As a FLTA, you can audict upto three courses in the campus and one of them must related to American Studies. For the fall semester, I choose American Art. 

TEXT BOOK 

"Framing American"

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BUY AT CAMPUS BOOKSTORE  https://gsustore.com/CourseMaterials?src=2

WHAT IS THE COURSE ABOUT ? 

This course examines the history of American Art from the Colonial Period through the present. Works of art and other forms of material culture will be explored and discussed within the context of philosophical, historical, social, and cultural developments. Attention will be given to the writings of artists and critics, as well as texts by contemporary art historians, historians, and other scholars which illustrate the variety of methodologies and interpretations that are currently being brought to bear on American art, architecture, and material culture. The format for this course is lecture with discussion. Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of "C" in ARTH 2532 or permission of instructor.  (CREDIT BY JULIE MCQUIRE) 

class schedule 

there are two classes per week and each class is 75 minutes. 

week 1 

class 1 : explain the syllabus 

Success in the course is contingent upon the student's attending classes, keeping up with reading assignments, writing a research paper, and preparing for examinations.  This is a 3-credit course, so students should plan on spending at least two hours of study for every one-hour in class. Students that come to all class periods and regularly engage with the material. (CREDIT BY JULIE MCQUIRE) 

  Academic Honesty : Georgia Southern University's Student Code of Conduct for policies and procedures

  https://students.georgiasouthern.edu/conduct/

grading : quizzes *4 (100%) + exam *3 (300%) + essay *1 (100%) + extra (10%) = 510 /5 = your final grade

homework: watch American Visions: The Promised Land

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=eZlu_d6GTmE

class 2 

viewing the youtube and have a simple discuss with students 

Summary: Desperate bands of settlers strive to carve out an identity in a virgin land ( America ) In the west, Spainish missions use art to convert the natives to Catholicism  ; In the east, plain protest settlers are suspicious of art's pleasures and in Virginia, an exited aristocracy recreates its ideal of England. 

the colonialism - the first American 

America is a new world for those people who want to seek for religious freedom. (discovery - exploration - conquest - colonization)

UK PILGRIMS : Due to the corruption of Rome, pilgrims searched for an utopia to live in 1627

Spanish: build church to establish Catholic (adobe style) in 1720

German 

Amish ( traditional - weaving quilt  "German folk art")

Shaker ( love quivering dancing - inovation "use device well so that you may have more time to pray" - intergrate religion into art / furniture )

English celebraties in Virginia

aristicratic privilege ( hierachy)  

WHO THERE IS AMERICAN IS NEW MEN SEEK FOR RELIGION FREEDOM

week 2

 Viewing: American Visions: The Republic of Virtue

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfzwr8C5kQk

 Read Pohl, 15-75 

week 3

 Read Pohl, 79-136. 

week 4

 Read Pohl, 137-160. / QUIZ 1 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH (over Pohl 137-160) 

Viewing: American Visions: The Wilderness & West

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkNE23Q0fU4

week 5

 Read Pohl, 162-191.

week 6

Read Pohl 195-248.         

EXAM 1 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25th   

week 7

 Viewing: American Visions: The Gilded Age.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFvW-AHQhI8&list=PLDF4A4CCB9DB13FEF&index=16

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTpTBr21L9g&list=PLDF4A4CCB9DB13FEF&index=17

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szCtAkKHuo8&list=PLDF4A4CCB9DB13FEF&index=18

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI0OdPkWQgI&list=PLDF4A4CCB9DB13FEF&index=19

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jhtOGGV6U4&list=PLDF4A4CCB9DB13FEF&index=20

Read Pohl 251-318. 

week 8

 Read Pohl 321-354 

read “The Armory Show,” in McCoubrey American Art Sources and Documents, 188-196 (Folio).

 https://www.aaa.si.edu/collection-features/1913-armory-show/about

QUIZ 2 MONDAY OCTOBER 7th (over McCoubrey, above)

week 9

Read Pohl 359-383

week 10

 Read Pohl 387-425.

Viewing: American Visions: Streamlines and Breadlines

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8W6vsnZWBk

QUIZ 3 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23rd (over Pohl 457-86) 

week 11

 Read Pohl 427-450. 

EXAM 2 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30TH   

week 12

 Read Pohl 457-486.

Viewing: American Visions: The Empire of Signs

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVLEBow_6qA

week 13

 Read Pohl 488-538.

QUIZ 4 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13th (over Pohl 488-538) 

week 14

 Viewing: American Visions: The Age of Anxiety

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuXZug8M5A0

week 15

thanksgiving 

week 16

  AMERICAN ART ESSAY DUE MONDAY DECEMBER 2nd 

week 17

 FINAL EXAM WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 11TH 10-12

 

 

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