ARTS 1100 Art Appreciation
This course focuses on fostering an awareness, understanding, and appreciation for the visual arts. Through exposure to art images throughout history, students will build an artistic vocabulary that allows for the constructive analysis of art objects. Students will also gain an understanding of the interaction of art with other important aspects of culture including politics, history, religion, and science.
This course was previously listed as ARTS 1105 Understanding Visual Art. ARTS 1100 will automatically fulfill any requirement that previously required ARTS 1105. Students may not earn credit for both ARTS 1100 and ARTS 1105.
Credits
3
Notes
This Core IMPACTS course is part of the Arts, Humanities, and Ethics (Humanities) area. Core IMPACTS is the University System of Georgia (USG) and GCSU core curriculum, which is designed to ensure that students acquire essential knowledge in foundational academic areas and develop career-ready competencies to support their broad academic and career goals.
This course should direct students toward this broad Orienting Question: How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?
Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: Ethical Reasoning, Information Literacy, Intercultural Competence
Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following USG Core Learning Outcome: Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.
Completion of this course will also enable students to meet the following GCSU Core Learning Outcomes: