Instructor: Kristin Scott
Office Hours: By Appointment
E-Mail: or
Class Blog: reviewingarts.wordpress.com
SCHEDULE OF FIELD TRIPS
See Course Description
Class Reading and Assignment Schedule:
Tuesday, May 27th:
Introductions and review of syllabus and course requirements. In-class reading, writing exercise, and discussion.
- Sign up for presentations.
- Discuss the differences/similarities between “criticism” and “reviewing.”
- What constitutes a review? (Elements and components of a review, as well as various kinds of reviews, reviewers, publications, agendas, and variables at work in reviewing.)
Response Assignment #1 (due next week) on class blog.
Thursday, May 29th:
Response Assignment #1 DUE online at class blog
Reading Due:
Response Assignment #2 (due next class) on class blog.
Tuesday, June 3rd:
Response Assignment #2 DUE online at class blog
Reading Due:
Response Assignment #3 (due next class) on class blog
Thursday, June 5th:
Response Assignment #3 DUE online at class blog
Reading/Viewing Due:
Response Assignment #4 (duenext class) on class blog.
Tuesday, June 10th:
Response Assignment #4 DUE online at class blog
Reading Due:
- Croce, Arlene. “Introduction” and “Discussing the Undiscussable,” Crisis of Criticism (handout).
- Carol Oates, Joyce. “Confronting Head-on the Face of the Afflicted,” Crisis of Criticism (handout).
Review #1 Assigned/ Proposal Due Tuesday, June 12th.
Response Assignment #5 (due next class) on class blog.
Thursday, June 12th:
Response Assignment #5 DUE online at class blog
Reading/Viewing Due:
- Emlinger Roberts, Rebecca. (2005) The Stripper: Victim Art and the Art of Suffering, Antioch Review, Winter, Vol. 63 Issue 1, p23-39 (handout).
FIELD TRIP: Art Institute of Chicago - (Free General Admission 5:00–8:00)
REMINDER: Review #1 due next Thursday!
Tuesday, June 17th:
Short Review of Art Institute piece due on blog.
Reading Due:
Discussion of “High” v. “Low” Art
Introduction to Street Art
Thursday, June 19th:
REVIEW # 1 DUE!
FIELD TRIP: Columbia College Music Building, Concert Hall, 1014 South Michigan
Nicole Mitchell's "Xenogenesis Suite: A Multi-Arts Exploration"
Response Assignment #6 (due next class) online at class blog.
Tuesday, June 24th:
Response Assignment #6 DUE online at class blog
Reading Due:
Response Assignment #7 (due next class) – Go to class blog for assignment.
Thursday, June 26th:
Response Assignment #7 DUE online at class blog
Reading Due:
- Cowlishaw, Brian. “Playing War: The Emerging Trend of Real Virtual Combat in Currrent Video Games” (385-398). (handout)
- Watch: “Grand Theft Auto IV – Trailer”
Response Assignment #8 (due next class) online at class blog
Review #2 Assigned
/ Written Review DUE July 17th BY EMAIL
/ Presentation schedules
Tuesday, July 1st:
Response Assignment #8 DUE online at class blog
Reading Due:
- Kakoudaki, Despina. “Spectacles of History: Race Relations, Melodrama, and the Science Fiction/Disaster Film,” Camera Obscura, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2002.
Thursday, July 3rd:
NO CLASS
Tuesday, July 8th:
Readings:
Thursday, July 10th:
Presentations
Tuesday, July 15th:
Presentations
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