Humanities

New Era University
College of Art and Science
SYLLABUS in HUMANITIES 1

(Adapted) Syllabus/Course OUTLINE

Credits: 3 units

Description

The Course introduces the creative expressions in their various forms and functions. The categories of these artistic expressions are analysed. Whether these be in fine and the folk arts, or a space, temporal, and combined arts, or as specialist and communal art, these creations and their process, appreciation, and function foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of Man vis-à-vis his milieu.

General Principles:
Foster understanding of the roots of the Humanities in man’s interactions with his world.
Allows the appreciation of the creation and its process.
Explains the categories of artistic expressions.
Evaluates Art using the various approaches to its study.
Relates the general developments of artistic movements (Art History) in Europe and of arts separates history in the Philippines; and,
Requires the creation of a work in any genre as a final requirement.

Tools for Study

Various exposures in the multi-media(film, performance, museum/gallery, exhibits, creative projects and annotated tours), lectures, and directed readings.

Course objectives:

General: (for the students) to

1. Understand and value the intuitive and affective areas of human experiences in relation to the arts.
2. Expose to the various art mediums and techniques and art’s expressive elements.
3. Disclose the personal, cultural and social meaning and significance of the work of art.
4. Broaden the understanding of the movement of life and thought as these are revealed in the various art images and expressions of a community or society.
5. Help develop skills and confidence in articulating their perceptions and reactions to a work of art.
6. Enable to appreciate the distinctiveness and universality of human values and experiences, and to compare these with their won and with those of other cultures.
7. Provide opportunity in a group process t create a work in any genre.
8. Appreciate the richness of Philippine art and the country’s artistic heritage while understanding the Filipino point of view in these creative resources.

Specific

1. Distinguish and understand he function and role of the arts in the life of man from those of the exact sciences and the social sciences.
2. Learn and use the vocabulary used in the many art mediums in articulating perceptions and analyses of a work of art.
3. Classify the arts and identify their mediums, elements, and techniques.
4. View a film, visual art work, or any of the performing art or a musical.
5. Share feelings, thoughts, and insights after an experience with a work of art.
6. Participate in analysing a particular work of art and this art’s complementing particulars including the life of the artist, the artwork itself, the perception and reaction of a viewer, or the context of a given period and social milieu.
7. Read one or two says about an artist’s creative process or listen to a guest artist talk, or be involved in an artistic process.
8. Participate in an individual and group creative process in producing a work in any gene of choice.
9. Evaluate written review published in a newspaper or magazine.
10. Participate in an introductory workshop on any of the arts.
11. Identify important historical periods in the West and in the Philippines and these periods’ concomitant effects on the expression and image in the arts.
12. Evaluate ad appreciate, orally or in writing, an art work done by a Filipino.
Course Outline

I. Orientation
Expectations and other requirements Wk 1
How art will be studied (Paradigm and other conceptual frameworks: 3 hours
A. Historic (diachronic)
B. Structural (synchronic) [or: aesthetic-critical judgement approach]

II. Defining the Humanities: Situating in the 21st century

Meaning and importance amidst globalization
A. Art vis-à-vis Science: The chicken and Egg story
B. Humanity and Culture

III. The Creative Process: “Man the measure of all things” Wk2
Man, society, and nature: basic assumptions of
A. Art Creating Expressions: An overview of the Arts (nature and theories) 3 hours
B. Classification: genre creating.
C. Visual vs. Auditory
D. Space vs. Time vs. Space-time
E. Representational/ objective vs. presentational/Non-objective
F. Specialist (Fine) vs. Fold/Mass/Traditional
G. Western vs. Non-western
H. Mimetic vs. Affective vs. Expressive

IV. Synchronic Study Weeks 3-5
Defining terms: 9 hours
A. Subject
B. Function
C. Medium, elements and technique
D. Style
E. Aesthetic and Judgement [critical judgement approach]
F. Formal qualities (Medium, Elements,Organizing in space and time)
G. Principles of design (RVC, harmony, unity, balance,
H. proportion, rhythm, emphasis, subordination)
I. Expressive content

V. The Major Genres Weeks 6-8

A. Visual (painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, graphic arts, computer image processing animation, animatronics)
B. Temporal (Music, Literature, poetry, digital music)
C. Performance (Theatre, dance, Film, video, performance art)
D. Mixed Media (Performance art, installation)
M I D T E R M E X A M
(Week 9)

VI. The Diachronic Study Week 10-13

A. Frame: Man, art and society
B. Creative expressions vis–a-vis temperaments vis-a-vis styles vis-à-vis milieu
C. Western art History: General Survey (From hunting –Primitive slave society- the age of the information highway)
D. Pre-history (ancient river civilizations), Classical (Greco-Roman), medieval (early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic) Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque, Rococo, Neo-Classical, Romantic, Realistic, modern “eclecticism,” Post-modern)

VII. Philippine Art History Weeks 14-16
A. Defining Specialist vs. Traditional
B. Evolution and Revolution
(Pre-colonial, Spanish colonial, seditious art, American colonial, Post 1946, Contemporary, Post-modern and other explorations)

C. Form Function and value

VIII. Practicum Weeks 18-19
A. Preparation and production of creative project

Requirements
The two major examinations and the final creative project are compulsory requirements. In addition, instructors might suggest to students to watch theatrical plays, concerts and conduct museum visits.
Collection of readings and essays, many of which may be accessed in a selected web sites will be additional sources of references which could be augmented by plenary lectures. These will be the course’s basis references. Film/video and multi-media visual aids will also reinforce the course’s references.
In the absence of museum visits and the like, university collections of paintings may be useful.
The 21st century allows us opportunities for communication. The internet will be a most useful tool to assist you in your studies. A large amount of information and images may be found in the multitude of websites about Humanities.
Textbooks and References

Ortiz, Ma. /aurora, et. Al. Art: Perception and Appreciation. Manila: University of the East, 1976. Van de Bogart, Doris. Introduction to the Humanities. Massachusetts: Barnes and Noble, 1970

Dudley, Louise and Austin Faricy. The Humanities. 5th ed. New York: Mcgraw-Hill, 1975 (reprint)

References: Ortiz, Ma. /aurora, et. Al. Art: Perception and Appreciation. Manila: University of the East, 1976. Van de Bogart, Doris. Introduction to the Humanities. Massachusetts: Barnes and Noble, 1970 Dudley, Louise and Austin Faricy. The Humanities. 5th ed. New York: Mcgraw-Hill, 1975 (reprint)