Course Assignments and Policies
Core Assignments (for all sections)
GUIDED READINGS
Most Weekly Modules in Carmen contain Lecture video clips and links to one of 13 Readings. To start, view the video clips and then go to the short overview chapter in the Guidebook, (see A Quick and Dirty Guide to Art, Music, and Culture. Click "Guidebook."). Each chapter in the guidebook links you to a set of readings and media to study. You may refer to this material anytime during quizzes.
ART WORKSHEET
Your goal for the Art worksheet is to select an art work and analyize it and recording your responses on the worksheet.
- You may select a work online to review for your Art Worksheet. Online image galleries are linked to each artist biography page you read for this class, in the "Learn More ..." section of each page. Another source is MuralArts Philadelphia (https://www.muralarts.org/) with many great public murals by street artists.
- You must choose a work created after 1945. Most exhibits display the date of creation. It doesn't matter if the work is a drawing, painting, sculpture, performance art, or mixed media, so long as it was made after 1945.
Quizzes
To help integrate ideas in the course quizzes cover each chapter of your reading.
- Quizzes for online classes cover the reading material.
- Quizzes for the lecture class cover reading and lecture material.
REMEMBER... If you have technical problems with Carmen or your computer while a quiz is in progress, you must tell us about the disruption within seven days after it occurs.
- If you cannot be present online for the week, we expect you to notify the instructor by email.
- If you cannot be online due to illness, please provide a doctor's note to excuse your absence.
- College athletes away for a game should give advanced notice for an excused absence.