AP ART HISTORY SYLLABUS 2015-2016
Course Description:
The study of Art History allows students to discover anew the world in which they live. Throughout the year we will learn about how people have responded to and communicated their experiences through art, as well as the historic and cultural contexts in which it was created. Students will be welcomed into the global art world as active participants, engaging with its forms and content as they research,
discuss, read, and write about art, artists, art making, and respond to and interpret art. This course will be structured around the “big ideas and essential questions” of the AP Art History Course and Exam Description.
Course Objectives:
The AP Art History course will enable students to:
Understand the nature of art, art making, and our responses to it.
Develop an in-depth understanding of individual works of art from diverse
cultures.
Develop an understanding of the relationships among these works.
Practice the essential skills of visual, contextual, and comparative analysis.
Pass the AP Exam.
Field Trips:
Pending principal approval
Sometime in late September or October
Philbrook Museum of Art and Gilcrease Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK.
This would be an all-day excursion with independent, self-guided, study
packets.
At the museum, students choose one object to review. Students must include
an analysis of form, function, content, context, along with a description of how
the formal qualities and content of the work elicit a response from the viewer.
Include also “power sketch” of the image.
In addition, there is one optional museum visit.
Students may choose to visit either of the following museums OR to do an
independent research project.
Students opting for the museum visit will find one object to review from
outside the European tradition. Review will include an analysis of form,
function, content, context, along with a description of how the formal qualities
and content of the work elicit a response from the viewer.
Include also “power sketch” of the image.
Museum choices are: Fred Jones Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma,
Norman, OK
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
Students opting for the independent research project will research one global
contemporary artist not included in the 250 image set. Students will present
a power point lesson of their findings to the class. Power point to reflect
enduring understanding and essential knowledge statements.
Required Textbook:
Adams, Laurie Schneider. Art across Time, 4th ed., 2011
http://www.mhhe.com/adams4e
Secondary Textbooks also available:
Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: A Global History, 14th ed.
2013
Stokstad, Marilyn & Michael W. Cothren. Art History. 5th ed. NW: Pearson
Education, 2014.
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES & HOMEWORK:
This is an AP class wherein you will be doing college level work and receive college credit upon passing the AP Test. Class content is, therefore, at the college level. Sometimes the material is of a controversial nature. You are expected to maintain a mature and open-minded attitude throughout. You are not expected to like every work or agree with every artist’s point of view, but you are expected to understand every work.
Your course grade will be based on the following:
1) Class participation to include group and partner discussion, class projects,
multiple choice reviews, notes and/or guided notes.
2) Daily quizzes. These can be based on assigned readings, assigned videos,
in-class writings, visual analysis, review questions or other items. Daily quizzes
cannot be made up.
However, one daily quiz can be dropped each week. (Or, not dropped for
bonus)
3) Assignments to vary and can include museum work, research projects, making
of original artworks, or class presentations.
4) Note cards. Note cards will be done for each Unit. Note cards will constitute a
large grade and help you when it comes time for test review. Specific directions
to be given.
5) Unit Tests. See schedule below.
6) Semester Tests if not exempt.
LATE WORK:
One day grace period for late assignments. Grade reduced by 10% for each
day thereafter.
NO CELL PHONES IN CLASS UNLESS WE ARE ENGAGED IN A SPECIFIC
ASSIGNMENT REQUIRING USE OF CELL PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IMPORTANT WEBSITES:
https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse
http://smarthistory.org
http://quia.com/pages/broncoz/aparthistory
SCHEDULE
1st semester = 78 days
2nd semester til test = 74 days
UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION 4
UNIT 2 GLOBAL CONTEMPORARY (unit 10) 14
UNIT 3 PREHISTORY (unit 1) 7
UNIT 4 PACIFIC/OCEANIC (unit 9) 7
UNIT 5 AFRICA (unit 6) 8
UNIT 6 ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN (unit 2) 19
UNIT 7 RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD
7a Early Christian (part of Unit 3) 4
7b Islamic (unit 7 WEST & CENTRAL ASIA) 4
7c Hinduism (part of Unit 8) 4
7d Buddhism 4
EXTRA DAYS 3 = 78 DAYS
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UNIT 8 EARLY EUROPE & COLONIAL AMERICAS (unit 3) 23
UNIT 9 INDIGENOUS AMERICA (unit 5) 8
UNIT 10 LATE EUROPE & AMERICAS (unit 4) 27
UNIT 11 REST OF WEST & CENTRAL ASIA (unit 7) 5
UNIT 12 REST OF SOUTH, EAST, & SE ASIA (unit 8) 5
REVIEW 6 = 74 DAYS
AP TEST MAY 3
POST TEST DAYS = 15 DAYS
PROJECT
SEMESTER TESTING
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