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ART 204 - Art History II

Course Department: Humanities
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021

3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0

Course Description:
This is an introductory course to Art of the Western World from the 14th Century to the Contemporary period. Students will study the development of regional and personal styles, and the social contexts in which art objects have been created. This course provides a greater understanding of visual communication in the Western World, increases visual literacy, and promotes critical thinking, which can help the student reach professional goals in a variety of career fields. Art History I (ART 203) is not a prerequisite for this course. 

Prerequisites/Corequisites: None

Mode(s) of Instruction: Face-to-face and/or virtual

Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.

Course Fees: None

Common Course Assessment(s): None

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:

  • Examine trends and techniques in art making through modern day

  • Develop a structure for the critical analysis of artwork that includes interpretations of form, content, style, and context

  • Identify key artworks by artist (if known), title, approximate date, culture, period, and/or style

  • Recognize historical contexts of social and aesthetic trends of works of art

  • Interpret iconography as represented within key pieces of artwork through history

Course Objectives

  • History: Understand how art is influenced by the time and place in which it was created  

  • Context: Learn how knowledge of the context of an artwork can inform understanding of the work itself  

  • Interpretation: Interpret artistic concepts and terminology 

  • Examine the content and context of the most influential art periods and styles 

  • Renaissance to Baroque  

  • Rococo to Romanticism 

  • Neoclassicism and Academic Art 

  • Realism to Expressionism 

  • Late Modern and contemporary 

  • Late 20th Century and the art of present day 


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