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Arts Courses

  • Learning Objectives for General Education Arts Courses

Arts courses enable students to demonstrate:

  1. an understanding of the history and/or practice of one form of artistic expression
  2. an understanding of the function and meaning of form.
  3. that they have the vocabulary they need to continue to learn about how art is made and interpreted
  4. depending on the nature of the course, recognition of the difference and overlap between creative and critical thinking
  5. depending on the nature of the course, an understanding of how art works are embedded within different cultures at different times and places

 

 

 

 
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