TIFFIN UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES
Minimum Course Content Guide
Course Number: ART561
Course Name: Survey of Western
Art History
Prerequisite: None
Course Description: This course is an introduction to the art
of the West from prehistory to the present. Works will be studied within their
historical, religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and social contexts.
Methodologies of the discipline of art history will be explored, as well as
primary source texts from the cultures in which these works were created. Offered every Spring. (3 hour)
Goals:
- to
explore the history of western art from pre-history to the present
- to
examine primary documents and explore how those documents shape our
understanding of the art of the time in which they were written
- to
investigate different methodologies of art history
- to hone
visual analysis skills, and the ability to turn that visual analysis into
critical writing
Evaluations:
Evaluations will be a series of
papers, exams, and discussions.
Minimum Topic Outline:
- Methodologies
of art history
- Examination
of primary documents
- History
of Western art from pre-history to the present
Potential Textbooks:
Davies, Penelope
et al., Janson’s History of Art: the
Western Tradition, 8th Edition, 2010
Adams, Laurie. Methodologies of Art, 2nd
Edition, 2010
Harrison, Charles
and Paul Wood, Art in Theory: 1900-2000,
2003
Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 2005
Hegel, Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, 1994
Lead Instructor:
Lee Fearnside
Carnegie Units (135 hours required):
Reading: 50 hours
Discussion Boards: 30
Research: 30 hours
Writing: 40 hours
Live Chats: 2 hours Total:
152
Created: Mar. 2012
Updated: Sept. 2012
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