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Arts and Literature
Courses in the Arts and Literature domain ask students to extend their knowledge and experience of the arts while developing their critical and reflective abilities. In these courses, students will interpret and analyze particular creative works across different disciplines, investigate the relations of form and meaning, and through critical and/or creative activity come to experience art with greater openness, insight and enjoyment. These courses focus on works of art or literature as such, though the process of analysis may also include social and cultural issues. Work in this domain includes literature, the visual arts, media arts, the performing arts, music and theater. Students are expected to meet their requirements through courses in different disciplines.
Learning Outcomes and Writing Expectations
Approved by the Liberal Studies Council, Spring 2006
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to explain, in well-written
prose, what a work of art is about and/or how it was produced
(i.e. they should be able to articulate and explain the “content”
of that work and/or its methodology of production).
- Students will be able to comment on the relationship
between form and content in a work. How does the 14-line sonnet
both enable and inhibit its practitioner, for example? What
are the generic expectations of a particular form? How does
an artist complicate, enrich, or subvert such expectations?
- Students will be able to assess the formal
aspects of their subject and put those qualities into words,
using, when appropriate, specialized vocabulary employed in
class and readings.
- Where appropriate,
students will be able to consider the original audience that
witnessed a work of art and consider how their expectations
differ from our own. This may include, in music, the elements
of form, rhythm and style; or, in art, the vocabulary for visual
material (how it was made and how it looks). They will be able
to articulate a subject as well as write about it, explaining
how aesthetic elements comprise a particular style in the arts.
Writing Expectations:
A minimum of 5-7 pages of writing for courses
in the Arts and Literature domain (including studio courses)
is required.
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