Hello! Welcome to your online class in
Modern Art ART 109 this short video is
just to give you a brief overview of the
class let you know what to expect each
week and also tell you some of the
basics about the policies for the class
so this video is a really good way to
get started on the right foot so um the
class is split into lessons and each
lesson has the same parts in it so
you'll get used to it pretty fast each
lesson will have a study guide so you'll
review the study guide you'll also read
required readings the required readings
consist of an online lecture that I
wrote and then links within the lecture
to articles and videos from others so
you don't have a textbook for the class
instead you'll be accessing all of your
information for free online do feel free
to get a modern-art textbook just to
look at some pictures in a hardcopy if
you want, they all have basically the same stuff,
but this class doesn't require it
since I know art history textbooks are
very expensive so you have the option to
do it for free with just the online
materials so again you'll review a study
guide you'll read the required readings
that'll be online and then you'll also
do a discussion question assignment for
each lesson that helps you to reflect on
what you learned and also discuss the
issues with your classmates every lesson
will have all of these components
usually that will be once a week but if
you're in my summer class there will be
two of these per week since summer goes
double-speed. After every three lessons
you'll then have a test on those lessons
and the tests will be online and then
you'll also do a project related to the
lessons the tests will cover exactly
what you learned in your readings
generally it's a set of about 25 to 30
multiple choice fill in the blank type
questions and then several questions
usually four to five where you write
about a paragraph each to show that you
really understand the material and those
will be taken online and then
additionally you'll do a project and the
projects are really fun there are multi
option projects where you can choose to
either do research and a short paper or
you can write a short story or you can
make an artwork and whatever option you
choose it relates to artists that you
learned about in those past three
lessons that we did there is
lots of details about this within the
online class so I'll just leave it at
that for now but again you'll do three
lessons then you'll have a test on those
lessons and then you'll take a you'll do
a project related to those lessons
everybody always asks me about my late
policy so I wanted to get that out of
the way right away so I don't accept
late work as a rule but I know that
things come up sometimes you know you
had a really good plan to do your work
but then you get scheduled for your job
or something or your computer breaks or
you might have an illness so I do have a
kind of emergency policy basically you
have two times during the semester when
you can be late on anything and you can
be as late as you need but you can only
do it twice so wait until you actually
need it and then when you do just go
ahead and turn something in late you can
do it for anything test projects weekly
discussion questions once you've turned
in two things late I keep track of it
then you know I'll know that I'm not
accepting any more late work from you
you don't need to let me know when
you're going to use a late pass I'll
assume that if you turn something in
late that's why but feel free to email
me about it as well if you want it's up
to you okay so here's what you should do
now now that you know the basics your
first assignment is a pretty easy one
where I'm just asking you to introduce
yourself you'll see where I link to it
online right from your home page and
essentially what it is is you share a
photo either a photo of you or a photo
of something else that represents you
and you tell us a little bit about
yourself so that me and your classmates
can know a little bit about you but
you're also going to start practicing
writing about art right away with this
assignment by treating your photograph
as though it's a work of art and
analyzing the way that it's laid out the
symmetry of the balance the color so
essentially you're telling us a little
bit about yourself but you're also
analyzing your photo as though it's in
artwork the instructions are all written
down online so you know you can read
them carefully on your own but that's
the first assignment and it's due pretty
much right away so you know make sure
not to wait on that one then what you
should do is read through your syllabus
I have another video online that kind of
takes you through your syllabus and I'll
go
through all the policies with you so
definitely watch that also I have an all
due date sheet which basically just
lists all of your due dates for
everything all semester I'm like a
one-page thing like a flier I recommend
printing that out stick it up by your
computer or you know anywhere you're
going to be looking a lot some people
enter all the due dates in their phone
I recommend that in particular with
online classes because it can be
unfortunately a little easy to get lost
if you don't keep yourself disciplined
so having all those due dates somewhere
where you can see them or in your
calendar in advance it's probably going
to really help lastly I also recommend
that students and online classes make a
plan for when they're going to be doing
their work because online classes are
quite independent you can kind of work
whenever you want you will have due
dates you know and you'll have to turn
and work by the due dates but you can be
doing your work in the night you can be
doing it between work and school you can
be doing it you know on the bus ride to
school whatever works for you but I I'd
recommend that you make a plan just like
you would have for example a certain
amount of hours a week that you always
go to the gym or that you always I don't
know
watch a certain TV show plan your online
class that way so that you can be sure
that it's in your schedule you don't
accidentally forget about it so as long
as you do that you really kind of
integrate it into your routine you know
when you're going to work on it you make
sure you leave time there's no reason
you won't do great so I'm looking
forward to meeting you you can always
email me I've included my email address
in this email that I just sent you feel
free to email me with questions you can
also just email and introduce yourself
if you just want to say hi that would be
great this bear is saying hi because
welcome to class but he's also saying
goodbye because it's the end of the
video see you soon
