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A World of Art   (ART-100)   3 credits  
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Course Description
A World of Art is an art appreciation course that covers the sweep of Western art from its earliest sources to its most recent developments. The course covers a range of media that have defined visual art over time: painting and sculpture, architecture and decorative arts, photography and drawing, mixed media, assemblage and installation art. A World of Art discusses ways that the visual arts have echoed the human experience across the ages. A key theme is the way that art reflects both continuity with previous tradition and transformation as artists continually create something new. Course content is drawn from the Teaching Company's "Art Across the Ages" course by Professor Ori Z. Soltes.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Explain the tension between continuity and transformation in the history of art.
  • Discuss ways that visual art echoes human experience.
  • Differentiate between different periods and styles of art.
  • Examine the interplay between art and the areas of religion, politics, and culture.
  • Discuss varying styles of representation and abstraction.
  • Examine the emergence of artistic self-preoccupation.
  • Demonstrate appreciation of various types of visual art.

 
Introduction to the Humanities IV: Fine Arts and Architecture   (HUM-104)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Introduction to the Humanities IV: Fine Arts and Architecture surveys the great works of Western painting, sculpture, and architecture from 800 A.D. to the mid-twentieth century. These works are examined within the political, religious, and social context of their time, allowing students to understand both why the artwork was created by the artist and how it was also a response to a particular set of historical circumstances. Students will emerge from the course with a better understanding of how to view art with both understanding and enjoyment. Course content is drawn from the Teaching Company's A History of European Art by Professor William Kloss.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Discuss the political, religious, and social events that shaped great artists and works of Western art and architecture.
  • Explain methods for viewing art with understanding.
  • Differentiate between different periods of art.
  • Compare different styles of art.
  • Discuss works of art using correct terminology.
  • Demonstrate appreciation of art through informed discussion of works of painting, sculpture, and architecture.

 
Advanced Journalism   (JOU-300)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Instruction and practice in advanced journalistic techniques, with an emphasis on such specialized areas of coverage as business, science, education, and arts and entertainment.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate writing and reporting for beats such as business, science, education, and arts and entertainment
  • Compare and contrast journalistic skills and techniques used when covering beats such as business, science, education, and arts and entertainment
  • Analyze how innovations in technology have impacted journalistic techniques and legal and ethical principles

 
Introduction to Theater   (THA-101)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Examines knowledge of the fundamentals of theater art. Covers plays and theater practices from the Greeks to the present.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Understand and explain the different styles of dramatic literature: classical tragedy, Elizabethan tragedy, modern tragedy, comedy, Absurdism, Expressionism, modern social realism;
  • Understand and explain the differences in staging practices of Classical Greek/Roman theatres, Elizabethan public theatres, contemporary proscenium, thrust, and arena theatres
  • Understand and discuss theatre as an art form and how it differs from other art forms
  • Understand and discuss the parts of a modern realistic play
  • Understand and discuss theatre as a collaborative art and the many kinds of artists that make it work

 
Theater II   (THA-102)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Continued study of the art of the theater, covering dramatic literature; types of drama and theatrical events; theater design and play productions; criticism.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the different styles of dramatic literature: classical tragedy, modern tragedy, comedy, Absurdism, expressionism, modern social realism;
  • Demonstrate the differences in staging practices of Classic Greek/Roman theatres, Elizabethan public theatres, contemporary proscenium, thrust, and arena theatres;
  • Demonstrate knowledge of theatre as an art form and how it differs from other art forms;
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the parts of a modern realistic play;
  • Demonstrate knowledge of theatre as a collaborative art form and the many kinds of artists that make it work.

 
Creative Arts for Preschool Children   (CDS-110)   3 credits  
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Course Description
The student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the theory, content, and methods available to facilitate children's creative expression in the early childhood classroom (pre-kindergarten to third grade) through graphic art, music, drama, and literature as they impact both cognitive and affective development in children.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Discuss theories related to the emergence of creativity in young children.
  • Describe and compare methods to enhance the creative expression of young children in areas of art, music, literature and drama.
  • Describe methods to foster creativity and artistic expression in a given content area.
  • Explain how to adapt instruction to meet the creativity needs of children experiencing developmental delays or disabilities.
  • Discuss how music and movement relate to the development of cognitive ability and analytical skills.
  • Compare and contrast philosophical approaches to creativity in the early childhood classroom.
  • Explain and provide examples of how culture and ethnicity can be explored and celebrated through mediums of art, music, and drama.

 
Computer Graphics/3D Modeling   (GRA-451)   3 credits  
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Course Description
This course will extend the student's expression with three dimensional computer graphics modeling systems. Wire frame modeling in combination with the application of paint systems will allow for solid figure modeling. Applications in both fine arts and commercial art will be considered.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate three dimensional computer graphics modeling systems.
  • Discuss and demonstrate a thorough knowledge of Wire frame modeling in combination with the application of paint systems to allow for solid figure modeling.
  • Demonstrate competency in the use of three dimensional computer graphics modeling systems for both fine and commercial arts.

 
Classical Music I   (MUS-361)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Detailed study of the development of musical forms and performance media, from the Rococo to the end of the 18th Century.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the cultural and political events in world history in the year 1750.
  • Identify those philosophical practices of the ancient Greeks rejuvenated by the intellectuals of the Classical Period to form the basis of philosophy, science and the arts during this "Age of Enlightenment." as well as identify the important thinkers of this time.
  • Identify artistic characteristics of the Rococo style and its practitioners during the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period.
  • Describe the musical characteristics of the mainstream Classical style and how it evolved from the Rococo.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the important musical forms and genres of Western art music 1750-1800.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the important composers of Western art music 1750-1800.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the important developments in the design of musical instruments 1750-1800.

 
Video Production I   (COM-226)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Introduction to the fundamentals of video production. Students will learn how to script, direct, shoot, light, edit, and produce short video pieces. They will examine the application of video to the contemporary arts, to documentation, and to television production. They will learn a visual vocabulary through an evaluation of other works and through a hands on experience in production that will enable them to take more advanced work or better use imaging for their particular needs.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • demonstrate how to script, direct, shoot, light, edit, and produce short video pieces
  • analyze the application of video and its technological innovations to the contemporary arts, to documentation, and to television production

 
18th Century History and Philosophy   (HUM-310)   3 credits  
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Course Description
This course explores the culture of the Age of Reason at its height through the in-depth study of a number of major texts and of certain leading figures. There is an interdisciplinary approach embodying, for instance, historical, literary and philosophical approaches. The works of fiction and poetry, philosophy, history, science, music and art are studied in their own right, bur are also interconnected as mutually illuminating phenomena.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Identify the roots of Enlightenment thought in 17th century achievements in science, politics and the arts.
  • Demonstrate familiarity with the great system builders in epistemology, metaphysics and ethics and the basic principles that characterize their thinking including such thinkers as Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Rousseau, Berkeley, Hume, Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant, Vico, Voltaire.
  • Identify and discuss the development of rationalism and empiricism during this period considered the Age of Reason.
  • Articulate reasoned views on Nietzsche's philosophy, supported by close textual reading and argument.
  • Demonstrate familiarity with some of the critical literature on existentialism.
  • Demonstrate familiarity with some of the critical literature on the period.
 
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