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

  1. The Fine Arts include the visual, performing, and literary arts. Courses in Artistic Approaches may either be historical or creative in emphasis.
  2. Courses in Artistic Approaches examine significant developments in representative works of an artistic tradition.
  3. 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