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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE & INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

First Semester- AY 2010-2011

Subject Code : Humanities 1

Nomenclature : Introduction to Arts Appreciation
Units Credit :3
Prerequisite Subject : None

I. Course Description
This course on the appreciation of art is based upon looking at artworks for art’s sake to
broaden and enlighten the cultural background of the student. It introduces the creative
expressions in their various forms and functions which includes a critical evaluation of selected
works of painting, sculpture, and architecture. The categories of these artistic expressions are
analyzed. Whether these be in the fine and the folk arts, or as space, temporal, and the
combined arts, or as specialist and communal art, these creations and their process,
appreciation, and function fosters a deeper understanding and appreciation of Man vis-à-vis his
milieu.

II. Course Objectives: At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

Cognitive:
1. To understand and value the intuitive and affective areas of human experiences in relation to
the arts;
2. To 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.

Psychomotor:
1. To expose to the various art mediums and techniques and art’s expressive elements;
2. To disclose the personal, cultural and social meanings and significance of the works of art;
3. To develop skills and confidence in articulating their perceptions and reactions to a work of
art;
4. To provide opportunity in a group process to create a work in any genre.

Affective:
1. To appreciate the distinctiveness and universality of human values and experiences; and
compare these with those of other cultures;
2. To appreciate the richness of Philippine art and the country’s artistic heritage while
understanding the Filipino point of view in these creative resources.

III. Methodologies/Strategies/Techniques

Lecture Class Reporting Group Discussion

Brainstorming Research Paper Interactive Discussion
Inductive Method Deductive Method Exercises Method
Group Activity Demonstration Critical Reading
IV. Course Content

CONTENT/TOPICS TIMEFRAME Remarks

(hrs)
I. Introduction to Humanities
1. Setting Class Expectations 3
2. How Art Will Be Studied (Conceptual Paradigm)
a. Historic (diachronic) 3
b. Structural (synchronic or aesthetic-critical judgment
approach)
II. Defining the Humanities: Situating in the 21st
Century 3
1. Meaning and importance of art amidst globalization
2. Art vis-à-vis Science: The Chicken and Egg Story 3
3. Humanity and Culture
III. The Creative Process: “Man the measure of all things”
1. Man, Society, and Nature: The Basic Assumptions of Art 3
2. Creating Expressions: An overview of the Arts (nature and
theories) 3
3. Classifications: genre creating
IV. The Different Classification Art Genre
1. Visual vs. Auditory
2. Space vs. Time vs. Space-Time 2
3. Representational/Objective vs. Presentational/Non-
objective
4. Specialist (Fine) vs. Folk/Mass/Traditional 3
5. Western vs. Non-Western
6. Mimetic Vs. Affective vs. Expressive
V. Synchronic Study
1. Subject
2. Function 2
3. Medium, Elements and Technique
a. The artist and his medium 2
b. The artist and his technique
4. Style
VI. Aesthetics and Judgment
1. Critical Judgment Approach
2. Formal qualities, Mediums, Elements 2
3. Organizing in space and time
4. Principles of Design (harmony, unity, balance, 3
proportion, rhythm, emphasis, subordination)
5. Expressive content
VII. The Major Art Genre
1. Visual (Painting, sculpture, architecture, photography,
graphic arts, computer image processing, animation, 3
animatronics)
2. Temporal (Music, Literature, Poetry, digital music) 3
3. Performance (Theater, Dance, Film, video,
performance art) 1
4. Mixed media (performance art, installations)
VIII. The Diachronic Study
1. Art Frame: Man, Art and Society
2. Creative Expressions vis-à-vis Temperaments vis-à-vis 3
Styles vis-à-vis Milieu
3. Western Art History: General Survey (from hunting –
primitive slave society – the age of the information
highway) 2
4. Pre-history (ancient river civilizations)
5.Classical (Greco-Roman)
6.Medieval (Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque,
Gothic)
7. Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque, Rococo, Neo- 3
classical, Romantic, Realistism
8. Modern “eclecticism,” Post-Modern
IX. Philippine Art History
1. Defining Specialist vs. Traditional
2. Evolution and Revolution 3
3. Pre-colonial, Spanish colonial, seditious art, American
colonial, Post 1946, Contemporary, Post Modern and
other explorations 1
4. Form, function and value
Total (54 hrs)

V. Course Requirements
A. Regular Attendance
1) All students are required to regularly and promptly attend all class sessions.
2) Midterm: Written Report, Research Paper,
3) Final term: Portfolio
VI. Grading System
Class participation, quizzes, activities, recitation, attendance –
33.33% Major Exams – 33.33%
Projects – 33.33%

VII. Integration
A. Suggested Topics
1. Basic Intellectual Competencies
2. Perspectives
B. Suggested Activities
1. Class Debate

VIII. References

Dudley, Louise and Austin Faricy (1995). The Humanities. 5th ed. New York: Mcgraw-Hill.
Ortiz, Ma. Aurora, et. al. (1996). Art: Perception and Appreciation. Manila: University of the
East, 1976.
Van de Bogart, Doris. (1990). Introduction to the Humanities. Massachusetts: Barnes and
Noble, 1970.

Internet Sources

“Humanities” Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology. Article online.

< www.msuiit.edu.ph/ipag/studies/humanities > 13 July 2011.

“Arts Appreciation” Texarkana College. Article online. < http://old.texarkanacollege.edu/>

11 January 2012.

“Introduction to Arts” Lee College. Article Online.

<http://www.lee.edu> 29 June 2011.

Designed by:
MENELITO P. MANSUETO
Instructor

Checked by:
ZINA D. SAYSON, Ph.D.
Dean, CEA