History (HIST) 204
A Survey of Western Art II (Revision 2)
Revision 2 is closed for registrations, replaced by current version.
Delivery Mode: Individualized study with optional online and video components.*
*Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component.
Credits: 3
Area of Study: Humanities
Prerequisite: None; however, we strongly recommend successful completion of ENGL 255; ARHI 201 provides a good historical background.
Precluded Course: HIST 204 is a cross-listed course—a course listed under two different disciplines—with ARHI 202. HIST 204 may not be taken for credit by students who have obtained credit for ARHI 202.
Centre: Centre for Humanities
HIST 204 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview
HIST 204 is a continuation of HIST 203. 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 HIST 204, 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 | Mid-term 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
Davies, Penelope J.E., Walter B. Denny, Frima Fox Hofrichter, Joseph Jacobs, Ann M. Roberts and David L. Simon. Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition.
Other Materials
The course materials also include a student manual. There is the Companion website to Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition and an ARHI 202 website.
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 HIST 204 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
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.
Opened in Revision 2, March 20, 2007.
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Last updated by SAS 09/10/2013 11:52:40