ART& 100 Art Appreciation

5 credits

This course meets the Humanities  general education distribution requirement.

Prerequisites: ABED 40  (or placement into MATH 87  or higher) and ABED 46  (or placement into ENGL 93  or higher)

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

• Identify major art movements and styles, from around the world
• Recognize significant works of art, from antiquity to contemporary creations
• Write personal synthesis of reading, lecture, class participation, and viewing experiences
• Research and take an educated subjective position on a specific work of art
• Discuss major works of art from traditional through contemporary
• Develop a visual vocabulary to enrich a foundation of art appreciation, other cultures, and other time periods
• Articulate the link between art, visual literacy, and contemporary visual approaches, i.e. advertising, propaganda, and self-expression
• Compare artistic developments across different continents and cultures, during diverse timelines

• Discuss and explain methods of creative expression, social interaction, and aesthetic considerations employed by individuals and societies
• Employ methods of intellectual and creative inquiry central to the selected Humanities course of study, using the vocabulary, concepts, historical perspectives and materials common to the chosen area
• Dependent on the Humanities area selected, interpret specific artifacts from art, film, history, language, literature, philosophy, religious thought, or narrative form and develop one’s own viewpoint or artifact using the techniques common to that area