ART 323 - Modern Media, Art, and Culture I

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: Social Justice
Technological and stylistic developments of media and art, from the 18th century rise of the European public sphere to the beginnings of globalization in the late 20th century. Evidence-based writing about various cultures during modernity.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: ART 120.
Equivalent Quarter Course: ART 3035.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: Overlay - Social Justice
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Place major events and significant art works in chronological order;
Distinguish technological, cultural, and political factors that have shaped art from the eighteenth to the twentieth century;
Use appropriate art historical vocabulary to write clearly about selected works of modern art and to discuss the roles of artists and art publics in modernity;
Through close analysis of primary and secondary texts, relate and explain major theories of modernity, developments of modern art, the rise of modern art institutions, and the impact of new media;
Demonstrate understanding of the range of modernisms happening globally during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes

use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.