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White Station High School AP ART HISTORY Traci Petersen, MFA petersent@ 901-416-8880APAH Curriculum Framework: The study of art history invites students to discover the diversity in, and connections among, forms of artistic expression throughout history and from around the globe. Students learn about how people have responded to and communicated their experiences through art making by exploring art in its historic and cultural contexts.AP Art History course specifies learning objectives, defines course content areas, and limits the number of works of art students are required to understand in order to support in-depth learning, critical analysis, and discovery of connections among global artistic traditions. This approach allows students to develop profound understanding of representative works of art from diverse cultures, including fundamental information that places these works in context and underscores relationships among them. APAH Content Areas:Content Area 1—Global Prehistory 30,000–500 BCEContent Area 2—Ancient Mediterranean 3500 BCE–300 CEContent Area 3—Early Europe and Colonial Americas 200–1750 CEContent Area 4—Later Europe and Americas 1750–1980Content Area 5—Indigenous Americas 1000 BCE–1980 CEContent Area 6—Africa 1100–1980 BCEContent Area 7—West and Central Asia 500 BCE–1980 CCEContent Area 8—South, East, and Southeast Asia 300 BCE–1980 CEContent Area 9—The Pacific 700–1980 BCEContent Area10—Global Contemporary 1980 CE–presentAPAH Exam Format:Section IMultiple Choice — 80 Questions | 1 Hour | 50% of Exam ScoreApproximately 8 sets of questions (3 to 6 questions each) based on color imagesApproximately 35 individual multiple-choice questionsSection IIFree Response — 6 Questions | 2 Hours | 50% of Exam ScoreTwo 30-minute essay questionsFour 15-minute essay questionsEssay questions often include images of works of art as stimuliCourse Description: The AP Art History course covers art from the Paleolithic through the Post-modern periods and is designed to cover the same material found in an introductory college-level Art History course. Students will gain knowledge of types of art such as architecture, sculpture, painting, and other art forms, within diverse historical and cultural contexts. Students will be able to examine and critically analyze major forms of artistic expression from the past to the present and from a variety of Western and Non-Western traditions. The AP Art History course is intended to prepare students for the AP Art History Exam.Objectives: - Conduct the class as a cohesive group accountable to one another- Work effectively with others to accomplish a task or solve a problem - Practice higher level creative and critical thinking skills about both history and art - Communicate knowledge and ideas with clarity in oral, written, and visual forms - Practice the process and skills of art criticism - Relate art vocabulary to the understanding of concepts in both oral and written form - Present a work of art to the class- Understand the concept of context and contextual analysis as it relates to both Western and Non-Western visual works of art across cultures and throughout history AP AH Course College Board vs.AP AH Course WSHS…Summer Unit – Incl. CA 1 Global Prehistory + Selections of CA 10Unit 1 – Content Area 1 Global PrehistoryUnit 1 – CA 9 Pacific + Selections of CA 10Unit 2 – Content Area 2 Ancient MedUnit 2 – CAs 5 & 6 + Selections of CA 10Unit 3 – Content Area 3 E. Europe & Colonial AmericaUnit 3 – CAs 7 & 8 W, So, Central, E, & SE Asia: + Selections of CA 10Unit 4 – Content Area 4 L. Europe & AmericaUnit 4 – CA 2 Ancient Mediterranean + Selections of CA 10(Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Ancient Greece, Etruria, Ancient Rome)Unit 5 – Content Area 5 Indigenous AmericasUnit 5 – CA 3 West Asia and Early EuropeUnit 6 – Content Area 6 AfricaUnit 6 – CA 3 Early Modern Atlantic World 1400-1750Unit Take Home Units – Islamic Art and Illuminated Manuscript + CA 10 #235Unit 7 – Content Area 7 W & Central AsiaUnit 7 – CA 4 Later Europe and Americas 1750-1900 + Selections of CA 10Unit 8 – Content Area 8 SO, E & SE AsiaUnit 8 – CA 4 Later Europe and Americas 1900-1980Unit 9 – Content Area 9 Pacific…Unit 10 – Content Area 10 Global Contemporary…Categories for breaking down information across Content Areas and Eras — by CONTEXT: Art and Architecture of Status and Power or Protection (Community, Hierarchy, Luxury Goods)Art and Architecture of the Supernatural, Spirituality or Religion (Ritual, the Sacred or Community)Art and Architecture of Funerary Practice and CommemorationArt of Human Relationships to the Natural World (Geography, Migration, the Sacred)Art and Architecture of Philosophical Thought or PoliticsArt of Reciprocity and TradeArt as it relates to Gender/RolesArt of Portraiture ................
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