Study Guide 2015-2016

KIE-34406 Art History in English, 3 cr

Additional information

When the course is over-subscribed, i.e., when more students register than can be admitted to the course, students are enrolled according to the target groups and the time of their registration. Students on the sign-up and waiting list must attend the first class meeting to secure a place on the course.
Will not be lectured year 2015-2016

Person responsible

Anni Karo, Timo Lepistö

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Requirements

- 80% attendance - participation in class discussion and pair and group work - short, 5-minute oral group presentations and one 10-15 minute individual presentation - short writing assignments on assigned and self-chosen topics, and a final term paper

Learning Outcomes

After taking the course students - understand the general outlines, periods, and artistic movements of western art from Renaissance to early Impressionism - understand and use confidently in spoken and written discourse and analysis the technical and cultural-historical terminology related to the above - understand interrelations in the development of optical vision in art and modern technology - can analyze and express the above content in organized, structured, and formal spoken and written discourse

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Proto-Renaissance: Nicola Pisano, Giovanni Pisano, Giotto  Bonaventura Berlighieri, Duccio   Taddeo Gaddi, Simone Martini, the Lorengetti brothers 
2. Early Renaissance: Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Donatello, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, del Verrocchio, Botticelli, Mantegna  Nanni di Banco, da Fabriano, Pollaiuolo  Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, Ghirlandaio 
3. High Renaissance and Mannerism: da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bellini, Titian  Giogione, Tintoretto, Veronese  Palladio, Guilio Romano 
4. Northern European Renaissance: Campin, van Eyck, Bosch, Cranach the Elder, Gruenewald, Duerer,   Altdorfer, the Limbourg brothers, Holbein the Younger, Bruegel the Elder, El Greco   
5. Baroque: Bernini, Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer, Poussin,   Maderno, Artemisia Gentileschi, Claude Lorrain  Pozzo, "Little Dutch masters" 
6. Rococo, 18th century: Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Chardin, Canaletto, Guardi  Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Greuze,   Vigee-Lebrun 
7. Neoclassicism: David, Ingres     
8. Romanticism: Jean Gros, Gericault, Delacroix    William Blake 
9. Realism: Goya, Gourbet, Daumier, Manet  Corot, Millet  The Pre-Raphaelites 
10. Further individual and peer practice at presentation and academic writing skills      

Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes

- attendance (80%), class participation, oral presentations, and in- and out-of-class assignments constitute 60% of the final grade - final term paper constitutes 40%

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Additional information Examination material
Book   Gardner's Art Through the Ages   Tansey & Kleiner   0-15-501141-3       No   
Other online content   Art History, Khan Academy         http://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history   No   
Other online content   Web Gallery of Art, Frame version         http://www.wga.hu/index1.html   No   
Other online content             No   

Additional information about prerequisites
This course is intended for students who have already passed their basic English requirements, Spoken Communication (KIE-32006, KIE-32066, KIE-32056, or KIE-32026) and Written Communication (KIE-33006) or English for Architects (KIE-32106).



Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
KIE-34406 Art History in English, 3 cr KIE-3356 Art History in English: Advanced Course, 3 cr  

Last modified 17.09.2015