INTEGRATIVE ARTS 1 (GA)

INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTS IN GREECE

Instructor: Dr. Paul Greene• email: pdg4@psu.edu• Email is the best way to contact me.

Tour agency: Celestial Voyagers Customized Travel• 516-829-1525, info@celestialvoyagers.com

Pennsylvania State UniversityBrandywine Campus

Spring 2015

Timeline:

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 10:00 a.m. All Pre-Trip Assignments are due to the Angel Drop Box for this course.

March 8-14, 2015 Immersion experience in Greece facilitated and guided by Celestial Voyagers tour agency.

Wednesday, May 4 10:00 a.m. Journal of Arts Experiences and All Post-Trip Assignments are due to the Angel Drop Box for this course.

Welcome to the exciting worlds of the arts in Greece. In this course, we will explore means of expression and communication that involve sound, space, color, and shape including high arts, architecture, music and crafts. We will reflect on and carefully analyze what is being communicated through these media. We will learn and use aesthetic terminology which will function as our tools to discuss the arts, and we will learn to consider artworks within a framework of Greek art history.

This course does not require an artistic background, nor advanced skills in music-making, drawing, or acting. Instead, it is an introduction to the arts that targets your ability to consider and verbally discuss what meanings and functions an artwork takes on in our lives, and how it relates to other artworks in aesthetic traditions in Europe. The course will not tell you what is "good" or "bad" art, but instead invite you to decide this for yourself, in relation to artistic traditions that have been cultivated over the centuries.

No previous experience with music, sculpture or architecture is required. No previous travel is required. The only prerequisites are an interest in the arts and a willingness to

participate constructively and professionally in a course that includes a short-term immersion experience in Greece.

REQUIRED FOR THIS COURSE:

• Email and Internet access. Course communication will take place via email. Please set up your Penn State “Access” email account, if you have not already done so. Plan to check your email regularly. Also, many assignments require you to search or find information on the Internet. Students should also be prepared to work through the Penn State online environment of Angel (http://cms.psu.edu), for access to important course resources and information. There will be a "drop box" for you to turn in assignments within Angel.

• Register for this course. Registration for this course is not possible through the usual online methods (the website shows the course as “closed” even though it is not). What is required is my signature on a Drop/Add form if you are at the Brandywine Campus, or if you are not, then an email message from me in which I write to the campus Registrar specifically to grant you permission. Contact me: pdg4@psu.edu.

• Work with the Tour Agency. Have you contacted the tour agent to make arrangements for travel? Celestial Voyagers, 1-800-651-6262, email: francoise@celestialvoyagers.com. Do this immediately. They will ask that you have your passport (US citizens can arrange for passports through the Media Courthouse, http://www.co.delaware.pa.us/ojs/passport.html; 201 W. Front St., Government Center 123, Media, PA; 14-day rush processing: call 877-487-2778). Have you signed up for PSU travel insurance? (For that, contact Gail Wray, Main Building Room 212; 610-892-1472; gbw1@psu.edu.) Registering for the course does not sign you up for the trip or arrange your airfare; you have to make all such arrangements with Francoise directly. Delays can result in higher fares or possibly make travel impossible.

• Camera. To complete the Journal of Arts Experiences, you will need a camera. You will need to arrange for a picture of yourself to be taken at each site that you visit, as proof that your papers are grounded in actual, first-hand experiences in the arts. I recommend digital format because this will make it easier for you to submit your Journal electronically, and to type in explanations below each photo. Make sure you have enough film or memory and battery power for one week of arts experiences. Remember: voltage is different in Europe, so unless you have adequate transformers and adapters it probably will not be possible for you to recharge your camera in a wall outlet while in Europe.

• Blank notebook in which to keep a daily journal of arts experience while you are in Europe. A standard spiral notebook of 8.5 x 11 pages is fine, or electronic equivalent.

• Travel Guidebook to Greece (recommended but not absolutely required): You will be traveling around the country in pursuit of artistic experiences, and so, to

supplement the guidance of Celestial Voyagers, it is very helpful to have a guidebook that introduces you to the city, offers cultural background, and clarifies the best ways to get to key sites. Different guidebooks have different strengths and weaknesses. A useful guidebook should include a listings of museums, theatres, and concert venues, a good index, and pages containing background cultural and historical information. I recommend Lonely Planet. Guidebooks are available online and in non-campus bookstores.

Additional useful resources (not required):• Joseph Kerman and Gary Tomlinson. Listen. (4th edition, Boston ; New York :

Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2000, available in the library).• New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, online at www.grovemusic.com;

also in paper form in some (but not all) college libraries.• Wikipedia: http://www.en.wikipedia.org.• Toolkit of Musical Terms (included).• Sound Advice about Musical Terms electronic resource:

http://www.de2.psu.edu/academics/faculty/greene/powerpoint/sld001.htm

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This is a blended course, combining the following elements: communication between students and instructor via email and the Angel environment (http://cms.psu.edu); Internet and/or library research for papers; a one-week immersion experience in Greece in which instructor and students work together on guided travels and tours facilitated by the tour agent (Celestial Voyagers).

Students need to be proficient in distance learning technologies of email and the Penn State University Angel environment. Regarding Pre-Trip and Post-Trip Assignments, please feel free to email me with any questions or concerns as they arise. Please also check your email frequently for course- and travel-related messages.

I prefer that you email all assignments to me. Please submit all documents as Microsoft Word documents (my computer cannot read Word Perfect documents). Please make sure that every document you submit has your last name as part of the document title. For example: if your last name is Smith, then you may email me your Terminology in the Arts assignment in a document named Smith-Terminology-in-the-Arts.doc.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Integrative Arts 1/Art History 100 is based on a total of 100 points, valuated according to the Penn State University Faculty Senate Agreement of 1987: 95+ A, 90-94 A-, 87.7-89 B+, 83.3-87.6 B, 80-83.2 B-, 75-79 C+, 70-74 C, 60-69 D, 59 and below F.

Pre-Trip Assignments:

15 points 1. History of Music in Greece

15 points 2. Terminology in the Arts of Greece

5 points 3. Musical Concepts and Terminology Worksheet

Assignment to be Done During the Trip:

15 points Journal of Arts Experiences

10 points Community Contribution Grade

Post-Trip Assignments:

15 points 1. Aesthetic Experience Paper: Architecture

15 points 2. Aesthetic Experience paper: Visual Art

10 points 3. Aesthetic Experience paper: Music

All late materials will be penalized one letter grade (10 of the 100 total assignment points) per day of lateness.

COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION GRADE:

Welcome to Penn State Brandywine's International Studies program! You are invited to join and build our traveling community. As part of your travel experience, you will be required not only to work with your instructor to complete the assignments specified in the syllabus, but also to contribute to your traveling community as we all work together to make the most of our shared intellectual experience.

Your Community Contribution Grade: In addition to completing papers, projects and workshops, 10% of your grade will be a Community Contribution grade, reflecting your overall contributions to your travel abroad community. In general, your Community Contribution grade will reflect what you do to make this trip an effective and exciting intellectual experience for your community of fellow travelers. A key component of this grade will be four required community meetings over breakfast, in which you meet with your colleagues and instructor to share your experiences and insights. Here are some other factors that will impact your Community Contribution grade: Have your collaborated with one of your colleagues in locating and visiting a museum, performance event, historic sight, etc.? Have you discovered opportunities of sites to visit to meet your course requirements, and shared them with your colleagues (perhaps at a breakfast meeting)? Please note that activities that detract from the traveling community's intellectual experience carry penalties. For example, failing to follow instructions from the travel agent or the instructors in the program (including instructors of courses other than your own) could result in a 0 for your Community Contribution grade. Likewise, violation of Penn State University's Code of Conduct, excessive drunkenness, or violation

of the country's laws or customs will be met with severe penalties. In addition to a 0 in Community Contribution, additional penalties may be assigned to you and your academic record by the university's Judicial Affairs office.

PRE-TRIP ASSIGNMENTS:1. History of Music in Greece (750 words)Write an essay of at least 750 words (3 pages) in which you recount the history of music in Greece. This paper will prepare you to write the Musical Aesthetic Experience Paper later.

As with every assignment, this essay must be 100% in your own words (see Academic Integrity, below). Be sure to cite all sources (if you wish to cite books, websites or articles, I recommend formats specified in the MLA Handbook of Style or Chicago Manuel of Style).

2. Terminology in the Arts of GreeceGive definitions of each of the following terms. Each definition should be at least 4 sentences in length, and should be entirely in your own words. Including images is recommended. Please turn in all definitions together in a single document.

ParthenonOdeon of Herodes AtticusGreek Byzantine architecturekanonakineoclassicismAthens AcademyChurch of Kapnikarea

Roman AgoraHadrian's ArchMialis HatziyiannisTemple of Olympian ZeusPanathenaic StadiumAcropolisrembetika

outi (oud)gaidasantouribouzoukisyrtaki dancetoumberlekiMask of Agamemnon

3. Musical Concepts and Terminology WorksheetStudy the Toolkit of Musical Terms included with this syllabus. At the end of this Toolkit document is a Musical Concepts and Terminology Worksheet. Please copy the text of this worksheet into a new Microsoft Word document, and fill in the blanks. When you fill in the blanks, please underline your inserted answers. You’ll submit the new document to me as one of your Pre-Trip Assignments.

Turn in your pre-trip work by the deadline above. If you wish, you can turn in your pre-trip work to me there, in paper form. Or you can email it to me (pdg4@psu.edu). Please note: it is very important that you also print out an extra copy of your work to take with you. This will be a useful resource for you to complete the assignments there.

ASSIGNMENT TO BE DONE DURING THE TRIP:

Journal of Arts Experiences. First of all, please read carefully the Post-Trip Assignments. What you do in Europe should prepare you to complete these Post-Trip Assignments. So, it's crucial that you understand the assignments so you can collect the relevant information and explore the appropriate experiences of the arts. To this end, you are to keep a Journal of Arts Experiences, in which you to take notes on your arts-related activities and experiences while in Europe.

Take a blank notebook with you as you go about Greece. Keep your notes in the form of a travel log, specifying day, time of day, the museum, place, or concert you are visiting, and details about your experiences. You can keep this Journal in hand-written form: it's not necessary to type this up. For each site you visit, please write a few sentences of notes.

Describe in detail what you experience. How does this artwork make you feel? Take specific notes about the artwork. If it is music, take notes using the musical terminology you have learned. If it is visual arts, take notes on the colors, textures, shapes, and so on. If it is architecture, reflect on how it fits into the environment. For each site, try to relate your experience to the terminology and arts movements that you have learned about in your Pre-Trip Assignments. Also, feel free to mention in your Journal any contextual factors that may influence your experience of the arts, such as your mood that day, who you may be traveling with, the weather, etc. You will be using your Journal to help you complete the Post-Trip Assignments, and then you will turn in your Journal together with these Post-Trip Assignments.

To complete your Journal you will need to have a photograph taken of yourself at each site, as proof that your coursework is based on authentic, firsthand experiences in the arts of Europe. It is helpful to travel about Greece with other students in this course so they can take your picture. Many museums do not allow photographs to be taken inside, so in that case please arrange for yourself to be photographed just outside the entrance to the building. It's also generally a good idea to supplement your Journal with photographs of art, architecture, musical performances, and cultural life.

Please note that you are required to have, in your Journal, at least a one-paragraph description of each of the following:

• 8 works of architecture : (From these 8, you’ll choose 4 to write about in the Aesthetic Experience Paper on Architecture.)

• 8 works of visual art : This can include painting or sculpture. (So you'll be ready to write the Visual Arts Aesthetic Experience Paper).

• 3 pieces of music that you hear. The other two can be of any genre: classical, folk, popular, etc. (From these, you’ll choose 2 to write about in the Aesthetic Experience Paper on Music, and a classical piece will be required for that paper.)

Francoise Cornu of Celestial Voyagers will work with you to facilitate this.

For visual art (paintings or sculpture): Remember, you need to document at least 8 works of visual art, which can be two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Architecture is

reserved for the Architecture part of this assignment. Visual artworks can be from any period of history. Note that many museums are closed on Mondays, and some are closed on Tuesdays. Note that some art museums are also themselves significant works of architecture.

For examples of music, look for advertisements in Greece and announcements from me. Remember, you need to experience at least 3 pieces of music in Greece. I recommend trying to get contrasting musical experiences. It is important to experience live music-making. A paper based on analyzing a recording—even one that you purchased in Europe—will lose points. Classical music, Greek folk music, and contemporary Greek popular music are all acceptable for this paper.

Turn in your Journal of Arts Experiences, together with your Post-Trip Assignments by the above deadline. If you wish, you can turn in your Journal to my campus mailbox, in paper form (my mailbox is in the Main Building Mailroom, ground floor). Or you can email it to me (pdg4@psu.edu).

POST-TRIP ASSIGNMENTS:

1. Aesthetic Experience Paper: Architecture: 1,000 words (4 pages)Aesthetics may be defined as the study of sensory and/or emotional values of artistic expressions, which may be in any medium: visual, musical, theatrical, etc. An aesthetic experience paper is a paper in which you do the following: 1) describe artworks in detail; 2) situate the artworks within the traditions and movements that gave rise to them; 3) reflect on the artwork-in-tradition and explore what it means to you, what feelings and associations it inspires, and what may be the unique ways in which this artwork can be expressive, or the unique kinds of things the artwork can express. In other words, it is an opportunity for you to reflect on the artwork in its tradition, and on what unique contribution it makes to the entire world of human expressions.

For this paper, you are to describe and compare 4 examples of architecture. These should be pieces of architecture (or aesthetically-designed urban spaces) that you have seen in Europe and documented in your Journal of Arts Experiences. Your experience should include detailed notes of being both inside and outside the architecture (if inside is possible). Do some research to learn the history of each piece of architecture, and what artistic movement(s) it fits into. In your paper, describe each piece of architecture and explain how it fits into its artistic movement and era. Be sure to cite all sources (if you wish to cite books, websites or articles, I recommend formats specified in the MLA Handbook of Style or Chicago Manuel of Style). Then address the following questions: What is the unique kind of expression that each piece of architecture makes? What does the architecture add to the whole world of human artistic expression? Why is this architecture valuable? In your opinion, which of the 4 is most successful as an artistic expression? Why? Which is your favorite? How does your actual experience in Greece

compare to what you expected when you wrote your Pre-Trip Assignment on the History of Architecture in Greece? Were you surprised by anything you experienced in Greece?

2. Aesthetic Experience Paper: Visual Arts: 750 words (3 pages)For the Aesthetic Experience Paper on visual arts, you are to describe and compare 3 examples of visual arts in two or three dimensions. These should be artworks you have seen in Greece and documented in your Journal of Arts Experiences. These cannot be works of architecture or urban spaces. Clarify how each artwork fits into the history of the arts in Greece. What is the unique kind of expression that each artwork makes? What does the artwork add to the whole world of human artistic expression? Why is this artwork valuable? Which artwork of the 3 do you find most interesting or valuable? How has your experience in Europe shaped the way you think about the visual arts?

3. Aesthetic Experience Paper: Music: 750 words (3 pages)For this paper, you are to describe and compare two examples of music that you experience in Europe. The two pieces should be from different concerts or music events. For this assignment, it is important to analyze examples of live music-making. A paper based on analyzing a recording—even one that you purchased in Europe—will lose points. Classical music, European jazz, folk music, and contemporary Greek popular music are all acceptable for this paper.

Begin by describing each piece of music. Be sure to mention the name of the piece (if known), the musician or composer, and the place where you experienced it. Then, describe the music using the musical terminology you learned in your Pre-Trip work. Be sure to use at least 12 of the following 24 terms, which are from the Toolkit of Musical Terms.

melody, non-metric, homophonic, timbre, polyphonic, dissonant, chord, scale, consonant, blue note, vibrato, rhythm, pentatonic, non-pitched, treble, tempo, sustain, bass, heptatonic, monophonic, pitched, meter, register, interval

What music tradition does each piece of exemplify? Be sure to cite all sources (if you wish to cite books, websites, articles, or recordings, I recommend formats specified in the MLA Handbook of Style or Chicago Manuel of Style).

Finally, analyze each piece of music for its aesthetic effectiveness. Did the music create a mood for you? Did it seem to communicate something unique? Did it strike you as a unique human expression? How does each piece of music add to the world of human music expressions?

Turn in your Post-Trip Assignments by the above deadline. If you wish, you can turn in your Journal to my campus mailbox, in paper form (my mailbox is in the Main Building Mailroom, Brandywine Campus, ground floor). Or you can email it to me (pdg4@psu.edu). If you would like (non-electronic) materials returned to you, please be

sure to include a self-addressed and stamped envelope with your paper, with adequate postage. (The postal service may not deliver if postage is inadequate, possibly resulting in materials getting lost in the mail.)

STATEMENT ON ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Academic Integrity: All students are expected to act with civility and personal integrity; respect other students' dignity, rights and property; and help create and maintain an environment in which all can succeed through the fruits of their own efforts. An environment of academic integrity is requisite to respect for self and others and a civil community.

Academic integrity includes a commitment not to engage in or tolerate acts of falsification, misrepresentation or deception. Such acts of dishonesty include cheating or copying, plagiarizing, submitting another persons' work as one's own, using Internet sources without citation, fabricating field data or citations, "ghosting" (taking or having another student take an exam), stealing examinations, tampering with the academic work of another student, facilitating other students' acts of academic dishonesty, etc.

Academic dishonesty violates the fundamental ethical principles of the University community and compromises the worth of work completed by others. A student should avoid academic dishonesty when preparing work for any class. If charged with academic dishonesty, students will receive written or oral notice of the charge by the instructor. Students who contest the charge should first seek resolution through discussion with the faculty member or the campus Director of Academic Affairs. If the matter is not resolved, the student may request a hearing with the University College Committee on Academic Integrity at the campus.

Sanctions for breaches of academic integrity may range (depending on the severity of the offense) from F for the assignment to F for the course. In severe cases of academic dishonesty, including, but not limited to, stealing exams or "ghosting" an exam, students may receive a grade of XF, a formal University disciplinary sanction that indicates on the student's transcript that failure in the course was due to a serious act of academic dishonesty. The University's statement on Academic Integrity from which the above statement was drawn is available at: http://www.psu.edu/dept/oue/aappm/G-9.html

Note about academic integrity and the papers and essays for this course: Your paper or essay must be 100% your own work. The penalty for academic integrity violation, even for just a portion of a paper or essay, is a 0 for the paper and possibly also an F or XF for the course, depending on the severity of the violation, as determined by the instructor.

NOTE TO STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

Note to students with disabilities: In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, it is Penn State’s policy to provide reasonable academic adjustments for students with documented disabilities. If you have a disability-related need for modifications in this course, contact Sharon Manco, 610-892-1461, 127 Vairo Library, sam26@psu.edu. This notification should occur by the end of the first week of the semester. Students may visit www.equity.psu.edu/ods/ for complete information.