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Examination of the three centuries of African-American art in North America, the Carribean, and Brazil, stressing the African legacy. Colonial metalwork and pottery, folk or outsider genres, and mainstream nineteenth-and twentieth-century work are among traditions studied.

Prerequisites: Not open to freshmen.

4

Units

Optional

Grading

1, 2, 3

Passtime

Not open to freshmen

Level Limit

Letters and science

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OGBECHIE S O
Sylvester Ogbechie
2.4
48 reviews
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ARTHI 121D Ogbechie S O Fall 2023 Total: 51
ARTHI 121D Ogbechie S O Fall 2021 Total: 50
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ARTHI121D . Ogbechie S O 2 Years Ago

Class was super interesting!! Only had a few assignments and a midterm + final which were the same structure on different artworks. You do have to memorize info on a set of selected artworks but making a simple google doc with the required info and reviewing it is enough to pass. Loved him!

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ARTHI121D . Ogbechie S O 2 Years Ago

Very much a class designed solely for art history students with a professor who is a giant in this particular field. I'll never take another art history class again, but overall the course was interesting enough. The memorization was terrible.

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ARTHI121D . Ogbechie S O 2 Years Ago

2 small projects/papers and 2 exams. Exams require you to memorize some artwork, and analyze them. The projects/papers were both really easy. The lectures are mostly boring, but occasionally interesting. I took the class P/NP, but I should have taken it for a grade, because I got an A- without much effort and missing 5 classes.

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ARTHI121D . Ogbechie S O 4 Years Ago

I really liked Prof Ogbechie's class! He was very passionate about the course material and I learned a lot.

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ARTHI121D . Ogbechie S O 6 Years Ago

Great professor and lecturer. I thought his class was interesting, informative, and the content was relevant and important. Unfortunately, I had a few very uncomfortable (mandatory) office hours sessions with him, and I felt he crossed the mandatory teacher-student boundary in multiple ways. Totally unfortunate, I loved the class up until then.

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ARTHI121D . Ogbechie S O 6 Years Ago

Attendance is 10% of the grade. Lecture is pretty boring, I feel like he has a lot of important things to say but he doesn't organize it well and it's hard to follow. Readings aren't tested on. Final was a 6 page paper on stuff we didn't really talk about I have no idea how I wrote that thing and passed the class

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