D i v i s i o n o f A r t s, L a n g u a g e a n d L i t e r a t u r e Humanities 1315 Fine Arts Appreciation Spring Semester 2012 SECTION 4001 (Please make note of your section number which you will be required to record on all tests and assignments.) MEETING TIME 9:05 – 10:00 AM MWF INSTRUCTOR BOB WHISNANT F212/972-860-7134 [email protected] Office: 10:00 – 11:00 AM MWF/12:30-1:30 PM TR REQUIRED TEXT Reality Through the Arts, Seventh Edition By Dennis J. Sporre ISBN-10: 0-205-66048-7 or ISBN-13: 978-0-205-66048-3 WEB SITE ADDRESS: http://prenhall.com/sporre ECAMPUS This course is available through eCampus Blackboard. This is a course management software platform for use by students and faculty. Course information, communication, and grades will be accessible through this system. Students must have an email address to access the eCampus system. Email addresses may be acquired for FREE through a variety of sources. Students are NOT REQUIRED TO OWN A COMPUTER. You ARE REQUIRED to utilize a computer for this course. As a student enrolled in the DCCCD, you have access to computers that are located in areas designated for student use.It is your responsibility to become familiar with eCampus and check it regularly. Please note that is you have trouble with eCampus you must call technical support at: 972-669-6402. CATALOG DESCRIPTION Humanities 1315 Is about the processes and products of creativity. It starts in that mysterious world and impulse called creativity and ends with paintings on museum walls, sculptures in gardens, massive buildings in public spaces and music in the symphony hall and even over your car radio. The course should lead you to explore your own creative potential; to question how you grow and become open to a larger world. It will give you the vocabulary to discuss how the arts effect you and how to become more critical and analytical and, in turn, more appreciative and sensitive. Humanities 1315 is a course designed as an introduction to the Arts: such as (but not limited to) Music, Visual, Architecture, Theatre, Dance, and Cinematic. This course focuses on the study and appreciation of the fine and performing arts and the ways in which they reflect the values of civilizations. Fine Arts Appreciation, as part of the study of the Humanities, is an interdisciplinary course in the development, understanding, analysis and redefinition of our aesthetic perceptual skills through the formal and contextual examination of the relationships of the visual and musical arts with the broad field performing arts, environmental arts, and literature. Following is a list of the chapters that may be covered (Please see a more complete list of activities and objectives elsewhere in syllabus.): Introduction Creativity and the Arts Chapter One: Pictures, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, and Photography Chapter Two: Sculpture Chapter Three: Music Chapter Six: Dance Chapter Seven: Architecture Chapters from the second half of the textbook may also be studied. These chapters examine the arts in the context of cultural history. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board recently issued this revised course description for Humanities 1315: Understanding purposes and processes in the visual and musical arts including evaluation of selected works HUMANITIES IN THE NEW CORE. A newly designed Core goes into effect in the Fall of 2010 for DCCCD campuses. The new Core is designed to “move away” from “distribution credits” to a more interdisciplinary, thematic approach. Humanities 1315 is now in Tier Two Domain under the learning category of Humantiy, Creativity, and the Aesthetic Experience.The core of learning in college is a set of courses that will provide you with the knowledge, skills and educational experiences you need to succeed in higher education. Those classes - called the Core Curriculum - are the courses that lead to an associate degree from DCCCD and which then transfer to four-year colleges and universities. This solid foundation of Core courses enables you to meet the challenges of your entire college career head-on, and transfer important credits to another college or university while saving yourself time and money. Core courses are guaranteed to transfer to Texas public colleges and universities. TIER 2 - CORE DOMAINS Courses in Tier 2 reinforce and apply the knowledge and skills that you learned in Tier 1. Humanity, Creativity, and the Aesthetic Experience – HUMA 1315 is in this category. Exploring what makes us human, the nature of the creative impulse, and the value of beauty in our lives is the focus of this study. This learning category broadly focuses on the value of literature, philosophy, and the visual and performing arts. You will be able to critically analyze and form artistic judgments about the arts and humanities. TEXAS STATE REQUIREMENTS Humanities 1315 is designed to fulfill the core requirement termed Humanities and Visual and Performing Arts. This curricular area’s objective is defined by the Coordinating Board as follows: The objective of the Humanities and Visual and Performing Arts in a core curriculum is to expand students’ knowledge of the human condition and human cultures, especially in relation to behaviors, ideas, and values expressed in works of human imagination and thought. Through study in disciplines such as literature, philosophy, and the visual and performing arts, students will engage in critical analysis, form aesthetic judgments, and develop an appreciation of the arts and humanities as fundamental to the health and survival of any society. Students should have experiences in both the arts and humanities. INTELLECTUAL COMPETENCIES Humanities 1315 satisfies the Core Curriculum Intellectual Competencies defined by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board as follows: - READING: the ability to analyze and interpret a variety of printed materials (books, documents, and articles) above the 12th grade level - WRITING: the ability to produce clear, correct, and coherent prose adapted to purpose, occasion, and audience above the 12th grade level.- CRITICAL THINKING: the ability to think and analyze at a critical level - COMPUTER LITERACY: the ability to understand our technological society, use computer-based technology in communication, problem-solving, and