HUMS 1130 - The Humanities in the Modern World

4.5 Credits

This course is an interdisciplinary overview of the development of Western culture from the Baroque period through the present. (Formerly Humanities II: Modern World)

Lecture Hours: 4.5
Lab Hours: 0.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

Recognize the medium, form, and function of painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, poetry, religion, music and dance of the Western world.
Compare and contrast cultures of the early Western world and the modern world.
Interpret the arts of the Western world in an historical, social, and global context.
Analyze the universal humanity in its artistic expressions that transcend its culture and time.

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