Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan

Department of English Language and Literature

1st Semester SY 2022-2023

A COURSE OUTLINE for ENGLISH 7

Course Code: ENGL 7

Course Title: Art Appreciation
Schedule: TF |
Room:
Faculty: Hobart P Savior Ph D
Doctor of Philosophy in Language Studies
Master in English Language Studies
Bachelor of Arts in English (Language and Literature)
09063195719 | bart9211978@gmail.com

Course Objectives: At the end of the semester, the students are expected to:
1. Recognize and appreciate the arts, their makers, art history, and the various philosophical,
cultural, historical, social, religious, economic, and environmental contexts, functions,
meanings, and forms that are significantly attributed to every art work: Western, Asian and
Filipino;
2. Analyze and review art works or productions or performances through art reviews or
criticism;
3. Deepen a resolved sense and sensitivity to self, community, society, faith, morality, and
religion.

Wee Date Mode Topic Discussant |

k Reporter
1 1-20 Schola Brevis HPSavior
Orientation and Course Introduction
Artwork and Essay to answer the Four
Fundamental Questions of Man
2 1-24 A Students read the article: Art and Society by Student Work
T Alice Guillermo and they write a short-
answered essay about the article.
Deadline: February 14, 2023
2 1-27 FF Sulyap Kultura HPSavior
F
3 1-31 S Sulyap Kultura Continued HPSavior
T

3 2-3 FF The Nature of Art HPSavior

F The Art and its Correlations

4 2-7 A Search for John Berger and write a short Student Work
2-10 descriptive essay of who he is and his book
TF Ways of Seeing by watching the
YouTube videos titled:
John Berger – Ways of Seeing (Ep 1 – 6)
Wee Date Mode Topic Discussant |
k Reporter
Deadline: February 24, 2023
Students read Reading the Image by Alice
Guillermo
5 2-14 FF Discussion on the Art Mapping Project Group Work
T Procedure
And an Essay on Abstract
Deadline: April 1, 2023
6 2-21 FF Discussion of the Functions of Art and the HPSavior
T Approaches to the Study of Art

7 2-28, A PAINTING ANALYSIS Student Work

3-3, and Through Audio Video Presentation
3-7 Deadline: April 1, 2023
T
F Advance Reading: The Elements of Visual Arts |
T Principles of Design | Style, Form, and Content
| Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Art
or Media
8 3-10 FF Discussions on the Elements of Visual Arts | HP Savior
F Principles of Design | Style, Form, and Content
| Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Art
or Media
8 3-11 FF Film Screening: Mona Lisa Smile Entire Class
Sat
9 3-14 FF Continuation: Discussions on the Elements of HP Savior
T Visual Arts | Principles of Design | Style, Form,
and Content | Two-Dimensional and Three-
Dimensional Art or Media
10 Midterm Exam: Group Work
Museum Tour and Profiling
Deadline: April 19, 2023
13 4-14 S Art History A: Prehistoric Art | Classical Art: Reporting
F Greece and Rome | The Medieval Period | The
Renaissance Period
14 4-18 S Art History B: The 16th Century Art: Mannerism Reporting
F |
The 17th Century Art: Baroque Art and Rococo
Art |The Late 18th Century and 19th Century Art
(Modern Art): Neo-Classicism, Romanticism,
Realism, Art Nouveau, Symbolism
15 4-25 S Art History C: The 20th Century Art Reporting
T Modern to Post-Modern Art: Expressionism,
Dadaism, Surrealism, Social Realism,
4-28 Impressionism, Postimpressionism, Fauvism,
F Pointillism, Cubism, Constructivism, De Stijl,
Futurism, and the Bauhaus

Philippine Art
 Wee Date Mode Topic Discussant |
k Reporter

Art Appropriation Reporting

Deadline: April 21, 2023
15 4-26 FF The Combined Arts: Music and Dance HPSavior
W
Group Work: Music and Dance
Deadline: May 25, 2023
15 4-28 FF The Combined Arts: The Drama HP Savior
F Film and New Media Art
(Evening)
Final Requirements:
A. T-shirt Design and Actual Modeling of
T-Shirt Video;
B. Principle of Life Photo Essay
C. Music and Dance Video Production
D. Art Appropriation Video
E. Avante Garde Fashion – Imaging the
Man
Deadline: May 25, 2023
15 4-29 FF Watch Miss Saigon the Making and Miss Saigon The Entire Class
Sat the Musical

16 5-6 FF World Cinema Premiere The Entire Class

Sat
17 - A Final Stage of Video Production The Entire Class
19
20 5-31 Engl 7 – Arts Festival The Entire Class
Wed Submission of the Final Requirements

References:

Caiña-Adajar, Carthelyn et al. 2018. Art Appreciation. Malabon City: Mutya Publishing House Inc.

Fernandez, Steven Patrick. 2009. The Human Image in the Arts Introduction to the Humanities.
Iligan City: IPAG ARM.

Getlein, Mark. 2005. Gilbert’s Living with Art. 7th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Ortiz, Ma Aurora et al. 1976. Art: Perception and Appreciation. Quezon City: University of the East.

Perez, Teody Boylie et al. 2013. Alampat An Introduction to Art Appreciation.

Davao City: Blue Patriarch Publishing House.

Fichner-Rathus, Lois. 2013. Understanding Art. USA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.