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Ohio University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Ohio University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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AH 2130 - From Gutenberg to Google: Global Art + Design II


In this art history survey class, students explore the interplay between their own cultural biases and global visual cultures. The course aims to provide a holistic understanding of different cultures by analyzing artworks and examining their historical, political, social, economic, and philosophical contexts. Emphasis is placed on understanding what art objects can say about the cultures in which they were created, and how objects that look similar might mean something very different if created in different times and cultures.The course fosters an understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices.

Credit Hours: 4
OHIO BRICKS: Arch: Constructed World, Bridge: Diversity and Practice
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture, 1.0 discussion
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Course Transferability: OTM course: TMAH Arts & Humanities, TAG course: OAH005 Survey of Art History I & II
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to employ principles, terminology, and methods from the discipline of art history.
  • Students will be able to analyze, interpret, and/or evaluate primary works of artistic expression and describe creative processes.
  • Students will be able to explain relationships among cultural and/or historical contexts and the arts.
  • Students will be able to critically state, describe, and consider an issue or problem through a close analysis of individual works of art.
  • Students will be able to use information from source(s) with enough interpretation/evaluation to develop a comprehensive analysis or synthesis.
  • Students will be able to state a specific position, articulate insights about one’s own cultural rules and biases.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of other culture by understanding how history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practice affect art work.
  • Students will be able to ask complex questions of the visual art of other cultures, while suspending judgment in valuing their interactions.



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