HUMN 303 Week 3 DQ2 RENAISSANCE ART ANALYSIS – RENAISSANCE TEAM 2 HUMN 303 Introduction to the Humanities This week, your goal is to help one another create a narrated presentation discussing a Renaissance painting or sculpture. You’ll be divided into groups. In each group discussion, please begin by reading the section in the lesson […]
HUMN 303 Week 6 DQ2 COLONIALISM AND SLAVERY HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities This week, you’ll be studying more about powerful nations, such as Britain and France, colonizing other parts of the world. You’ll also be reading some hard things about slavery as part of trade and colonization. Let’s begin with discussing William Blake’s engraving, […]
HUMN 303 Week 6 DQ1 NEOCLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM HUMN 303 Introduction to the Humanities Neoclassicism and romanticism are two movements in art that overlap in Europe. Please read about each in Chapter 12: The Age of Revolution and discuss the time frame, defining characteristics, and ideology of each. Please provide lots of visual examples so […]
HUMN 303 Week 8 Discussion LOOKING AHEAD HUMN 303 Introduction to the Humanities Whew! What a whirlwind this 8 weeks has been. To have made it this far, you’ve had to work very hard and been willing to think about new ideas and new cultures. What was the most meaningful thing to you that we […]
HUMN 303 Week 7 DQ1 POST-IMPRESSIONIST ART HUMN 303 Introduction to the Humanities Last week, you read about Impressionism as breaking dramatic new grounds in the visual arts (Chapter 13: The Working Class and the Bourgeoisie). This week, please discuss the role of post-Impressionism in modern art from Chapter 14: The Modernist World. Who were […]
HUMN 303 Week 7 DQ2 THE WORLD WARS HUMN 303 Introduction to the Humanities As you’ve been reading, World War 1 (1914–1918) and World War II (1940–1945) both changed the world and the arts irrevocably. What were the economic and psychological after affects of each war? Discussing one war at a time, please discuss the […]
HUMN 303 Week 1 REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT: THE NATURE OF TRUTH HUMN303 Introduction to the Humanities Please read the excerpt from Plato’s The Republic called “The Allegory of the Cave” (the link is available in this week’s readings), as well as the section in your textbook on Greek philosophy (Chapter 2, pp. 64–67 “Philosophy and the […]
HUMN 303 Week 3 Assignment create a narrated presentation discussing a Renaissance painting or sculpture HUMN 303 Introduction to the Humanities Over the last 2 weeks, you’ve been delving into philosophy, the nature of truth, historical context, and how artifacts reflect their historical context. This week, we’ll be adding to that knowledge with art theory […]
HUMN 303 Week 2 Reflection Assignment Virtual Field Trip HUMN 303 Introduction to the Humanities This week, you’ve been reading about the birth and evolution of several major world religions. For your assignment, you will take a virtual field trip to view the medieval collections of your choice of an online museum. For this assignment, […]
HUMN 303 Week 4 REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT EXPERIENCING THEATER HUMN 303 Introduction to the Humanities Plays are meant to be performed rather than read. The purpose of dramatic arts often extends far beyond the words written on a page—staging, lighting, costumes intonation, expression, and audience experience are all part of the experience of a theatrical production. […]
