OERuART100

Art Appreciation and Techniques

#OERuART100 - An OERu course

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Welcome to the OERu course, ART 100: Art Appreciation and Techniques. The wiki course environment differs from other online courses you may have taken or seen because it is collaborative: students and users in the wiki can modify, edit, and/or contribute to pages. Before you do that, however, you will want to work through the course.

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There are eleven modules in this course, as shown in the navigation bar near the top of this screen.

edit   Course identifiers Course tag #OERuART100 Level First year bachelor's degree Notional learning hours 100 Credits 3 Enrollment status Start anytime; no need to register Original OERu redeveloper Thompson Rivers University Open Learning (TRU-OL) Formal assessment services Thompson Rivers University Open Learning - Prior Learning Assessment edit   Key resources Start here Please read the following: Helpful tips Please note: When you click a link, use your browser's back button, an arrow, or a link to return to your previous page. Ignore the WikiEducator navigation pane on the far left of your screen, unless you wish to explore other areas of WikiEducator. It is a good idea to bookmark this Home Page in your browser so that if you get lost, you can use your bookmark to return to this page. Course Guide Prepare yourself for study by reading the Course Guide, which gives you useful information and ideas on ways to work through the course. Once you have read it, you are ready to start exploring the course units. Links to units and assignments This page gives you quick access to learning units and to assignments that can be used for formal assessment. Links to art resources This page contains links to many online art galleries and other similar resources. ask.OERu.org Community-based question and answer forum for OERu.

edit   Course Description This course introduces you to visual art and its practices across cultures. Emphasis is placed on the development of visual literacy through the consideration of art works, concepts and practices in different cultures. Students study the visual elements, media, art history and methods used to create and interpret various forms of visual art. Students learn how to appreciate, analyze, evaluate and contextualize a broad range of art works. Learning Outcomes After you successfully complete this course and all its activities and assessments, you will be able to: Explain the role and effect of art in various social, historical and cultural contexts. Engage the appropriate aesthetic theories and models to explain the processes involved in artistic production. Discuss the political, social, cultural, environmental, and aesthetic issues that artists examine through their work. Interpret examples of art, using an analytic and experiential process for understanding forms of visual art employing description, analysis, context, meaning and interpretation. edit   Microblog feed

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