NOTE: This requirement is part of the previous Core, and only applies to students on the 2023-24 or prior Bulletin years. Please see the current Core and graduation requirements here.
(one unit to be taken during the first three years)
Learning Objectives
Students in Artistic Approaches courses develop a critical, interpretive, and analytical understanding of art through the study of an artistic tradition.
Guidelines
- The Fine Arts include the visual, performing, and literary arts. Courses in Artistic Approaches may either be historical or creative in emphasis.
- Courses in Artistic Approaches examine significant developments in representative works of an artistic tradition.
- These courses provide opportunities for informed engagement with an artistic tradition and require students to reflect critically, both orally and in writing, about art and the creative process.
Approved Courses
- ALC 205 Introduction to Asian Literature
- ARTH 275 Studies in Western Art I: Ancient through Medieval Art
- ARTH 276 Studies in Western Art II: Renaissance to Modern
- Art ARTH 278 Survey of Asian
- Art ARTH 302 The Art of Mexico and Mesoamerica
- ARTS 101 Visual Concepts through Painting and Drawing
- ARTS 102 Principles of 3D Design
- ARTS 103 Visual Concepts through Drawing and Print Media
- ARTS 104 Visual Concepts through Digital Media
- ARTS 202 The Printed Image
- ENGL 211 Introduction to Creative Writing: Story vs. Anti-Story
- ENGL 212 The Craft of Literature
- ENGL 213 Biography/Autobiography/Memoir
- ENGL 226 Introduction to Journalism
- ENGL 227 Introduction to Writing Fiction
- ENGL 229 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
- GERM 300 German Cinema of the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism, 1919-1945
- GERM 305 Culture in the Third Reich
- GERM 310 WWI in Literature and the Other Arts, 1908-1938
- GERM 350/350 From Rubble to New Reality: German Cinema after World War Two
- GLAM 231 Ancient Tragedy
- GLAM 232 Ancient Comedy
- HON 206 The Arts of the Classical World and the Middle Ages
- HUM 200 Homer to Hitchcock: the History of Ideas in the Arts
- HUM 290 Introduction to Cinema Studies
- HUM 367 Word and Image
- LTS 376 The Art of Mestizaje
- MUS 100 Survey of Western Music
- MUS 105 Music in the United States
- MUS 123 Discovering Music
- MUS 126 History of Popular Music
- MUS 221 Jazz History
- MUS 222 Music of the World’s Peoples
- MUS 223 Women in Music
- MUS 224 The Age of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
- MUS 225 Romanticism in Music
- MUS 226 Twentieth-Century Music Through Film
- MUS 227 Musical History of Tacoma
- MUS 230 Western Music From Antiquity to the End of the Baroque Era (C. 500 BCE to 1750)
- MUS 435 Firing the Classical Canon
- THTR 200 The Theatrical Experience