However, it has plenty to offer the general reader. After some research, I ended up picking up a copy of Marilyn Stokstad’s two-volume set, and I have been picking my way through it ever since, finally polishing volume two off earlier this week.Īrt History is designed as textbook for art history courses, and it can read like a textbook at times (albeit an engaging one). In order to rectify that fact, a few years ago I went in search of a good introductory book. While I have always been interested in the history of art, I really didn’t know much about the subject. Support Instructors– With a wealth of online resources, instructors have videos, images, and teaching support materials to create a dynamic, engaging course.
Improve Critical Thinking– Key Learning Outcomes encourage students to think critically about visual arts as part of the larger world.Įngage Students– Updated scholarship, MyArtsLab, and the readability of the text provide a wonderful engaging student experience. Go Mobile – Make learning easy and convenient with our on-the-go eTexts and key learning applications. Go Digital – Pearson Custom Library 2.0 provides instructors and students with a whole new online customizable learning experience. It helps students prepare for class and instructors gauge individual and class performance. Personalize Learning- MyArtsLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program.
The teaching and learning experience with this program helps to:
The end result is a complete learning program designed to increase students’ success with a personalized, digital and a highly mobile learning experience.Ī better teaching and learning experience Not only does the text address four overarching goals of the survey course, the new MyArtsLab further develops and reinforces these outcomes and skills with market-leading learning tools such as personalized study plans for each student and multimedia assets geared towards addressing different learning styles and abilities, such as chapter audio, student videos, Closer Looks, architectural panoramas and much more. This revision is the strongest and most comprehensive learning program for measuring student progress and improving student success in attaining the outcomes and goals of the art history survey course. Authors Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren- both scholars as well as teachers- share a common vision that survey courses should be filled with as much enjoyment as learning, and that they should foster an enthusiastic, as well as an educated, public for the visual arts. The most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive survey is now personalized, digital, and mobile for today’s students.Īrt History 5th edition continues to balance formal analysis with contextual art history in order to engage a diverse student audience.
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