History of Ceramics: Critical Perspectives

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Acquire a basic vocabulary of ceramic terms relating to techniques and histories.
• Develop an awareness of social norms and aesthetics that have been associated with ceramics in varied social and cultural contexts.
• Practice basic principles of visual analysis as a means of understanding ceramic aesthetics. Students will learn to distinguish and compare formal elements utilized in the ceramic medium in both oral and written forms. These skills will be transferable to other media, time periods, and cultural settings.
• Master the basic steps of the art historical research process, particularly gathering and evaluating resources. Use an art historical approach to analyze and contextualize primary and secondary sources representing divergent perspectives.
• This course engages diverse scholarly perspectives to develop critical thinking, analysis, and debate, and inclusion of a reading does not imply endorsement.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Discussion Boards (10 points x 4 total)	40 points
Quizzes (5 points x 10 total)	50 points
Finding and Evaluating Resources Assignments (25 points x 4 total)	100 points
Vocabulary Assignment	100 points

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
93-100	A
90-92	A-
87-89	B+
83-86	B
80-82	B-
77-79	C+
73-76	C
70-72	C-
67-69	D+
63-66	D
60-62	D-
59 and below	F

Attendance/Participation:

This is an asynchronous online class. Thus, participation and attendance are graded through completion of assignments and engagement in course materials.

Quizzes will have an automated amnesty function built in – the lowest quiz score will be dropped. There are 3-4-day windows provided for the submission of each quiz. Please, try to complete quizzes early in the windows provided to avoid last minute technical issues. Students will be allowed to have one quiz “unlocked” if they contact the professor earlier in the quiz window. However, there is no guarantee that the professor will be able to grant technical unlocks on evenings or weekends. Any student who has a quiz unlocked will have their name placed on a list and will not be allowed a second unlock. This is a policy that helps balance faculty workload, ensure students are finding solutions to technical issues, and maintaining fair implementation of grading policies.

Finding and Evaluating Resources Assignments will be docked a half grade when submitted late (an A becomes an A-, B+ becomes a B, etc.) for each day the assignment is late, the points or percentage values for these deductions are calculated accordingly. When assignments are late and will be below an F grade, students are asked to open a discussion with the professor and may be asked to contact the Dean of Students if there are extenuating circumstances, so that students can receive appropriate support from UNCG for student success.

OARS accommodations will, of course, be accounted for according to OARS paperwork.

Late Assignment Policy: 1/3 of a letter grade for every 24-hour period past the deadline. A becomes an A-, an A- becomes a B+, etc. This policy includes discussion boards.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

No course materials are required.