ART HIS 132
Selected Topics in Contemporary Art
Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 23. Changing topics in contemporary art (post-1945) that reflect interests of individual regular and/or visiting faculty members. May be repeated once for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2025 - The assignments for this class are pretty much busywork. Every week there's an assignment due based on one of the readings (that are more conceptual than contextual). It's at least one page, with vague instructions, and ends up being pretty harshly graded. Honestly, some writing tips are arguable not even grammatically correct. Roll is taken at every class and factors pretty heavily into participation. As for class, slides are the general themes of the week, a photo of the artwork, and a video that can be anywhere from 5 minutes to 20 minutes. Every single class, a video. The professor tries to incite conversation by asking "what do you think about this piece?". Take that as you will. She doesn't have much background information on any piece or artist besides saying where it was made, and what movement it is from. Can be pretty boring and borderline offensive due to her ignorance and fascination with major events within cultural movements, especially if you have any family that lived through these events. She's a nice person, very welcoming, and obviously loves her subject. However, the teaching materials and practice doesn't are not at the same level as her passion. You can get by barely going to class and still do well, since she doesn't really say anything when she lectures that relates to the assignments. Just do good on the assignments and speak up every time you go to class. Be ready to likely get the B+/B range if you're not at every class and don't fully understand the readings, though.
Winter 2025 - The assignments for this class are pretty much busywork. Every week there's an assignment due based on one of the readings (that are more conceptual than contextual). It's at least one page, with vague instructions, and ends up being pretty harshly graded. Honestly, some writing tips are arguable not even grammatically correct. Roll is taken at every class and factors pretty heavily into participation. As for class, slides are the general themes of the week, a photo of the artwork, and a video that can be anywhere from 5 minutes to 20 minutes. Every single class, a video. The professor tries to incite conversation by asking "what do you think about this piece?". Take that as you will. She doesn't have much background information on any piece or artist besides saying where it was made, and what movement it is from. Can be pretty boring and borderline offensive due to her ignorance and fascination with major events within cultural movements, especially if you have any family that lived through these events. She's a nice person, very welcoming, and obviously loves her subject. However, the teaching materials and practice doesn't are not at the same level as her passion. You can get by barely going to class and still do well, since she doesn't really say anything when she lectures that relates to the assignments. Just do good on the assignments and speak up every time you go to class. Be ready to likely get the B+/B range if you're not at every class and don't fully understand the readings, though.
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