to learn the dates for the works, although being aware of what century they belong will be helpful to your general understanding of the material. The emphasis will be on images that are shown in the PowerPoint slide shows in MyCourses, as well as in the textbook. You may consult your textbook as you take quizzes and the exam.
The final exam in this class is cumulative and you have 75 minutes to complete 52 questions. Two of the questions are identified as extra credit questions: if you get these questions wrong, they will not be counted against you. Again, you may use your Gateways textbook to confirm your answers as you take this exam online.
You only have ONE attempt to take the final exam in this class! No test grades will be dropped in this course!
MAGIC MAKE-UP DAY
Magic Make-Up Day happens once a term, right before final exam week. You will know about it from a class announcement, a News Item and an email that I will send to let you know that this is the day. On that day, if you log in to MyCourses, you can make up any quizzes by going to the InQuizitive folder (and only quizzes – not discussion posts or papers) without it penalizing your grade.
This has several helpful implications: if you were sick or traveling and missed a quiz, then you have an opportunity to make them up on Magic Make-Up Day.
Do not ask me when Magic Make-Up Day is: I want to reward those of you who pay attention, and do not ask me to give another, alternate make-up quiz day. It will not happen!
If you miss a quiz entirely, and do not make it up on Magic Make-Up Day, then you will earn a “0” on it. 55 percent of your final grade comprised of your quizzes.
GRADING
You will be evaluated based upon your performance on the following items. Each exam is worth 100 points. Percentages will be awarded for each examination as outlined below:
A..............90 - 100 Excellent performance
B...............80 - 89 Good performance
C...............70 - 79 Average performance
D...............60 - 69 Poor performance
F...............59 and under Very poor performance
Introduce Yourself to the Class discussion…………..………..….……….…....2 % of final grade
Attending Class Field Trip with the class…...+5 points extra credit on Museum Visit Essay grade
Museum Visit Paper…………............................................................................13 % of final grade
Architectural Scavenger Hunt Discussion ..........................................................12 % of final grade
Quizzes (12) ........................................................................................................55 % of final grade
Final Exam...........................................................................................................18 % of final grade
First Week’s Homework
Introduce yourself to the class
Due: before 11 p.m. on 1/15/2017. I will know if it has been turned in on time by the time stamp your submission within MyCourses. Don’t forget to also answer the questions I pose about the syllabus.
Please use proper spelling and grammar, since this assignment constitutes 2% of your final grade. Whenever communicating with me via email, I would appreciate it if you avail yourself of your computer’s spell checker and send me grammatically correct messages, since I’m not impressed by the recent trend toward ignoring all laws of English grammar and capitalization in email messages.
Museum Field Trip and Essay
Our community offers several excellent opportunities for experiencing the visual arts in local museums. In this course, the college requests you to visit the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art on the Tarpon Springs campus of SPC and complete a writing assignment related to your visit. Admission is free for SPC students.
You must submit the museum paper in Word format in the proper drop box, with your photos of your favorite and least favorite works of art clearly inserted into the document and identified, and described in the paragraphs accompanying the works. You also need to include a photo of yourself inside the museum to prove you were there this semester. Please check the detailed formatting instructions for the paper in MyCourses and the rubric for this assignment.
Besides visiting the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art during class time one day, I will also be taking my students to the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota on Saturday, 2/11/2017 at 11 a.m. The Ringling has a special exhibition of medieval and early Renaissance art in addition to its excellent Baroque Art collection on display when we go. Furthermore, I will be leading a field trip to the Dali Museum on Thursday, 3/2/2017 to see the permanent collection and the special exhibition of Frida Kahlo’s work on display there now. We will be joining their excellent docent Janice at 5:30 p.m. for her open tour for visitors and if she does not cover the Frida Kahlo exhibit, I will take you through that portion. The Leepa-Rattner Museum is always free for SPC students, and the Ringling Museum is free with my group tour, although you will have to pay tolls to cross the Sunshine Skyway. The Dali Museum has a $10 admission price on Thursdays after 5 p.m. and you will have to pay for parking there or nearby as well. You may attend one or all of these field trips to help with your Museum Visit Essay.
However, you definitely need to go to a museum during the semester in which you are taking this class and do the Museum Visit Paper, whether you can go on a field trip with your instructor or whether you do the museum visit on your own. If you do go on the two-hour guided tours with the instructor, you will earn + 5 points extra credit on the Museum Essay grade -- that way those of you who make the effort to come with me at a given time will be rewarded for it. If you go on both field trips, you can have +10 points added to your Museum Essay grade.
This instructor will strive to grade the Museum Visit Essays in a timely manner. Please realize that doing a good job reviewing this assignment takes some effort, so please be patient, as the grades are submitted manually as the instructor gets to them and this term I have three courses that have this same assignment due at the same time.
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
600 Klosterman Road
Tarpon Springs FL 34689
Museum website for hours and further info: http://www.spcollege.edu/central/museum/visit.htm or call 727-712-5762 for detailed information.
Please link to MapQuest at http://www.mapquest.com/ and plug in the museum addresses for directions.
Dali Museum
The Dali Museum website can be found here: http://thedali.org/visit/visitor-information/
Ringling Museum of Art
941-359-5700
5401 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243
Open Daily 10am - 5pm
Thursdays until 8pm
The Ringling Museum website can be found here: https://www.ringling.org/
Architectural Scavenger Hunt Discussion