Intellectual Foundations

As a means of exploring the human experience, students will demonstrate:

1. Ability to read and understand visual and/or performed language (e.g.,  idioms, styles, codes, and conventions).
    
2. Understanding of the meaning and use of artistic symbols in social context.
    
3. Ability to interpret visual and/or performed work, including an understanding of purposes and processes of creative endeavors.
    
4. Ability to identify the persuasive and/or emotive aspects of visual and/or performed work.*
    
5. Understanding of artistic criteria for evaluating visual and/or performed work.

*Learning outcome 4 does not prohibit a course from the treatment of work with no persuasive or emotive aspect (e.g., minimalism).

1. Students will be required to respond to original visual and/or performed work
    
2. Desirable but not required: Students will experience creative activity within the course.

1. The term “performed art” includes music, theater, etc.
    
2. The term “language” refers concepts like the idioms, styles, codes and conventions of a visual or performed art rather than the ability to read (e.g.,  musical notation).