Students are expected to do weekly readings regularly and comprehensively, and contribute to discussions in the classroom. In the first half of the semester, there will be a number of brief writing assignments, including brief write-up exercises to be posted on the wiki as a follow-up for class discussions.

We will also visit a museum or two during the semester (RISD Museum, Providence or Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). In the next couple of weeks, you will be responsible to visit RISD Museum (down the hill from Brown), select an artifact that tells/relates to a story pictorially, and study it (this object could be from their ancient art collection or others. You are expected to write a short paper about it (4-6 pages) and its story. (More on this next week). Omur will also be arranging a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to visit their upcoming exhibit Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum.

There will be a take-home midterm that will involve essay questions (answering 2-3 questions out of 5-6) halfway through the semester. In the second half, students will focus on their individual final paper projects on an ancient monument and its pictorial narrative program (8-10 pages).

This course has two writing fellows, Nathan Driskell (E-mail: Nathan_Driskell@brown.edu) and Rebekah Bergman (E-mail: Rebekah.Bergman@gmail.com) who will read the drafts of your two papers. You will be submitting your drafts early on to him and getting feedback from him, improving your papers and submitting them to me.

Grading will be based on:

• Class participation and attendance (30%),
• Museum Paper (20%),
• Midterm exam (20%),
• Final paper project (including a brief presentation, paper draft, final paper) (30%).