HUM 2061 - Women in the Arts

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None
Course Description: This course is an introduction to the history of women’s involvement in the creative fields of visual art, design, architecture, film, dance, theater and music. It focuses on Western Civilization and covers artistic issues for women from the Classical Greek to contemporary times both chronologically and thematically. Creative works by women will be examined within social and historical contexts. Significant creative works representing women will be evaluated from a feminist perspective. The course explores the cultural assumptions about gender that have influenced artistic choice and interpretation.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts, 7 Human Diversity

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020   with a grade of C or higher OR ENGL 1021  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content

1. Architecture
2. Experimental filmmaking
3. Local Artists
4. Music
5. Painting
6. Art and Activism
7. Contemporary Art and design
8. Dance
9. Photography
10. Sculpture
11. Silent film era
12. Survey of Women in Art History
13. The cannon and established hierarchy of media and subject matter
14. Theater

1. Demonstrate an awareness of womens centrality in the arts.
2. Recognize the work of major women visual artist and musicians.
3. Evaluate the work of major women visual artist and musicians.
4. Recognize the work of local women artist and musicians.
5. Evaluate the work of local women artist and musicians.
6. Describe how feminist scholarship changes traditional interpretations and conclusions.
7. Identify womens place in the historical progression of the arts.
8. Critique the social and cultural assumptions about gender that have influenced artistic choice and interpretation.

06. 02. Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.

06. 03. Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.
Competency 2 (7-10)
07. 01. Understand the development of and the changing meanings of group identities in the United States’ history and culture.

07. 02. Demonstrate an awareness of the individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power relations between groups in contemporary society.

07. 03. Analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry.

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