Arts, Humanities
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Humanities
- those academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are largely analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences
Examples of the disciplines related to humanities are ancient and modern languages, literature, history, philosophy, religion, visual and performing arts (including music). Additional subjects sometimes included in the humanities are anthropology, area studies, communications and cultural studies, although these are often regarded as social sciences. Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes described as "humanists" - Wikipedia.
Arts
- a broad subdivision of culture, composed of many expressive disciplines. In modern usage, it is a term broader than "art", which usually means the visual arts (comprising both fine art, decorative art, and crafts). The arts encompasses visual arts, performing arts, language arts, culinary arts, and physical arts. Many artistic disciplines involve aspects of the various arts, so the definitions of these terms overlap to some degree - Wikipedia.
eight guest lectures on video (explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, of investigating landscapes and expressing ideas, Readings, observations, and photographs form the basis of discussions on landscape, light, significant detail, place, poetics, narrative and how photography can inform design and planning, among other issues): readings, projects
brings computational exploration to the widest possible audience, open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts, free player runs all demos: Browse Latest, Random Selection, FAQs, Authoring area
major art works & monuments of ancient Near East (primarily Mesopotamia), Egypt & Classical Greece, sculpture, pottery, seals, architectural remains & wall painting of these cultures, understanding of those civilizations, political & religious ideologies that shaped them, evolution of their art styles
Italy, Florence and Tuscany, The Medici Family, Copernican System, Ptolemaic System, Johannes Kepler, Galileo's Telescope
prehistory to the late middle ages: resources (ancient European and Mediterranean studies, museums, maps)
critical examination of major developments in European and American art during past century, surveys art's engagements with modernization, radical politics, utopianism, mass culture, changing conceptions of mind & human nature, new technologies, colonialism and postcolonialism & other significant aspects of recent history: readings, related resources
extended examination of the nature and value of art and artistic activity: interpretation, definitions of art, value of art, postmodernism, taste, beauty, imagination, expression & emotion, art & ethics, fakes & forgeries, film, photography, music
to become familiar with representative examples of the Arts of the Western European tradition, understand the necessity for the Arts, master, to some degree style of thinking most often applied to studying the Arts, understand the Arts as a cultural practice
relationships between our collective social and cultural structures and the individual: visual communication, art & ideas, photo history, html & webdesign, Art and Photo History, photography master workshops, Media Theory, Suggested reading list
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