AD 34601 - The Global Renaissance

This course examines art in the early modern period (ca. 1400-1600) from the perspective of cross-cultural interactions among European and non-European societies. Special attention is devoted to the act of interrogating historical narratives that privilege European developments and achievements.

Cr. 3.
Notes
Minimum grade of C- required to count towards any program of the Department of Art and Design.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate an understanding of writing as a social process that includes multiple drafts, collaboration, and reflection.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of writing assignments as a series of tasks including identifying and evaluating useful and reliable outside sources.
3. Demonstrate proficiency in reading, evaluating, analyzing, and using material collected from electronic sources (such as visual, electronic, library databases, Internet sources, other official databases, federal government databases, reputable blogs, wikis, etc.).
4. Recognize and describe humanistic, historical, or artistic works or problems and patterns of the human experience.
5. Apply disciplinary methodologies, epistemologies, and traditions of the humanities and the arts.
6. Analyze and evaluate texts, objects, events, or ideas in their cultural, intellectual or historical contexts.
7. Create, interpret, or reinterpret artistic and/or humanistic works through performance or criticism.
8. Develop arguments about forms of human agency or expression grounded in rational analysis and in an understanding of and respect for spatial, temporal, and cultural contexts.
9. Analyze diverse narratives and evidence in order to explore the complexity of human experience across space and time.