Syllabus Course Schedule
Monet
Field trip and Report
General Information
1. Class
procedure
During the semester, at each session:
1. Try to read the pertaining anthology section suggested in
the lecture schedule before class time.
2. Re-enforce your understanding from the reading, by preparing
your own questions to be discussed in class.
3. Attend lecture
4. Identify all visual material presented in class
5. At the end of any session material, clarify any issue or
concept raised through the lecture. Information and group discussion in class
are always welcome.
2.
Grading of each section and each chapter
When the material of
each section is “closed”, and the last appropriate questions have been answered
in class, a Cultural Quiz will be given on this past studied material.
At the end of each chapter, a M/C
reading test will verify your understanding of all material marked in the test
schedule.
Look at Lecture and Test schedule for dates, for tested
areas and for the pages of the Anthology for which you are tested. No Make up allowed for quizzes and M/C tests.
Week
2-3 Lecture on
Diversity
Questions for week2-3
Lecture on French Identity:
Geographic Diversity in
Lecture and visual material demonstrate
the extreme diversity of French landscapes
Your objectives of the first two weeks:
1. Become familiar with a geographic
area of
2. Define location and geography of the
area in
3.
Recognize the regional area of
b. East of
c. West of
d. South West Basque Country
e. South East of
Your test will be to create a Physical Geographic Map of
Indicate the 9 countries, bordering
List the various 4 regional areas
listed above (b, c, d, e
Indicate 5 French major cities,
including
Recognize 3 major mountains.
Indicate 3 oceans surrounding
Draw the 5 French major rivers.
Week 2-to 3
Monet exhibit at
Within a 1000 word essay, could you demonstrate and
illustrate any one of the four following statements:
a)
Your favorite and specific
painting from the show, can demonstrate its own originality (
artistic and cultural) and is an example which could have been created
only in the
b)
Monet‘s paintings illustrate a
new cultural and artistic attitude. In all the paintings shown at the exhibit,
c)
Monet was one of the fresh
artistic voice in his own time, with his own new painting material, his
interest with specific colors and light, his original technical display, his
original contemporary themes.
d)
Monet illustrated the specific
period in which he lived, -that is the
Week
4-5-6 Diversity
of French people: The Gauls
Cultural quiz on Oct 9
Lecture: Gauls, and Roman Gaul
The
Gauls
1.
How are the Gauls?
2.
Who described best? Why?
3.
List some Gaelic elements still
existing in contemporary
4.
Describe villa culture.
5.
Which class of society do the Gauls represent?
6.
What are the symbols of the Gauls?
7.
A Gaelic hero: Vercingetorix
8.
A modern hero: José Bové
9.
Which Roman Gaul monuments are still visible
in
Week 7-8
The
Romanesque world
1. Use a dictionary to define the following items:
Church Façade Tympanum
Cloister
Reliquary Relics Danse Macabre
1. Why were these Romanesque Churches built?
2. When did Romanesque style appear in
3. What style did it copy?
4. Identify these Romanesque churches:
Vezelay
Beaulieu
5. What are the characteristics of Romanesque churches?
6. What was the main theme of any Romanesque tympanum?
7. Why is Christ so large and shown in the same traditional
position?
8. Why do people look alike in all cases?
9. In the 11th century, the question “who am I? ‘ would be the answer?
10. What is a Danse Macabre?
Gothic World
façade transept stain glass nave
Flying buttress rose Pietà
1. Some famous cathedrals:
2.
Why were the cathedrals built?
3.
What were the functions of
Gothic cathedrals?
4.
Who was Suger? When did he live? Which representation of God did Saint Denis (Suger’s model) suggest?
5.
Was gothic art a copy of another
art form? Why was it an original
statement?
6.
What are the characteristics of
Gothic art?
7.
Development of the cult of Mary
8. Why were most French Gothic cathedrals
called Notre-Dame?
9. What is a pieta? What
does it symbolize?
10. For a Medieval woman, what are the virtues that Mary
represents?