Art History (ARHI) 202

Overview

ARHI 202 is a continuation of ARHI 201. The course introduces students to the developments in artistic expression from the sixteenth century to the present. Students learn to look at art and see it within the social and political context of the time in which it was created.

Outline

The course consists of the following.

Lesson 1: The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Lesson 2: High Renaissance in Italy

Lesson 3: The Late Renaissance in Italy and Mannerism in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Lesson 4: Renaissance and Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Northern Europe

Lesson 5: The Baroque in Italy and Spain

Lesson 6: The Baroque in the Netherlands

Lesson 7: The Baroque in France and England

Lesson 8: The Rococo

Lesson 9: Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750—1789

Lesson 10: Art in the Age of Romanticism, 1789—1848

Lesson 11: The Age of Positivism: Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1848—1885

Lesson 12: Progress and Its Discontents: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880—1905

Lesson 13: Toward Abstraction: The Modernist Revolution, 1904—1914

Lesson 14: Art Between the Wars

Lesson 15: Postwar to Postmodern, 1945—1980

Lesson 16: The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980

Evaluation

To receive credit for ARHI 202, you must achieve a course composite mark of at least a “D” (50 percent) and a mark of at least 50 percent on both examinations. The weighting of the composite mark is as follows:

Assignment 1	Midterm Exam	Assignment 2	Final Exam	Total
20%	25%	30%	25%	100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbook

Other materials

There is the Companion website to Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition and an ARHI 202 website. The course materials also includes a student manual.

Challenge for Credit Course Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.

Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Policy
• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Procedures

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the ARHI 202 challenge registration, you must achieve a grade of at least “D” (50 percent) on each part of the examination.

Part 1 Exam (Take Home Essay)	Part 2 Exam (Written Exam)	Total
50%	50%	100%

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

• Challenge for Credit Form