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This version of HIST 204 closed. To current version.
Delivery mode: Grouped study or Individualized study with optional CD-Rom and video component.*
*Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component.
Credits: 3 - Humanities.
Prerequisite: None; however, we strongly recommend successful completion of ENGL 255; ARHI 201 provides a good historical background.
Precluded course: HIST 204 is a cross-listed course—a course listed under two different disciplines—with ARHI 202. HIST 204 may not be taken for credit by students who have obtained credit for ARHI 202.
Centre: Centre for Language and Literature
HIST 204 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Course Web site
HIST 204 is a continuation of HIST 203. The course introduces students to the developments in artistic expression from the Sixteenth Century to the present.
The course consists of the following.
Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 2: High Renaissance in Italy
Lesson 3: The Late Renaissance in Italy
Lesson 4: “Late Gothic” Painting, Sculpture and the Graphic Arts; The Renaissance in the North
Lesson 5: The Baroque in Italy and Spain
Lesson 6: The Baroque in Flanders and Holland
Lesson 7: The Baroque in France and England; The Rococo
Lesson 8: The Modern World: Neoclassicism
Lesson 9: The Romantic Movement
Lesson 10: Realism and Impressionism
Lesson 11: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau
Lesson 12: Twentieth-Century Painting I: Painting Before World War I
Lesson 13: Twentieth-Century Painting II: Painting Between the Wars, Painting Since World War II
Lesson 14: Twentieth-Century Sculpture
Lesson 15: Twentieth-Century Architecture; Post-Modernism
To receive credit for HIST 204, you must achieve a course composite mark of at least a “D” (50 percent) and a mark of at least 50 percent on both examinations. The weighting of the composite mark is as follows:
| Assignment 1 | Mid-term Exam | Assignment 2 | Final Exam | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20% | 25% | 30% | 25% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Note: The Challenge for Credit process in this course will be graded on a pass/fail rather than a percentage basis.
Schultz, Bernard and Richard L. Wilcox. Practice Tests [for] History of Art: The Western Tradition, Vol. II.
Janson, H. W. and Anthony F. Art Notes to Accompany History of Art: The Western Tradition, Vol. II.
Janson, H. W. and Anthony F. History of Art: The Western Tradition with CD-ROM: Art History Interactive.
Sayre, Henry: Writing about Art.
The course materials also include a student manual, and forms. Optional: Companion Web site to History of Art: The Western Tradition.