Art 101 is designed to give you an opportunity to learn about the visual arts and develop a sense of visual literacy. This course offers an overview of the subject for those with little or no art background as well as for beginning art majors. The course is designed to awaken your creativity, as well as giving you a strong intellectual grounding in visual thinking, and the form, meaning and content of visual art.
Instructor: Jennifer Owen
Office: Ka Lama 133 and Ceramics Studio in the Art Building
Phone : 984-3202 (ext. 202) Ceramics studio (Message phone)
Attendance and punctuality is mandatory. Attendance will be monitored through progress on in-class assignments in sketchbooks, quizzes, and attendance taken at each class period. If you have a legitimate emergency (health, work or family crisis) you must call ext. 202 (984-3202) to report the reason for your absence before the class meets. If you are not excused from a class, your absence will be marked against you. Tardiness will also be marked against you. Quizzes are given at the beginning of class. If a quiz is taken late, it will be marked down half a grade. If you are tardy four times, that is the equivalent of being absent once.
Special Accommodation
Reasonable accommodations will be provided for students with documented physical, sensory, systemic, cognitive, learning and psychiatric disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring accommodations in this class, please notify Lisa Correa - Special Needs Coordinator at 984-3496 or Telecommunication Device for the Deaf (TDD) 984-3325 or the Text Telephone (TT) replay service at 643-8833. That office will verify your disability and provide the course instructor with recommendations for appropriate accommodations.
Exams
Two exams and eight quizzes will cover reading assignments in the text, classroom lectures, videos, handouts, and field trips. The two exams will consist of multiple choice objective questions, true false questions, and essays. Test questions come from material covered in lectures and text. Quiz questions will be used on both the midterm and final exam.
Sketchbook
Bring sketchbook and art supplies with you each class period. Students are required to keep a 9” x 12” sketchbook in which they record experiences within the course. You will be working in this book both during class time and outside of class. Make sure your name is clearly marked on the front cover of your sketchbook.
Project Assignment or Research Paper
An independent drawing or other art project (sculpture, painting, collage, assemblage, etc.), done outside of class, will be required. Instead of the art project, a 2-page research paper on an artist may be submitted.
Extra credit may be earned by submitting additional art projects or drawings in your sketchbook.
Students may choose to complete a Service Learning Project instead of the Project or Paper. This option will be explained under the Service Learning topic in this syllabus.
Each project and sketchbook assignment will be evaluated for thoroughness of investigation, depth of thinking, vitality, craftsmanship, creativity, and effort. I realize that you may be a beginner and will be looking for growth. Effort in the sketchbook is necessary for your successful completion of the course. Projects and sketchbooks will be assessed a grade of PLUS, CHECK, MINUS, or ZERO.
PLUS – Exceptional efforts and results. Outstanding achievement.
CHECK – Fulfills criteria of assignment. Contains all parts of assignment. Sufficient work, effort, and time done on project.
MINUS – Missing some part of the assignment, or not complete enough. Not enough effort or time put into assignment.
ZERO – Missing assignment.
GRADING SYSTEM: The grading system is based on two parts:
POINT SYSTEM: Covers tests, quizzes and worksheets.
Midterm Exam 26 pts.
Final Exam 26 pts.
8 Quizzes 6 pts. each
Total 100 pts.
POINT SYSTEM GRADE – THIS IS NOT THE FINAL GRADE
A = 90 – 100% (90 - 100 pts.)
B = 80 – 89% (80 –89 pts.)
C = 70 – 79% (70 – 79 pts.)
D = 60 – 69% (60 – 69 pts.)
F = less than 60% (less than 60 pts.)
SKETCHBOOK AND PROJECT GRADE
The AVERAGE of sketchbook and project grades effects the Point System grade in the
following ways:
An average of PLUS raises the point grade one letter grade.
An average of CHECK does not change the point grade.
An average of MINUS lowers the point grade one letter grade.
An average of ZERO lowers the point grade two letter grades.
There are 8 quizzes, based on the reading assignments. If a student wants to raise any quiz grade by a full grade point, they may take advantage of several extra credit opportunities.
There are 8 videos on art on reserve in the library, for viewing in the library only. When a student views an hour of video and hands in a one-paragraph summary or notes taken while viewing the video, one quiz grade will be raised by a full grade point.
There will be various opportunities to earn extra credit by viewing art exhibitions or attending visual art slide lectures and writing a 3-6 sentence response to the exhibit or lecture. This will raise one quiz grade by a full grade point. The instructor will announce these opportunities as they arise.
Library Reserve Videos
Eight videos have been placed on reserve for your use. They are:
The Pyramids and The Cities of the Pharaohs
The Greek Temple
The Classical Ideal
A White Garment of Churches---Romanesque and Gothic
The Early Renaissance
The High Renaissance
Monet
O'Keeffe
SUPPLY LIST
BRING THESE ITEMS TO CLASS WITH YOU EACH PERIOD:
9” x 12” white sketch pad
eraser
drawing pencil, either 2b, 4b, and/or 3h (you may also use a #2 pencil for drawing)
www.prenhall.com/preble This is the companion website for our textbook and has links to other great art sites with lots of images of art. Start with: The Web Museum and Kandinsky's Abstractions.
www.tradewindsweb.com This company designed and developed this site. If you need a web presence for your art work or other project please contact them.
Phones
• Cell phones and beepers should be turned off during class. Only in an emergency should phone calls be made or received during class time, and the student should inform the instructor before class begins if a situation requires them to have their cell phone or beeper on.
Declaring grade when student registers.
Under the banner system the student must declare a grading option when he registers (either online or in person). If he does not, it will default to GR (letter grade). He may choose GR, C/NC, or L for audit. However, if he does not choose any grade when he registers and it defaults to GR, the student has until the end of late registration to change to an “audit” grade. He must go online to his record or ask student services to do this for him. The second choice is if he wishes CR/NC, he has until the end of withdrawal date to go in and change the grading option on the class to CR/NC. The instructor cannot change the student's record.
