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HUMN 201 - Western Culture since 1600

4 Credit (4 lecture, 0 lab) 4 Contact Hours [ENGL 100  or ENGL 101 ]


This course emphasizes the modern (post-Renaissance) historical development of thought in art, literature, music, philosophy and religion.
OFFERED: spring semesters

Course Goals; Objectives; Competencies
Goal 1:  Classify well-known artistic, literary and musical works from the Renaissance time to the present.

A.  Objectives: Classify well-known artistic, literary and musical works from the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassical/Enlightenment time.

  1. Classify well-known artistic works from the Baroque time/style period.
  2. Classify well-known artistic works from the Rococo time/style period.
  3. Classify well-known artistic works from the Neoclassical time/style period.
  4. Classify well-known musical works from the Baroque time/style period.
  5. Classify well-known musical works from the Rococo time/style period.
  6. Classify well-known musical works from the Classical time/style period.
  7. Classify well-known literary works from the Enlightenment period.
  8. Classify well-known literary works from the Renaissance period.

B.  Objectives:  Classify well-known artistic, literary and musical works from the Romantic/Realism time/style period.

  1. Classify well-known artistic works from the Romantic time/style period.
  2. Classify well-known artistic works from the Realism time/style period.
  3. Classify well-known artistic works from the Neoclassical time/style period.
  4. Classify well-known musical works from the Romantic time/style period.
  5. Classify well-known literary works from the Romantic style period.
  6. Classify well-known literary works from the Realism style period.
  7. Classify well-known literary works from the Neoclassical style period.

C.  Objectives:  Classify well-known artistic, literary and musical works from the Impressionism/Post-impressionism time/style period.

  1. Classify well-known artistic works from the Impressionism time/style period.
  2. Classify well-known artistic works from the Post-impressionism time/style period.
  3. Classify well-known musical works from the Impressionism time/style period.

D.  Objectives:   Classify well-known artistic, literary and musical works from the 20th-21st centuries time period.

  1. Classify well-known artistic works from the 20th century pre-1945 time period.
  2. Classify well-known artistic works from the 20th-21st centuries post-1945 time period.
  3. Classify well-known musical works from the 20th-21st centuries symphonic style.
  4. Classify well-known musical works from the jazz style.
  5. Classify well-known musical works from current styles.
  6. Classify well-known literary works from the 20th-21st centuries time period.

Goal 2:  Expand a vocabulary from which to discuss artistic, literary and musical concepts.

A.  Expand a vocabulary from which to discuss artistic concepts:

  1. Classify media and technique in artistic works.
  2. Classify genre in artistic works.

B.  Expand a vocabulary from which to discuss literary concepts

  1. Differentiate form in literary genre.
  2. Differentiate meter in poetry.

C.  Expand a vocabulary from which to discuss musical concepts

  1. Differentiate form in musical pieces.
  2. Differentiate tone color in musical pieces.
  3. Differentiate meter in musical pieces.
  4. Classify motives in musical pieces.

Goal 3:  Show awareness of the relationship between a work of art and the time and place in which it was produced.

A.  Arrange the time/style periods in chronological order

B.  Classify works according to style/time period.



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