ART 361 Junior Art History Seminar
This course has the following goals: (1) to develop each junior major's ability to know, understand, and discuss historic and contemporary circumstances and critical models related to the production and reception of art; (2) to enable each Junior major to understand, and begin to bridge the difference between popular and scholarly approaches to art and its history; (3) to foster the junior major's ability to understand the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources; (4) to augment the major's ability to identify and employ suitable sources in a manner congruent with academic research methods; (5) to advance the junior art history major's capacity to research and write a coherent, grammatically correct, and well-researched art history term paper focused on a specific, clearly identified theme; (6) to introduce the junior art history major to the basic concepts and skills needed to give a verbal presentation and to draft a didactic, narrative label related to a curated, thematic, and scholarly selection of art objects. (Each student's presentation, narrative label[s], and Junior Thesis will all relate to the same theme: History and Art. Further information regarding this subject will be provided in class and via Blackboard).