AP ART HISTORY SYLLABUS
Art is the Signature of Civilizations – Beverly Sills
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Course Description
This course is intended to prepare students for the AP Art History Exam and to provide the same information to our high school students that they are likely to encounter in college introductory art history courses. Students will develop visual literacy and increase their ability to write critically about art works at a college level of expertise. The study of art history allows students to discover anew the world in which they live. Throughout the year students will learn about how people have responded to and communicated their experiences through art, as well as the historic and cultural contexts in which it
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Twelve learning objectives are associated with the big ideas and essential questions.
Enduring Understanding and Essential Knowledge Statements:
These provide contextual information about the regions and time periods in each content area. Information from enduring understanding and essential knowledge statements is combined with course learning objectives and works of art in the image set to form targets of assessment for the AP Art History Exam. Enduring understanding and essential knowledge statements provide contextual information that serves as a starting point for student learning in the course.
Required Course Content (250 Image set):
Each content area is represented by a number of exemplary works of art within a prescribed image set of 250 works. AP Art History required course content is defined to support students’ in-depth learning, critical analysis, and understanding of connections among global artistic traditions by focusing study on works representing the diversity of art through time and place. The image set consists of approximately 65 percent works from the Western tradition and 35 percent from non-Western artistic traditions. Students will also be asked to attribute works of art outside the image set based on their knowledge and understanding of works within the set; attributions
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S., & Mamiya, C. J. (2008). Gardner’s art through the ages: A global history (13th ed.). United States: Wadsworth Publishing Co.
Additional Class Resources
• Teacher website with Internet and Supplemental Resources
• Books
• Nici, J. B. (2008). Barron’s AP art history. United States: Barron’s Educational Series.
• Barnet, S. (1999). A short guide to writing about art (6th ed.). New York: Pearson Education.
• Wilkinson, P. (2010). Religions (visual reference guides series) Metro Books.
• A large collection of books about individual artists, techniques, schools of art, and collections, as well as encyclopedias of art, show catalogues, and several large poster sets are available in the classroom.
Websites
• Khanh Academy AP Art History: Online Art History “Textbook”
Features Useful Images of Artwork, Podcasts, Diagrams, Maps, Illustrations, Descriptions, etc.
• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Met’s Helibrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Musuem’s