European Art in the Eighteenth Century

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Analyze 18th-century art across media in relationship to the historical, social, and political contexts of the period, and the diverse actors that shape the visual and material world.

• Analyze how cultures and their artworks do not exist in isolation but constantly transform through situations of cross-cultural contact and exchange.

• Apply close looking and visual/material analysis skills to analyze artworks as primary historical sources that can embody, shape, and contest social realities.

• Apply close reading skills to primary sources and secondary literature to examine how historical narratives are constructed and synthesize these sources through writing and basic research.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Checkpoint Quizzes	20%
Weekly Application Activities	20%
Museum Looking Assignment	15%
Midterm Exam	20%
Final Exam	25%

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	F

Attendance/Participation:

As an asynchronous online course, attendance is not applicable as a grading measure, but weekly application activities (see grade breakdown) such as discussion boards and reading responses will count as a course participation metric.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Stacey Sloboda and Michael Yonan, ed. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art. New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. (ISBN 1501384600 / 978-1501384608)