Art History Information Competence Project: Assignments & Assessment

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The following assignments (all in Word format) contain research and/or information competence components.

Generic Assigments

These can be adapted for a variety of courses:

• Short Assignments (various authors)
• Multiipart Assignment (Librarian Judy Reynolds; adaptd by Librarian Edith Crowe)

Lower-Division Survey Courses

ArtH 70A: Prehistoric to Medieval

• Research Worksheet (Dr. Christy Junkerman)
• Roman Art Virtual Exhibition (Dr. Anne Simonson & Librarian Edith Crowe)

ArtH 70B: Renaissance to Modern

• Library Research Plan (Dr. Christy Junkerman)
• Image Research (Dr. Christy Junkerman & Librarian Judy Reynolds)

Art 100W

This Junior-level writing class includes all students in the School of Art and design, not just art history majors. Student focus may be art education, fine arts, industrial/interior/graphic design, animation, digital media arts.

• Treasure Hunt (Dr. Christy Junkerman)
• Research Paper (Dr. Patricia Sanders)

Online tutorials

The King Library offer a number of basic (not art-related) interactive online tutorials on basic research skills, plagiarism, orientation to library services and organization, etc. Most incorporate testing. These can be set up for a specific class so the teacher will automatically receive students' results.

• For descriptions see the Online Tutorials Page. Anyone can try these out as "Guest."
• SJSU faculty: to set up a tutorial for your class contact Bridget Kowalczyk.

Upper-Division Courses

ArtH 188A/B: Northern Renaissance

• Context/Research Paper (Dr. Anne Simonson)

ArtH 192B: Modern Architecture

• First Group Research Report (Dr. Patricia Sanders)
• Second Group Research Report (Dr. Patricia Sanders)

Assessment Tools

• Diagnostic Assessment Level 1--(Art 100W) [Word file]
• Diagnostic Assessment Level 3--(Upper Division/Graduate) [Word file]
• Post-test for library lecture--(Art 100W) [Word file]

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Last updated 31 August 2004