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Approved Courses in Literary, Visual & Performing Arts ONLY

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Goals & Outcomes

Students should cultivate a love of human expression in the arts.

Students will be able to understand how the literary, visual, and performing arts reflect and inspire the richness of human expression, and how language and other forms of expression convey meaning and story.
Students will be able to analyze how forms of expression are used to reflect, exalt, or challenge the values of a culture.
Students will be able to explain the many purposes for which art is created and the multiple contexts in which it acquires meaning and value.
Students should acquire perceptual habits and conceptual lenses conducive to the appreciation of specific media, genres, and styles.

Elementary and Early Childhood Education Majors must take a course from this approved list.

Please note that these classes are also listed below in bold and marked by an asterisk (*), and are open to all majors.

Literary, Visual & Performing Arts Courses
Course
ADA 345/Introduction to Electronic Music Skills and Literature
AAH 105/Art History I: Caves to Cathedrals*
AAH 106/Art History II: Renaissance to Revolution*
AAH 232/Introduction to Medieval Art
AAH 242/Introduction to Renaissance Art*
AAH 248/American Art
AAH 252/Contemporary Art*
AAH 280/Histories of Photography*
AAH 302/Art of Rome
AAH 344/Art of the Italian Renaissance*
AAH 347/19th Century Art
AAH 348/Baroque and Rococo Art
AAS 365/African Cinema: Franco-African Experience
AAS 335/Caribbean Women Writers
AFA 101/Experiencing Art*
AFA 211/Painting I
AFA 280/Photography I
AFA 321/Fiber Arts
AFA 365/Book Arts
CLS 250/Introduction to Greek Mythology
CMP/All Comparative Literature Courses
CMP 342/Mythology
CMP 370/Topics in Comparative Literature
COM 117/Languages of Film and Television
COM 216/History of Performance
COM 343/Looking At Women: Representation, Feminism & Film
ECE 102/ Multicultural Literature for Young Readers
FRE 240/Introduction to Literature in French
FRE 241/Introduction to African Francophone Literature
FSP 101/
GER 202/Introduction to German Literature
HON 344/Representations of the Holocaust
HON 347/Paris before the Great War
HON 349/Cities and Sanctuaries of Ancient Greece
HON 351/An Odyssey in Greece
HON 362/Goodwives & Witches: Women in Colonial America
IMM 345/Introduction to Electronic Music Skills and Literature
ITL 240/Introduction to Literature in Italian
ITL 350/20th Century Italian Lit and Culture
ITL 351/Italian cinema from 1945 to the Present
INT 365/African Cinema: Franco-African Experience
JPN 171/Contemporary Japan
LIT/All Literature Courses
MDL 371/
MUS 170/College Choir (four semesters participation required)*
MUS 171/Women's Ensemble (four semesters participation required)*
MUS 175/Choral (three semesters participation required)*
MUS 180/Wind Ensemble (three semesters participation required)*
MUS 182/College Orchestra (three semesters participation required)*
MUS 185/Concert Band (four semesters participation required)*
MUS 230/Social & Political Issues in American Music
MUS 245/History of Jazz
MUS 246/ Music in Global Perspectives
MUS 260/Exploring Concert Music*
MUS 265/Music and the Stage*
MUS 345/Introduction to Electronic Music Skills and Literature*
RAL 225/Children's Literature
RUS 171/Contemporary Russia
SPA 241/Introduction to Literature in Spanish
SPA 311/Survey of Spanish Peninsular Literature
SPA 312/Survey of Spanish American Literature
SPA 323/20th Century Spanish Theatre
SPA 327/Hispanic Short Story
SPA 331/Spanish American Novel
SPA 348/Seminar in Hispanic Film
TST 161/Creative Design*
TTR 347/Modern European Drama*
VPA 101/Integrated Visual and Performing Arts*
WGS 220/Gender and Popular Culture
WGS 225/Gender in Children's Literature
WGS 305/Looking at Women: Representations, Feminism and Film
WGS 317/The Witch in Literature
WGS 320/Men & Masculinities
WGS 341/Gay and Lesbian Literature
WGS 360/Literature by Latinas & Latin American Women
WGS 376/Global Women Writers