SCHEDULE REQUIREMENTS ART HISTORY GUIDE RESOURCES

Focus on the Western Tradition

ARTH116-2 SPRING 2010

Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe



THE COURSE & REQUIREMENTS

The Course

    An historical and analytical introduction, considering representative monuments in their context and proposing ways of understanding visual evidence

Meeting Place and Time

    Pannell 012: Tuesday and Thursdays 9:00—10:15

Required Textbooks

    Marilyn Stokstad
    Fourteenth to Seventeenth Century Art

    Art History Portable Edition, Book 4 (Third edition, paperback)
    (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2008)

    Available in the SBC Book Shop
    You can also purchase a new or used copy through:
    Amazon.com
    Barnes & Noble
    Also check Cheapest Textbooks.com, and Booksprice.com

    Marilyn Stokstad
    Eighteenth to Twenty-first Century Art

    Art History Portable Edition, Book 6 (Third edition, paperback)
    (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2008)

    Available in the SBC Book Shop
    You can also purchase a new or used copy through:
    Amazon.com
    Barnes & Noble
    Also check Cheapest Textbooks.com, and Booksprice.com

Student Responsibilities

  • Active class participation, which includes being prepared for each class, asking questions, and taking part in discussion.
  • Read all the assignments before class meets, as indicated on the schedule
  • Attend all class meetings (poor attendance will result in a lower final grade)
  • Takes notes in class and make notes while reading the textbook

Quizzes

  • Three Quizzes: February 23, April 6, and May 4
Paper
  • One Paper on a topic selected from a list posted on April 1 and due April 27
Grading
  • First Quiz = 25%
  • Second Quiz = 25%
  • Third Quiz = 25%
  • Paper = 25%