ART HISTORY
ISSUES
Attendance
Doing the readings
Students do not know how to write essays, do not known how to structure papers/ideas, don't know how to cite.
Traditional conception of art making
SKILLS
Critical thinking
Writing analytical papers, learning the basis of essay structure and identifying arguments
Public speaking and presentation skills
100 - Visual and Contextual analysis
200 - Comparative analysis (the ability to look at a work from two different periods and explain why they are different)
Resarch
Note taking, preparing for in-class participation
Archival research
Using databases to identify contemporary peer-reviewed essays
Exhibition literacy (identification, interpretation, considering issues about space and curatorial discourse)
The learning evidence would be writing analytical papers, short, but bringing together both kind of analysis
Preparing short in-class interventions (participation)
Goal: writing analytical papers that bring together visual and contextual analysis
Discipline
Analysis of works of art and their context - discourse
Writing
Critical thinking
300-400
Writing argumentative papers (continue to do visual and contextual analysis)
Writing for art publications
From dep;. council meeting
critical thinking skills
exposure to and discussion of contemporary art
visual analysis skills
writing skills
Attitudes
Appreciation for art
Behaviors, Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes