Global Renaissance (AHIS30022)

Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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Overview

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This class focuses on artistic encounters between European cultures and other world cultures between about 1300 and 1650. The goal is to place the art and culture of Europe into an expanded geopolitical sphere, and to explore particularly important and representative moments within the larger exchange of people, objects, ideas, and materials in the early-modern period. Readings will be drawn from both period sources and contemporary art history; and tutorials will focus whenever possible on objects in University and Melbourne collections.

Intended learning outcomes

In this subject students will:



  • become familiar with major issues and objects in the study of cross-cultural artistic exchange in art history as a discipline and within the early-modern period
  • learn to give feedback on others’ ideas and expression through the workshopping of written work
  • examine and evaluate how contact between artists and cultures created new and hybrid art forms, and develop a conceptual framework for analysing those forms
  • understand how materials and technologies of art were affected by travel and trade
  • gain a deeper understanding of basic shared themes in early-modern art, including a changing relation to the past in China and Italy, a search for new world audiences and new technologies in Benin and New Spain, or the engagement with violence and eroticism in Japan and France.

Generic skills

Students who successfully complete this subject will be able to:

  • Analyse and evaluate a variety of texts, images, objects, and materials;
  • participate in discussion and group activities and increase their creative and critical skills through workshopping and collaboration;
  • independently devise and articulate research and ideas in both verbal and written modes.

Last updated: 9 April 2025

Eligibility and requirements

Prerequisites

None

Corequisites

None

Non-allowed subjects

None

Recommended background knowledge

Code Name Teaching period Credit Points
AHIS10001 Art History: Theory and Controversy
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)

The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.

Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home

Last updated: 9 April 2025

Assessment

Additional details

  • a research essay (2500 words and apparatus), due in the first week of the end of semester examination period (45%)
  • two short writing assignments (750 words each), due in weeks 4 and 7 (20% and 35%)

Hurdle requirement: Students are required to attend a minimum of 11 out of 12 tutorials in order to qualify to have their written work assessed. Any student who fails to meet this measure without valid reason will not be eligible to pass the subject. All required written work must be submitted in order to pass the subject.

Note: Assignments submitted after the due date without an extension will be penalised 5% per day. Assignments submitted more than two weeks after the assessment due date without a formally approved application for special consideration or an extension will not be accepted.

Last updated: 9 April 2025

Dates & times

  • Semester 2
    Principal coordinatorAnne Dunlop
    Mode of deliveryOn Campus (Parkville)
    Contact hours30 hours: 1 hour lecture and 1.5 hour tutorial
    Total time commitment170 hours
    Teaching period29 July 2019 to 27 October 2019
    Last self-enrol date 9 August 2019
    Census date31 August 2019
    Last date to withdraw without fail27 September 2019
    Assessment period ends22 November 2019

    Semester 2 contact information

    anne.dunlop@unimelb.edu.au

Time commitment details

170 hours

Last updated: 9 April 2025

Further information

  • Texts

    Prescribed texts

    Readings will be available on LMS.

  • Related Handbook entries

    This subject contributes to the following:

    TypeName
    MajorArt History
  • Breadth options

    This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:

  • Available through the Community Access Program

    About the Community Access Program (CAP)

    This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.

    Please note Single Subject Studies via Community Access Program is not available to student visa holders or applicants

    Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.

  • Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students

    This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.

Last updated: 9 April 2025