Art appreciation and techniques/ART100 OERu course specification
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Part A: Course specification
Metadata
- OERu course name: Art appreciation and techniques
- Level: 1st year Bachelor's degree
- Notional learning hours: 120
- Micro-courses (Three micro courses of 40 hours each)
- The artistic process and visual language (ART101)
- Artistic mediums (ART102)
- Art in our world (ART103)
- OERu course codes: ART101, ART102 and ART103
- OERu assessing institutions: Thompson Rivers University
- Micro-credential options: No
- OERu mode of study: Self-directed study or cohort-based independent study with peer-learning support.
Course aim
Learning outcomes
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: Need to rework these course aims to reflect three or four core learning outcomes. --Wayne Mackintosh, OER Foundation, New Zealand (talk) 02:09, 11 December 2016 (UTC))
- Interpret examples of visual art, using a five-step system, a critical process for understanding all forms of visual art. This system uses the five steps of description, analysis, context, meaning, and judgment.
- Identify and describe the elements and principles of art.
- Use analytical skills to connect formal attributes of art with their meaning and expression.
- Explain the role and effect of the visual arts in societies, history, and other world cultures.
- Articulate the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic themes and issues that artists examine in their work.
- Identify the processes and materials involved in art and architectural production.
- Utilize information to locate, evaluate, and communicate information about visual art in its various forms.
Strawdog alternative LOs
(: The LOs specified above were copied from the course materials. This subheading proposes alternatives for discussion.)
- Identify, research, integrate, and explain visual information concerning artworks and specific meaning.
Indicative content
Assessment and credit transfer options
Thompson Rivers University
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Pre-requisites
(: Need to confirm pre-requisites, eg English language proficiency. Other?)
Part B: Detailed objectives
Micro-course structure
Overview
Micro 1: The artistic process and visual language
Learning objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Define art within a cultural perspective.
- Explain the difference between objective and subjective.
- Explain the different roles art plays within different cultures.
- Define the term subject matter.
- Define the categories realistic, abstract, and non-objective.
- Recognize, evaluate, and describe artistic styles.
- Discuss the meaning of aesthetics and its relationship to cultural conventions.
- Identify and discuss issues of visual awareness
- Describe specific processes used by visual artists.
- Compare and contrast art as a social activity and a singular creative act.
- Identify and discuss historical forms of artistic training.
- Describe the cultural ties to artistic process and training.
- Define and describe artistic elements.
- Define and describe the artistic principles.
- Discuss compositional constructs and their effectiveness in the artistic process.
- Using the language of art, compare and contrast artworks from disparate cultures.
- Using the language of artistic principles, compare and contrast artworks from disparate cultures.
- Translate a realistic artwork into an abstract composition.
- Explain the meaning of both form and content.
- Undertake comparative descriptions of form and content.
- Identify the three levels of meaning in works of art.
- Identify the use of iconography in art.
- Define the term “context,” and discuss its essential role in finding meaning in art.
- Describe the role of the critic.
- Identify and describe the six critical perspectives.
- Identify, research, integrate, and explain visual information concerning artworks and specific meaning.
Micro 2: Artistic mediums
Learning objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Identify and describe specific characteristics of two-dimensional mediums artists use.
- Explain and demonstrate how collage has a significant role in the development of modern art.
- Explain how the advance of technology is reflected in the art historical record.
- Describe how cultural styles are influenced through the use of different artistic mediums.
- Explain the effect photography has had on traditional artistic media.
- Communicate how time-based mediums affect issues of content.
- Compare and contrast different photographic processes.
- Recognize and explain issues of form and content in photographs.
- Explain the three elements of photojournalism.
- Describe the effects photojournalism has on the news media.
- Identify and describe the specific characteristics of three-dimensional mediums artist use.
- Demonstrate how the advance of technology is reflected in three-dimensional media throughout the art historical record.
- Explain the effects installation and performance art has on artistic experience.
- Compare and contrast three-dimensional artworks from different cultures.
Micro 3: Art in our world
Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:
Learning objectives
- Discuss architecture’s significance to shelter and habitat.
- Describe the traditional and modern styles of architecture.
- Explain architectural materials and structural systems.
- Describe architecture as a reflection of culture.
- Demonstrate familiarity with symbolic uses of architecture.
- Discuss new technologies and “green” adaptations in architectural design.
- Describe how what we know is reflected in works of art.
- Understand how artists use the natural world as a vessel for human experience.
- Explore how art is a medium for self-identity.
- Explore the limits to representation of the body.
- Consider the idea of primordial couples and ties to human procreation.
- Describe sexuality in art seen through different cultural perspectives.
- Identify issues of propaganda in art.
- Describe examples of art used to communicate political statements.
- Explain art’s use as a form of protest
- Describe ways that art expresses ideas of the spirit.
- Describe how costume and decoration are used as vehicles for spirituality.
- Explain art as a form of myth.
- Describe the role of art in ritual and ceremony.
- Discuss connections among art, magic, and the idea of the fantastic.
Course links (if available)
- Planning page
- Course materials
