ARTH419-20S2 (C) Semester Two 2020

East Asian Art and Theory

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 13 July 2020
End Date: Sunday, 8 November 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 24 July 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 25 September 2020

Description

This course concentrates on selected art traditions of two countries - China and Japan - including painting, calligraphy, garden design, theatre, tea ceremony and flower arranging. It introduces selected works of art in conjunction with theoretical texts that explain them. The course includes field trips.

This course examines key aspects of the history of material culture in East Asia. This includes studying the art of China’s early dynasties, items traded on the Silk Roads, and the growth of painting and calligraphy as principal art forms. The course includes a number of field trips to significant local collections.

Learning Outcomes

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Restrictions

ARTH410

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator

Richard Bullen

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Reading Journal 25% Entries maximum 250 words each
Exhibition 25% On-line exhibition
Research Essay 40% Maximum 3,000 words
Class participation 10%


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Course links

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,884.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

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