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Course Overview:

The AP Art History course emphasizes a deep conceptual understanding of art historical concepts. Students will develop the essential skills of visual and contextual analysis. By examining works of art from diverse cultures and the relationships among these works, students develop an understanding of global artistic traditions. Students analyze works of art in the contexts, considering issues of patronage, gender, politics, religion, and ethnicity. The interpretation of the work of art is based upon its intended use, audience, and the role of the arist and the work of art in its particular society. Students will expand their knowledge of history, geography, politics, religion, languages, and literature, as they explore the story of people as told through the art they created.

 
Course Objectives:

The AP Art History course will enable students to:
  • Understand the nature of art, art making, and our responses to it.
  • Develop an in-depth understanding of individual works of art from diverse cultures.
  • Develop an understanding of t he relationship among these works.
  • Practice the essential skills of visual, contextual, and comparative analysis

Course Curriculum and Content:

 The AP Art History curriculum and content is structured around the big ideas and essential questions that frame explorations of the nature of art, art making, and our responses to art.

Each content area is represented by a number of exemplary works of art within a prescribed image set of 250 works. The image set consists of approximately 65% works from the Western tradition and 35% from the non-Western artistic traditions. Students will also be asked to attribute works of art outside the image set based on their knowledge and understanding of works within the set; attributions should be provided in the same format and with the same level of detail as identifying information for each work of art within the image set.

 
Course Schedule:

1st Semester (August – December)

  • Unit 1: Global Prehistory 30,000 – 500 B.C.E. (11 works)
  • Unit 2: Ancient Mediterranean 3500 B.C.E. – 300 C.E. (36 works)
  • Unit 3: West and Central Asia 500 B.C.E. – 1980 C.E. (11 works)
  • Unit 4: South, East, and Southeast Asia 300 – 1980 C.E. (21 works)
  • Unit 5: Early Europe and Colonial Americas 200 – 1750 C.E. (51 works)
  • Midterm

  2nd Semester (January – May)

  • Unit 6: Later Europe and the Americas 1750 – 1980 C.E. (54 works)
  • Unit 7: Indigenous Americas 1000 B.C.E. – 1980 C.E. (14 works)
  • Unit 8: Africa 1100 – 1980 C.E. (14 works)
  • Unit 9: The Pacific 700 – 1980 C.E. (11 works)
  • Unit 10: Global Contemporary 1980 C.E. to Present (27 works)
  • Review, Study, Practice Exam
  • Final Exam
  • AP Art History Exam (May 3, 2015)


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