Study Guide Intro
Summary
TLDRThis video script introduces students to the use of study guides in an art history class, emphasizing the importance of focusing on selected artworks to explore history, culture, aesthetics, and the impact of technology on art. The guides provide vocabulary, questions, and artwork details, encouraging students to reflect on the significance of each piece. Exams are open resource, requiring students to write 'significant statements' that explain the cultural, historical, and aesthetic importance of the artworks, fostering a deeper understanding of human experience and cultural history.
Takeaways
- 📘 The class utilizes study guides to focus on selected artworks and monuments that are deemed important for understanding history, cultures, aesthetics, and the influence of technology on art techniques.
- 🔍 Study guides include art historical vocabulary, basic questions to prompt learning, and information tables about each artwork, such as name, artist, cultural period, date, material, and location.
- 🖼️ Students are encouraged to examine and engage with the artworks in detail, moving beyond surface-level memorization of names and dates.
- 💭 The purpose of studying these artworks is to reflect on their significance and relevance, understanding why they are included in art historical textbooks and what they can teach us about human experience and cultural history.
- ✍️ Exams are open book, open note, and open internet, emphasizing the importance of writing a 'significant statement' about the artworks, which explains their cultural, historical, and aesthetic importance.
- 📝 A significant statement is a concise, three to four sentence explanation of an artwork's importance, prompting students to consider its relevance and contribution to art and culture.
- 📚 Study guides provide a structured approach to learning, with between 15 to 30 objects for every unit, each accompanied by a small image and the option for larger images in separate files.
- 🤔 Students are asked to write a short statement for each artwork, explaining its significance in the class, which helps in understanding the 'why' behind the study of each piece.
- 📈 The class aims to develop critical thinking skills, encouraging students to analyze and interpret the artworks, rather than simply memorizing facts.
- 📝 Preparation for exams involves writing or preparing bullet points for significant statements for all artworks, as it is not feasible to create these during the exam itself.
- 👩🏫 The video script serves as an introduction to the use of study guides and includes tips from previous students on effective study and exam preparation strategies.
Q & A
What is the primary purpose of the study guides in this class?
-The primary purpose of the study guides is to focus the class on specific artworks and monuments that will teach about history, other cultures, cultural periods, aesthetics, style, and the impact of technology on technique.
What does the instructor want students to avoid when using the study guides?
-The instructor wants students to avoid being overwhelmed by the multitude of images and artworks, instead focusing on the selected objects in the study guides.
What are the components of a sample study guide page according to the transcript?
-A sample study guide page contains art historical vocabulary, basic questions to help students learn from the artworks, and a table with basic information about the artwork such as its name, artist, cultural period, date, material, and location or original context.
How many objects can be expected in each study guide unit?
-There can be between 15 and 30 objects for every unit in the study guides.
What is the significance of the larger images files mentioned by the instructor?
-The larger images files are provided for students to look closely at each artwork, which aids in their study and understanding of the art pieces.
What is the instructor's expectation after students read about and possibly do a project on the artworks?
-The instructor expects students to return to each artwork and write a short statement explaining why they think the artwork is being studied in class and its significance.
What is the main goal of the exams according to the transcript?
-The main goal of the exams is for students to explain the importance of the artworks, which they demonstrate by writing a significant statement.
What is a 'significant statement' as defined in the transcript?
-A significant statement is a three or four sentence explanation of the importance of an artwork, culturally, historically, and aesthetically, addressing its relevance, greatness, and educational value.
How should students prepare for the exams according to the instructor?
-Students should prepare by writing or preparing bullet points for a significant statement for all the artworks before the exam, as there will not be time to write these statements from scratch during the exam.
What additional resources are available to students to understand how to use the study guides and prepare for exams?
-Students can refer to examples of student-written significant statements and tips from previous students on how to use the study guide and prepare for exams, which are available at the bottom of the 'How to Use Your Study Guide' assignment.
What is the main focus of the class when studying the artworks?
-The main focus is not on memorizing artists' names and dates of creation, but on reflecting upon the importance and significance of the artworks, what they teach about human experience, cultural history, and the period of their creation.
Outlines
📚 Study Guide Introduction and Purpose
The instructor introduces the use of study guides in the class, emphasizing their importance for focused learning on selected artworks and monuments. The study guides contain art historical vocabulary, questions to prompt discussion and learning, and basic information about each artwork. The class is encouraged to engage deeply with the artworks, considering their historical, cultural, and aesthetic significance. The instructor clarifies that the goal is not to memorize facts but to understand why these artworks are studied and their relevance to art history and human experience.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Study Guides
💡Art Historical Vocabulary
💡Cultural Periods
💡Aesthetics
💡Technique
💡Significant Statement
💡Relevance
💡Cultural Circumstances
💡Artistic Expression
💡Exam Preparation
💡Open-Book Exam
Highlights
The class uses study guides to focus on selected artworks and monuments.
Artworks are chosen for their educational value in history, culture, aesthetics, and technology's impact on technique.
Study guides contain art historical vocabulary, questions, and basic artwork information.
Guides are designed to help students ask and learn from the artworks.
Students are encouraged to focus on the provided study guide objects.
Study guides include a table with artwork details like name, artist, cultural period, and materials.
There are 15 to 30 objects per unit in the study guides.
Larger images of artworks are available for closer examination.
Students are asked to write a short statement on the significance of each artwork studied.
The study guide is not for memorizing but for reflecting on the importance of the artworks.
Art is a medium to understand human experience and cultural history.
Exams are open book, open note, and open internet, focusing on the significance of the artworks.
A significant statement is a concise explanation of an artwork's cultural, historical, and aesthetic importance.
Students are expected to prepare significant statements or bullet points for exams.
The assignment 'How to Use Your Study Guide' provides examples of significant statements.
Previous students offer tips on using the study guide and exam preparation.
The class aims to appreciate and listen to art for its educational value.
Transcripts
Hi everyone. This class uses study guides. While you'll have a lot of opportunities to explore
artwork that's of interest to you in this class, there's also a group of artworks and monuments
that I would like us to consider and learn from together. These are artworks that I think will
teach us all something about history, about other cultures and cultural periods, and also about
aesthetics, of style, and how technology affects technique. I don't want you to be awash in all
of the images and the artworks in our books and our discussions and projects. I want you
instead as a class to focus on these objects. So let's look at a sample study guide page.
This one is for a Modern art class, but they're all basically the same. They contain some art
historical vocabulary that I'd like you to know and apply to the artworks that we study.
And then they also have some questions. These study guides have some basic questions to help you
start to ask things and learn things from the artworks. These will be different for every study
guide. And then finally there is the table that says some basic information about the artwork,
its name, its artist, perhaps its cultural period, its relative date if that's applicable to the
class, the date of creation, the material, where it is or maybe its original context.
And then there'll be between 15 and maybe even 30 objects for every unit. And then, yes, these
images are quite small. Let me scroll all the way down to the bottom of these study guides. I often
have some files here that you can use for larger images of the artworks.
I recommend that you look closely at each of these artworks and then we will read about them,
maybe do a project about them, then I ask that you return to each artwork and write a short statement
as to why you think we're studying this artwork in this class. Why is it significant?
You see I don't give you a study guide so you can memorize artists names and dates of creation. No.
I ask that you reflect upon why we're studying these objects at all. What is important about
them? What is significant about them? So significant that they might appear in art
historical textbooks for generations. We will look at and appreciate the art. But we will also,
in a way, listen to the art. Art teaches us about human experience and cultural history.
For instance, what does an artwork say about the historical period in which
it was made? What does an artwork say about the cultural circumstances of its creation?
What does an artwork say about the artist? Or about the aesthetics of the period?
Our exams are open book, open note, open internet. The purpose of these exams is for you to tell me
why these artworks are important. And you do this by writing what I call a significant statement.
You'll find the definition of a significant statement in many places in our course, and you'll
always find it at the top of the study guides. There it reads that a significant statement is a
three or four sentence statement that explains the importance of an object culturally, historically,
and aesthetically. Ask yourself, why are we studying this object today? Why is it relevant?
Why is it considered a great work of art or architecture? What does it have to teach us
about art and artists? What does it have to teach us about the past, and perhaps about ourselves?
So you will write a significant statement or at least prepare bullet points for a significant
statement for all the artworks before the exam. Trust me, you will not have time to write
these statements from scratch during the exams. Perhaps you're watching this video as part of the
assignment "How to Use Your Study Guide." In this assignment you will also see a couple of examples
of student written significant statements. I wouldn't try to replicate them, but it might
give you a sense of what I'm looking for. And then also at the bottom of this assignment there are
tips from previous students on how to use the study guide and how to prepare for our exams.
So I hope that's given you a brief introduction to how we use study guides for this class.
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