General Education

A basic course for the development of visual awareness and coordination of perceptual and manual skills; seeing, representing, and inventing on an experimental, exploratory level on a two-dimensional surface. Problems in composition as well as hands-on work with the formal elements of art: line, shape, space, value, texture. May be taken concurrently with FINA-F 101, FINA-F 102, or FINA-D 210.

Prerequisite or Co-requisite: ENG-W 131.

The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with outstanding works of art and provide an approach to appreciation through knowledge of purposes, techniques, forms, and content.  Does not count toward the Fine Arts major.

A general introduction to painting, drawing, printmaking, and ceramics for the nonmajor.

An introduction to the art of music and its materials; to symphonic music, opera, and other types of classical music; and to the works of the great composers. For the nonmajor.

A music elective that covers learning to read music notation, scales, chords, rhythms and some keyboard. For the general student and for music majors needing a preparatory course before taking music theory (MUS-T 113).

Introduction to the art of the theatre through a study of major dramatic forms and theatrical techniques. No credit for theatre/drama major concentration.

Introduction to theories, methodology, and skills: body movement, voice and diction, observation, concentration, imagination. Emphasis on improvisational exercises. Lectures and laboratory.

Introduction to the African American literary tradition from the 1600s to the present.

Topic: Histories and cultures of China, Japan and Korea. Each culture will be examined through its respective arts, literature, philosophy and film to provide an insight in China, Japan and Korea.

ENG-L 101 Western World Masterpieces I (3 cr.) Literary masterpieces from Homer to present. Aims to teach thoughtful, intensive reading, to introduce aesthetic values in literature, and to bring about awareness of the enjoyment derived from reading.

ENG-L 102 Western World Masterpieces II (3 cr.) Literary masterpieces from Homer to present. Aims to teach thoughtful, intensive reading, to introduce aesthetic values in literature, and to bring about awareness of the enjoyment derived from reading.

Significant plays from various times and countries to acquaint students with the conventions and types of drama; works by such playwrights as Sophocles, Shakespeare, Moliere, Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Miller, and Albee.

Introduction to representative fiction and theories for interpreting fiction.

Representative poems in English; a course that enables students to read poetry with pleasure and to talk or write about it with ease.

A survey of major styles and monuments in art and architecture from prehistoric times to the end of the Middle Ages.

FINA-A 102 Renaissance through Modern Art (3 cr.) A survey of major artists, styles, and movements in European and American art and architecture from the fifteenth century to the present.

HUMA-U 101 Introduction to the Humanities (3 cr.) A survey of the development of the humanities to the Renaissance, with an emphasis on the relationship between ideas and the arts.

HUMA-U 102 Introduction to Modern Humanities (3 cr.) A survey of the development of the humanities from the Renaissance to the present, with an emphasis on the relationship of ideas and the arts.

Perennial problems of philosophy, including problems in ethics, in epistemology and metaphysics, and in philosophy of religion. Readings in selected writings of philosophers from Plato to the present.

The study of classical ethics texts by Aristotle, Kant, Mill, and many others. Examination of some contemporary moral issues.