Response-Centered Peer Review for Extended Object Labels

By |March 21st, 2017|Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Archaeological, Art & Art History, Asia, Asian Studies, Australia, BCE, Biology, Books/Manuscripts, CE, Ceramics, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Communication, Computer Science, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, Economics, English, Europe, Full Semester, Geology, Group Assignment, Half Semester, History, Label Writing/Editing, Middle East, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, New media, North America, Object Study, Other, Painting, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Senior Seminar, Sociology, South America, Southeast Asia, Textiles, The College of Wooster, Urban Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Response Centered Peer ReviewDescription: Adapted from "Engaged Ideas," by John C. Bean, this assignment pairs students in a response-centered editing [...]

Questions for Unidentified Objects

By |March 21st, 2017|Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Archaeological, Art & Art History, Asia, Asian Studies, Australia, BCE, Biology, Books/Manuscripts, CE, Ceramics, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Communication, Computer Science, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, Economics, English, Europe, First Year Seminar, Full Semester, Gallery Exercise/Tour, Geology, Group Assignment, Half Semester, History, Individual Assignment, Middle East, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, New media, North America, Object Study, One Class Session, Other, Painting, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Senior Seminar, Sociology, South America, Southeast Asia, Textiles, The College of Wooster, Two or More Class Sessions, Urban Studies, Winter Term/Summer Term Offering, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Description: We often encounter objects about which there is no information. This list of questions can be utilized with students [...]

Poetry and Painting in the 17th Century

By |June 2nd, 2017|Art & Art History, CE, Classical Studies, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, English, Europe, Full Semester, Group Assignment, Label Writing/Editing, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Oberlin College, Object Study, One Class Session, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Two or More Class Sessions, Women & Gender Studies, Writing Intensive|

Description: In October 2015, Professor of English, Nicholas Jones asked students in his English Renaissance Poetry (ENGL 313) to write [...]

Extended Object Labels Assignment

By |August 12th, 2016|Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Archaeological, Art & Art History, CE, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, Faculty, Full Semester, History, Individual Assignment, Label Writing/Editing, Mixed-media, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Object Study, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Sociology, Textiles, The College of Wooster, Writing Intensive|

Description: Prepare an Extended Object Label for each of the objects you are addressing in our exhibition. You have been [...]

Curating an Exhibition

By |February 27th, 2017|Art & Art History, CE, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, Faculty, Full Semester, Mixed-media, New media, North America, Oberlin College, Other, Painting, Photography, Public Art/Monument, Sculpture, Textiles, Two or More Class Sessions, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Description: This is a semester-long class project in which students collectively curate a virtual exhibition using analytical concepts studied in [...]