Art 10: Art Appreciation Spring 2007 Long Beach City College

Course Syllabus

Instructor: Annalee Andres [email protected] Art Department telephone: 562 938-6539

Office Hours: I do not have regular office hours at LBCC. However, I am accessible by email and will gladly make an appointment to meet with you before our class. You can leave mail for me in the Art Department

Class Schedule: Monday 4pm – 7 pm, January 14 – May 14, 2007 (Final Exam Monday, May 19, 2007), LAC-K102

Course Description: This course will introduce non-art majors and students with little or no background in the visual arts to major concepts and movements in the history of art. We will primarily focus on Western art history from the Stone Ages to the Modern period but we will also consider the art of other non Western cultures. The course will follow a loose chronology of major art movements and we will identify and examine painting, sculpture and architecture within their cultural contexts in order to better understand the political events and philosophical theories that informed each era.

Grading: There are two exams scheduled throughout the course of the semester; one paper; and one non-comprehensive final. Student’s work will be evaluated as follows:

Class Participation 10% Paper Assignment 30% Exam 1 20% Exam 2 20% Final exam 20%

The grading scale for this class is: A = 90 – 100; B = 80 – 89; C = 70 – 79; D = 60 – 69; F = 59 and below.

The paper assignment, which will be three-pages in length, will be discussed in class several weeks prior to the due date. The paper assignment will require you to visit a local museum (not their website!!). If you foresee a potential problem getting to a museum, see me right away so that arrangements can be made. Absolutely no late papers will be accepted.

1 There will also be several in-class writing assignments for which you will receive extra credit for successfully completing. The writing assignments will not be announced in advance therefore it behooves you to attend every class. Each assignment will be worth 1 point and will be averaged into your final grade for the course.

The exams will contain both multiple choice questions as well as one long essay question. You will be tested on terms learned in class and be given slide comparisons in which you will need to identify works of art and answer questions. You will need to bring a scantron #886-e to each exam.

Make up exams will NOT be given. Students will only be permitted to do a make up assignment if they can provide OFFICIAL (i.e. not from your mother) documentation explaining an extreme illness or severe personal hardship. In the event that official documentation can be provided, the student will be required to write a second research paper, five-pages in length, on a topic to be determined by the instructor.

Attendance: Attendance is mandatory and essential to the success in the class as the topics presented in class will be used to make up the exams. If you sign up to take this course I assume this means you have no other activities scheduled during this time. No outside appointments (doctors, work, etc.) should be made during our scheduled class time. It is your responsibility to arrange your schedule accordingly. You will need to sit in your assigned seat every class period and attendance will taken by my passing around a copy of our class seating chart which you will then initial.

Class Participation: Every student is expected to review their notes before class. We will begin each session with a review of the previous week’s lecture. Please be prepared to participate in this review and expect to be called upon. 10% of your grade will depend on your participation. This is not meant to be a scary or intimidating practice but to encourage participation by all students. Active participation on the part of each student is essential to the success and effectiveness of this course. I encourage you to ask questions and offer insights during class time, but I ask that you do so by raising your hand. Please be mindful to the fact that the concerns of other students may be different from your own. There are no stupid questions and I ask you to respect the ideas and comments of all class members.

Key Works & Terms: Every class will begin with a list of key works and terms. These will be essential information for our exams. You will need to know definitions of the terms and be able to identify key works as well as answer questions about their importance and relevance. Please use these as a guide in taking your notes.

2 Website: Our website is an integral part of this class. You are expected to visit the website on a weekly basis where you will find reproductions of slides from our lectures, key works, and key terms. I will also post information about the assignment. If you do not have access to a computer at home, you may access one at the library. You may access our class site at http://webenhancedlbcc.edu/artaa/art10aa

Cheating and Plagiarism: Students are expected to be honest in both their test taking and paper writing assignments. If it appears that you are cheating on an exam, the exam and cheat sheet will be confiscated immediately and you will be given an F for that assignment. An Academic Dishonesty form will be filed with the College Disciplinarian’s Office and you will be penalized to the fullest extent of the Long Beach City College guidelines. Similarly, if it appears that one exam was copied from another, an Academic Dishonesty form will be filed and the exams will be submitted to the college as evidence.. More information on plagiarism and its repercussion will be distributed with your paper assignment.

Disabilities: Please let me know as soon as possible if you have a disability that hinders your performance in this class so that accommodations may be made to satisfy course requirements. Any student with questions about the programs and resources available for learning- or physically disabled students can get further information through the Disabled Student Program and Services (DSPS) 562- 938-4558.

Books and references: Your textbook for this class is Prebles ARTFORMS (8th edition) by Patrick Frank. Our text is meant to give a broad overview of the material. Class lectures will go into further depth on the art and movements surveyed in the book so your attendance and notes will be a critical part of studying for this course. Please familiarize yourself with the first 13 chapters of the text as you may find helpful explanations and very general definitions and descriptions. For example, relevant vocabulary is defined such as picture plane. Also, there are entire chapters dedicated to the explanation of media such as drawing and painting. For the most part, our course will begin with Part Four: Art as Cultural Heritage, however, portions of reading from the first half of the book will be assigned when relevant.

NOTE: The instructor reserves the right to modify the course content (grading, procedures, tests, etc) as the situation dictates. The instructor will inform the students of any changes via e-mail, class website, and/or class announcements.

3 Long Beach City College Art 10: Art Appreciation Course Outline

January 14: Introduction and Investigations into what is Art and What is Art Appreciation? (Prebles’ Artforms, chapter 1-3)

January 21: NO SCHOOL Martin Luther King Holiday

January 28: The Art of the Ancients: Paleolithic, Mesopotamia, Egypt (Prebles 230-241 & 324) Last day to drop without a “W” on transcript

February 4: Classical Art: Ancient Greece and Rome (Prebles 242-250)

February 11: Art & Religion: Christian art before 1400 (Prebles 250-262)

February 18: NO SCHOOL Washington Day

February 25: Renaissance Art (Prebles 263-274, 277-282)

March 3: FIRST EXAM Art of Description: Northern traditions 15th-17th Centuries (Prebles 274-276, 283-284)

March 10: Art of Power: Rococo & Neo-Classicism (Prebles 285-286 & 348-350)

March 17: PAPER DISCUSSED IN CLASS Art of Religion: Hindu & Islamic traditions (Prebles 294-298 &317-323)

March 24: NO SCHOOL – Spring Break

March 31: Romanticism: Nature and the Imagination (Prebles 350-354)

April 7: SECOND EXAM Art and Realism: Photography (Prebles 354-356)

4 April 14: Art and Realism (Prebles 356-361)

April 21: Modernism: Manet and the Impressionists (Preble 362-368) Last day to drop with a “W” on transcript

April 28: Modernism in the 20th Century (Prebles 380-390)

May 5: PAPER ASSIGNMENT DUE IN CLASS Latin American Modernism (Prebles 403-406 & 413-414)

May 14: Art & Technology: Arts & Crafts, Bauhaus and Designs for Living

May 19: FINAL EXAM

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