Introduction to Humanities - The Renaissance to the Present

Course Description

This course provides an introduction to the arts through their expression in dominant themes of western culture. Concepts of nature and the individual in society are examined in the artistic works from the Renaissance to the present. The course also provides a framework for understanding and evaluating contemporary artistic endeavors.

Topics and Objectives

Defining the Humanities

  • Differentiate between the "humanities" and various other modes of human inquiry and expression.
  • Identify examples of art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature that reflect current developments in politics, socioeconomic status, and technology.

The Renaissance and Reformation

  • Identify key examples of art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature that reflect developments in world events and cultural patterns during the Renaissance.

The Age of Baroque

  • Identify key examples of art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature that reflect developments in world events and cultural patterns during the Age of Baroque.

The Age of Enlightenment

  • Identify key examples of art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature that reflect developments in world events and cultural patterns during the Enlightenment.

The Romantic Age

  • Identify key examples of art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature that reflect developments in world events and cultural patterns during the Romantic Age.

The Age of Modernism

  • Identify the important political, socioeconomic, and technological developments in the Age of Modernism.
  • Describe the key contributions in art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature that affected cultural patterns and art forms in the Age of Modernism.

Post Modernism: The Age of Pluralism

  • Identify the important political, socioeconomic, and technological developments in the Age of Pluralism.
  • Describe the key contributions in art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature that affected cultural patterns and art forms in the Age of Pluralism.

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