ART HISTORY 1 (ARTS 1303)
Instructor: Maryellen June Hill
Fall Semester, 2014
CRN 31966
Tuesday and Thursday 9:30 – 11:00 A.M.
Location: West Loop Room C241
Email: maryellen.hill@hccs.edu (please put your name in the subject box)
Office Phone: 713-718-5732
Fine Arts Office: 713-718-7700
Learning Web Address: http://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/maryellen.hill
Full copy of the syllabus is on the learning web
Office Hours: Stafford: Learning Hub room 305 or Fine Arts Building, Room 118,
MW, 11:00 AM -1:00 PM
West Loop: room C256, C235, or C241, TTh, 9:00–9:30 am, 4:00–4:30
pm.
Other times and places by appointment
Required Text: Art History, Stokstad, 5th Edition, Volume 1 paperback
or Volume 1&2 combined (hardback). Volume 1 must have all 18
chapters. I will do my best to make the course compatible with the 4th
edition text, which has 17 chapters because it combines 7 & 8.
Prerequisites: college level reading and writing; there are no coursework prerequisites
CALENDAR
The following is a tentative schedule for the material we will cover in chronological order. We
may get a day or two ahead of or behind schedule, so the dates or assignments may change.
Please read the chapters in your text that correspond to our class topics as we progress
through the semester. DON’T GET BEHIND IN YOUR READING!!!! You will need to know
both the text information and the information presented in class to do well on tests and
assignments
August
September
October
November
26- Course introduction, Syllabus review, vocabulary
28- Ch. 1 Prehistoric Art in Europe
2 - Ch. 1, Ch. 2 Art of the Ancient Near East
4 - Ch. 2, Ch. 3 Art of Ancient Egypt
9 - Ch.3, Ch. 4 Aegean Art
11 - Ch. 4, Introduce Paper and Group Project
16 – Test Review
18 – Test: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4
23 - Ch. 5 Art of Ancient Greece
25 – Ch.5
30 – Ch. 5, Ch. 6 Etruscan and Roman Art
2 – Ch. 6, Paper Topic Forms Due
7 - Ch. 7 Jewish and Early Christian Art
9 - Ch. 8 Byzantine Art
14 - Test Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 (5, 6 7 for 4th ed.)
16 – Ch. 15 Early Medieval Art in Europe
21 – Ch. 15,
23 - Ch. 16 Romanesque Art; Papers Due (hard copy and Turnitin)
28 - Ch. 16
30 – Ch. 16, Ch. 17 Gothic Art of the 12th and 13th Centuries
4 - Ch.17
6 - Ch.17; Copy of slide show, script, and Group Response Questions
due from all groups
11 – Ch. 18 Fourteenth–Century Art in Europe (time permitting)
13 – Test Review; Group Presentation on Ch. 9, Islamic Art
December
18 – Test: Chapters 15, 16, 17, 18 (14, 15, 16, 17 for 4th edition)
20 – Group Presentations on Ch. 10, Art of South and Southeast Asia before
1200 and Ch. 11, Chinese and Korean Art before 1279
25 – Group Presentations on Ch. 12, Japanese Art Before 1333 and Ch. 13, The
Art of the Americas
27 – NO CLASS – Thanksgiving Holiday
2 - Group Presentation on Ch. 14, Early African Art
4 - Review for Final; Group Presentation Response Sets due
9 – Final Exam – 9:00 – 11:00 am.
Withdrawal Deadline: October 31
Finals: December 8 – 14
School Holidays (No Class)
-Labor Day – September 1 (Does NOT effect this class)
-Thanksgiving – November 27 – 30