ARTS 265 Art Museum Field Trips

Previously ARTT 221. This course involves student exposure in the form of approximately seven prearranged, organized field trips or tours to the art museums of the Baltimore-Washington area. Museums may include the Walters, Baltimore Museum of Art, National Gallery East and West, Hirshhorn, Freer Gallery of Oriental Art, Corcoran, Renwick, and Phillips Collection. Lectures and discussions will be arranged on site at these various museums. Field trips are required. There will be a fee assessed to cover the bus transportation based on the number of students enrolled in the course. Museum connoisseurship includes consideration of gender and other categories of diversity.

Credits

1

Hours Weekly

8 hours bi-weekly

Course Objectives

1. Develop a unique visual understanding of works of art by learning how to see, how to look, what to look for, and how to synthesize and analyze what is being visualized.
2. Understand how art has developed by being exposed to current unique exhibits (with accompanying lectures) in a museum setting.
3. Develop an appreciation for works of art that shall continue in one's daily life - beyond the classroom or college.
4. Define and apply the specialized vocabulary used in art.
5. Learn the historical, visual, and conceptual development of abstract art.
6. Demonstrate an enlarged vision of the functions of art and a continued interest in learning about art.
7. Be personally and aesthetically enriched.
8. Become aware of art as an important part of one's own personal heritage.
9. Develop a personal, unique "taste" for particular forms, styles, or types of art; develop a "liking”/“disliking” of some art.

Course Objectives

1. Develop a unique visual understanding of works of art by learning how to see, how to look, what to look for, and how to synthesize and analyze what is being visualized.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

2. Understand how art has developed by being exposed to current unique exhibits (with accompanying lectures) in a museum setting.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

3. Develop an appreciation for works of art that shall continue in one's daily life - beyond the classroom or college.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

4. Define and apply the specialized vocabulary used in art.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

5. Learn the historical, visual, and conceptual development of abstract art.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

6. Demonstrate an enlarged vision of the functions of art and a continued interest in learning about art.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

7. Be personally and aesthetically enriched.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

8. Become aware of art as an important part of one's own personal heritage.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

9. Develop a personal, unique "taste" for particular forms, styles, or types of art; develop a "liking”/“disliking” of some art.

   This objective is a course Goal Only