Hello everyone,
I am looking forward to having all of you in Art 130. This class is taught as an engaging reading seminar that encourages agency, active learning and in-depth class participation. All of the assigned books are on reserve for you at Davidson Library.Here is the 5 books that we will be using:
1) Art 130 Syllabus: can be found HERE.
2) Weekly Reading Assignments: can be found HERE.
3) Art 130 Questionnaire: can be found HERE. Please fill this out and return it to me very quickly. There are numerous questions that relate to your access to technology during this time.
4) Research Paper Prompt: can be found HERE. You will be selecting the photographer about whom you will write a formal research paper. You need to have selected your rough topic by Thursday, October 28 by 6:00PM. Your photographer should be well enough known to have been the subject of scholarly research. You may use any of the assigned books for this class, but you will also want to utilize scholarly journal articles and books from the Davidson Library Website (HERE). Before you select your photographer, be sure to look through your four books for inspiration, and the many research materials available from the library, and once you have narrowed down the field I will speak with each of you individually about your proposed subject of research.
5) If you need help finding research materials, then please reach out to our Art and Architecture Librarian, Heather Nisen. Her information can be found HERE.
6) Office Hours: By appointment, and also after class on Tuesdays. Email: taschian@arts.ucsb.edu
7) Group Reading Journals: You will submit your weekly reading summaries each Thursday by 6:00PM PT. Your reading journals are largely intended to help you learn the material, and to identify scholarly sources that can be used in your research paper. However, they also allow me to see how you are framing and interpreting the materials the we are covering.
You should be summarizing the most important points that are made by the authors, and those that you find particularly interesting. You need to write in full sentences, rather than listing abbreviated ideas in the form of bullet points. Send them in a PDF or WORD File, not a Google Doc.
8) Students must submit the liability waiver form for each trip, and will not receive free admission without them. If you show up to the museum without having done this, you will have to pay full admission and you will not legally be recognized as part of the UCSB Department of Art field trip. If you have difficulty filling out your DocuSign Liability Waiver, then email your professor and our Undergraduate Advisor, Hannah Vainstein: arts-undergraduate@ucsb.edu.
Fill out all three Museum Liability Waivers HERE by the first day of class. All three waivers are in the same DocuSign document and each one must be signed and dated. https://na3.docusign.net/
