The course provides an introduction to visual culture. It is designed to equip students with the basic knowledge for understanding visual culture in the context of Chinese and Western art. Its content includes topics on concepts of perception, visual aesthetics, visual languages and theories, etc. Having acquired basic understanding of how art connects to the world, students are led to appropriate the knowledge to the appreciation and contextualization of the vibrant and diverse visual culture of today.
Intended Learning Outcomes
CILO-1: To understand visual art as a form of visual culture which is an academic domain open for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies.
CILO-2: To get acquaint with the methods for visual expression and representation: cultural, historical and technical.
CILO-3: Formation Principles of plane and three-dimensional visual arts.
CILO-4: Application of visual arts.