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Problem-based Learning
In order to engage new students enrolled in the CMA/CWRU
Joint Program in Art History and to better assist the ARTH faculty in
enhancing the students’ research and problem-solving skills applicable
to the field of art history, the Ingalls Library reference staff implemented
a "Problem-based Learning" approach to the New Student Orientation.
What is Problem-based Learning?
In the problem-based approach, complex, real-world problems are used to motivate students to identify and research the
concepts and principles they need to know to work through those problems. Students work in small learning teams,
bringing together collective skill and acquiring, communicating, and integrating information. The problem-based learning
approach for New Student Orientation is used to realize the following:
- Introduce new students to the resources available in the Ingalls Library
- Focus on research methodologies in art history
- Assign students to a reference librarian who will be his/her "point
of contact" for research assistance throughout their tenure in
the Joint Program
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Problem-based Learning Exercises - 2009 New Student Orientation |
Question 1: An anonymous Portrait of a Cardinal in the Minneapolis Institute of Art
has been associated with Lorenzo Costa and the young Correggio. What strategies would you propose for resolving
the dilemma of authorship?
Answer/Methodology
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Question 2: How many of the Abstract Expressionists studied with Hans Hofmann?
How many were members of the American Abstract Artists Group? Who were they?
Answer/Methodology
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Question 3: What is the earliest literature to be associated with the bronze Apollo attributed
to Praxiteles in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art?
Answer/Methodology
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Problem-based Learning Exercises - 2008 New Student Orientation |
Question 1: Giovanni Batista della Palla solicited Andrea
del Sarto's Sacrifice of Isaac to sell to Francis I of France.
Did he collect other paintings, and why is it significant if he did? Where
are the paintings now held?
Answer/Methodology
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Question 2: When was Goya's Self-Portrait with a Candle
Hat, in the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, first identified as a
candle hat? Who is credited with providing this insight?
Answer/Methodology
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Question 3: Did Le Corbusier say that all art could be reduced
to the cube, the cone, and the sphere? In what context was the quote made,
when, and to whom?
Answer/Methodology
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