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Dec 05, 2024
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HUM 215 - Humanities through the Arts Credits: 3 Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Description: This course represents an exploratory approach to the humanities that focuses on the special role of the arts. The relation of the humanities to values is central to the purpose of the course. This approach provides a self-contained program for studying values as revealed in the arts.
Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Humanities This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements. This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Fall, Winter Check Course Availability
Course Competencies
- Investigate the historical influences of political, cultural, and scientific values upon art.
- Investigate the basic elements and tools an artist uses to create a work of art.
- Develop an appreciation of the processes of criticism and evaluation.
- Investigate human values as they are found in various performing and fine art works prior to the present.
- Explore contemporary human values as they are found in the various art media in popular culture.
- Explore the resources in the various performing and fine arts.
- Explore the interrelationships between the various performing and fine arts.
- Develop techniques for critical thinking.
- Express opinions and views effectively and responsibly in class discussions.
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