Art 1303 - Art History I

This course is an examination of painting, sculpture, architecture, and related arts covering the Paleolithic through Gothic periods.  Also covered is the art of non-Western cultures.  This course satisfies the fine arts or cross-cultural component of the HCCS Core.  Core Curriculum course.  3 credit (3 lecture).

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Course Purpose 
This survey course introduces the visual arts and explains the role they have played in history using examples of sculpture, painting, architecture, and craft art.  Art History I examines the period from about 28000 BCE to 1400 CE including  non-Western and tribal cultures.

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, Stan Kaminski, David Swaim)
Southeast, Eastside		713-718-7203		(Michael Cherry, June Woest)
Southwest, Stafford		713-718-7700		(Cynthia Millis, Steven Potter)

Required: Stokstad, Marilyn, Art History, 3rd 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 1303- Art History I

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 a combination of writing assignments and/or projects
• Maintain an overall average of 70 or above on assignments, projects, and tests 
• Explain and illustrate stylistic characteristics of each of the various cultures 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
 

® Additional requirements for Honors students.
Honors students will write an additional 2000 words.  They will complete a 
project or oral presentation that shows a higher level of analytical thinking and
satisfies the requirement of the honors contract.

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

ARTS 1303- Art History I

Description of Course Content

The course surveys major western art historical movements form prehistoric times up to the Late Gothic period as well as art of non-Western cultures.  Major areas of study include: the Birth of Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Egyptian Art, Aegean Art, Greek Art, Etruscan Art, Roman Art, Early Christian Art, Byzantine Art, Islamic Art, Early Medieval Art in the West, Romanesque Art, Gothic Art, the Art of Indian Asia, the Art of China and Korea, the Art of Japan, the Native Arts of  the Americas and Oceania, and the Arts of Africa.  The course includes lectures, readings, slide presentations, class discussions, and written assignments regarding the art and concepts essential to its understanding and analysis.

Sample Weekly Calendar

Week & Material to be covered

1. Orientation, grading policies, syllabus, introduction, Prehistory

2. Prehistory, Ancient Near East

3. Ancient Near East, Egypt

4. Egypt, Aegean

5. Greek

6. Exam, Etruscan

7. Roman

8. Early Christian, Jewish, and Byzantine

9. Islamic, India before 1100

10. China before 1280, Japan before 1392

11. Exam, The Americas before 1300

12. The Americas before 1300, Ancient Africa

13. Early Medieval, Romanesque

14. Romanesque, Gothic

15. Gothic, Exam, 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		(Michael Gonzales, Stan Kaminski, David Swaim)
Southeast, Eastside		713-718-7203		(Michael Cherry, June Woest)
Southwest, Stafford		713-718-7700		(Cynthia Millis, Steven Potter)