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- Effective Term:
- Summer 2014 through Summer 2015
- Course Number:
- ART 102
- Course Title:
- Understanding the Visual Arts
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion students should be able to:
? recognize formal qualities in two- and threedimensional arts and read visual elements, artistic and cultural styles, and symbols
? view works of art "dynamically," that is, to appreciate and communicate simultaneously individual viewer response, the uniqueness of a
work, its origins and precedent, its potential as an inspiration and influence on later art, and its relationship to a particular cultural moment
? decipher the visual arts through understanding of historical, social, cultural, economic, and political contexts
? generalize course content to other art not covered in the course so that he/she can understand and value the visual arts in all-encompassing global
ways
Integrative Learning
Students completing an associate degree at Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ will be able to reflect on one’s work or competencies to make connections between course content and lived experience.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
The student will:
- comprehend, apply, analyze and evaluate reading assignments
- identify artwork, and relate facts and ideas about these works of art in exam format
- research, plan, compose, edit and revise short papers
- keep journals assessing learning development in and out of the classroom
- participate in class field trips
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes, Concepts, and Issues:
Theoretical
- theory and criticism in the history of art
- pattern-based thinking and historical process
- various interpretations of art
- art and gender
- creativity and the impulse to make art
Stylistic and Interpretive
- visual literacy
- art media and artistic technique
- "seeing and knowing"
- iconography
- formal principles and elements of fine art
Social and Cultural
- other peoples and their histories, values, and culture
- art and economics
- art and the social fabric
- art and religion
- art and politics
- art and gender
- relationship of culture and style
- art and cultural transmission
- historical impact of art
- the influence of art on one°s own culture
- the influence of art on relations with other cultures
- art and artists
- the impulse to make art
- the Gestalt of art
- the role of the artist in society
- biography
- geography and its influence on art and culture
- artifact recovery, analysis, restoration, and incorporation into a larger historical fabric
Competencies and Skills:
The successful student should be able to:
- work creatively with art historical data, using it to develop principles of art history
- recognize and appraise patterns in historical phenomenaassess the ways in which an art object is affected by our own vantage point
- recognize and discriminate among various styles of art
- trace the development of art from one period to another
- analyze formally works of art and appreciate the interrelationship of its elements
- determine symbolism in art
- employ iconographical nomenclature
- express the relationship of art to society and culture to style
- analyze the "meaning" of art objects through understanding of historical, social, and political context
- use specific terminology to describe works of art
- transfer to a four year college and continue a course of study in the field of art history, fine art, anthropology, and history in general
Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills:
- oral and written command of college level English