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Effective Term:
Summer 2014 through Summer 2015

Course Number:
ART 206
Course Title:
History of Western Art
Credit Hours:
4
Lecture Hours:
40
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Examines visual art and architecture as a reflection of human interaction with the socio-political and physical environment. Focuses on viewing, analyzing and comparing many art forms in an historical context, and covers the Renaissance and Baroque periods, beginning about 1300 CE. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion students should be able to:

? Appreciate art and architecture in general, and enjoy a life enriched by the exposure to and the understanding of personal and cultural achievement
? Recognize the ways in which the forms and ideas of Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture reflect and were shaped by their historical and
cultural context
? Understand and value Renaissance and Baroque cultures in all-encompassing ways and recognize their persisting influence on our current cultural
environment

Integrative Learning

Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to reflect on one’s work or competencies to make connections between course content and lived experience.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

The student will:

  • comprehend, apply, analyze and evaluate reading assignments
  • identify artwork and architecture, and relate facts and ideas about these works of art in exam format
  • research, plan, compose, edit and revise short papers

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

Theoretical

  • theory and criticism in the history of art
  • pattern-based thinking and historical process
  • various interpretations of art
  • art and gender
  • creativity and the impulse to make art

Stylistic and Interpretive

  • visual literacy
  • art media and artistic technique
  • "seeing and knowing"
  • iconography
  • formal elements of art

Social and Cultural

  • other peoples and their histories, values, and culture
  • design and economics
  • design and the social fabric
  • design and religion
  • design and politics
  • design and gender
  • relationship of culture and style
  • design and cultural transmission
  • historical impact of design
    • the influence of design on one°s own culture
    • the influence of design on relations with other cultures
  • design and designers
    • the impulse to make art
    • the Gestalt of art
    • the role of the designer in society
    • biography
  • geography and its influence on design and culture
  • artifact recovery, analysis, restoration, and incorporation into a larger historical fabric

Competencies and Skills:
The successful student should be able to:

  • work creatively with art historical data, using it to develop principles of art history
  • recognize and appraise patterns in historical phenomena
  • assess the ways in which an art object is affected by our own vantage point
  • recognize and discriminate among various styles of art
  • trace the development of art from one period to another
  • analyze formally works of art and appreciate the interrelationship of its elements
  • determine symbolism in art
  • employ iconographical nomenclature
  • express the relationship of art to society and culture to style
  • analyze the "meaning" of art objects through understanding of historical, social, and political context
  • use specific terminology to describe works of art
  • transfer to a four year college and continue a course of study in the field of art history, fine art, anthropology, and history in general