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GRCC Curriculum Database (2024-2025 Academic Year)
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AT 272 - History of Interior Design


Description
This course is a comprehensive mediated lecture/discussion of all the major global art periods of Interior Design from prehistory to today. Through the study of Interior Design, students gain knowledge/appreciation for each culture’s values, understand the influence of those cultures and their influence on the world, and recognize the development of styles. The course thus fosters respect and curiosity for different cultures and encourages an attitude of life-long learning.
Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours: 3
School: School of Liberal Arts
Department: Visual Arts
Discipline: AT
Course Review & Revision Year: 2023-2024
Course Type:
Program Requirement- Offering designed to meet the learning needs of students in a specific GRCC program.
Course Format:
Lecture - 1:1

General Education Requirement: None
General Education Learner Outcomes (GELO):
NA
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Define interior design terms and relate them to specific historical time periods.  

2. Gain a wider world view through the analysis of scholarly and creative artifacts of the past and present. 

3. Analyze the scholarly and creative artifacts through technique, style, artistic intent, and political, religious, and social context, in order to make connections between peoples of different time periods, cultures, and geographic locations. 

4. Understand and articulate how various creative outputs affect cultural values. 

5. Recall key works of design from the past and understand their importance. 

6. Understand the role that design plays in innovation, preserving cultural values, and how it fosters a sense of empathy between peoples of differing times/place. 

7. Recognize the interconnections between the past and the present, different cultures, and belief systems. 

8. Recognize and appreciate the influence that design has had on defining cultural/personal identity, raising social awareness and reform, creating a greater and more diverse world view, and expressing quality-of-life values. 

9. Recognize the pinnacle works of interior design. 

10. Identify geographical interior design characteristics. 

11. Create a written summary of the main ideas extracted from the information gathered. (CS1)

12. Clearly and completely state and describe a problem/issue. (CT1)

13. Create and/or organize data and information into meaningful patterns in order to interpret and draw inferences from it. (CT3)

14. Use rules or frameworks to provide context for and understand problems or uses. (CT9)

15. Discuss how communities, countries, or cultures differ in their values, politics, communication styles, beliefs, and practices. (SR5)


Approved for Online Delivery?: No
Course Outline:
I. Introduction: Methods

A. Methods of Interior Design design

B. Design elements and principles

II. Prehistoric Period

III. Ancient Egypt

IV. The Classical Period

A. Ancient Greece

B. Ancient Rome

V. Early Christian

VI. Byzantine

VII. Medieval Period

A. Early Medieval

B. Romanesque

C. Gothic

VIII. Islamic and Asian Traditions

IX. Renaissance Design

A. Renaissance Design

B. Mannerist Design

X. Baroque

A. Regency

B. Tudor

C. Elizabethan

D. Carolean to William and Mary

E. Queen Anne

F. Georgian

XI. Rococo

XII. Neoclassical

A. Jacobean

XIII. Colonial and Federal America

A. Colonial

B. American Georgian

C. Federal Style

XIV. Regency Style

XV. Revivals

A. Greek Revival

B. Gothic Revival

XVI. Industrial Revolution

A. Iron and Glass

XVII. Victorian Era

A. Victorian

B. Shaker

XVIII. Aesthetic Movement

A. Arts and Crafts

B. Craftsman

XIX. Art Nouveau, Vienna Secession, and Jugendstil

XX. Eclecticism

XXI. Modernism

A. De Stijl

B. Bauhaus

C. International Style

XXII. Art Deco and Industrial Design

A. Expressionism

XXIII. Late Twentieth Century

A. Post-Modernism

B. Deconstructivism and Minimalism

C. Green Design

XXIV. Looking toward to the Twenty-First Century

Learning for each period above will include: knowing specific terms related to that period, identifying artistic characteristics geographically, recognize the pinnacle works, gain knowledge/appreciation for each culture’s values, understand the influence of those cultures’ and their structures’ influence on the world, and recognize the development of styles.

Students will distinguish between, yet also draw connections to different artistic styles through written summaries and research. The course will thus foster respect and curiosity for different cultures, and thus encourage an attitude of life-long learning.


Mandatory CLO Competency Assessment Measures:
None
Name of Industry Recognize Credentials: None
Instructional Strategies:
Mediated instruction (slides, videos, Web, class trips, text): 60-80%

Facilitated writings (short thesis-directed analytic reports, CATs, etc.): 20-40%

Group work: 0-15%


Mandatory Course Components:
None
Academic Program Prerequisite: None
Prerequisites/Other Requirements: None
English Prerequisite(s): None
Math Prerequisite(s): None
Course Corerequisite(s): None
Course-Specific Placement Test: None
Consent to Enroll in Course: No Department Consent Required
Total Lecture Hours Per Week: 3
Faculty Credential Requirements:
Master’s Degree (GRCC general requirement), 18 graduate credit hours in discipline being taught (HLC Requirement), Other (list below)
Faculty Credential Requirement Details: To meet accreditation (NASAD) the preference is someone who has an ABD (all but dissertation) in Art History. However, a Master's Degree in Art History is acceptable. The instructor must be more object than theory focused, and have the breadth of knowledge to teach a comprehensive global survey sequence, yet the depth to teach specialized courses such as the history of architecture, modern art, and photography.
General Room Request: 448 RJF
Maximum Course Enrollment: 20
Equivalent Courses: None
Dual Enrollment Allowed?: Yes
AP Min. Score:
Number of Times Course can be taken for credit: 1
First Term Valid: Winter 2020 (1/1/2020)
Programs Where This Courses is a Requirement:
Interior Design, A.F.A., Pre-Art, A.A. (General Transfer)
1st Catalog Year: 2019-2020
People Soft Course ID Number: 105024
Course CIP Code: 50.0799



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