ARTS 1301 - Art Appreciation

This introduction to the visual arts is designed for the general student.  The course explores what is art, who makes it, and why it is made. This course satisfies the cross cultural component. Core curriculum course.  3 credit (3 lecture). 

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Course Purpose 

This course presents a survey of the visual arts, including artistic media and techniques, and art history.  Students in Art Appreciation will also explore visual principles and elements through hands-on activities.

Core Competencies

This course fulfills the following core intellectual competencies:  reading, writing, speaking, listening, critical thinking and computer literacy.  A variety of teaching and testing methods are used to assess these competencies.

Please contact the Fine Arts office at the HCCS campus near you.

Central Campus		713-718-6600		(Gladys Bel, Scott Carothers, Michael Golden, Serge Kovalchuk, Perry House)
Northeast, Northline Center		713-718-8089		(Bryan Bauhs, Tina Kotrla)
Northwest, Town & Country		713-718-5674		(Michael Gonzales, Stanley Kaminski, David Swaim)
Southeast, Eastside		713-718-7203		(Michael Cherry, June Woest)
Southwest, Stafford		713-718-7700		(Cynthia Millis, Steven Potter)

Required: Sayre, Henry, A World of Art, 5th ed, Pearson / Prentice Hall

This course meets for 3 hours each week in a lecture format.

Any student with a documented disability (e.g. physical, learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, etc.) who needs to arrange reasonable accommodations must contact the appropriate Disability Support Service Counselor at the beginning of each semester. Faculty are authorized to provide only the accommodations requested by the Disability Support Services Office.

The HCCS policy on scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion:

1.  Cheating on a test includes:

• Copying from another student's test paper; using during a test, materials not authorized by the person giving the test;
• Collaborating with another student during a test without authority;
• Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, or soliciting in whole or part the contents of an unadministered test;
• Bribing another person to obtain a test that is to be administered.

2.  Plagiarism means the appropriation of another's work and the unacknowledged incorporation of that work in one's own written work offered for credit.

3.  Collusion means the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work offered for credit.

Possible punishments for academic dishonesty may include a grade of 0 or F on the particular assignment, failure in the course, and/or recommendation for probation or dismissal from the College System.

Students are expected to attend classes regularly. Student's are responsible for course content covered during their absences, and it is the student's responsibility to consult with instructors for make-up assignments.  A student may be dropped from a course for excessive absences after the student has accumulated absences in excess of 12.5% of the hours of instruction (including lecture and laboratory time).

While each faculty member may weight the exams, assignments, and projects independently, the Fine Arts faculty, in general, adhere to the overall HCCS grade policy:

The grade of "I" (incomplete) is conditional. A student receiving an "I" must arrange with the instructor to complete the course work within six months of the end of the incomplete term.  After the deadline, the "I" becomes an "F."  All "I"s must be changed to grades prior to graduation.

Drop or Withdrawal Policies

A student may drop a course or withdraw from the college by following the procedure outlined by the Campust Director.  Should circumstances prevent a student from appearing in person to withdraw, withdrawal may be complete by writing to the Registrar's Office.  A drop or withdrawal request will not be accepted by telephone.  A student who ceases to attend a class without officially dropping or without withdrawing, will be given a grade of "F" for non-attendance.  A semester-hour student who fails to attend classes by the twelfth class day of a regular term will be administratively withdrawn from the class roll.  Students who officially withdraw from a course during the first twelve days of a regular semester will not received a grade and the course will not appear in their permanent records.  Students withdrawing from a course after this period and prior to the deadline designated in the college calendar will receive a "W".  A student may not withdraw from a course during the last two weeks prior to the final examination period.

ARTS 1301- ART APPRECIATION

Objectives and Requirements

By the end of the semester the student who passes with a final grade of "C" or above will have demonstrated the ability to:

• Complete and comprehend all graded assignments
• Attend class regularly, missing no more than 12.5% of instruction (12 hours)
• Arrive at class promptly and with the required materials for that dayÕs session
• Be prepared for and participate in small group or class discussions 
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate orally in clear, coherent, and persuasive language
• Demonstrate the ability to use computer-based technology in communicating, solving problems, and acquiring information
• Complete a minimum of 2000 words in combination of writing assignments and/or projects
• Maintain an overall average of 70 or above on assignments, projects, and tests and styles included in the course syllabus
• Compare and contrast works of art from the text using the terminology and iconography of art 
• Explain the function of art in its historical context
• Complete the required studio art assignments which will constitute approximately 25% of the final grade

The student will meet the expectations of each faculty member's independent policy on late work and make-up exams.

ARTS 1301- ART APPRECIATION

Description of Course Content

This course is intended to be a broadly based introduction to the visual arts and will deal with issues such as the nature of art, the content and meaning of art, the artists’ means of production and, finally, the development of art over time.  Students in Art Appreciation will learn to consider ideas, concepts, social, cultural, economic, and other factors when analyzing specific art works and will learn to apply these factors when creating objects.

Sample Weekly Calendar

Week & Material to be covered

1. Orientation, grading policies, syllabus; Introduction, A World of Art

2. A World of Art, Developing Visual Literacy

3. The Themes of Art, Seeing the Value in Art

4. Line, Space

5. Light and Color, Other Formal Elements, and The Principles of Design

6. Exam, Field Trip

7. Drawing, Printmaking

8. Painting, Sculpture

9. Other Three-Dimensional Media, The Camera Arts

10. Hands-On Project

11. Architecture, Design

12. Exam, Field Trip

13. The Ancient World, The Christian World

14. The Renaissance through The Baroque, The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

15. The Twentieth Century, Review

16. Final Exam

Student exhibits, faculty exhibits, visiting artists, visiting scholars, student scholarships, and student organizations are part of all HCCS Fine Arts departments.  Please contact the Fine Arts office at the HCCS campus near you for more information.

Central Campus		713-718-6600		(Gladys Bel, Scott Carothers, Michael Golden, Serge Kovalchuk, Perry House)
Northeast, Northline Center		713-718-8089		(Bryan Bauhs, Tina Kotrla)
Northwest, Town & Country		713-718-5674		(Stan Kaminski, David Swaim)
Southeast, Eastside		713-718-7203		(Michael Cherry, June Woest)
Southwest, Stafford		713-718-7700		(Cynthia Millis, Steven Potter)