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Welcome to CART1013: Exploring the Arts!
Course Introduction
This is a fine art appreciation course designed for non-art majors. The 3-credit hour lecture course introduces each of the four primary arts (music, visual art, theatre, and dance) as they relate to the human experience. The course will emphasize critical thinking and the artistic process through exploration of achievements, content and function in the arts, in order to foster enjoyment, understanding, and appreciation.Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Discuss the definitions of Art, Theatre, Dance, and Music in broad terms:
- Describe what is unique to each art/ what makes it different than the other 3 art forms.
- Explain and compare how the arts are different from other activities and similar to each other.
- Demonstrate a concrete understanding of the formal components of each of the four arts:
- Describe the meaning of the formal elements of each art.
- Identify and isolate the elements in a given piece/performance.
- Demonstrate a basic knowledge of a variety of artistic mediums and/or styles
- Observe and summarize the approach to specific pieces/performances.
- Compare and contrast traditional, contemporary, formal and popular art forms using appropriate terminology and concepts
- Distinguish the role of the arts in traditional, contemporary, formal and informal settings.
- Understand the role of environment and curation on their perception of art
- Examine the environment surrounding a piece/performance (physical & conceptual) and question how that affects their perception of it. Reframe, compare, discuss, and speculate how changing environments may affect perception.
- Articulate personal attitudes about the arts using relevant concepts, ideas, using relevant sources to support their position
- Complete a project that requires selection, discovery, and evaluation/reinterpretation of a variety of arts.
Adopting institution should provide learners information on how to navigate the course. Consider adding an introductory navigation video. Text description could include, for example:Navigating the Course
This course is set up in Modules covering various topics which may be accessed from the course navigation menu on the left or by scrolling below. Modules may be collapsed in the menu and it the body of the course to minimize scrolling. Each module includes the relevant chapters followed by various activities, which may include discussion forums, listening activities and quizzes, practice quizzes, module tests, and other relevant activities as appropriate for each module. Many items are required and may be marked as completed automatically when the activity has been submitted (the broken check box), but others will marked as done by the student (the solid check box).Please move through the items below and continue through the Learner Support and Getting Started modules before moving on to Module 1. Be sure to check for announcements and due dates to stay on track.
This course and its contents are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network, except where otherwise noted.
Course Schedule:
In this schedule, you will list the topics and the corresponding course materials (chapters, videos, etc.) covered in sequence. This schedule demonstrates how you would organize your course around open materials and should be reflective of your course description, goals, and student learning outcomes.
The typical academic semester is ~15 weeks, so this template is using ** modules. Use this to outline the topics you would cover on a module (or weekly or other scale) basis and the corresponding readings/resources that support that content. Add/remove rows as needed. The table is designed so with the top row repeats if the table spreads to a new.
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