ART& 100 Art Appreciation (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly ART 110 - CCN
Course Description
An introduction to the development of art, from a global perspective, with the aim to develop an insight and comprehension of art. Topics include perception, aesthetics, design elements and principles, challenges to Eurocentrism and the Art Canon.
Course Content
The nature of, purposes, and functions of art.
Form vs. Function.
Subject, form, and content of art.
History, tools, techniques, and relevant terminology of two-dimensional mediums, including drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography.
History, tools, techniques, and relevant terminology of three-dimensional mediums, including sculpture and architecture.
Elements and Principles of Design.
The effect of culture, positionality, society, style, characteristics, influences, intent, and aesthetic traditions on perception.
Eurocentrism and Western Bias in art, and challenges to these biases.
Student Outcomes
1. Synthesize fundamental methods of visual thinking and criticism.
2. Analyze various artistic mediums and their relationship to subject, content, and function.
3. Examine style characteristics, style names, culture, content, and intent in order to explain their impact on perception and meaning.
4. Analyze how positionality and cross-cultural visual influences are represented in art and art criticism from a global art history perspective.
5. Explain the role of significant visual elements and principles of design in a work of art.
6. Examine the impact of Eurocentrism and Western Bias on the history and development of art.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Essays
B. Image identification
C. Group discussion/participation
E. Quizzes
F. Exams
G. Completion of hands on art assignments
H. Museum and gallery visits
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