Please e-mail me at  (KMencher@ohlone.edu)  if you are one of my students and let me know what class your in:  I'll send you updates and info by e-mail as I get post them to the internet.

I also suggest that you sign up for HIST 104A Western Civilization with a World Perspective.  A survey of civilization in the Mediterranean through the beginning of early modern history with a look at other world cultures.

This section must be taken with ART-103L. See instructor on first day of class to obtain the performance lab schedule.

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: This course consists of visual art history from pre-historic cultures through the ancient styles and includes studies in African, pre-Columbian, Asian and Native American Arts from 25,000 B.C.E. to 1300 C.E.

STUDENT PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES:

To assimilate a working knowledge of the periods traditionally known as Ancient, Classical, Medieval, African, Asian (India, China, Japan, or Southeast Asia), MesoAmerica, etc.

To develop an awareness of the monuments, techniques and media used during these periods.

To discover the stylistic differences and modes of of expression peculiar to different cultures.

To introduce to the student, significant examples of the visual arts pertinent to gaining a working knowledge of Ancient Art and Architecture.

To prepare students for ensuing courses of Art History.

To increase a student's sensitivity to the art of both the European and non-western cultures.

A tentative calendar/schedule will be provided with this greensheet; however, there will be times when the schedule will need to be adjusted.

Attendance is mandatory and attendance will be taken.

You are allowed 2 absences before it affects your class participation grade.

The 3rd absence drops your "Class Participation/Attendance/Office meeting" grade a full letter.

Each additional absence drops your "Class Participation/Attendance" grade a half a letter.

A lateness is worth a half absence.  Please note that this is significant because it comprises 10% of your over all grade.

If you miss 3 classes consecutively you will either fail or be dropped from the class.

Late work will be accepted, however, for every classmeeting that the assignment is late it will be marked down a full letter grade.

All work is due at the beginning of the class on the day it is due.

If you are late to class the work will late and marked down a full letter grade.

You may not e-mail assignments to me unless we have discussed it and I have given you permission in advance of the due date.

There will be three exams and several pop quizzes based on the readings.

Notes and textbooks may not be used during examinations.

Missed quizzes and exams will be calculated as zeros.

Make up exams are only available in one of two instances: to those students who have made provisions to take the exams in advance of the test date or if a student has a signed medical excuse.  In general a makeup exam will be different than the original exam and will take the same amount of time to complete as the original.  Extra credit may be given.

EVALUATION OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE:

 

Class Participation and Attendance	10%
Work sheets	30%
Pop and take home Quizzes	10%
Test #1	10%
Test #2	15%
Final	25%
Total	100%

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
All the work on your assignments must be in your own words.  You may not copy from the book, glossary, encyclopedia, the internet or another student.

DO NOT QUOTE THE GLOSSARY OR BOOK'S PASSAGES: USE YOUR OWN WORDS.

Academic dishonesty defrauds all those who depend upon the integrity of the College, its courses, and its degree and certificates.  Students are expected to follow the ethical standards required in Ohlone courses.  These Standards are defined in the Policy on Academic Dishonesty.  Violations of this policy include cheating and plagiarism.  (Copies of this policy are available in the offices of the Vice President, Educational Services/Deputy Superintendent; or Division Deans.)

7.8.4.1 Definitions of Academic Dishonesty  (for further information visit http://www.ohlone.cc.ca.us/org/board/policy/Chapter7Reg.htm#7.8.2)

A. Cheating

At Ohlone, cheating is the act of obtaining or attempting to obtain credit for academic work through the use of any dishonest, deceptive, or fraudulent means. Cheating at Ohlone includes but is not limited to the following:

1. Copying, in part or in whole, from another's test or other evaluation instrument or obtaining answers from another person during the test;
2. Submitting work previously presented in another course, if contrary to the rules of either course;
3. Using or consulting during an examination sources or materials not authorized by the instructor;
4. Altering or interfering with grading or grading instructions;
5. Sitting for an examination by a surrogate, or as a surrogate;
6. Any other act committed by a student in the course of his or her academic work which defrauds or misrepresents, including aiding or abetting in any of the actions defined above.

B. Plagiarism
At Ohlone, plagiarism is the act of representing the work of another as one's own (without giving appropriate credit) regardless of how that work was obtained and submitting it to fulfill academic requirements. Plagiarism at Ohlone includes but is not limited to
1. The act of incorporating the ideas, words, sentences, paragraphs, or parts thereof, or the specific substance of another's work, without giving appropriate credit, and representing the product as one's own work; and
2. Representing another's artistic/scholarly works such as musical compositions, computer programs, photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, or similar works as one's own.
 

STANDARDS OF STUDENT CONDUCT
The student has the right and shares the responsibility to exercise the freedom to learn. The student is expected to conduct himself/herself in accordance with standards of the college that are designed to perpetuate its educational purposes.  These procedures, along with applicable penalties for violation, are found in the Standards of Student Conduct and Discipline and Due Process Procedures. (Copies of this policy are available in the offices of the Vice President, Educational Services/Deputy Superintendent; or Division Deans.)

(This Calendar is subject to change)

(This Calendar is subject to change) Syllabus Lesson Plans Sept 3 Starter Kit Navajo and Anasazi  Syllabus,  Note taking Skills, I also suggest that you sign up for HIST 104A Western Civilization with a World Perspective.  A survey of civilization in the Mediterranean through the beginning of early modern history with a look at other world cultures. Optional Sunday September 7 at 1PM "The Secret Knowledge" Technique Talk and Demonstration at the Los Gatos Museum of Art Art Museum in the Tait Firehouse 4 Tait Avenue at W. Main St. Los Gatos, CA 95030 408.354.2646 Referencing David Hockney's best selling tome on how Renaissance artists used the projected image, Kenney Mencher shows the audience his secrets.  Primarily how he uses a computer, an overhead projector and transparencies to project and establish a drawing on canvas. Sept 8-10 Navajo  NW coast  NW coast 2 NW coast 3 Prehistory  Read Stokstad  Introduction and Starter Kit Chapter 12 - Art of the Americas before 1300 Chapter 26 - Art of the Americas after 1300 Chapter 1 — Prehistoric Art in Europe Chapter 2 - Art of the Ancient Near East Read Mencher Liaisons 1-5 (How to Use This Book) 7-12 (How Raven Stole the Sun) What is cheating? Read Online Starter Kit Read Key Concepts, Form, Iconography and Context Southwest Cultures of the Americas Northwest Cultures of the Americas Prehistoric Cultures Sept 15-17 Prehistory, The Neolithic Fertile Crescent  Historic Era Fertile Crescent: Mesopotamian Art Stratigraphy China Neolithic Era 5000-2000 BCE China c1700-221 BCE Shang and Zhou  China 221BCE-907CE The Qin  China 221BCE-907CE The Han  Work Sheet #1 Due Sept 17 Chatal Huyuk and Mesopotamia  Ur Treasures from the ROYAL TOMBS of Ur http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/religion/arcproj/war/EssayFive.html Mencher Liaisons 9-11 (The Assyro-Babylonian FAQ) Read On-line Starter Kit Read The Raven and Archer Yi Mencher Liaisons 147-158 (The Treatise and Didactic Text in Chinese Culture) Neolithic China  Zhou and Shang  Shang Bronzes Qin  Han  Read Stokstad  Chapter 9 - Art of South and Southeast Asia before 1200 Chapter 10 - Chinese and Korean Art before 1279  Optional Sunday September 21 at 1PM "How to get Ahead"at the Los Gatos Museum of Art Art Museum in the Tait Firehouse 4 Tait Avenue at W. Main St. Los Gatos, CA 95030 408.354.2646 A quick one to two hour demonstration of how to paint the human head.  Mencher will show you how to mix flesh tones and how to lay the paint down. Sept 22-24 Early Egypt  Akhenaten's Egypt  Tut's Egypt  Tut's Egypt 2  Parallels to Tut's Egypt in Benin Art  Egypt  Press Release on the reconstruction of Tut's features Read Stokstad  Chapter 3 - Art of Ancient Egypt Akhenaton  Tut Sept 29-Oct 1 Aegean 2800 1100BCE Stratigraphy Crete's Minoan Civilization c1500 Mainland Greece, Tiryns c1500 Mycenae c1500 The Aegean to the Mainland Synthesis and Transition Orientalized and Archaic Greek Pottery The Cyclades Crete, Knossos, Minoan Early Mainland Greece  http://bruceowen.com/worldprehist/3250s13.htm Read Stokstad  Chapter 4  - Aegean Art Mencher Liaisons 24-46 (Irving Stone: The Greek Treasure Mycenae!)12-14 (The Blinding of Polythemus) Diagram of the entablature and orders of architecture  Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic and Classic Greek Pottery Geometric, Orientalizing, and Archaic Greek Sculpture and Architecture Oct 6 Test #1 Study guide for Test #1  You don't turn this in.  Oct 13-15 Intro to the Golden Age The Acropolis Acropolis II (Nike Temple) Acropolis III (Propylea) Acropolis IV (The Parthenon) Acropolis V (Erechtheion) Read The Allegory of the Cave (REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT) Mencher Liaisons 49, 87-90 (Thucydides: Perikles' Funeral Oration)  Read Stokstad  Chapter 5 - Art of Ancient Greece Oct 20 We watch the Bacchae in Class (Plan on staying a half hour later)

Oct 22-27 Discussion of the Bacchae Greek Sculpture, The Geometric, Oriental and Archaic Periods Sculpture Golden Age Sculpture Golden Age to Late Hellenism Take Home Quiz on Tragedy Due Oct 22 "The Acropolis" The Panathenaic Concept and Victory "The Acropolis" The Parthenon and its Sculptures "The Acropolis" The Erectheion and its Caryatids Sculpture during the "Golden Age of Perikles"  Late Hellenistic Art  49-86 (Ovid "Semele") and (Euripedes "The Bacchae")  additional sources to help: Notes on the Bacchae and the Components of Greek Tragedy Aristotle's Elements of Theatre An online encyclopedia of Greek mythology Oct 29 Roman Sculpture  Roman Architecture  Pompeii  Pompeii 2 (Houses)  Pompeii 3 (Decorations and Fresco)  Pompeii, The Gods and Theater  Roman Art and Architecture Roman Art in Pompeii Read Stokstad  Chapter 6 - Etruscan and Roman Art Nov 10-12 Jewish Art   Rome During the rise of Judeo Christian Period  Late Rome Early Christian Art in Rome Byzantine Constantinople, Hagia Sofia  Byzantine Italy, San Vitale, Ravenna Italy  Worksheet #2 Due Nov 10 Jewish Art Early Christian Art Byzantine Read Stokstad  Chapter 7  - Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art Chapter 8 - Islamic Art Mencher Liaisons 15-21 (Selections from Genesis-Jacob and Esau) Nov 17 We meet in Art Gallery to See David Tomb's Exhibit (Plumed Serpent) Please note that some of the readings are several days in advance of the lectures.  This is so that you will be able to do the last worksheet on time. Read the following The Olmec Maya and the Acropolis of Teotihuacan A synopis of the Popol Vuh Re-Read Stokstad  Chapter 12 - Art of the Americas before 1300 Mencher Liaisons 49-50 & 91-99 (The Popol Vuh, The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life) Optional: The Entire Text of the Popol Vuh Nov 19 Test #2 (First hour of class) Study Guide for Test #2You don't turn this in. Video on the Popol Vuh (second Half of Class) Nov 24  Phillip Hofstetter gives a talk on Mesoamerican Art Please note that some of the readings are several days in advance of the lectures.  This is so that you will be able to do the last worksheet on time. Mesoamerica The Olmec  Mesoamerica Teotihuacan 1  Mesoamerica Teotihuacan 2  Mesoamerica Mayan  Islamic Art The Romanesque to Gothic Period Architecture Mencher Liaisons 22 (Psalm 91) 101-107 (The Treatise and Didactic Texts, Thomas Aquinas' "Five Ways")  Read Stokstad  Chapter 15 — Romanesque Art Chapter 16 - Gothic Art of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Chapter 17 — Fourteenth-Century Art in Europe Nov 26 to  Dec 3 The Vienna Genesis a Byzantine Manuscript Islam, Muhammed, Calligraphy and Mosque Architecture  The Monastic System Romanesque Sculpture at Autun  Romanesque Architecture's basic schema  Pisa Cathedral  Gothic Manuscripts Work Sheet #3 Due Dec 3rd Dec 8-10 Gothic Architecture  Italian Gothic Sculpture Italian Gothic Painting Cimabue, Giotto and St. Francis at Assisi Giotto's Painting, The Arena Chapel Gothic to Renaissance, Annunciations and Iconography, Martini and Duccio and Lorenzetti Berlinghieri, Cimabue, and Giotto Duccio Giotto, San Francesco The psychology of Perspective An Interactive Site about Perspective Giotto Arena Chapel Dr. Farber's Lecture on the Arena Chapel Duccio and the Maesta Altar Study Guide for Final  Final Exam Monday Dec 15 at 2:00-4:00 Study Guide for Final

 

Fall 2008 Academic Calendar 

Event	Date
Deadline for new student applications in order to ensure earliest possible registration times	Monday, April 21
Registration for continuing students begins, based on Schedule for Registration; use WebAdvisor	Monday, April 30
Registration begins for new and former students with a completed application; use WebAdvisor	Monday, May 5
Holiday: Memorial Day (Ohlone College closed)	Monday, May 26
Deadline for K-12 applications in order to ensure earliest possible registration times	Monday, July 28
Registration begins for K-12 students with a completed application; use WebAdvisor	Monday, August 18
Extended Office Hours	Thursday, August 28 - Thursday, September 4
Holiday: Labor Day (Ohlone College closed)	Saturday, August 30 - Monday, September 1
Fall Semester Instruction Begins 1	Tuesday, September 2
Last day to add full-term class WITHOUT instructor's signature	Friday, September 5 *
Last day that students are added into classes from the waitlist	Friday, September 5
Last day to drop full-term class and be eligible for a refund 2	Wednesday, September 10
Last day to add full-term class (requires instructor's signature)	Monday, September 15
Last day to drop full-term class without a W grade	Monday, September 15
Last day to submit petition to audit full-term class	Monday, September 15
Last day to petition to complete class on a credit/no credit basis	Friday, September 26
Last day to apply (online using WebAdvisor) for Fall 2008 graduation or Certificate of Achievement 3	Thursday, October 9
Holiday: Veteran's Day (Ohlone College closed)	Tuesday, November 11
Last day to drop from full-term classes with a W grade	Tuesday, November 18
Holiday: Thanksgiving (weekday and weekend classes do not meet; Ohlone College closed)	Thursday, November 27 - Sunday, November 30
Last day of instruction	Friday, December 12
Final Exam Period - see complete Fall Final Exam Schedule	Saturday, December 13 - Friday, December 19
Deadline to request printed full grade report for pickup	Friday, December 19
Winter Break (Ohlone College closed)	Wednesday, December 24 - Monday, December 29; Wednesday, December 31; Thursday, January 1, 2009
Grades available via WebAdvisor; grades are posted as they are received	Monday, January 5
Spring Semester instruction begins	Monday, January 26