ChabotCollegeFall 2007

Course Outline for Humanities 60

CrEATIVITY AND THE COMMUNITY

Catalog Description:

60 – Creativity and the Community 3 units

The Arts as an expression of the community; the relationship between creativity and community; the artist as the conscience of society and the role of the audience in completing an artwork. Themes include the artist as prophet, art as transformative experience, the arts and social justice, and the shock of the new. 3 hours.

[Typical contact hours: 52.5]

Prerequisite Skills:

None

Expected Outcomes for Students:

Upon completion of this course students should be able to:

  1. describe how the artist functions as conscience of society, stating specific examples;
  2. interpret prophetic themes in art;
  3. state how the audience completes an artwork;
  4. distinguish differences between art as personal expression and art as transformative of society;
  5. write and discuss art as communal expression and transformative experience.

Course Content:

1.How the artist functions as conscience of society

2.Prophetic themes in art

3.How the audience completes an artwork

4. Differences between art as personal expression and art as transformative of society

5.Art as communal expression and transformative experience

Methods of Presentation:

  1. Lecture
  2. Discussion
  3. Audiovisual materials
  4. Creative experience

Assignments and Methods of Evaluating Student Progress:

1.Typical Assignments

a.Write an essay, contrasting art as personal expression and art as social commentary

  1. Research a speech or paper on a specific artist and identify the prophetic

themes in her/his work

  1. Create a prophetic song, poem, short story or painting with an accompanying short paper explaining the social power of the piece.

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Course Outline for Humanities 60, Page 2
Fall 2007

Assignments and Methods of Evaluating Student Progress (continued):

2. Methods of Evaluating Student Progress

a.Quizzes and Exams

  1. Papers
  2. Creative Project
  3. Researched paper or presentation
  4. Final exam

Textbooks(s) (Typical):

Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New. New York: Knopf, 1991.

Other Voices, Other Vistas/A Superb Collection of Contemporary Multicultural

Fiction. Ed. by Barbara H. Solomon. New York: A Signet Classic, New American

Library, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002.

May, Rollo. The Courage to Create. New York: Bantam Books, 1975.

Zinn, Howard. Artists in Times of War. New York; Seven Stories Press, 2003.

Special Student Materials:

None

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