2021-2022 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2021-2022 Catalog and Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ART 261 - Survey of Art History II


Credits: 3
Description
A survey of painting, sculpture and architecture in the West from the Renaissance through the modern era.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Students will learn to identify the major monuments of Western Art and architecture from the prehistoric era to the beginning of the Renaissance.
  2. Students will learn to identify the characteristics of a variety of media and the different manners in which they have been deployed by artists from approximately 1300 to the mid-twentieth century.
  3. Students will develop the visual and conceptual skills necessary to identify the particular historical period in which an object or building was produced.
  4. Students will develop the visual and critical skills, as well as the vocabulary, to analyzing and interpreting works of art produced between 1300 and 1950.
  5. Students will be able to analyze the relationship between a work of art and the particular historical circumstances in which it was produced.
  6. Students will develop the research and critical skills necessary for writing about works of art.

Prerequisite: None



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