INART 1The Arts

3 credits · Integrative Arts · Penn State

The Arts is a course designed to give students an integrative experience of the themes and purposes common among the arts, visual, performing, and literary. Students are given the opportunity to view and discuss many forms of art, learning a specific vocabulary for discussing each artistic form and arriving at an answer to the question "what is art?" The goal of the course is to enhance aesthetic perception by examining works of art, by discerning what can be seen and heard in them, by understanding what those elements are called, and by determining how the artwork creates a response in the viewer or listener.