ART 114: World Arts: Asia
Format: Hybrid
Monday: on-line
Wednesday: Class 10612: 9:30-10:45am / Class 10613: 11:00am-12:15pm
Classroom: Sagebrush 103
Instructor: Dr. Meiqin Wang
Office: Sagebrush 227
Office Phone: 677-3027 (no voice message)
Email: [email protected]
Office hours: Monday 8:30-9:30 online; Wednesday 8:30-9:30, 12:15-1:15pm, Friday 4:30-5:30pm office
Catalog Description:
Survey of the visual arts of India, China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia emphasizing historical, religious and
socio-cultural contexts. Discussion, research, and writing on the visual arts, including painting, sculpture,
architecture, ritual objects, ceramics and other visual forms. (Available for General Education, Arts and
Humanities)
Art Department Program Goals Addressed in This Course:
1. Acquire a basic knowledge, theories, and concepts about art; develop a foundation of art skills and a high
level of craftsmanship; communicate ideas and concepts through writing, speaking and art making; acquire a
competency with the tools and technologies associated with the visual arts.
2. Broaden knowledge of ancient through contemporary art; develop an understanding of the theoretical,
cultural, and historical contexts of art.
3. Apply processes of generating and solving problems in art; analyze, interpret and question traditional
methodologies and preconceived notions of art and art making.
4. Develop an appreciation and tolerance of diverse perspectives dealing with art, culture, teaching and
learning.
Course Student Learning Objectives
1. To understand important terms, issues and ideas of Asian arts and to recognize how artistic styles and
techniques travel internationally.
2. To investigate how meaning is constructed and expressed in art works through contents, styles, materials,
symbolic processes, and through transnational disseminations and exchanges of ideas, people, and objects.
3. To develop analytical skills in thinking and writing about Asian art and to foster a global perspective for
understanding different cultures and value systems.
4. To acquire skills for both oral exchanges and public presentations that are pertinent to the discipline of art
history.
5. To foster individual and collective learning through class participation and team work.
Global Studies Path
This course is part of the Global Studies Path program that student can sign up. The Global Studies path
provides students an opportunity to explore how global and transnational processes bring people together across
the globe. Through interdisciplinary coursework students will be introduced to definitions of globalization and
key concepts related to globalizing trends. For more, see http://www.csun.edu/gepathways/global_studies.html
Two Global Studies Path SLOs addressed in this course
6. Students will be able to define globalization and key concepts related to globalizing trends.
7. Students will be able to analyze the diverse consequences of globalization including its impacts on various
social formations (e.g. identity, culture, art, communities, media, markets, nation-states, among other
examples) and/or the environment.
Important facts to know before you continue:
• This course requires you to complete a weekly quiz between Monday 8:00 am and Tuesday 8:00 pm. There are in
total 15 quizzes and you need to have 1 hour and 15 minutes for each quiz. If you cannot do that, this class is not
for you. Keep in mind: missing more than one weekly quiz will automatically fail you.
• Be warned, this is not an easy course. You will read a lot. Great intellectual growth will only come if you put in
great effort. Expect to read multiple times in order to fully understand the textbook if you want to do well.
• Besides of the two class meetings—one in class and one online, you are expected to spend 6 hours reading and
working on assignments per week.
• You are expected to have access to computer, Internet, Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
Course Requirements and Grading:
You are required to complete all the course assignments in order to pass the class. Keep in mind that you are
responsible for turning in all your assignments by the deadlines. When you miss a deadline, you miss an
assignment totally!
1. Class attendance: (10 points)
Attendance is mandatory. Missing more than two classes will affect your final grade on a 2-points downward
scale each subsequent absence. Exception will only be made with an exigent circumstance, but you must provide
proper documents plus a two-page essay summarizing the missed course materials. Each tardy arrival or
leaving class early will cost you one point.
• Don’t email me with your attendance issue! Come to talk to me with the required essay and proper
document.
2. Class participation: (15 points)
The quality, rather than the quantity, of your contributions to the class discussion will be used to establish your
participation grade. To complete weekly reading materials before you come to class is the best way to prepare.
• Ask relevant questions, make informed comments, answer questions, join online and in-class discussions,
make presentation, work on evaluation sheets, and take surveys.
3. Weekly Quiz: (45 points) due every Tuesday at 8:00 pm
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You should complete weekly reading materials before taking quizzes. You will be best prepared if you read the
designated materials three times before a quiz. You will have 1 hour and 15 minutes for each quiz.
• Quizzes cannot be retaken and missing more than one weekly quiz will automatically fail you.
4. Gallery Show Project: (30 total possible points) due online by the end of week 10
This project involves individual research and writing, group interaction, and class participation to create a
gallery show of modern and contemporary Asian arts. Collectively, individual and group contributions will form
the basis of the show (including images and two essays) to be posted online and orally presented to the class.
• The guideline is available on Moodle course website.
Grading Scale:
A = 100-96 points
B+ = 89-87 points
C+ = 79-77 points
D+ = 69-67 points
A- = 95-90 points
B = 86-83 points
C = 76-73 points
D = 66-64 points
B- = 82-80 points
C- = 72-70 points
D- = 63-60 points
F = below 60 points
Extra credit work
Event Review: (5 points) Due one week after the event
Depending on what we will have on campus this semester, the instructor will announce eligible events in
class. To complete this assignment, you must attend the whole event and write a review.
See detailed guidelines on Moodle course website in the folder “Guidelines.”
NO late assignments will be accepted! This applies to every member in the class. The instructor welcomes
personal consultation on how to plan and complete an assignment on time.
Submission method of your written works: all assignments should be submitted via Moodle.
Textbooks:
1. Dorinda Neave, Lara Blanchard, and Marika Sardar, Asian Art, Pearson, 2015. (Required, rent or purchase
at http://www.coursesmart.com/IR/1881752/9780205821518?__hdv=6.8 and the Matador Bookstore, or
read at the library). This is the main textbook.
2. D’Alleva, Anne. Look! The Fundamentals of Art History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006. 2nd
or 3rd Edition. (Recommended, rent or purchase at the Matador Bookstore, or read at the library)
• Course website: https://moodle.csun.edu/ for guidelines, quizzes, assignment submissions, videos, and
surveys of your learning experience.
Free resources at CSUN:
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Many free software to download at http://www.csun.edu/it/software •
University computer labs allow every student to print 20 pages per day free of charge. •
The Writing Center in SB40g (7-­‐2033) is to help with your writing. Academic Integrity:
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CSUN expects all of us, you and me, to conduct ourselves in an honest and professional manner. Disrespectful
activities such as inappropriate comments, texting, emailing, Internet surfing or talking shall not be tolerated in
our classroom. Please turn off all cell phones during class.
• If you are caught cheating in any form, you will receive a failing grade for the course and be reported to the
University for appropriate disciplinary action.
• Plagiarism (copying others’ ideas and/or words in your work without clearly acknowledging the source of
that information) is a major offence in academic contexts and will be reported to the University immediately.
If you aren’t sure what plagiarism means, please consult
http://library.csun.edu/Guides/ResearchStrategies/AvoidingPlagiarism
Email and Moodle:
CSUN considers your CSUN email account to be the official means of contacting you. This means that if I send
something to this address, I will assume that you receive the information and you are consequently responsible
for it. You are expected to check your email regularly for course materials and activities. Moodle is the official
course website where I will post all announcements and course handouts.
• I will only reply your email if it comes from your CSUN account.
• When you write to me, please have “ART 114” and the class hour (9:30 am or 11 am) listed in the subject
line! Without the required info, your email may not get read in a timely manner!
Schedule of classes (subject to change)
Week 1 (Aug. 24, 26) Look! The Fundamentals of Art History, chapter 1: Introducing art history; Asian Art,
Introduction, XII-XXIII. (pdf version available for download at Moodle)
Part One, South and Southeast Asia
Week 2 (Aug. 31, Sep. 2) Chapter 1. The Rise of Cities and Birth of the Great Religions: Early Indian Art, 1-23.
Week 3 (Sep. 7, 9) Chapter 2. Religious Art in the Age of Royal Patronage: The Medieval Period, 24-49 and
Chapter 5: 112 - 120 (Start at “The Great Flowering,” end at “The Rise of Islam”)
Week 4 (Sep. 14, 16) Chapter 3. India Opens to the World: The Early Modern Era, 50-79.
Week 5 (Sep. 21, 23) Chapter 4. India and the International Scene: The Modern and Contemporary Periods,
80-101.
Group meeting one
Part Two, China
Week 6 (Sep. 28, 30) Chapter 6. Ritual and Elite Arts: The Neolithic Period to the First Empires, 126-145.
Group meeting two
Week 7 (Oct. 5, 7) Chapter 7. Looking Outward: The Six Dynasties and Sui and Tang Dynasties, 146-169.
Group meeting three
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Week 8 (Oct. 12, 14) Chapter 8. Art, Conquest, and Identity: The Five Dynasties Period and Song and Yuan
Dynasties, 170-193.
Week 9 (Oct. 19, 21) Chapter 9. The City and the Market in Chinese Art: The Ming and Qing Dynasties,
194-219.
Group meeting four
Week 10 (Oct. 26, 28) Chapter 10. The Push for Modernization: 1912 to the Present, 220-239.
Group meeting five
Part Three, Korea and Japan
Week 11 (Nov. 2, 4) Chapter 11. An Unknown Land, A People Divided: Korean Art from Prehistory to Present,
240-275.
Group meeting six
Week 12 (Nov. 9, 11) Chapter 12. The Way of the Gods and the Path of the Buddha: Japanese Art from
Prehistory to the Asuka Period, 276-297.
Nov. 11th: veteran’s day holiday, no class
Week 13 (Nov. 16, 18) Chapter 13. External Influences and Internal Explorations: The Nara and Heian Periods,
298-323.
Student Presentation
Week 14 (Nov. 23, 25) Chapter 14. Strife and Serenity: Kamakura, Muromachi, and Momoyama Periods,
324-353.
Student Presentation
Week 15 (Nov. 30, Dec. 2) Chapter 15. From Isolation to Internationalism: Edo Period to the Present, 353-381.
Student Presentation
Week 16 (Dec. 7, 9) final exam week starts on Dec. 9.
Student Presentation (if necessary)
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