INART 001 THE ARTS
TOM SMIALEK, FALL 2012

Office Location: Administration Bldg., Room 207
Hours: MWF 10:00 am - 12:00 pm; 3:05 - 4:30 pm, other times by appointment
Phone Number: (570) 450-3058
E-mail Address: tws4@psu.edu

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Goals/Course Description:

In art, the more one perceives, the more one feels.  INART 1 is intended to serve as an introduction to the various media artists employ—painting, sculpture, music, theatre, film, dance, architecture—in their expression of “how life feels.”  Accordingly, it is hoped that a fuller understanding of these media will increase students’ capacity for feeling and aesthetic reaction to the art which surrounds them.  In this course, an emphasis will be placed on developing skills which increase aesthetic perception and on establishing a vocabulary which will allow the student to communicate effectively on his or her aesthetic experiences.

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Course Objectives:

1. When experiencing a musical composition, painting, sculpture, building, play, film, or dance -- students will identify various qualities of the elements of composition of that particular art form and its component parts, such as loud/soft musical dynamics, brilliant/muted colors, etc.
2. When experiencing an artwork, students will identify various qualities of the principles of composition of that particular art form, such as consonant/dissonant harmony, regular/irregular rhythm, etc.
3. Both collaboratively (in a group project) and individually (on tests), students will apply their knowledge of the elements and principles of compostition by discerning assigned qualities of each element/principle among contrasting artworks.
4. Students will apply their knowledge of the elements and principles of composition by composing a narrative that contrasts stylistic differences of two artworks of the same genre, which have been experienced during the semester.
   

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Course Policies:

• Required materials
• Tentative schedule of lectures and assignments
• Grades
• Perception
• Attendance & Class Conduct
• Hazleton Campus weather cancellations and compressed schedule
• Academic Integrity Statement
• Students with Disabilities

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Resources:

• YouTube instrument demonstration videos (click the links to play, then go back to the list page)
  
• Music listening examples for tone color, rhythm, pitch, texture
  
• Websites on the arts: painting, sculpture, architecture
• WVIA (89.9 FM) Events Calendar
• F. M. Kirby Center, Wilkes-Barre, PA
• Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic
• Philadelphia Orchestra
• Concerts at Penn State's School of Music, University Park campus
• The making of Mark Rietmeijers' Creation I
  

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Perception report instructions:

• visual art
• music
• theatre
• film

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Visual Art Group Project:

• Group visual art project instructions
• Group rosters
• List of required examples for group visual art project: painting, sculpture, architecture
• Group project examples

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Last modified: October 22, 2012