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ART 203 - Art History I


Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021

3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 30
Total Lab Hours: 30
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0

Course Description:
This is an introductory course to the painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Western World from the Stone Age to the Gothic period. Students will study the development of regional and personal artistic styles, and the social contexts in which art objects have been created. This course provides a greater understanding of visual communication in the Western World, increases visual literacy, and promotes critical thinking, which can help the student reach professional goals in a variety of career fields.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: None

Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face and/or virtual

Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.

Course Fees: None

Common Course Assessment(s): None

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
1. Develop a structure for the critical analysis and comparison of artworks that includes interpretations of form, content, style, and context.

2. Identify key artworks by artist (if known), title, approximate date, and culture, period, or style.

3. Place works of art within the historical contexts of power structure, social and political conditions, and aesthetic trends.

4. Interpret works based on the iconographical standards that existed at the time the work was made (the term “iconographical” is used in its broadest sense).

5. Compare and contrast the forms, conventions, symbols, and stylistic tendencies between and among art periods or cultures.

Course Objectives

1. Intro: Learn how and why art is valued, categorized, and analyzed (Chapters 1 and 2).

2. Learn about the content, form, and context of Prehistoric Western Europe: Stone Age, Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Iran, Scythians, Achaemenid Persia Ancient Egypt (Old, Middle, New Kingdoms).

3. Learn about the content, form, and context of Aegean art (Cycadic, Minoan, Mycenean civilizations).

4. Learn about the content, form, and context of Ancient Greek art (Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic, Early Classical, Classical, Late Classical, Hellenistic).

5. Learn about the content, form, and context of Etruscan art.

6. Learn about the content, form, and context of Ancient Roman art.

7. Learn about the content, form, and context of Early Christian and Byzantine art.

8. Learn about the content, form, and context of Early Middle Ages art (Islamic, Northern European, Ottonian).

9. Learn about the content, form, and context of Romanesque Gothic art.



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