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Renaissance Art in Global Context (AHIS30022)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Semester 2
Overview
| Availability | Semester 2 - Dual-Delivery |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
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: 3 June 2023
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 (Online) |
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: 3 June 2023
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
A research essay (2500 words and apparatus), due in the first week of the end of semester examination period
| During the examination period | 45% |
Writing assignment
| Week 4 | 20% |
Writing assignment
| Week 7 | 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. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Additional details
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: 3 June 2023
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Anne Dunlop Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours: 1 hour lecture and 1.5 hour tutorial Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 July 2021 to 24 October 2021 Last self-enrol date 6 August 2021 Census date 31 August 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 September 2021 Assessment period ends 19 November 2021 Semester 2 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 3 June 2023
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Readings will be available on LMS.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Major Art History - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- 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.
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: 3 June 2023