INTRO TO WESTERN ART II (AH1020)

Students will become familiar with important artistic and cultural trends in the periods covered by the course.

Students will acquire the capacity to identify major works of art and to articulate their meaning in relation to their context of production and reception.

Students will hone their visual abilities through the careful examination of selected monuments and artists from a broad range of Western history, while developing their writing and verbal skills in analyzing artworks.

Students will be expected to engage, orally and in writing, with the ways in which these objects have been interpreted and discussed both historically and in contemporary art historical literature.

Local and Global Perspectives: Students will enhance their intercultural understanding of languages, cultures, and histories of local societies and the global issues to which these relate (CCI LO1)

Aesthetic Inquiry and Creative Expression: Students will engage with artistic or creative objects (e.g., visual art, theatrical works, film) in different media and from a range of cultural traditions (CCI LO2)

Exploring and Engaging Difference: Students will think critically about cultural and social difference; they will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities that can relate to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion, or class (CCI LO3)