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Medieval Art Bachelor Degree in Art History ART 300 Breyer State University Instructor: Karan Schneider Ph.D., MS, BBA, GC-C, CH-C, SC-C SYLLABUS COURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to Medieval Art, a Bachelor Level course in the curriculum for the degree, Bachelor of Fine Art in Art History. The primary focus of this course is to explore issues of artist's patronage, craftsmanship, holy men and women, monasteries, secular courts and the expressive and educational roles of artistic creation. To understand the Middle Ages so elegantly portrayed in balance with an intelligence of historical and cultural grounding. An appreciation beautifully producing a survey of over a thousand years of Western art and architecture in a vast period of history ranging from ancient Rome to the age of exploration. Expect to find in written sources some reflection of your own judgment, for Medieval and Gothic art has been regarded as shaping western and European perspectives and desires in art. The course will unravel to students wide ranges of various media that enthralled the world in both a dynamic and static sense image and styles. The program prepares students to aim in the appreciation and understanding gradual rediscoveries of the facts, influences, and tendencies in proper perspective, sources and documents. Learn from a faculty member who is a practicing instructor and a successful independent business owner in the Arts, Alternative Health Care Modalaties, Angelology, Spiritual Counseling and Hypnotherapy field. TIME FRAME: This is an eight semester hour course. This course is allotted ten weeks of time. You must complete all of the requirements for the course successfully by the end of the ten-week period. The first day of week one will begin the day that you register for the course, or the day which you notify me that your textbook has arrived and you are ready to begin your studies. Please be cognizant of the time frame. It is rare that extensions of time are permitted, unless you have good justification. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded eight semester hours of credit. Prerequisite: ART 100, ART 110, ART 215, ART 220, ART 225. TEXTBOOKS: There are three (3) required textbooks for this course. Book 1: Early Medieval Art. Lawrence Nees. Oxford History of Art: ISBN # 0-19-284243-9. Book 2: Medieval Art Second Edition. Marilyn Stokstad. Westview Press: ISBN # 0-8133-4114-0. Book 3: Gothic Art 1140-c1450 Sources and Documents. Teresa G. Frisch. University of Toronto Press: ISBN # 0-8020-6679-8.
EXAMINATIONS: There is one examination for each book in this course. The assignments are to be done in a Learning Portfolio and cover the material in each of the books, "Early Medieval Art," Lawrence Nees, and "Medieval Art Second Edition", Marilyn Stokstad and "Gothic Art 1140-c1450 Sources and Documents", Teresa G. Frisch. The exam is programmed and is located in the classroom for this course. The examination is "open book" objective type. You will have two (2) days to complete your exam, once you access it from the classroom. To access the exam, you must send me an email and request to have access to the exam. Upon registration, you will receive my email address. I will then program your access in. You will receive an email back from me telling you that you are now authorized to go ahead and to access your exam. To access, you will come into the classroom, click on testing, and click on the exam you are taking. You will need your User ID and PASSWORD to access the exam. The exam will appear on your screen. Once you access the exam, you have forty-eight hours to submit your answers. The program provides me the exact date and time that you accessed the exam. The program also notifies me of the exact date and time that you submitted your answers. Thus, the program is timing you. When you are ready, go back into the classroom and click in your responses and then click submit. Shortly, you will receive the exam in your email box with your computed score. You will also know what questions, if any, that you missed, and what the correct answer is. I also receive a copy of your exam and your score. GRADING: You will receive a pass/fail on the Learning Portfolio and a letter grade on the three exams. The grading scale for this course is as follows: 90-100% = A COMMUNICATION: You are encouraged to communicate with me. I am available as a teacher, coach, and mentor to assist you in meeting your goals for this course. Primarily, communication is through email. However, I am also available for conversation by telephone if you would like. Our classroom for this course has a "chat" room. I am also very willing to meet with you one-on-one in the chat room at your request. From time to time, depending on how many students are enrolled in this course at a particular time, we will have some scheduled group chats. You will receive more detailed information at the time such chat sessions are scheduled. Please keep my email address handy so that you can contact me whenever necessary. If at any time during this course you change your email address, please be sure to notify me right away. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: All of the assignments for this course are detailed in the classroom. Go back to the classroom page and click on "assignments." COURSE CONTENT: 1). The Roman Language of Art. INFORMATION: If you have any questions regarding this program, you may contact your instructor at kschneider4@neo.rr.com.
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