HU 205 - Civilization and Culture II (AD 1500-Present Day)

2. Demonstrate an understanding of the foundational roots of cultures contributing to the rich tradition of thought and human ingenuity encountered within the Western tradition.

3. Compare and contrast the literature, philosophy, religion, performing arts, and visual arts, from the Renaissance through the Postmodern era. (GELO 3)

4. Analyze and discuss the interrelatedness of literature, philosophy, religion, performing arts, and visual arts, from the Renaissance through the Postmodern era. (GELO 3)

5. Identify and investigate well-known leaders, composers, artists, writers, theologians, and philosophers.

6. Synthesize and apply ideologies presented in the Humanities so as to better understand his or her own Weltanschauung (world and life view). 

7. Present analyzed and applied practices/principles gained from research in both written and oral formats.

8. Exhibit understanding and tolerance of others’ world and life views.

9. Translate or explain what written information means and/or how it can be used.

10. Use rules or frameworks to provide context for and understand problems or issues. 
Course Outline:
I. Introduction to the Humanities

II. Seeds of the Renaissance planted in the Middle Ages

III. Florentine Art and Culture

IV. The Renaissance 

A. The rise of humanism, science, and technology

B. Where are the Women?

V. The Reformation:  Luther, Calvin, Erasmus

A. New thoughts and attitudes

B. Literary and philosophical selection of Music of the Renaissance: Palestrina

C. The Court and the Church

D. Secular versus sacred

E. The madrigal

F. Theater: Commedia Dell’Arte

VI. Spread of Italian Renaissance to the north

A. Visual arts of the Renaissance 

B. Leonardo Da Vinci

C. Michelangelo

D. Raphael

E. The Renaissance Motet

VII. The Northern Renaissance: France, England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Central Europe

A. Visual arts: Durer, Bruegal, Bosch

B. Theater: Shakespeare

C. Ballet: De Cour

VIII. The Baroque: Counter-Reformation

A. Rome becomes the artistic center of the Baroque style

B. Visual arts: Bernini, and Caravaggio

C. The birth of opera: “The Camerata; in Florence”

D. Baroque outside of Italy

E. The North: court of Louis

XIV. Ballet 

A. Lully, Spain, Velasquez, Quevedo, Gongora

B. The Netherlands: Ruben, Van Dyck, Rembrandt

C. England: Purcell, Milton, Donne, Handel

D. Germany: J.S. Bach

E. The Enlightenment

IX. The Age of Reason

A. Rococo and Neo-Classical styles in Art: Watteau, Frangognard, David, etc.

B. Neo-Classical architecture in Europe and the United States

C. Natural human rights, law, and revolution

D. End of patronage

E. Writing and thought during the Enlightment: Gibbon, Pope, Swift, Voltaire; Beginnings of the novel: Behn, Defoe

F. The Mannheim school and the development of the symphony: Haydn, Mozart, and early Beethoven; Development of new instruments

G. Literary and Philosophical selection

X. The Romantic-Era: The Romantic Frame of Mind

A. Expression of emotion individualism, nationalism, nostalgia

B. Exaltation of ideal womanhood

C. Literary and philosophical selection

D. Science and social thought

E. The Visual Arts: Goya, Delacroix, Ingres, Courbet, Corot, Rodin, etc.

F. Romantic Music: Beetoven as transition from Classicism to Romanticism: Berlioz, Schubert, Liszt, Schumann, and Brahms; Romantic Opera: Weber, Wagner, and Verdi

G. The Demise of Bel Canto:  Russian and Central European Music

XI. The Modern Era: Naturalism/Verism and the Industrial Revolution; Realism in the theater

A. New Technical Developments: Electricity

B. The Phonograph; Beginning of New Artistic Media

C. Photography and Film

D. Architecture: Wright, Sullivan, Bauhaus, Corbusier Van Der Rohe, Gaudi, etc.

E. Impressionism; Post Impressionism as transition to Modern Art

F. New Styles in Visual Arts: Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimalists, Photorealism, etc.

G. Impressionism and Expressionism in Music: Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, R. Strauss, Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg; Atonality

H. Late Flowings of Romanticism: Rachmaninoff and Puccini

I. Popular music

1. Modern Dance Revolution

2. Growth of Jazz

3. Electronic Music

J. Writing and Thought: Proust, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Freud and His Effects on Twentieth Century Arts

K. Literary Experiments: Joyce, Faulkner, Coover; Utopianism and Futurism: Boccioni; The Nuclear Age

XII. The Postmodern Dilemma: Science and Technology

A. The new philosophy?

B. The Future of Religion

C. Reinventing the Old; New Age

D. New Artists: Lucien Freud, Duane Hanon, and Nam June Paik; Feminist Art; Trancendence and Art

E. Writing and Thought: Collin, Morrison, Alexi, Coetzee, etc.

F. The New Beat: Zorn, Marsalis, Rap, Zwilch, etc.

Facilitated discussion: 20-35%

Video and mediated instruction: 20-35%

Group work: 20-40%
Mandatory Course Components:
None
Equivalent Courses:
None

Minimum of one short analysis paper and/or project

Minimum of one researched individual and/or group oral and written presentation