1A: Visual Literacy
Spring 2004
Professor Colin Gardner

Rebecca Tuynman
tuynman@umail.ucsb.edu
AIM screen name: rtuynman
Office hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:30 arts 1344a
Mailbox is in Studio Art Department’s mailroom

The purpose of your 1A section is to process and analyze the class material as a group. Lectures, readings, symposium and papers can turn into a wild mass of information, and we work together to tame it.

Class website: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/gardner/classes/artst1a/index.html
Contains general class information

Section website: www.rebeccatuynman.com/1a
Contains information specific to this class, including homework. You are responsible for checking the site – if I forget to mention something in class I’ll have it on the site.

Weekly homework:
Review sheet
Symposium response
Writing assignment

Point of the week: Each week an opportunity for an extra credit point will be provided. That adds an extra % point to your final grade, so if you do all 10 you’ll be raised a full grade!

Attendance: 25% of your grade is attendance and participation. At each lecture you will fill out and turn in an attendance slip. At each symposium you will write and turn in your symposium response. Each unexcused absence will make a significant dent in your grade. Four unexcused absences will result in an F for attendance and participation. Sleeping for any period of time in any lecture or symposium will be counted as an absence. Absences are only excused with written documentation, such as a note from the judge presiding over your case, or the surgeon who was operating on you.

Required Texts:
* Ways of Seeing
* Course Reader (bring to class each week)
* Writing manual of your choice (Many of you have A Writer’s Reference, but any manual that will guide you in writing and grammar is acceptable)

Recommended Text:
A Short Guide to Writing About Art, by Sylvan Barnet. You’ll probably have to get this through Amazon, but if you’re going on in studying art or art history, you’ll be very glad you have this book.