HUM 101Art Appreciation

This course will concentrate on specific works of art, which are expressions of the cultural values held by people from nations around the world. While the focus of the course is on artistic monuments and works, they cannot be thoroughly comprehended without including material about the historical events, philosophy and intellectual ideas that inspired these works. The goal of this course is to enable students to increase their awareness through the study of art of the rich and vast numbers of cultures that have and currently make up our global world. It also will show how these cultures have interacted and contributed to the development of human civilization.