ARH 2051 -- Art History II online – Fall 2016
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 after class, 9:40-10 p.m. in BB 210 on SPC’s Tarpon Springs campus. Byappointment, 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:
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT:
Dean:Dr. Jonathan Steele
Office Location: Main office,CrossroadsBuilding, SPC Clearwater campus, CR 154-C
Office Number:(727) 791-5987
Academic Chair:Dr. Kevin Stanley
Office Location: Lyceum building 239, TS campusOffice Number: 727-712-5717
Course Objectives
The main objective of this course is to teach you how to look at and discuss works of art in different media (including painting, sculpture, and architecture) and to understand them in light of their historical context. The meanings of works of art are affected, if not determined, by the place and period in which they were created. You will receive a brief overview of the "masterpieces" from prehistoric art to Gothic architecture. This class is challenging because there is a large volume of diverse material and cultures to cover in a relatively short period.
The focus of the course is on discussing the individual works of art presented as representative samples from their periods or art movements. The historical background helps you to understand the "why?" behind the choice of the subject matter and the colors, techniques, and compositions that were used. The following are skills you will work on in this class:
Identifying major art movements and the work of some of the significant artists in Western Art
Ascertaining the artistic significance of a work of art
Being able to understand the historical and cultural context of major art movements
Performing a formal analysis of a work of art
Forming judgments about works of art based on the critical criteria learned in class and on field trips
Prerequisites(Course & Skill Set):ENC 0020 or EAP 1695 or appropriate score on the CPT.
Course Materials
- Gardner's Art Through the Ages, The Western Perspective, Volume II,14th edition is available forpurchase in SPC campus bookstores. That is the official version of the textbook for this class and I recommend buying or renting the paper version of the book. You have to have a textbook if you want to pass this class. If you are strapped for cash and are comfortable with using an eBook only, you can just purchase the CourseMate access code directly from the Cengage publisher, since it comes bundled with the full textbook in eBook version. That said, it is easier to have a paper version of the book next to you while you are taking the exams if you want to look something up.
- It costs only about $20 to rent from for the paper copy for this semester for Amazon Prime members!
A notebookif 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 exams will likely yield a low grade.
Library:
MEETING INFORMATION:
Course Location: online Meeting Days: online
IMPORTANT DATES:
Course Dates: 8/15/2016-12/5/2016
Drop Date: on or before 8/19/2016
Withdrawal Date: 10/20/2016
Financial Aid:
Exams
Each of yourfive exams will consist of objective questions, based on the material found in the chapters that will be covered in the Gardnertextbook. Multiple choice questions and true/false may be among the formats of the questions. The images in the tests are not cumulative, although being able to apply the terms and concepts learned for an earlier segment will apply to later tests, i.e. if you learn about "linear perspective" or "chiaroscuro," you are expected to be able to recognize these techniques not just in the chapter they are initially presented, but from that time forth.
Pay special attention to learning thetitle,artist(where applicable),medium,period, and identifying theartistic significanceof 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 inthe PowerPoint slide shows in MYCOURSES,as well as in the textbook.
Typically,a few questions on each test will include “unknown” slides: ones that you have not seen in previously in your book, but by the same artists. You will need to identify the period of the work. This section will test to see whether you can abstract the knowledge gained about movements to pieces unfamiliar to you.All of the slides in this section will be similar in style to pieces that were presented during the pertinent chapters.
Read the document entitled “How to study for one of the Art History 2 Exams” in the Study Aids for Tests folder to help you prepare for these exams.
You only have ONE attempt to take an exam in this class!
This is the list of chapters for Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 14thed., The Western Perspective, Vol. II.
READ:
Before 1300 and Introduction: What is Art History?
14. Late Medieval Italy
15. Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Northern Europe
16. The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy
Exam 1
4.17. Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy
5.18. High Renaissance and Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain
6.19. The Baroque in Italy and Spain
Exam 2
7.20. The Baroque in Northern Europe
8.21. Rococo to Neoclassicism: The 18th Century in Europe and America
9.22. Romanticism, Realism, Photography: Europe and America, 1800 to 1870
Exam 3
10.23. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism: Europe and America, 1870 to 1900
11.24. Modernism in Europe and America, 1900 to 1945
Exam 4
12.25. Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980
13.26. Contemporary Art Worldwide
Exam 5
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 - 100Excellent performance
B...... 80 - 89Good performance
C...... 70 - 79Average performance
D...... 60 - 69Poor performance
F...... 59 and under Very poor performance
Exam1...... 10 % of final grade
Exam2...... 13 % of final grade
Exam3...... 15 % of final grade
Exam4...... 15 % of final grade
Exam 5...... 15 % of final grade
Other Assignments:
Introduce Yourself Discussion..……………………………..….…....1 % of final grade
1stDrop Box Assignment…………………………………………….1 % of final grade
Week 2 Assignment.………………………………………………….1 % of final grade
Attending Class Field Trip with the class…...... …+5 points extra credit Exam 3 grade
Museum Visit Paper…………...... 12 % of final grade
Architectural Scavenger Hunt Discussion ...... 12 % of final grade
Contemporary Art Discussion ...... 5 % of final grade
However, if you do not complete alltheassignments (Introduce yourself discussion, scavenger hunt & article essay with a “C” or better, the highest grade you may earn in this course is a "D" since this portion fulfills your general writing requirement for the college).You must turn in the assignmentsbefore the due date for a chance at full credit.
First Week’s Homework
- Discussion "Introduce yourself to the class"
Due: before11 p.m. on 8/21/2016. I will know if it has been turned in on time by the time stamp your submission within MyCourses.
Please use proper spelling and grammar, since this assignment constitutes 1% 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 am not impressed by the recent trend toward ignoring all laws of English grammar and capitalization in email messages.
- 1st Drop Box Assignmentdue: before11 p.m. on 8/21/2016.
Week 2 Homework
This is a video quiz assignment to satisfy that you are logging in to MyCourses and doing your work. Its purpose is to satisfy the attendance requirement for the college and to ensure that you will not be taken out of the class as a “No Show” for non-attendance. It covers a ca. 6-minute video about Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” painting.
Due: before 11 p.m. on 8/28/2016.
If you receive a “no show” for both Weeks 1 & 2 in terms of attendance, SPC will administratively remove you from the course, so doing your homework these first two weeks is crucial!
Museum Field Trip Paper
Our community offers a number of excellent opportunities for experiencing the visual arts in local museums.In this course, the college requests you to visit theLeepa-Rattner Museum of Arton the Tarpon Springs campus of SPC and complete a writing assignmentrelated to your visit.Admission is free for SPC students.
If you do not live within Pinellas County, Florida, you need to indicate that in your 1stdrop box assignment to me and suggest an alternate art museum that is local to you where you might be able to visit during the term to fulfill your museum writing discussion post. Please provide the url for the museum also. I will then reply to you and let you know if your alternate suggestion is an acceptable venue.
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.
You are encouraged to join us for the Leepa-Rattner Field Tripwith the class. I will be giving the tour onSaturday, 8/27/2016 at 11 a.m. You will get a chance to meet me and your classmates in person and can feel free to ask questions about how to do the writing assignments in this course.
Joining me for the field trip is strongly encouraged if you live locally. If you do, you will net a small reward for it grade-wise. Besides visiting the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, I will also be taking my students to the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota on Saturday, 10/22/2016 at 11 a.m. You may attend one or both of these field trips to help with your Museum Visit Essay. If you go with one of the tours that I am leading you will receive extra credit for going with the group.
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 have to 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 Exam 3 grade -- that way those of you who make the effort to come with me at a given time will be rewarded for it.
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.
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
600 Klosterman Road
Tarpon Springs FL 34689
Museum website for hours and further info: call 727-712-5762 for detailed information.
Please link to MapQuest at plug in the museum address for directions.
RinglingMuseum 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:
Architectural Scavenger Hunt Discussion
Ideally, this is 3-hour activity is a two-person project, so you may use the ungraded "Your Discussion Forum" to see if you can meet up with a classmate and determine where locally you may want to get together to look for various architectural details.It has to be done during this term, so digging up old vacation photos will not do!
If you cannot meet up with a classmate, maybe one of your friends or family members will tag along with you and help you find as many examples of the architectural details as possible in the attached Word document form in the instructions for the discussion. In addition, you need to have digital photos of yourself in front of each architectural feature that you are including to prove you were there in person. If you are alone, just take a selfie, but it looks better if you can ask a by-passer to snap your photo rather than having a close-up of just part of your face with the architectural details, so keep the aesthetics in mind.You need to post your filled-out .pdf file with your findings inserted with explanations about them in the captions. I will upload a sample to get you started. This may be one of the most fun activities in the course.
Communication with the instructor
All communication will take place within the MyCourses email. This email has been set so that the messages cannot be forwarded to your private email address by the college administration, so please check in to your course daily to see if there is a new message.
Also, please set up the notifications to get a text alert for news items in MyCourses. It will look something like this:
News - item updated / Enable SMS for item updatedNews - new item available
By doing that, I can do a quick news item and that will let you know to log into MyCourses. If you then see a red dot next to the email icon, click on that to see if I have sent you an email also. Unfortunately, there is no way to set up a text notification if you have received an email from your instructor, so this is one way I am hoping to be able to get your attention if I need to reach you in a hurry.
In return, I will respond to student messages, and other matters related to faculty to student interaction and engagement student’s communication within 24 hours weekdays and with 48 hours on weekends. The instructor will not be available on official college holidays as stated in the academic calendar on the main St. Petersburg College website, although she may opt to check in and respond to your messages anyway. You may not expect this, however, on days such as Thanksgiving, for instance.
General Information
These various assignments are all scheduledto substitute fora traditional classroom lecture format in a brick-and-mortar building. They are designed to parallel the information that we would cover if we were meeting in the traditional classroom.Most of the assignments can be completed within the timeframe of a traditional class meeting but some assignments require additional homework time, as would also be the case in a traditionally delivered course. You (and I) can keep track of how much time you have spent online in this class by checking the “User Progress” under the Reports tab. If it seems that you are not spending any time on this class and are not reading anyone else’s discussion posts, then this will not reflect well on your commitment to this class.
The absolutely last minute that you may submit an online assignment is indicated in the Class Plan, on the calendar, and with each assignment. Please DO NOT wait until the last minute to work on the assignment or to submit the assignment since there are often last minute technical difficulties and you will not be excused because of them if you have waited until just before the deadline.
These assignments will require that you access information available on MyCourses, interact with material related to the arts, and answer questions about it.Due dates are indicated in the Class Plan and on the course calendar in MyCourses.
No test grades will be dropped in this course!
MAGIC MAKE-UP DAY
Magic Make-Up Day happens once a term, right around final exam week. It is a surprise and you will only know about it from a News Item and an email that I will send to let you know that this is the day. On that particular day, if you log in to MyCourses, you can make up any exams (and only tests – not discussion posts or papers) you might have missed, without it penalizing your grade.
This has several helpful implications: if you were sick or traveling and missed an exam, 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 exam day. It will not happen!
And no, you may not re-do a test you have already taken, on which you earned a low score. You only get one attempt at any of the tests in this course. If you miss an exam entirely, and do not make it up on Magic Make-Up Day, then you will earn a “0” on it.
EXTRA CREDIT
There is a folder entitled “Extra Credit” in the bottom of the Course Content. Look there for more details. If you go on one of the official class field trips, you can earn +5 points extra credit, to be applied manually by the instructor to your Exam 3 grade, typicallyat the end of the term. There may also be special events at the Leepa-Rattner Museum that can earn you extra credit. Extra museum visit work needs to be emailed to the instructor within MyCourses before you complete Exam 5. Exam 5 will feature two multiple-choice extra credit questions, worth 2 points each, so that you can earn up to 104 points on it if you earn a perfect score.