Syllabus (Tentative) ARTS 373: Art, Architecture, and Nation
(Summer 2018)
Instructor: C. Jacob Butera
Email: [email protected] Office: (828) 251-6295 Cell: (937) 657-2354 (emergency only)
Office Hours: Whitesides Hall 123 by Appointment
Overview:
This course will survey the art and architecture of Greece from the ancient to the modern world. This class will focus on how image and object are used to create shared identity and, eventually, notions of “the nation” and “nationalism.” This emphasis on art, architecture, and artifact will be enhanced by first hand study of such objects as well as texts written by and about the Greeks.
Mission Statement:
The Arts & Ideas Program, as an integral component of the Liberal Arts Core (LAC) Curriculum, provides students with an intellectual engagement with the arts while also fostering opportunities for creative and aesthetic interactions. LAC Arts courses examine the significance of the arts in the human experience, the cultural framework of creative composition and performance, the foundations of aesthetic values, and the communicative function of the arts.
Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Articulate the value of the arts studied and their impact on the self and others. 2. Recognize cultural, historical, spiritual, and/or political aspects of the arts studied. 3. Define and articulate the concepts, methods, and organizing principles of the arts studied. Grading:
1. Class work, class participation, class attendance, and homework: 10% • We will use the sites we visit as our classroom. Our days will typically begin with breakfast at 7:00am and finish around 5:00pm. You are expected to be on time, respectful of your environment, and willing to participate in all class discussions and presentations. 2. Reading and Response Quizzes: 20% • Moodle quizzes related to readings assigned each day; quizzes are designed to ensure that readings have been carefully read and considered. 3. Site Report/Presentation: 15% (Presentation #1); 20% (Presentation #2) • Reports on assigned sites, monuments, or individuals. Reports should include a 10-15 minute introduction to the history, design, and meaning/significance of the assigned topics. Students should be able to walk the class around the site and identify points of interest. Students should provide the class with a handout that includes site plans, important reference works, and other pertinent information. Because library resources will be limited while in Greece, it is expected that this presentations will be prepared BEFORE we leave for Greece. 4. Monument/Site Journal: 15% • Daily response and reaction to a site or individual monument. Journal entry should include a description of the site or monument, an interpretation of its meaning and/or message, and the student’s personal reaction to it. • DUE DATE: Friday, June 15, 2018. 5. Final Paper (Site Report/Interpretation): 20% • Final write-up of an individual site or monument. Should include a description of the site or monument, an interpretation of its meaning and/or message, and the student’s personal reaction to it. 6-8 pages, American Journal of Archaeology OR Chicago style citations, double-spaced, 12 point font, Times New Roman, standard margins, NO header (name and date ONLY). The final paper will be on a topic of the student’s choosing, but MUST first be cleared by the instructor. The final paper is a research paper using primary and secondary evidence and incorporating various principles or themes discussed over the course of the semester. Research and writing will be done in the weeks AFTER we return from Greece. • DUE DATE: Sunday, July 8, 2018.
Policies:
1. Throughout the semester, you are expected to adhere to UNCA’s Academic Policies and Procedures, which can be found in the 2017-2018 University Catalog (http://registrar.unca.edu/ course-catalogs), though group study is encouraged.
2. Because ARTS 373 in Greece is a fast-paced course over the course of just 3 weeks, your active attendance is REQUIRED at every class meeting. Daily attendance and preparation are ESSENTIAL to this course…come prepared each day to discuss readings, view monuments, answer questions, and engage with students and faculty. Your grade is based largely on your daily participation and attendance (10% of your grade). There is NO make-up for missed class work, and missing class adversely affects your participation grade. Assignments will NOT be accepted late. Arriving late to class will be considered EQUIVALENT to an absence.
3. As a general rule, absences will NOT be allowed in this class. The ONLY exceptions to this will be those matters that fall under the excused absences outlined by university policy (http:// registrar.unca.edu/course-catalogs). Please contact me ahead of time (give me as much notice as possible) via email if you expect to miss class due to team sports, long-term illness, religious observance, official university business, etc.
4. NO electronic devices of any kind will be permitted in class. This includes cell-phones, ipods, ipads, laptops, etc. Presence of these or similar items in class will adversely affect your participation grade. If there are academic or medical reasons that require the use of a laptop for note or quiz taking, an exception will be made.
5. For students with disabilities that require special accommodations for quizzes, writing, tests, lectures, etc., be sure that you are registered with the Office of Academic Accessibility. If any accommodations in class need to be made, please let me know at the BEGINNING of the semester or contact the Office of Academic Accessibility (828-232-5050; https://oaa.unca.edu).
Schedule:
1. Homework is listed on the day that it is DUE (i.e. the readings LISTED on Monday, May 21st, are to be COMPLETED on Monday, May 21st).
2. ALL assignments are DUE at/by the START of our regularly scheduled class time (e.g., M-F 8:00 AM). Assignments may be emailed or brought in hard copy, but WILL NOT be accepted from another member of the class. Site Reports and Assignments (Greece)
Week I (Greece)
Date Sites Presentations Readings
Monday, 05-21-2018 Arrival in Athens, Walking Read: Macaulay, Motel of Tour of Athens (Plaka) the Mysteries; Thucydides 2.35-46 (Funeral Oration of Pericles); Thucydides 5.84-116 (Melian Dialogue). Tuesday, 05-22-2018 Athens: Acropolis, Acropolis Theater of Dionysos (Kelly) Read: Lord Byron, “The Museum, Kerameikos, Temple of Athena Nike Curse of Minerva.” Agora(?) (Lowe)
Wednesday, 05-23-2018 Athens: Temple of Olympian Olympic Stadium Read: Pindar, “Olympian Zeus, Arch of Trajan, (Kallimarmaro) (Jarvis) Ode 1” (For Hieron of Olympic Stadium, National Temple of Olympian Zeus Syracuse); Coubertin, “Ode Cemetery, Central Markets, (Kelly) to Sport;” Tynni, “Laurel of Philopappos Monument Philopappos Monument (Johnston) Hellas.” Take: Reading and Response Quiz 1 (Moodle).
Thursday, 05-24-2018 Athens: Tower of the Winds, Tower of the Winds Read: Seferis, Collected Roman Agora, Averof (Anderson) Poems, p. 137-157 Museum, Olympias Trireme Olympias Trireme (McSwain) (“Logbook II”). Lykavittos
Friday, 05-25-2018 Hosios Loukas, Distomo, Distomo Massacre/Monument Read: Kazantzakis, The Delphi Museum (Riva) Last Temptation of Christ, p. 482-496.
Saturday, 05-26-2018 Delphi Site, Delphi Museum Temple of Apollo/Oracle Read: Herodotus, (Ellis) Histories 1.1-94. Athenian Treasury (Fulshaw) Take: Reading and Response Quiz 2 (Moodle).
Sunday, 05-27-2018 Meteora, Monasteries Megalo Meteora (Harlan) Read: Benedict of Nursia, (Rousanou, Varlaam, Megalo Varlam (Mattern) Rule, excerpts; Jerome, Meteoro) “Life of Malchus the Captured Monk.”
Week II (Greece)
Date Sites Presentations Monday, 05-28-2018 Ioannina: Fortress, Municipal Ali Pasha (Johnston) Read: Halman, Popular Museum, Byzantine Museum, Turkish Love Lyrics and The Island Folk Legends, p. 67-75; “Tales of Hodja Nasreddin,” excerpts; Alexandre Dumas, Ali Pacha, Ch. 8, Ch. 11. Tuesday, 05-29-2018 Vikos Gorge; Bridges; Pindos Vikos Gorge: History and Read: Fermor, Roumeli, p. Mountains Geology (Alderman) 38-69.
Take: Reading and Response Quiz 3 (Moodle).
Wednesday, 05-30-2018 Dispilio, Kastoria (Churches, Neolithic Village (Taylor) Read: Cavafy, Collected Byzantine Museum) Panagia Koumpelidiki Poems, Poems 4, 15, 18, Church (Riva) 31, 36, 44, 63, 103, 116, 125, 133, 135, 139, 146, 175, 187, 193, 197, 201.
Thursday, 05-31-2018 Vergina, Pella, Edessa Mosaics (Jarvis) Read: Plutarch, The Life of Tomb II (Kominek) Alexander, 1-23. Friday, 06-01-2018 Break Day: Mt. Olympus, Read: Dousias, Spiro’s Vale of Tempe Greek Myths, Issues 1-3.
Saturday, 06-02-2018 Thessaloniki: White Tower, Arch of Galerius (Kominek) Read: Mazower, Salonica: Arch and Palace of Galerius, The Rotunda (McSwain) City of Ghosts, p. 3-13, Rotunda, Archaeological White Tower (Stafford) 192-208. Museum, Roman Forum Take: Reading and Response Quiz 4 (Moodle).
Sunday, 06-03-2018 Thessaloniki: Byzantine Agia Sofia (Harlan) Read: Amariglio, From Museum, Agios Dimitrios, Thessaloniki to Auschwitz Agia Sofia; Ano Poli(?); and Back, p. 23-53. University of Aristotle(?)
Week III (Greece)
Date Sites Presentations
Monday, 06-04-2018 Mt. Athos (Boat Tour) Read: Pennington, The Monks of Mt. Athos, p. xxvi-xxxviii, 1-31.
Tuesday, 06-05-2018 Philippi, Kavala Basilica B (Alderman) Read: Paul of Tarsus, Via Egnatia (Fulshaw) Letter to the Philippians; St. Paul (Lowe) Acts of the Apostles, 16-18; Battle of Philippi (Taylor) Appian, De Bello Civili, 4.11.86-17.138.
Take: Reading and Response Quiz 5 (Moodle).
Wednesday, 06-06-2018 Thasos: Archaeological Site Read: Papadiamantis, “A and Museum Dream among the Waters,” p. 84-94; Sikelianos, Selected Poems, p. 42-65. Thursday, 06-07-2018 Aliki: Quarries (ancient and Quarries (Anderson) Read: Ritsos, modern) “Epitaphios,” p. 5-51. Friday, 06-08-2018 Komotini: Museum of Folk History of Komotini Read: Milton, Paradise Life and History, Eski (Mattern) Lost, p. 302-326; Clark, Mosque Twice a Stranger, p. 87-107.
Take: Reading and Response Quiz 6 (Moodle). Saturday, 06-09-2018 Samothrace: Sanctuary of the Mystery Religions and the Read: Elytis, Selected Great Gods, Archaeological Great Gods (Ellis) Poems, p. 73-87. Museum
Sunday, 06-10-2018 Samothrace: Waterfalls Read: Homer, The Odyssey, Book IX, p. 240-258.
Week IV (Greece)
Date Sites Presentations
Monday, 06-11-2018 Flight to Athens from Read: Lord Byron, “Maid Alexandroupoli of Athens, Ere We Part,” “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto I.” Tuesday, 06-12-2018 Athens Airport, Departure from Athens
Turn In: Monument/Site Journal, Friday, June 15, 2018.
Turn In: Final Paper, Sunday, July 8, 2018. Travel Schedule (Greece)
Date Locations Overnight Stay Hotel Phone Number
Monday, 05-21-2018 Athens Athens Economy Hotel +30 210 522 0520
Tuesday, 05-22-2018 Athens Athens Economy Hotel +30 210 522 0520
Wednesday, 05-23-2018 Athens Athens Economy Hotel +30 210 522 0520
Thursday, 05-24-2018 Athens Athens Economy Hotel +30 210 522 0520
Friday, 05-25-2018 Hosios Loukas, Delphi Acropole Delphi +30 226 508 2675 Distomo, Delphi Hotel
Saturday, 05-26-2018 Delphi Delphi Acropole Delphi +30 226 508 2675 Hotel
Sunday, 05-27-2018 Meteora Metsovo Adonis Hotel +30 265 604 2300
Monday, 05-28-2018 Ioannina Ioannina Alexios Hotel +30 265 103 2030
Tuesday, 05-29-2018 Vikos Gorge Monodendri Zagoria Philoxenia +30 265 307 1040
Wednesday, 05-30-2018 Dispilio, Kastoria Kastoria Kastoria Hotel +30 246 702 9453
Thursday, 05-31-2018 Vergina, Pella, Edessa Alfa Hotel +30 238 102 2221 Edessa
Friday, 06-01-2018 Litochoro Litochoro Villa Pantheon +30 235 208 3931
Saturday, 06-02-2018 Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Park Hotel +30 231 052 4121
Sunday, 06-03-2018 Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Park Hotel +30 231 052 4121
Monday, 06-04-2018 Mt. Athos Asprovalta Satin George Hotel +30 239 702 3999
Tuesday, 06-05-2018 Philippi, Kavala Kavala Esperia Hotel +30 251 022 9621
Wednesday, 06-06-2018 Thasos Thassos Lido Hotel +30 259 302 2929 Acropolis Hotel +30 259 302 2488
Thursday, 06-07-2018 Thasos Thassos Lido Hotel +30 259 302 2929 Acropolis Hotel +30 259 302 2488
Friday, 06-08-2018 Komotini Komotini Anatolia Hotel +30 253 103 6242
Saturday, 06-09-2018 Samothrace Kamariotissa Aiolos Hotel +30 255 104 1795
Sunday, 06-10-2018 Samothrace Kamariotissa Aiolos Hotel +30 255 104 1795
Monday, 06-11-2018 Athens Athens Economy Hotel +30 210 522 0520
Tuesday, 06-12-2018 Athens Airport NA