Contributor and Sponsor Credits
This website is a mirror site for the IDST 2310 WEBCT course package. Portions of the slides and other materials here are restricted to GC&SU students.
Funding provided by a Model Technology Infused Course Development grant from the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Partial funding and other support for Dr. Vess's contributions provided by the Pew National Scholarship Program for Carnegie Fellows through the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and through a Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning seed grant for work under the auspices of the Association of Integrative Studies. This site is a component of Dr. Vess's IDST 2310 course portfolio Carnegie Scholar 1999-2000.
copyright © Dr. Deborah Vess 1998-1999, Georgia College & State University, and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. All rights reserved. Rights to chapters authored by contributing faculty members reserved to Georgia College & State University, to the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at GC&SU, and to the individual faculty authors.
IDST 2310 is one of nine interdisciplinary courses in the core curriculum at Georgia College & State University, and was developed by a team of faculty members from disciplines in the Arts and Sciences. This online text for the course was also developed as a result of an interdisciplinary collaboration. Contributing faculty members and staff include:
Dr.
Deborah Vess,
Director of the grant project, Director of Interdisciplinary
Studies
and Associate Professor of History
Site and template design, link pages, chapter introductions and commentaries, chapters on Art and the State (Benin, China, French Revolution), Michelangelo, Art as Self-Expression: Freud, Color in Music, Greek Aesthetics/Acropolis, Art and the Ordered Universe: 18th century art, philosophy and music and Asian Views of Nature (Japan); Codified Forms of Expression (Japanese Drama), Houses of Prayer (Pyramids, Mosques, and Cathedrals).
Dr. Roxanne Farrar, Assistant Professor of Art History and Interdiscplinary Studies; color science, Yoruba Color Aesthetics, and Chinese Landscape art.
Dr. Wayne Glowka, Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies; Myth and Creation; One Alone in the Water; Male and Female Accounts of Creation.
Dr. Lee Gillis, Professor of Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies; The Self Accoding to Jung.
Dr. Frank Lowney, Director of Instructional Technology; technical assistance.
Dr. Greg Pepetone, Associate Professor of Music and Interdisciplinary Studies; Eighteenth Century Classical Music, Romanticism in Music, and the elements of music.
Dr. Jane Rose, Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies; Understanding the Aesthetic of Realism in Literature of the Nineteenth Century.
Prof. Susan C. Wylly, Professor of Art; chapter on weaving.
Dr. Patti Tolbert, Assistant Professor of Music; chapter on The Elements of Music: Rhthym in African Drums and Dance.
Dr. Tina Yarborough, Assistant Professor of Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies; Mona Lisa and kitsch, Native American Kitsch.
Cathy G. Locks, temporary instructional support specialist, OIIT, top banner and animated gif.
Special thanks to Mrs. Zudy Tolley and Mrs. Ann Portwood in the Dean's Office in the College of Arts and Sciences for their help in transcribing Dr. Farrar's lectures.