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Eng 155: Introduction To Literary Studies, Joseph Donica

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An OER syllabus covering the ways humans have read and continue to read literature from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives. An emphasis is placed on the application of critical thought to writing expository essays and responding to readings.

Museum Exhibition Assignment, Matthew Reilly

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This is a general assignment requiring students to think critically about museum exhibitions in major New York City institutions: The American Museum of Natural History, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Options are provided for students to visit these spaces virtually or in person.

Art 3700: Politics Of Display, Approaches To Non-Western Art, Midori Yamamura

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This class is an introduction to non-Western art. We will study the unique aesthetics and the basic ideas behind the arts made in the Islamic world, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and their diaspora. The course will consider the exhibition as a politicized arena and determine how particular ways of selecting and displaying the artworks or their lack of representation in museums can influence our knowledge. Students are encouraged to choose images and write their papers to communicate their ideas about the four focal areas and their diaspora. They are encouraged to think about how their knowledge and worldview can complement …

Open Pedagogy Assignment: Educating Others About Art, Sarah Dillon

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After participating in Kingsborough Community College’s Open Pedagogy Fellowship during the Spring 2021 semester I designed theses assignments in order to better align my course assignments and learning outcomes with some principles of Open Pedagogy.

The three assignments are scaffolded, each building on the previous one, to produce the overall goal of having students educate others about artworks. There is a combination of group work and individual work throughout and the groups decide what the final product will look like and how it is shared, that is, students decide who they are looking to educate about art and how they …

Arth 100: Introductory Survey Of Art, Vanessa Troiano

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Syllabus for an introductory undergraduate Art History course, surveying the discipline from pre-historic to contemporary art.

Introductory Art History Essay Assignments, Vanessa Troiano

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Midterm and final essay assignments with a model essay for an undergraduate survey course of Art History from prehistory to contemporary art.

Arth 100: Introductory Survey Of Art: Discussion Board Prompts, Vanessa Troiano

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Discussion board prompts for an online, undergraduate, Introduction to Art History course, surveying the discipline from prehistory to contemporary art.

Art 201: Arts And Civilization I, Cuny School Of Professional Studies

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Introduces art and the academic discipline of art history. Using the discipline’s technical vocabulary, analyzes the standard visual, material and symbolic components of art. Addresses cultural products created from the Neolithic through to the end of the Western Middle Ages. Analyzes the purpose of art. Examines painting, drawing, sculpture and architecture in historical, political and cultural context. Analyzes art's function within society. Critiques how successive movements and styles are indebted to the past and to influences from other sources. Introduces key movements, important artworks and the biographies of individual artists.

Art Brut, Grotesque, Nouveau Realisme, Elvis Fuentes

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An overview of the most salient artistic movements in Postwar Europe: Art Brut, L'Informel, Grotesque, Nouveau Realisme

Cuban Art After The Revolution: 1960s-1970s, Elvis Fuentes

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This presentation features Cuban art after the Communist Revolution of 1959. It includes the rise of documentary photography and poster design as state-sponsored propaganda art, as well as changes in the visual arts from abstraction to figuration. It includes a brief chronology of Cuban art in the 20th century.

Arth 1104 Art Of The Us, Syllabus, Fall 2019, Martha Hagood

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Enhancing The Study Of Art History Utilizing Computational Thinking: Focus, Abstraction In Art (Egypt), Douglas L. Moody, Sandra Cheng

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Enhancing The Study Of Art History Utilizing Computational Thinking: Focus, Abstraction In Art (Modern), Douglas L. Moody, Sandra Cheng

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Mapping In The Humanities: Gis Lessons For Poets, Historians, And Scientists, Emily W. Fairey

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User-friendly Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the common thread of this collection of presentations, and activities with full lesson plans. The first section of the site contains an overview of cartography, the art of creating maps, and then looks at historical mapping platforms like Hypercities and Donald Rumsey Historical Mapping Project. In the next section Google Earth Desktop Pro is introduced, with lessons and activities on the basics of GE such as pins, paths, and kml files, as well as a more complex activity on "georeferencing" an historic map over Google Earth imagery. The final section deals with ARCGIS Online …

Cross Cultural Presentation On Latin American Artists [Modern Languages And Literatures], Ernesto Menendez-Conde

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I have used this high-stakes assignment in the last four semesters, in the ELS103 Intermediate Spanish I class. However, it was considerably revised during two Center for Teaching and Learning sponsored seminars at LaGuardia Community College: “Bringing Global Learning Competency into Your Class” and “The Pedagogy of the Digital Ability.” These seminars allowed me to have a better understanding about how to scrutinize contexts in order to bring assignments closer to the Global Learning Core Competency and the Digital Communication Ability. The “Bringing Global Learning Competency into Your Class” seminar in particular shaped my thinking about the design and content …

Art Of The Harlem Renaissance, Joshua I. Cohen

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The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, known during that time as the Negro Renaissance, affected a sea change in literary and artistic production. Whereas the early-20^th-century avant-gardes in Europe had looked to black culture only as “primitive” inspiration, Harlem Renaissance practitioners asserted their status as agents of modern history and creators of black modernism. This important and tumultuous transformation can be tracked in the artistic expressions of the period, and in relation to key texts that shaped the movement. Planned visits to Harlem sites and collections, as well as to timely exhibitions elsewhere in New York, …

Research Paper Assignment For Modern Art In Latin America, Anna Indych-Lopez

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Arh 141 Introduction To The History Of Modern Art, Sharon L. Jordan

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A study of the principles of art applied to visual forms, with emphasis on modern art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe and the United States.

The full course site is available at https://arh141.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.

Evidence: Photographic Image, Fact, Document Syllabus, Ellen Handy

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Syllabus for an interdiscilpinary undergraduate course on Photography and Evidence.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Art 1011 (Art History Survey I), Janine Defeo

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This introductory course presents a global view of art history through slide lectures and museum visits, with an emphasis on works of art found in New York City museums. It selectively surveys the visual arts of Europe from prehistory through the Middle Ages and concurrent historical periods in Egypt, the Near East, the Islamic world, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Art Of Jerusalem: Power And Piety In The Holy Land, Abby M. Kornfeld

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This course explores the art and architecture of Jerusalem from the reign of Herod through the Crusades, a period in which the city came under successive Jewish, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, and Latin domination. Particular attention will be given to the repeated transformation of the landscape of Jerusalem through the destruction, construction, and modification of important religious and cultural monuments. We will gauge the role of Jerusalem as an object of desire for the dispossessed and for pilgrims of three faiths. In addition, we will explore how the accretion of myth and memory shaped the city’s symbolic identity, and how this …

Art 55 History Of Modern Art, Deborah Lewittes

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Art 11 Introduction To Art History, Deborah Lewittes

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Photography And Modernisms, Ellen Handy

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Today we live in a post-modern era, but for most of the 20th century, modernism was the dominant perspective in the arts and culture at large. And photography was the perfect modern medium. It literally provided artists and audiences with a new vision, using the technology of the camera to frame modern experience. As a recently invented medium with ties to mass media, photography departed from many fine art traditions. The drastic multiplicity of avant garde movements within which photography operated produced a constellation of loosely linked modernisms, rather than single avant garde program.

Almost all of the many avant …

Introduction To Islamic Art & Architecture, Abby M. Kornfeld

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This course surveys the foundations of Islamic art and architecture in the Middle East and then traces these artistic forms across the Mediterranean and into Central Asia. We will work our way from the seventh through the sixteenth centuries, studying everything from mosques to palaces, from holy texts to vividly depicted tales of love, friendship, and behavior, from shimmering mosaics to stuccoed vaults. Class discussion will be focused on the making, meanings, and social resonances of Islamic art. Together, we will work to define and redefine the term “Islamic Art,” as we consider the following topics: the religious, political, and …

Introduction To The Arts Of Africa, Joshua Cohen

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Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Art 1011 (Art History Survey I), Agnieszka A. Ficek

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This introductory course presents a global view of art history through side lectures and museum visits, with an emphasis on works of art found in New York City museums. We will cover visual arts of Europe, the Near East, Islamic countries, Asia, Africa and the Ancient Americas from prehistory to the Middle Ages.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Art 1012 (Art History Survey Ii), Karen Shelby

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This introductory course presents a global view of art history through slide lectures and museum visits, with an emphasis on works of art found in New York City museums. It selectively surveys the visual arts of Europe from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and concurrent historical periods in Asia (India, China, Japan), Africa, Mesoamerica, South America, Native North America, and the United States.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Art 1012 (Art History Survey Ii), Janine Defeo

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This introductory course presents a global view of art history through slide lectures and museum visits, with an emphasis on works of art found in New York City museums. It selectively surveys the visual arts of Europe from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and concurrent historical periods in Asia (India, China, Japan), Africa, Mesoamerica, South America, Native North America, and the United States.

Art Since 1980, Craig Houser

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This course will explore art since 1980 and consider the questions and ideas embedded in contemporary art in relation to prior historical movements. We will consider a range of questions, including approaches on how to write about contemporary art, when and where to apply philosophical theories, and what a social historical context for a body of work might be, as well as who, how, and why some artists make it into the art history books and others don’t. There will be weekly presentations of texts in class and writing assignments that will encourage students to present their opinions on current …