Area C Humanities and Fine Arts – 6 hours

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• World Literature I
  • A survey of World Literature from the earliest literary writing to the middle of the Seventeenth Century which involves reading, analyzing, and interpreting significant literary works within their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1102 or 1102H with a grade of C or higher.

• World Literature II
  • A survey of World Literature from the middle of the Seventeenth Century to the present which involves reading, analyzing, and interpreting significant literary works within their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1102 or 1102H with a grade of C or higher.

• English Literature I
  • A survey of English Literature from the Angle-Saxon period to the end of the Eighteenth Century which involves reading, analyzing, and interpreting significant literary works within their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1102 or 1102H with a grade of C or higher.

• English Literature II
  • A survey of English Literature from the end of the Eighteenth Century to the present which involves reading, analyzing, and interpreting significant literary works within their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1102 or 1102H with a grade of C or higher.

• American Literature I
  • A survey of American Literature from the Colonial period to the Civil War which involves reading, analyzing, and interpreting significant literary works within their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1102 or 1102H with a grade of C or higher.

• American Literature II
  • A survey of American Literature from the Civil War to the present which involves reading, analyzing, and interpreting significant literary works within their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Prerequisites: Completion of ENGL 1102 or 1102H with a grade of C or higher.

• Introduction to Film
  • This course examines film genre. Students will study the schools of film criticism (the realists, the grammarians, the mythographers, etc.) and the techniques and conventions of various kinds of film types including documentary, mystery, western, science fiction, historical drama, women’s film, comedy, and the horror film. Students will examine films as cultural artifacts that can make important social and philosophical statements. Note: Duplicate credit is not allowed for ENGL 2300 and CINE 1100. Prerequisite: Completion of READ 0099 and ENGL 0099 with a grade of C or higher.

• Film History
  • This course examines the development of cinema as an art form. Students will study selected films representing different genres, movements, and technological developments in world cinema. Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1102 or 1102H with a grade of C or higher.

• Literature and Film
  • Students will examine the relationship between film and literature, with specific focus on the aesthetic impact of narrative, drama, and poetry on film and the significance in film of romanticism, realism, and expressionism as literary modes as well as the nature and history of the adaptations of literary works to film. Students will gain hands-on experience with the challenges of creating and adaptation of a literary text through the course project. The course carries three hours of credit in Areas C and F. Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or higher; ENGL 2301or CINE 1502 is highly recommended.

• Introduction to Art History I
  • A survey of mankind’s creative endeavors from cave paintings to cathedral, including ancient Mediterranean cultures and eventual focus on emerging forms of Christian West. Follows a chronological narrative from cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete and Greece to the threshold of Christian art in Latin and Byzantine forms. Observes final flowering of Medieval piety in evolution of Gothic imagination. Prerequisites: READ 0099 and ENGL 1101 with a grade of C or higher.

• Introduction to Art History II
  • A survey of the history of western European art from the Renaissance to WWII, focusing on painting, sculpture and architecture since the 15th century. Characteristics of style as well as influences of major cultural themes are traced through Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, and Romantic Periods, culminating in the diversity of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Prerequisites: READ 0099 and ENGL 1101 with a grade of C or higher.

• Art Appreciation
  • A study of the visual arts as an expression of human creativity. Comparison of paintings, sculpture and architecture from past and present acquaints students with aesthetic, social, psychological and critical dimensions of art. Occasional experiments with selected media. Prerequisites: ENGL 0099 and READ 0099.

• Music Appreciation
  • Survey of music in Western civilizations, including; basic listening skills, developments in the musical arts correlated to the history of man, and fundamental terminology/notation of music. Individual listening is required. Prerequisites: ENGL 0099 and READ 0099.

• Theatre Appreciation
  • Introduction to the art of the theatre emphasizing its theories, means of production, and historical development.