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Greek Art

Code: 100427 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2500239 Art History OB 2
2503702 Ancient Studies OT 4

Contact

Name:
Montserrat Claveria Nadal
Email:
montserrat.claveria@uab.cat

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

Foreign language skills at a level of reading comprehension are required in order to carry out supervised and autonomous activities.


Objectives and Contextualisation

To provide fundamental knowledge of stylistic, technical, iconographic and historical nature of the artistic productions of the pre-Hellenic and ancient Greek civilizations.

The student will be qualified to analyse the works, to locate them in the period in which they were produced and to relate them with the cultural background of their time.


Competences

    Art History
  • Critically analysing from the acquired knowledge a work of art in its many facets: formal values, iconographic significance, artistic techniques and procedures, elaboration process and reception mechanisms.
  • Interpreting a work of art in the context in which it was developed and relating it with other forms of cultural expression.
  • Recognising the evolution of the artistic imagery from the antiquity to the contemporary visual culture.
  • Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    Ancient Studies
  • Be able to express oneself orally and in writing in the specific language of history, archaeology and philology, both in one's own languages and a third language.
  • Interrelate linguistic, historical and archaeological knowledge of the ancient world with knowledge of other areas of the humanities, mainly ancient literature, philosophy and art.
  • Recognise the impact of some important aspects of the ancient world in contemporary culture and society.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Accurately defining and explaining an artistic object with the specific language of art criticism.
  2. Accurately describing the artistic object with the specific language of art criticism.
  3. Analyse an artistic image and place it in its cultural context.
  4. Analysing ideas about an artistic phenomenon in a given cultural context.
  5. Analysing the creators of an artistic phenomenon in a specific cultural context.
  6. Analysing the recipients of an artistic phenomenon in a specific cultural context.
  7. Applying the iconographic knowledge to the reading of artistic imagery.
  8. Autonomously searching, selecting and processing information both from structured sources (databases, bibliographies, specialized magazines) and from across the network.
  9. Connecting an artistic imagery with other cultural phenomena within its period.
  10. Distinguish the techniques and the process for creating an art object.
  11. Distinguishing the elaboration techniques and processes of an artistic object.
  12. Efficiently presenting knowledge in oral and written form.
  13. Encouraging creativity and fomenting innovative ideas.
  14. Examining an artistic imagery and distinguishing its formal, iconographic and symbolic values.
  15. Explain the mechanisms of reception of an ancient work of art.
  16. Explaining the reception mechanisms of a work of art.
  17. Identify and explain scenes, motifs, gods and other mythical characters on the basis of their artistic representations throughout antiquity.
  18. Identifying the artistic imagery, placing it into its cultural context.
  19. Point out the formal, iconographic and symbolic values of an artistic image from classical antiquity.
  20. Preparing an oral and written discourse in the corresponding language in a proper and organized way.
  21. Reconstruct the artistic landscape of a particular cultural context.
  22. Reconstructing the artistic outlook of a particular cultural context.
  23. Relate an artistic image to other cultural phenomena of the same period.
  24. Working in teams, respecting the other's points of view and designing collaboration strategies.

Content

1. Pre-Hellenic and  Early Iron Age Art.

2. Archaic Greek Art

3. Art of the Classical Period.

4. Hellenistic Art.


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Lectures 43.5 1.74 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Type: Supervised      
Programmed tutorships to support learning and project preparation. Feedback/feedforward. 5 0.2 12, 13, 24
Type: Autonomous      
Essays, projects, documentary and bibliographical search, personal study 70 2.8 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

- Theoretical and practical lessons.

- Learning by tasks: Projects and classroom activities  using bibliographic documentation and diverse resources of specialized information.

- Tutorials by using the Moodle.

- Tutorship of the supervised activities and the work of the student.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Completion and participation of/in classroom activities 10% 8 0.32 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Individual written part of the coursework 25% 11.5 0.46 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Oral presentation of coursework 25% 10 0.4 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Proof of contents 1 and 2 40% 2 0.08 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

 Evidence 1:

Completion and participation of/in classroom activities (1 points, 10 % of the final grade). This activity is not recoverable.

Evidence 2:

Individual written part of the coursework (2,5 points, 25 % of the final grade). Minimum mark to be able to take the average: 1,25 points out of 2,5. If the grade is lower, the teacher will indicate how to improve it and the date of delivery of the required correction task.

Evidence 3:

Oral presentation of coursework (2,5 points, 25% of the final grade). Minimum mark to be able to take the average: 1,25 points out of 2,5. If the grade is lower, the teacher will indicate how to improve it and the date of delivery of the required correction task.

Evidence 4:

Proof of concepts 1 (1,2 point, 12% of the final grade) + Proof of concepts 2 (2,8 points, 28% of the final grade). Minimum grade to be able to average 0,48 in the first and 1,12 in the second. Recoverable activity.

The final mark is the result of the sum of the marks obtained in the three evidences, provided that the minimum mark indicated in evidences 2, 3 and 4 has been obtained.

Students will receive a grade of "not evaluable" if they have not taken any of the evaluative activities.

At the time of each evaluation activity, the teacher will inform the students (Moodle) of the procedure and date of revision of the grades.

Only the students who have not passed and have sat for the compulsory activities have the right to a reassessment – the date is set by the Facultie’s Academic Management.

In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity and it will not be recoverable, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularitiesin assessment activities of thesame subject, the student will be given azero asthe final grade for this subject.

 SINGLE EVALUATION

Coursework 40% (4 points, Recovery: improvement indicated by the teacher)

Coursework status report 10% (1 points, Recovery: improvement indicated by the teacher)

Examination of concepts 50% (5 points, a 2 must be obtained in order to obtain an average. Recoverable activity)


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Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(PAUL) Classroom practices 1 Catalan first semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 1 Catalan first semester morning-mixed