DSN 555: International Art History II
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in MFA, either Studio Art or Design Thinking; DSN
550
Cross-Listed: ART 555
Credit Hours: (3)
This is the second of two online art history courses. Students will investigate key
moments in history that affected art and design, focusing on the modern (post Renaissance)
era to the present day.
Detailed Description of Course
The second of two online core art history courses for the MFA degree. Students will
investigate key moments in history that affected art and design where certain events
and/or ideas caused a dramatic shift in the way art was conceived or the way our knowledge
of the world changed and ultimately affected art and design. The time frame will
focus on the modern (post Renaissance) era to the present day. This course will focus
on seminal points in time where new ideas, often resulting from novel situations or
cultural collisions, generated definitive changes in the direction of art and design.
It will not only let students learn about key moments in history that affected art
and design, but will also let them explore such moments to understand how these shifts
came about and how future shifts might occur and what altered thinking may arise from
them.
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course
This course will be offered online. Students may have access to online lectures, readings,
discussion boards or other developing online technologies.
Goals and Objectives of this Course
At the conclusion of this course, the student must be able to:
1. use historical precedent to inform art and design solutions;
2. define the major social, political and physical influences affecting historical
changes in art and design within the period of study;
3. demonstrate how those historical changes affect current applications;
4. express ideas clearly in oral, written and graphic formats;
5. identify periods and stylistic movements of art and design
6. understand the elements and principles of design;
7. compare and contrast styles within the time period;
8. process information using convergent/divergent thinking and analysis and synthesis
strategies;
9. understand contemporary issues;
10. identify and understand social and cultural differences, and apply them to
new contexts;
11. understand the research process; and
12. work with team structures and dynamics.
Assessment Measures
May include but is not limited to writings, presentations, discussion threads on reading
assignments.
Other Course Information: None