AH 212--Course Syllabus

History of Art

AH 212--Four Quarter Hours

William Christy
Elson Hall W109
Ohio University--Zanesville Campus
(740) 704-2133
christyw@ohio.edu

Please refer to the complete final course syllabus available on the course Website once the course begins.

Course
Description

Survey of western painting, sculpture, & architecture from early Medieval through the Renaissance. Students advised but not required to enroll in 211, 212, and 213 in sequence. No credit to those with credit for CA/IA 212. If you are an art history major, you should take the on-campus section of this course in Athens.

This course will investigate the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture from the early Medieval era up through the Renaissance, through a modified historical-artistic approach. By the end of the term you should be able to recognize artists, artworks and styles that reflect these eras, as well as be aware of the historical backgrounds that shaped the visual arts.

Prerequisites

None

Methods of Course Instruction

Blackboard with online take-home testing. Academic articles on DIscussion Board.

General Course Requirements	4 Tests @ 17.5% each (70%). They will take place approximately every six days. These will be take-home tests consisting of long answer essay questions. You will be able to use your text and the Internet. You will be required to cite your Internet sources of information in bibliographical form. Wikipedia is not an allowable reference. Each test will cover two chapters from your text, and will have two to four questions per test. Each question will have several subquestions. You will first see these questions on the first day of each exam at 6 am; there is no study guide for this course. You will have almost three full days to complete each test, whose answers you can either email to me, or copy and paste into to the test, which will be posted on Blackboard for a three day period. If you email the answers to me, you must include the question with each answer and put the whole document in Word format. You can use the Internet for gathering resources for your answers in addition to using your text. You must cite those Internet resources you used in a bibliography at the end of your test document, whether you post them in the test itself or in a Word document. 3 Discussion Board Topics @ 10% each (30%). The Course Documents page will provide three articles pertaining to topics that relate to the theoretical and/or critical exploration of art as covered in AH 212. Read the article and then move to the Discussion Board, where you will find questions related to each article. Respond to those questions by creating a new thread under the question. Each answer should have a minimum of 125 words. Responses to each article will be due every two and a half weeks: Article 1 (Romanesque architecture)-July 2; Article 2 (Giotto)-July 13; Article 3 (Perugino)-July 23. One article at a time will post in the Course Documents page. Combined, these components add up to 100% of your course grade.

General Course Requirements

4 Tests @ 17.5% each (70%). They will take place approximately every six days. These will be take-home tests consisting of long answer essay questions. You will be able to use your text and the Internet. You will be required to cite your Internet sources of information in bibliographical form. Wikipedia is not an allowable reference.

Each test will cover two chapters from your text, and will have two to four questions per test. Each question will have several subquestions. You will first see these questions on the first day of each exam at 6 am; there is no study guide for this course.

You will have almost three full days to complete each test, whose answers you can either email to me, or copy and paste into to the test, which will be posted on Blackboard for a three day period. If you email the answers to me, you must include the question with each answer and put the whole document in Word format. You can use the Internet for gathering resources for your answers in addition to using your text. You must cite those Internet resources you used in a bibliography at the end of your test document, whether you post them in the test itself or in a Word document.

3 Discussion Board Topics @ 10% each (30%). The Course Documents page will provide three articles pertaining to topics that relate to the theoretical and/or critical exploration of art as covered in AH 212. Read the article and then move to the Discussion Board, where you will find questions related to each article. Respond to those questions by creating a new thread under the question. Each answer should have a minimum of 125 words. Responses to each article will be due every two and a half weeks: Article 1 (Romanesque architecture)-July 2; Article 2 (Giotto)-July 13; Article 3 (Perugino)-July 23. One article at a time will post in the Course Documents page.

Combined, these components add up to 100% of your course grade.

Materials

Required

Text(s)

Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western
Perspective, 12th Edition

Fred S. Kleiner | Christin J. Mamiya | Wadsworth Publishing
ISBN-10: 0495004782 | ISBN-13:
9780495004783| 2006

order site: http://www.thomsonsites.com/ichapters/micro/?cluster
_id=1952

Note: Books for the course are in stock at the Zane State/OUZ Campus Bookstore or College Book Store in Athens, (740) 594-3505. Click here for online ordering.

Exams
Requirements

4 exams - No proctoring required

How are exams to be taken: take home essay open book

Dates of Exams

June 29-July 1
July 8-10
July 16-18
July 25-27

Call the Ohio University Online Staff at 1-888-551-6446 if you have questions about this course or the enrollment process.

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