ARH 2050—2012

ART HISTORY I

Semester Hours:        Three (3)

Instructor:                   Ann Waters

Office:                          J-327

Phone:                         729-5302 on campus ext: 6302

Email:                           watersa@nwfsc.edu

Course Description:

ARH 2050 offers a survey of significant contributions and concepts in art, architecture and the crafts from the Pre-historic period to the Renaissance.  CD, slides, videos, and other visual media are utilized as much as possible in reinforcing course content.   

ARH 2050 meets the writing requirement for “Writing-Across-the-Curriculum.” 

ARH 2050 includes a required oral component (power point presentation) to be scheduled at the end of the term.

Text:

Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner’s Art through the Ages: A Global History. Enhanced Thirteenth Edition. Vol. 1.

Thomson Wadsworth, a part of The Thomson Corporation, 2011.

Supplementary Reading:

This will depend upon your research requirements and will extend beyond realms of an encyclopedia—refrain from Wikipedia.

Ideal resources include: JStor and Grove Art Online—both located in NWF State College’s LINCCWeb.

Web site: http://lrc.nwfsc

The Dictionary of Art (34 volumes, 1996)—located in College library

Humanities Research Guide published by NWF State College’s LRC.

Goals:

· Provide an optimistic environment conducive to learning—Be Happy J

• Provide a survey from Prehistory to Renaissance.
• Express ideas through formal and informal writing: essays, chapter analysis and research. (Writing-across-the-Curriculum assignments).
• Develop an art vocabulary encompassing recognized historical periods, methods and media.
• Provide maximum exposure to art media, and techniques..
• Explore the many purposes of art in history and the role philosophy and science plays in man’s cultural values and practices.
• Discuss how works are categorized pertaining to chronology, style and subject.

Course Content/Lectures:

• Art Before History
• The Ancient Near East
• Egypt Under the Pharaohs
• The Prehistoric Aegean
• Ancient Greece
• The Etruscans
• The Roman Empire
• Late Antiquity
• Byzantium
• Early Medieval Europe
• Romanesque Europe
• Gothic Europe

Course Requirements:

The student will be required to:

· Take all assigned tests.

· Make-up any missed tests on the final exam date.

· Write one MLA paper pertaining to non-Western chapters cited below.

· Give an oral presentation pertaining to the previously cited MLA non-Western paper.

Oral/power point presentation criteria:

1. 10 minute presentation (approximation)

2. Visuals must be included-power point presentation required in class

--Failure to present the ppt. presentation in class—Grade-0

Criteria for MLA non-Western Paper:

Write a 1200 to 1500 word paper using parenthetical notation and a supporting ‘Works Cited’ page.  A minimum of 3 visuals must be included and properly resourced in your paper.  Resource your paper using:

• A non-western chapter found in Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: a Global History, Vol. 1

SEE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS IN SELECTING YOUR SOURCE

Chapter 6                     “South and Southeast Asia before 1200”

Chapter 7                     “China and Korea to 1279”

Chapter 8                     “Japan before 1333”

Chapter 13                   “The Islamic World”

Chapter 14                   “Native Arts of the Americas before 1300”

Chapter 15                   “Africa before 1800”

• Use five additional resources

YOU MAY CHOOSE TO USE:

1.         Internet articles (date your resources and cite authors if possible).

2.         Hard copy from books – check out the new library on campus.

3.         Periodicals-National Geographic, Smithsonian, Archaeology.

4.         Lecture, film, and online services, etc….

Do not make this assignment difficult:  When you select a chapter you will be selecting a topic.   Suggestion:  Read the chapter, pull snippets that will help you write your paper.  You may cite directly from the text and paraphrase as well.  The text literally becomes your motivation and stimulus for outside research.  You may choose to use your text as much as possible, but percentage wise, more of your paper should be driven by outside resources. 

• A hand-out pertaining to MLA formatting will be passed to you during the term as well as a hand-out on properly citing visuals.

Course Grading:

• Attendance – all students are expected to attend class as an attendance grade is given and weighted equitably with tests.  Each student is allowed two absences.  The attendance grade of 100 drops three points with each respective absence afterwards.
• Excessive Absences information (reference Class Attendance Policy below)
• Individual tests, written assignments, essays, orals, MLA papers and attendance grades are all weighted the same.
• Classroom success will be measured by dividing the sum of the total above by the number of scored evaluations.
• Extra credit will be awarded for certain cultural events at the Mattie Kelly Arts Center and media relative to classroom lectures.  Extra credit, which will not exceed 12 points, will be added to the total before being divided by the sum of the scored evaluations (Instructor will address specifics in class).

· Late Assignments: All assignments are considered late if received after 12:00 midnight on the respective due date. My preference for turning in assignments is the classroom, but assignments received via email are graciously accepted. Expect to receive a receipt within a day of sending your emailed assignment. If you do not receive a receipt message, resend your assignment or bring a hard copy to class. Points will be deducted accordingly for late papers:

1-2 days 10 points

1-2 weeks 20 points

After 2 weeks Grade of 64 minus deductions for missed items

*Note: The late assignment policy for the research assignment is specified on page 5 and differs from the above policy.

All research papers must be turned in on the assigned due date in class—no emailed research papers.

All final exams or late assignments must be submitted to Ann Waters in person—not emailed.

Class Attendance Policy

Class attendance is an integral part of the learning process for this course. Students are expected to attend class regularly, as well as to arrive and depart on time. Students with excessive absences (including tardies) may be withdrawn from the class. Note that although college policy provides for a certain number of class absences, that number covers all types of absences, including absences such as those due to documented illness or other emergency; Absences for illness or emergencies are not accommodated in addition to those allowable under the attendance policy. See page 51 of the 2011-2012 Northwest Florida State College Catalog for additional information.

Grading Scale:

94-100             A

85-93               B

70-84               C

64-69               D

Below 64         F (or failure to complete writing or oral requirements)

Incomplete Grades

At the discretion of the instructor, an incomplete grade (‘I”) may be awarded when the student is unable to finish the required work because of unforeseen extenuating circumstances such as illness or TDY assignment. To receive an “I” grade, the student must have successfully completed a significant portion of the required coursework and be able to finish the remaining work without attending class or needing extensive academic or instructional support to master course content. An “I” grade will automatically convert to a grade of “F” if the student does not complete the remainder of the coursework by the established deadline.

Student Support Services:

If you have special needs or a disability for which accommodations may be appropriate to assist you in this class, please contact the Office of Services for Students with Special Needs in Building E, room 148, (inside the Academic Success Center) on the Niceville campus, or call Liz Smith at 850-729-6079.

Changes Which May Occur:

The schedule, requirements, and procedures in ARH 2050 are subject to change in the event of unusual or extenuating circumstances.  In such cases, students will be provided with written notice sufficient to plan for and accommodate the changes.

If the college closes for inclement weather or other emergencies, any exams, presentations, projects or papers during the closure period will be automatically rescheduled for the first regular class meeting held once the college re-opens.

Code of Conduct:

Each student is expected to maintain self-discipline and above all respect the rights of others.  It is permissive to ask those who are disruptive to leave class.

Homework for other classes should be completed outside the ARH classroom environment and novels or any other form of literary content not applicable to ARH should be closed or left untouched during class—ARH 2050 is not a study hall.

Cell phones, pagers and other such electronic devices must be turned off during class time. Communication by electronic devices during class is strictly prohibited unless expressly designated as part of the learning activities. Use of electronic communication devices during examinations or other graded activities may constitute grounds for disciplinary action. Where emergency or employment situations require access to electronic communication services, arrangements may be made in advance

with the instructor.

As a courtesy to other students and the learning process, students may not bring children with them to class sessions. Health and safety concerns prohibit children from accompanying adult students into any lab, shop, office, classroom or other college facility where potential hazards exist. If a child-related emergency means you must miss class, contact the instructor as soon as possible to determine your options.

Students Rights, Responsibilities and Academic Integrity

Students are responsible for adherence to all college policies and procedures, including those related to academic freedom, cheating, classroom conduct, computer/network/e-mail use and other items included in the 2011-2012 NWF State College Catalog and Student Handbook. Students should be familiar with the rights and responsibilities detailed on pages 29-34 of the 2011-2012 NWF State College Catalog and Student Handbook. Plagiarism, cheating or any other form of academic dishonesty is a serious breach of student responsibilities and may trigger consequences which range from a failing grade to formal disciplinary action.

Additional information:  FOR A WRITING-ACROSS-THE-CURRICULUM COURSE

• Each MLA paper should include a title on page one, a thesis sentence in a proficient introductory paragraph, a main body, a conclusion, a Works Cited page and parenthetical notation.  Papers must include parenthetical notation to be graded.

• As a rule of thumb, no more than 30% of your paper should be taken from direct text.  For success, develop your topics in advance of the due date in order that you might work on paraphrasing.

• Refrain from plagiarism.  Plagiarism, in short, occurs when the writer gives the impression that what has been written or thought is original even though the information has been borrowed without crediting the resource.  It is often unintentional when a student begins to write, but may surface as a bad habit and crutch when the writer procrastinates and hurriedly fulfills an assignment overnight.

• Specified due dates will be cited in class and papers will be accepted only on those dates.  If you fail to get the assigned paper in on the appropriate date you must still complete the assignment and TURN IT IN at the end of the term as part of the course requirement to receive class credit.  This late paper will receive a grade of 64.  This is a standard policy.  Failure to write the assigned paper OR any assigned paper satisfying the writing requirement will jeopardize credit in this class.  No paper, no credit. 

• Due to a NWF State College requirement, you must complete the writing and oral requirements assigned by your instructor to receive credit in ARH 2050 or any Writing-Across-The-Curriculum course.

Paper dates:  (for one research assignment) Note: To be assigned in class

You may choose to turn the research assignment in on either of the two assigned dates.

Date 1: ___________________________________

Date 2: ___________________________________

Updated: spring/2012