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2025-2026 Catalog

ART 281 - Art History: Renaissance to Baroque


Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisites: RDG 090  and ENGL 090  or qualifying scores on accepted placement tests
C5 General Education Human Experience Satisfier Y
MTA Humanities/Fine Arts Satisifer Y
Global Studies Satisfier Course Y
Session Cycle: FW

This course is an exploration of the artists and ideals that mark the development of early Renaissance art and its subsequent developments in Northern and Southern European art to the eighteenth century. Focus will be placed on the individual artists from the early Renaissance period up to the Baroque. This course is a satisfier course for the Global Studies Degree Designation.

Notes: Humanities/Social Sciences Division

Theory Hours: 45

Learning Outcomes:  

  1. Identify specific works from artists studied.

Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency  Objectives A and B.

  2. Recognize specific artist’s styles and names.

Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency ​ Objectives A and B.

  3. Recognize the basic philosophies and beliefs of each period covered and how they affected the artists and their art.

Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency ​ Objectives B and C.

  4. Identify the innovations of specific artists.

Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency ​ Objective C.

  5. Acquire information about specific cultures.

Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency ​ Objective A.

  6. Show the ability to create a research/notebook or PowerPoint using a variety of sources based upon the student’s personal research and interests covering specific artists.

Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency ​ Objective D.

  7. Demonstrate the ability to think critically by including a personal response segment in his/her research book or PowerPoint covering each specific period.

Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency ​ Objectives B and D.

  8. Appreciate the changing styles in art and the forces that created them.

Applies to General Education Human Experience Competency ​ Objective B.