Time Schedule:
Jeffrey L. Collins
ART H 203
Seattle Campus
Western art from 1520 to the present.
Class description
SPRING 2000 -- This course introduces the major figures, styles, and movements in Western art from the High Renaissance to the present. It also presents the principal issues, techniques, and interpretive methods of the discipline of art history. As well as learning to recognize and discuss some of the most important examples of European and American art from ca. 1520 onward, students will consider how a study of visual products adds to our understanding of past cultures and societies. Illustrated lectures anchor the course, but active participation in small section meetings is equally essential. These offer participants the chance to discuss the course material in an informal setting, and to work closely with weekly exercises expanding on the topics of the lectures. This course satisfies the university's writing (W) requirement.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Lectures, combined with small discussion sections. Weekly exercises.
Recommended preparation
This class satisfies the W requirement. It demands attentive study and discipline to succeed in building a visual vocabulary of Western art.
Class assignments and grading
Readings are drawn from an introductory survey text of Western art history (Gardner). Assignments include weekly written exercises aimed at developing specific art-historical skills.
Participation in/contribution to small discussion sections; weekly written assignments; midterm and final exams; one longer (5 pp.) paper.
