ART 100

Summer 2016 Part of Term S1

Part of Term S1
(4 week) May 16-Jun 10

Understanding Visual Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

Interdisciplinary methods in recognizing and understanding meaning of a wide range of visual messages in the arts, design, and culture, with emphasis on critical thinking and analysis. Topics include: visual perception, visual persuasion, the visual interpretation of time and space, humor. Contemporary art and design are explored through the use of semiotics and historical, cultural and ethical aesthetic and technical perspectives.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ART 100 class schedule data for summer 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	35192	Online	JB	5:00PM -6:20PM	TR	n.a.	Burns, J	Part of Term: S1 Date Range: 05/16/16-06/10/16 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts course. Section Info: Online. This course meets synchronously online through Blackboard Collaborate on the class times/days. ART 100 gives students the means to understand, analyze, and enjoy a wide variety of visual forms, from traditional fine arts like painting, drawing, and architecture to imagery such as folk art, graffiti, and fashion photography. Objects as simple as a potato peeler and as complex as a contemporary sculpture installation are examined to evaluate both their specific formal qualities and their wider cultural meanings. We study the places and spaces of the contemporary world from the suburbs to the city, from the crooked city streets of old Paris to the carefully constructed environments of Disneyland and Chicago public housing. Although the objects we consider are quite diverse, we use the same core methods of formal, semiotic, and contextual analysis to create a durable framework for understanding visual culture.