DATE
TITLE
TOPIC
READING
ASSIGNMENTS
AUG
17
INTRODUCTION
AUG
22
WHAT IS ART?
AUG
24
WHAT IS ART
HISTORY?
AUG
29
AUG
31
Overview of
course content,
approach,
resources, and
assignments
Art Through
Introduction to art the Ages,
Introduction
(Pages 1-13)
Art Through the
Introduction
Ages,
to the study of
Introduction
art
(Pages 1-13)
SEPT
NO CLASS
5
Required
Materials Check
Quiz
Masterpiece
Project Sign Up
Quiz
Quiz
Quiz
Online
Discussion 1
Masterpiece
Project Outline
Quiz
LABOR DAY
The High
RENAISSANCE 3: Renaissance in
SEPT
THE HIGH
Italy: Leonardo,
7
RENAISSANCE
Raphael,
Michelangelo
The art of 16th
SEPT RENAISSANCE 4:
century Europe:
12
EUROPE
Holy Roman
Empire,
Netherlands,
Spain
SEPT THE BAROQUE
14
1: ITALY
THE BAROQUE
SEPT
2: NORTHERN
19
EUROPE
ART AND
SEPT SCIENCE: THE
21
CASE OF
VERMEER
Investigating the
methods of Jan
Vermeer
EIGHTEENTH
SEPT
CENTURY
26
EUROPE
Neoclassicism
and the art of the
Enlightenment
NINETEENTH
SEPT CENTURY
28
EUROPE 1:
ROMANTICISM
Romanticism in
the early 19th
century
OCT
3
OCT
5
OCT
10
OCT
12
NINETEENTH
CENTURY
EUROPE 2:
REALISM and
PHOTOGRAPHY
NINETEENTH
CENTURY
EUROPE 2:
REALISM and
PHOTOGRAPHY
PART ONE
REVIEW
PART ONE
REVIEW
OCT
17
MASTERPIECE
PROJECT
PRESENTATION
S
OCT
MIDTERM
282)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 10
(Pages 285297)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 10
(Pages 298311)
Film: Tims
Vermeer
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 11
(Pages 313329)
Art Through the
Ages, Ch. 12
(Pages 330341)
Quiz
Quiz
Online
Discussion 2
Quiz
Quiz
Realism in the
mid 19th century
and the invention
of photography
Quiz
Masterpiece
Project (Part
One): ART
GUIDE DUE
OCT 3
Realism in the
mid19th century
and the invention
of photography
Art Guide
Review
Masterpiece
Project (Part
One):
PRESENTATIO
N OCT 17
Midterm Exam
19
PART TWO: MODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM, AND BEYOND
OCT
24
BIRTH OF THE
MODERN:
IMPRESSIONISM
and POST
IMPRESSIONISM
OCT
26
MODERNISM 1:
AVANT GARDE
OCT
31
MODERNISM 2:
FILM AND ITS
IMPACT
NOV
2
NOV
7
NOV
9
NOV
14
MODERNISM 4:
THE AMERICAS
MODERNISM 5:
POST WAR
ABSTRACTION
POSTMODERNISM
1: POP AND
PROTEST
Modernism in the
U.S. and Mexico
Abstraction in the
U.S. after WW II.
Moving beyond
Modernism: Pop
Art and Feminist
Art
Quiz
Quiz
Online
Discussion 3
Quiz
Quiz
Quiz
Online
Discussion 4
Quiz
Quiz
NOV
16
MUSEUM FIELD
TRIP 1:
INTRODUCTION
AND PREP
Introduction to
museum and
logistics.
Museum Field
Trip (Details
TBD)
Masterpiece
Project (Part
Two): ART
GUIDE DUE
NOV 18
NOV
21
MUSEUM FIELD
TRIP 2:
REFLECTION
Reflection on field
trip experience
Reflection
NOV
23
POSTMODERNISM
2: WHAT IS ART?
NOV
28
CONTEMPORARY
ART 1: SOCIAL
CRITIQUE
NOV
30
DEC
5
DEC
7
DEC
12
CONTEMPORARY
ART 2:
REPRESENTATION
AND
ABSTRACTION
PART TWO
REVIEW
Moving beyond
Modernism: Earth
Art, Conceptual
Art, Performance
Art, New Media
Engaging issues
of identity,
gender, sexuality,
and power
The return of the
figure and
abstraction in art
and architecture
Quiz
Online
Discussion 5
Quiz
Quiz
MASTERPIECE
PROJECT
PRESENTATIONS
Student
presentations of
projects from Part
Two
Masterpiece
Project (Part
Two):
PRESENTATIO
N DEC 7
FINAL
Our final is
scheduled for
12:30-2:30
Final Exam