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Apr 05, 2025
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Preliminary 2025-2026 Yavapai College Catalog
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ART 100 - Art Appreciation
Description: Explores creativity as a fundamental human characteristic with diverse expressions across culture, geography, and time. Visual literacy and critical analysis skills will be developed to understand how global artistic and material culture reflects the intersection of historical and contemporary concepts with social issues and identities. The appreciation of art in this way will help the student better find their place in the world - as an individual and as a member of wider communities.
General Education Competency: Diversity
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Creativity as a human phenomenon: defining, creating, and contextualizing art
- Media and processes of art
- Terminology of visual concepts and creative processes
- Formal analysis: identify, analyze, and interpret
- Global visual culture as it relates to historical and contemporary artistic concepts
- Global visual culture as it relates to identity and social issues
- Art in public spaces and galleries
Learning Outcomes:
- Utilize terminology that describes fundamental visual concepts. (1-7)
- Develop visual literacy skills. (1,3,4)
- Utilize visual literacy skills to interpret a work of art. (3-7)
- Relate interpretations of historical and/or contemporary works of art to current issues. (4-7)
- Analyze the impact of culture, ethnicity, race, gender, and/or sexuality on global art production. (1,4-7)
- Analyze how global art production has been affected by cultural, political, religious, scientific/technological, economic, and/or environmental influences. (1,4-7)
- Examine how art can be a reflection of personal experience. (5-7)
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