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Seeing and Knowing Visual Art

ART 110--Four Quarter Hours

Melissa Haviland
Seigfred Hall 433
Ohio University--Athens Campus
(740)593-0141
haviland@ohio.edu

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

Course
Description

Introduction to perceiving and understanding meanings and organizational systems in traditional and contemporary visual arts in context of their social and cultural backgrounds.

Prerequisites

None

Methods of Course Instruction

This course is taught entirely online using Blackboard 6. You can access Blackboard 6 via our web page www.ohio.edu (click on students and then blackboard) or at http://blackboard.ohiou.edu. Assignments will be submitted via assignments page and email. Make sure that your oak email account is functional as it is the easiest way for us to communicate. I will attempt to respond quickly, please resend the email if a response has not reached you.

Course Objectives

This course is an introduction to perceiving and understanding meanings and organizational systems in traditional and contemporary visual arts in context of their social and cultural backgrounds.

General Course Requirements

  1. Mid-Term Exam 20 pts

  2. Final Exam 20 pts

  3. 6 Response Papers

  4. Artist Research 10 pts

  5. Response to Artist Research 5 pts

  6. Cultural Event 15 pts

Materials

 

Required

Text(s)

Henry M. Sayre. A World of Art, Revised 5th Edition. Prentice Hall 2007.
ISBN: 0136144241
This revised 5th edition is available through our bookstore, www.amazon.com, and www.prenhall.com.

You will be responsible for reading Chapters 1 through 17 of this textbook within the five-week course.

The assignments for this course are designed to guide you through and/or compliment your reading. You will need to become very familiar with this text's Companion Website at:
http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_sayre_worldart_5
This site is a great tool to help you review the Chapters as you read them. It is also my source for all the questions on your Mid-Term and Final Exams!!

You are not required to have access to this editions accompanying CD Rom—“Discovering Art 2.0”. Also “Art notes” is not required (don’t pay more for this—you won’t be taking notes in the traditional way
for this class).

Additional or Optional Materials
If there are any additional readings, they will be posted in Blackboard.

Exams
Requirements

2 exams - No proctoring required

How are exams to be taken: Online

Dates of Exams

  • Mid Term Exam - Wednesday, July 9th Friday, July 11th

  • Final Exam Friday, July 25th Monday, July 28th

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


Call the education counselors in Lifelong and Distance Learning at (740) 593-2910 for information about online degree opportunities from Ohio University.