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Art History Information Competence Project

The Project seeks to examine the present effectiveness of SJSU's Art History Program in providing students with visual, verbal, and information competency skills; and to remodel both individual courses, and the B.A. and M.A. curricula in Art History, so that they better prepare present and future groups of students. Specifically, we aim to ensure that BA and MA Art History graduates are information competent.

SJSU's Art History Program offers B.A. and M.A. majors. In addition to upper division and graduate courses taken by these majors and by other Art & Design students. A variety of General Education courses are provided to our own majors and to general campus students. The Art History Information Competence Project will focus on developing and assessing the information skills of our majors in a discipline-specific context. Faculty will simultaneously be laying the groundwork for embedding information skills development in all of our courses.

See the complete Project Proposal

• Anne Simonson: Professor
  Program Coordinator for Art History (also Program Coordinator for interdisciplinary B.A. Creative Arts Program 1987-2002). Extensive curriculum development experience and service at all levels of curriculum committees (departmental, college, university GE panels and Board of General Studies). Principal investigator (or co-PI with Professor Allison Heisch) for The Learning Project, 1998-present, funded by SJSU Learning Productivity Program Planning and Implementation grants and by CSU Academic Priorities Improvement grant. That project pairs teaching and library faculty partners in the redesign and teaching of General Education courses that develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills alongside contemporary library and computer-based research skills. Christy Junkerman, Edith Crowe, and Judy Reynolds are Learning Project participants. The proposed Art History Information Literacy Project is a more comprehensive and discipline-based extension of our earlier work.
   
• Christy Junkerman: Lecturer
  Has taught at SJSU for several years. Involved in curriculum development: course proposals; GE courses and assessment plans. Teaches upper division and graduate research courses in Italian Renaissance. Advises Art History M.A. students on theses. Coordinates the Art 100W course. Participant in The Learning Project, co-teaching ArtH 70B with both Edith Crowe and Judy Reynolds. Publications in Art History.
   
• Patricia Sanders: Full-time Lecturer
  Has taught at SJSU since 1985. Involved in curriculum development: new course proposals; GE courses and assessment plans. Teaching experience in lower and upper division courses in Art History and graduate seminars in Art and Art History. Advises Art History M.A. students on theses. Regular member of departmental Graduate Committee. Developed a case study method for Art H 70B (published); other publications in Art History.

• Edith Crowe: Art & Humanities Librarian
  Curriculum Vitae available at http://www.sjsu.edu/~ecrowe/eccv.htm. A librarian at SJSU since 1971, she holds a BA in Art History; as well as an MLS and MA in Humanities. As a participant in The Learning Project, co-taught ArtH 70A and 70B. Has produced a number of publications and presentations on information literacy including several based on The Learning Project, including: "Integrating Library and Internet Literacy into the Art History Survey Course" and "An Art History Survey Course Incorporating Information Literacy," In Library Instruction for Students in Design Disciplines: Scenarios, Exercises, and Techniques, edited by Jeanne M. Brown. Kanata, Ontario, Canada: Art Libraries Society of North America, 2002, pp. 53-73.
   
• Judy Reynolds: Language & Literature Librarian
  Established LEAP (Library Education & Assistance Program) in 1979. She has conducted workshops for SJSU faculty and students, also for the CSU. Publications include "The MLA International Bibliography and Library Instruction in Literature and the Humanities," in Betty H. Day and William Wortman (eds.), Literature in English: A Guide for Librarians in the Digital Age, Chicago, ACRL, 2000, pp. 213-247.

• Art & Design Resources in the King Library
• Art 100W Information Literacy Tutorial
• Assignments & Assessment

• Visual Resources Library, School of Art & Design
• CSU Information Literacy Projects 2001-2002
• Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education [ACRL]