Art 1030: Art Appreciation

Course Syllabus(Note: The Thomas Kincaid galleries are not acceptable for this assignment) Look atthe whole show and give your overall impression of the show. Does the show have atheme? What kind of work does it include? Choose a piece or two to describe (as youdid in the compare and contrast essay.) Did you like the work? Why or why not?Which pieces were particularly meaningful?The Thomas Kincaid Galleries are not suitable for this assignment.A Group Research Project100 PointsThis project requires that you work together with a group to research a topic andprepare a presentation to teach the class what you have learned. You will chooseone of the broad topics listed below and be put in a group with others interested inthe same topic. Look in your text; find out some possible divisions to break up yourresearch among group members. Each of you research, in books, magazines and onthe web and collect as much information as possible. Compile your information withyour group. Decide what area you want to focus in on and investigate that further.Plan a short PowerPoint presentation of the material you have found. Do not justcopy and paste from a web site. Research and then present what you have learnedin your own words.1. Pre-Columbian Art (Aztec, Mayan, Incan, etc.)2. Islamic Art3. Oriental Art. (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)More detailed info on group project: The groups are self-enrolling. Go to thegroups tab on the navigation bar and choose a topic. (There should only be onegroup for each topic, if there are more, join group 1.)The groups e-mail each other and divide the up research into convenient subtopics(i.e. if the topic is pre-Columbian art. You might divide the research into differentcultures...Mayan, Aztec, Olmec, Incan etc. or you might divide it by media andsomeoneresearch painting someone else the architecture or sculpture, textiles, etc.)When you all compile your research you will make it into a presentation. The bestway to do it is in PowerPoint or Keynote but people have used Word on occasion.Hopefully someone in eachgroup will have the needed software. You should eachsend that person your text and images for your part of the research (be very clearabout which image goes with what text) When the presentations isfinished, submit it,via the dropbox and I will turn it into html so it will be viewed by the class through thecourse resources group projects link. Each student should either submit thepresentation or a statement that they participated in whatever group they choose.Weekly Research Projects10 Points each120 Points TotalWeekly Discussion Questions10 Points each120 Points Total6 | P age 9/27/2011