ARTH 101-- HISTORY OF ART I

JOHN J. DOBBINS

McIntire Department of Art, 318 Fayerweather Hall (the first building on the left heading north on Rugby Road)
Office Telephone: 924-6128 e-mail: dobbins@virginia.edu
Office Hours: Tues. 2:30-4:30, Wed. 4-5, and by appt.

Teaching Assistants: Katherine Baker (keb5u@virginia.edu), Justin Faircloth (jmf6v@virginia.edu), Renee Gondek (rmg8m@virginia.edu), Ismini Miliaresis (iam5f@virginia.edu)

Lectures

The course consists of two lectures and one discussion section each week. According to College rules, attendance at lecture is required.

Required discussion sections

The schedule for discussions appears in the Course Offering Directory (COD). As this is a four-credit course, you must enroll in and attend a discussion section. The discussion section is your opportunity to meet in a small group with a trained teaching assistant in order to discuss material presented in the lectures. It is your opportunity to ask questions, express personal opinions, argue about issues, and actually use an art historical vocabulary. A section is not a random or an impromptu discussion, nor is it a simple review of the lecture material. Each section is organized around one or more themes and is planned a week in advance by me and the TAs. Attendance at discussion sections is required and is an essential part of the course. Participation is expected. Performance in discussions will have a bearing on the semester grade. Assignments are given via e-mail for most discussions; their completion has a bearing on your grade.

Most student problems can be settled directly by the section instructors. Discussion sections begin during the week of August 28. Sections will not meet during the week of October 9, Fall Reading Period. Note: Failure to attend discussions or excessive absences will cause you to be dropped from the course. More than one absence will have an adverse effect on your grade.

Textbook and Photocopy Packet

The textbook, available at the University of Virginia Bookstore, is Gardner’s Art through the Ages: the Western Perspective, Volume I (12th edition) by Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya, 2006.

Illustrations in the textbook will be supplemented by images on the course web site and in the photocopy packet. Bibliography for further reading is given in the back of the textbook.

The photocopy packet is available at Brillig Books, 7 Elliewood Avenue (on the Corner) and should be purchased (about $9.00).

Examinations and Grading

Mid term: The nature of the examination will be discussed in class about two weeks in advance and the teaching assistants will make suggestions about how best to prepare for it. No make up is planned, but if necessary, one will be given, for convincing reasons (serious illness, hospitalization, or a death in your family), at the convenience of the instructor and teaching assistants. Should you miss both the examination and the make up, it will be necessary to withdraw from the course.

Quizzes: There will be two 15-minute quizzes during the semester. The dates appear on the syllabus. The policy for make-ups is the same as for the mid-term. It would be a mistake to miss the quizzes. The quizzes will be combined with the section grade to form a single grade that will be averaged with the mid-term and final.

Final: The final examination is scheduled for Thursday, December 7, 2:00-4:00 in WIL 402 (our regular classroom). According to the directives of the Dean of the College, this time may not be changed. No make-up is scheduled. Anyone who misses the final for a legitimate reason (as per mid-term) will take a more difficult make-up in January.

***Only material discussed in the lectures and illustrated in the textbook, CD, web site, or packet will appear on any examination or quiz. Please don’t e-mail me on this. I can’t say it more clearly!***

Final Grade: The final grade is based on three grades: the midterm, the final, and a composite (the quizzes and the section grade). Each grade will count as one third. For the composite grade each quiz is 25% and the section grade is 50%.

Classroom Protocol

All of the following is obvious, but as many aspects of college life are different from those in high school, it may be useful to state the obvious. No food or drink. Turn off your cell phones. Arrive on time (the best seats for concentrating on the lecture and making the best use of your time in class are in the front half of the room). Stay for the whole lecture. Unless you are sick, you should not be leaving and coming back. A university lecture isn’t a movie or a rented DVD. Coming and going during the lecture disrupts your classmates, disrupts me, is rude, and breaks your own concentration. Use the bathroom before class. Concentrate on the lecture and take notes. Reading the newspaper is a public insult to the professor as is any form of computer/cell phone activity that is not note taking (i.e., computer shopping, surfing the web, e-mailing, Instant Messaging, text messaging). Laugh at the jokes. Approaching a professor at the lectern after class is normal and is welcomed. You may have a question, or may want to comment on your own experience with the material just covered (I’m always delighted to see your photographs of you at the places we discuss).

E-mail

Due to the large enrollment, it may not be possible for the TAs and me to answer all e-mail messages. I will, however, read all messages and address issues of general interest. Every effort will be made to respond to specific problems that you may raise in an e-mail. Please note that during the hours before our class I will be preparing the lecture and will not be on e-mail. Messages sent on the morning of class or on the previous evening will not be read before class. Three tips: (1) update the subject line if you respond to my e-mails (don’t be lazy); (2) include a subject line—otherwise I will assume the e-mail is spam and I’ll delete it unopened; (3) never address a professor in an e-mail, at least not me, as “Hey”—such e-mails will not be read (“Hello,” Hi” work fine for me).

I frequently receive e-mails asking a question that is already answered here in this information sheet. Please familiarize yourself with this information and consult this sheet before sending an e-mail.

Web Site: http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~arth101

The website provides the course description and the syllabus. More importantly, it offers good quality images of many works that are in the text book as well as some items that we will cover that are not in the textbook. Unfortunately, it does not contain all the images that we cover--this does not imply that material for examinations and quizzes is restricted to that which appears on the web site. In some cases, there are images on the web site that we will not deal with in class. As indicated above, such material will not appear on exams or quizzes: “***Only material discussed in the lectures and illustrated in the textbook, CD, website, or packet will appear on any examination or quiz.***”

Lecture and Examination Schedule

AUG.	24	Introduction	Pages in Gardner
	29	Paleolithic to Neolithic	1-15
	31	Egyptian: Old Kingdom	41-54 [1]*
SEPT.	5	Egyptian: Middle and New Kingdom	40, 54-69 [2]
	7	Mesopotamian	16-39 [3]
	12	Aegean: Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean	70-89
	14	Greek: Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic	91-101
	19	QUIZ 1. Greek: Archaic	101-112
	21	Greek: Fifth Century B.C.	112-130 [5,12]
	26	Greek: Fourth Century B.C.	130-139 [4,6,8,13]
	28	Hellenistic	139-151 [14,15]
OCT.	3	The Greek City & Sanctuary. Etruscan Art	140-142; 152-165
	5	MID-TERM EXAMINATION
	10	Roman: Republic	166-174 [16,17]
	12	Roman: Early Empire (27 B.C. – A.D. 96)	185-194 [9,10]
	17	Roman: Pompeii and Roman Painting	174-185, 208, 209 [7,11]
	19	Roman: The Second Century (A.D. 96-A.D. 192)	166, 194-208 [18,19]
	24	Roman: The Late Empire (A.D. 193-A.D. 330)	209-219
	26	Early Christian	220-243 [20,21,22]
	31	Byzantine: Early	244-261 [23,24]
NOV.	2	QUIZ 2. Byzantine: Middle and Late	261-275 [25]
	7	Islamic	276-299
	9	Carolingian and Ottonian	300-325 [26,30]
	14	Romanesque: Architecture	327-339 [31]
	16	Romanesque: Sculpture and Painting	326-340-357 [32]
	21, 23	THANKSGIVING BREAK
	28	Gothic: France	358-386 [33]
	30	Gothic: England, Germany, Italy	386-399 & Toolkit
DEC.	5	The Renaissance Begins	Toolkit
	7	FINAL EXAMINATION 2:00-4:00 p.m. in WIL 402

* The numbers in brackets refer to the Primary Sources in the packet. It is best to do the reading assignment before the lecture. In that way the lecture will be much easier to follow and your notes will be much better.