Grade Scheme (percentages are provisional, June 1998): midterm, 20%, end-of-term exam 30%, paper 30%, exercise portfolio 20%.

Tests: two exams, one for the material in each half of the semester (the final does not test information pre-midterm!). Format: slide identification, discussion and essays. The tentative final

examination date is 20 December.

Paper: one research and analysis essay, 10 page minimum, 15 page maximum.

- Due: Friday 10 Dec. in class.

- Topic: to be arranged in consultation after the midpoint of the course, due at the end of the term. If you would like to coordinate this with a research project in another course (e.g., art history, history, political science, philosophy, literature, communications, anthropology, mythology and religious studies), contact Prof. Kuttner for an advising session (jointly with your section leader) to set up permission and structure; if you would like to build this around with making a web display, ditto.

Takehome Exercises: brief response exercises 1-4 pp., 3 times in the term, as non-researched response exercises. Posted for the week due; for samples, of the kind of exercise, see under 1998 Images [link].

- The several hours to do it: self-scheduled within a one-week period. NO EXTENSIONS.

- In preparation for writing the exams and final paper, these exercises will guide you in how to observe and describe, and how to assess evidence in your own and other art historians' analyses. Each short paper will analyze either a primary art source (a thing, here in Philadelphia, or an art text) or a secondary source (an article or a book excerpt); texts used make up part of the week's reading. The exercises will receive editing and sample marks from your section leaders; they will be handed in at the end of the term as a collected portfolio, for a unitary component of the course grade, in order to be able to credit your learning curve.

The research paper: Ca. 6 weeks before the end of term, you will be given clear format instructions and guidelines for topics and analysis by the professor and your TA.

Readings: ca. 20-60 pp. a week, from the textbook and supplementary readings, primary (see Texts [link]) and secondary texts. The major readings will be posted with the syllabus at the beginning of the course, supplementary excerpts on 2-4 weeks notice.

Sections: Lecture is 2-3 hours a week; the additional (mandatory) hour is a small-group discussion seminar with a TA section leader, to complement the concepts and information in the lectures and readings. Attendance mandatory.

Looking at images: The images shown in lecture and section can be reviewed in several sources: in the course textbook, on the web, and in books on reserve in Furness (the Fisher Fine Arts Library). Professor Kuttner will note in lecture when you are not required to memorize monuments and information shown you for context and comparison.

Looking at real things: At least a third of the sections and writing tasks will take you to the art and architecture of our museums, our campus and our city.

Coordinating with activities:

**Sports, performance and studio: Many students have unalterable obligations, imposed by official athletic, drama and music calendars, and by the studio portfolio and crit hours for major presentations in fine arts and architecture. The professor and the TA will help you work around those schedules IF you present your TA with those calendars at the very beginning of term, checking them against this course's syllabus. We will collect your names so that you know who has a shared problem, and can organize yourselves to swap course notes for missed lectures and sections.

Attendance and Penalties for Late Work:

Attendance: You are required to attend discussion sections, where attendance will be taken, and to accompany scheduled art trips. Absence is excusable only with a signed note from your doctor or the dean's office presented to your TA. More than 3 unexcused absences will lower your grade by a full point or more at our discretion. Your TA will announce schedules for trips and occasional changed meeting places, and you are responsible for keeping track even if absent at the session where schedule changes are announced.

Lectures: the course is too large to take attendance. However, the meat of this course is in the lectures. You are responsible in your exams and assignments for the information and methods presented in lecture as in section, which often supplements and sometimes changes what is presented in your books. Since Professor Kuttner does not speak from a prepared text, obtain notes from your fellow students for sessions that you miss.

Late or missing work and exam make-ups: All exercises and papers must be handed in to your TA in section or class, as posted. Failure to turn in any assignment

No extensions for Takehomes; for missing work, your grade will be lowered by a full point or more at our discretion.

Exams and final paper:

You MUST ask for extensions BEFORE the due date, and notify your TA promptly , within three days of its due date, about rescheduling late work. Extensions will not be granted for take-homes; for the research paper, you must tell your TA about conflicts with other courses’ assignments well in advance. Make a calendar table with paper and exam dates for all your courses. If you see more than 2 papers due in the same two-day span, ask to give one or both supervisors a preliminary draft to leave yourself space to finish the polished papers.
 
 

Exams: To be allowed to take a make-up, and to take one with no grade penalty, you MUST inform your TA before the exam is given that you will not be able to attend, in person or by email , and contact your TA for a make-up date immediately.

Exam Make-ups not previously arranged for calendar conflicts will be granted only for a verifiable medical excuse or a personal emergency guaranteed by the dean's office.

Conflicts with other courses and personal travel needs are not valid excuses; make your end of semester travel plans far enough in advance to get the ticket times you require. If you skip your scheduled exam make-up, you may not request another one and will receive an F for the course grade.

Valid emergency extension requests depend on a verifiable medical excuse or extreme catastrophe. Incompletes (permission to turn in work after the end of the course) will not normally be granted.

Plagiarism and cheating: see the university guidelines (to be handed out) for what consitutes plagiarism; where you are unclear, consult the teaching staff before turning in work. A failing grade will be automatically assigned for submitting written work which is wholly or substantially not your own authorship and/or based on unacknowledged sources, cheating on exams, or secreting course materials from your fellow students by theft or mutilation.