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ART 1020 - Art Appreciation

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3
Course Description: This course introduces students to art from diverse cultures, historical narratives, and intellectual contexts. Topics include major art movements, varieties of materials, and aesthetic theories. Coursework covers formal terms, elements, and principles common to the study of art and architecture.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts, 8 Global Perspective

Prerequisite(s): Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940  with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051  with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Elements of art
  2. Principles of Design
  3. Materials and media (technical aspects)
  4. The creative process/seeing and responding
  5. The evolution of art
  6. Purposes of art
  7. Subject, form, and content
  8. Defining art
  9. Aesthetic theories and their cultural sources
  10. Abstraction, Representation, and Non-representational art
  11. Diverse socio-political influences on art and architecture throughout history
  12. Art vs. craft
    1. non-functional vs. functional design
  13. Architecture from a variety of cultures
  14. Form and function
  15. Major styles and movements from diverse cultural perspectives
  16. Universal relationships and themes
  17. Art, religion, and ceremony
    1. influence of religious beliefs on art from a variety of cultural perspectives
  18. Art and Science
    1. impact of technological inventions on art and art materials throughout history

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. analyze the variety of ways art reflects diverse cultural values.
  2. identify major socio-political events from diverse cultures that impact art.
  3. analyze the form and content of art/architecture using terms and principles common to art.
  4. identify major art movements, works of art, and architecture from a variety of cultures.
  5. describe methods and materials used in making art and architecture across cultures and throughout history.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
06. 01. Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
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.
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
08. 01. Describe and analyze political, economic, and cultural elements which influence relations of states and societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions.
08. 02. Demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social, religious and linguistic differences.
08. 03. Analyze specific international problems, illustrating the cultural, economic, and political differences that affect their solution.


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