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2023-2024 WWCC College Catalog 
    
2023-2024 WWCC College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CAP 034 - Art


Credits: 5
LEC hours per week: 5
Students will explore foundational topics in the arts.
Course Outcomes:
  • Apply art knowledge and skills to describe, evaluate, or present art through dance, theater, music, or visual art.
  • Interpret how art influences and reflects culture/civilizations, place, and time.
  • Evaluate arguments presented in diverse media formats. (CCRS R5-9)
  • Create logical arguments and cite evidence using logical and valid reasoning. (CCRS W1 and 9)
  • Produce clear and coherent writing in which development, organization, and style is appropriate to the task while using an academic writing process. (CCRS W4 and 5)
  • Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects, assessing the credibility of sources, integrating information, and citing relevant sources. (CCRS W7, 8, and 9)
  • Solve basic mathematical computations related to art.
  • Use technology skills for academic purposes, including word processing and learning management systems and to increase background knowledge, access information, and enhance scholarship.
  • Compile evidence through portfolio assessment to document academic growth and increased proficiency in content areas.
  • Students will show proficiency at level D in Reading based on the Career and College Readiness standards anchors 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10 (use reading rubric to determine competency).
  • Students will show proficiency at level D in Writing based on the Career and College Readiness standards anchors 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 (use writing rubric to determine competency).
  • Students will show proficiency at level B in Math based on the Career and College Readiness standards anchors 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (use math rubric to determine competency).
Course Topics:
  1. Art history - visual, music, digital, and performance.
  2. Art production - visual, musical, digital, and performance.
  3. Art criticism - visual, musical, digital, and performance.
  4. Aesthetics - visual, musical, digital, and performance.