ARHS-101-02, Summer 2004
Tuesday –
Thomasine Bartlett
Office, Room 207,
Home Phone: 944-8260
Office Hours: By Appointment
SURVEY OF ART HISTORY I
This is an introductory course designed to familiarize the student with a variety of ways of approaching art. Course objectives include:
- familiarizing the student with major monuments of art history
- equipping students to discriminate between works of art of different cultural and different artistic styles
- cultivating new ways of understanding and appreciating art of different cultures and time periods
Class attendance and participation in discussion (limited by class size!) are essential to success in this class.
The required text for this course is History of Art, H.W. Janson, Revised Sixth Edition, Volume I. It is available in the bookstore.
EVALUATION:
Due to the wide range of material covered in this course, there will be four (rather than two) tests administered. Each test will cover 2-3 chapters of the textbook. Students will be responsible for all of the textbook material and any additional material given in class lectures. The schedule for reading assignments is attached.
One three-to-five page paper will be required. This will not be a research paper, but will be a paper bed on your own understanding of a specific artwork or architectural monument, or a comparison of several works. More specific information about the paper will be given later in the semester.
GRADE ASSESSMENT:
As outlined above, there will be four exams and one paper. Each is worth 100 points. I do not give make-up exams, but I will drop the lowest of your five grades. This leaves a total of 400 possible points. Your scores will be totaled and divided by four; the resulting numerical grade will be converted to a letter grade based on a ten-point scale. In cases of borderline grades, class attendance and participation may be considered. Although I do drop one test grade, you should not simply skip a test early in the semester. You may have an emergency that necessitates missing a later test, and you will not be permitted to make it up under any circumstances. The one dropped grade is to allow for emergencies and other excused absences.
READING SCHEDULE (Fixed – But subject to Change!!)
MAY 18 Review Syllabus; Prehistoric Art
25 Egyptian Art
JUNE 1 Ancient Near Eastern Art
8 EXAM ONE; Aegean Art and Archaic Sculpture
15 Greek Architecture & Classical Sculpture
22 4th Century Sculpture & Hellenistic Art
29 EXAM TWO; Etruscan Art
JULY 6 Roman Art
13 Early Christian & Byzantine Art
20 EXAM THREE; Romanesque Art
27 Romanesque & Gothic Art; PAPERS DUE
AUG 3 Gothic
FINAL EXAM: AUGUST 10,