SEMINAR

Paper Code: 
VAS(C) 122
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

  1. Formulate a unique lens to observe artists and artworks.
  2. Frame and present a project that exemplifies their through process
  3. Explain and defend their thoughts before an evaluating committee.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

Course

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

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VAS(C) 122

 

 

 

Seminar (Theory)

The students will -

CO5: Validate an artwork or artist through a short lens of a self-picked topic to formulate an individualized understanding of an art topic of their choice.

CO6:  Managing skills of preparing a detailed report describing their unique thought process to learn to construct shorter research documents that they will be preparing in future institutions they work in.

CO7: Present and discuss their observations to a panel in order to enhance their oratory and presentation skill.

CO8: Develop argumentative skills, asking and answering questions being put up on the spot to make them more confident and articulate about their subject and those of their peers.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, presentation, Giving tasks.

Semester end examinations, Continuous Assessment Test, Sketching, layouts, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects, regular ,display and submission of artworks.

 

 

COURSE CONTENT:

The student will choose any topic of choice, relevant to the field of specialization and will present a seminar on scheduled date.

Note:

  1. The student will decide two/three topics along with broad outline of research within fifteen days of the commencement of the semester with her guide. All the faculty members will give approval for the topic after the discussion in the third week of semester.
  2. The students will have to submit the final seminar report along with a soft copy in CD with the practical submission.
References: 

Suggested Text Books/Suggested Reference Books:

  • Vicki Krohn Amorose, Art Write: The Writing Guide for Visual Artists
  • Martin Gayford and Karen Wright, The Grove Book of Art Writing, Grove Press
  • Barnet Sylvan, A Short Guide to Writing about – Art, 7th ed., 2003, Longman, US.
  • Sayre Henry M., Writing About Art, 4th ed., 2002, Prentice Hall
  • Hughes Robert, Nothing if Not Critical – Selected Essays on Art and Artists, 1990, Penguin Books, US
  • Chris Murray, Key Writings on Art: The Twentieth Century, Routledge

E-Resources:

Reference Journals:

  • Studies in Art Education
  • Journal of Visual Culture
  • Sculpture Journal
  • Art Inquiry
  • Journal of Aesthetics and Criticism
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