Assignments
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Assignment 1 - The Renaissance
Choose one particular Renaissance artist, sculptor, or architect. Research and discuss his works, their style, significance, and relationship to the works of others.
Remember: Use online resources to support your ideas and always cite them.
Assignment 2- The Baroque and Enlightenment
Choose a painter or musician of the Baroque or the Eighteenth century. Discuss this person's works and their development over the person's career.
Remember: Use online resources to support your ideas and always cite them.
Assignment 3 - Romanticism and the Belle Epoque
Choose a painter, writer, or composer from this period. analyze the meaning and purpose of the works the person produced.
Remember: Use online resources to support your ideas and always cite them.
Assignment 4 - Chinese, Japanese, & Russian Civilizations
Options to research for this assignment are: Chinese landscape paintings, Japanese architecture, or Russian literature, music, or architecture.
Remember: Use online resources to support your ideas and always cite them.
Assignment 5 - The Age of Anxiety & Modern Africa and Latin America
Literature is the subject for this assignment. Research and discuss American modernist, Southern regionalist, African, or Latin American writers and writing.
Remember: Use online resources to support your ideas and always cite them.
Assignment #6 - The Age of Affluence & Contemporary Life
Choices of subjects for this last assignment are: abstractionism in art, existentialism in philosophy, or diverse American writing. |
