Course Content and Outcome Guide for ART 206
- Date:
- 08-JUN-2012
- Posted by:
- Curriculum Office
- Course Number:
- ART 206
- Course Title:
- History of Western Art
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab hours:
- 0
- Lab hours:
- 0
- Special Fee:
Course Description
Examines visual art and architecture as a reflection of human interaction with the socio-political and physical environment. Focuses on viewing, analyzing and comparing many art forms in an historical context, and covers the Renaissance and Baroque periods, beginning about 1300 CE. Prerequisites: WR 115, RD 115 and MTH 20 or equivalent placement test scores. Audit available.Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion students should be able to:
? Appreciate art and architecture in general, and enjoy a life enriched by the exposure to and the understanding of personal and cultural achievement
? Recognize the ways in which the forms and ideas of Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture reflect and were shaped by their historical and
cultural context
? Understand and value Renaissance and Baroque cultures in all-encompassing ways and recognize their persisting influence on our current cultural
environment
Outcome Assessment Strategies
The student will:
- comprehend, apply, analyze and evaluate reading assignments
- identify artwork and architecture, and relate facts and ideas about these works of art in exam format
- research, plan, compose, edit and revise short papers
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
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 elements of art
Social and Cultural
- other peoples and their histories, values, and culture
- design and economics
- design and the social fabric
- design and religion
- design and politics
- design and gender
- relationship of culture and style
- design and cultural transmission
- historical impact of design
- the influence of design on one°s own culture
- the influence of design on relations with other cultures
- design and designers
- the impulse to make art
- the Gestalt of art
- the role of the designer in society
- biography
- geography and its influence on design 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 phenomena
- assess 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