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COURSE SYLLABUS

HUM 123 SURVEY OF HUMANITIES III

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8. COURSE OUTLINE
Tentative Schedule
1.0 The Enlightenment
1.1 Philosophy
1.1.1 Revolutionary thought
1.1.2 The social contract
1.2 Literature
1.2.1 Satire
1.2.2 Comedy of manners
1.3 Music
1.3.1 Sonata and sonata-allegro (symphony
1.3.2 Mozart
1.4 Visual Arts
1.4.1 Rococo
1.4.2 Neoclassicism
1.5 Concepts
1.5.1 Optimism
1.5.2 Deism
1.5.3 Influence of science
2.0 Romanticism
2.1 Poetry
2.2 Music
2.2.1 Beethoven
2.2.2 Program music (vs. pure)
2.3 Painting
2.3.1 Colorists
2.3.2 Painterly
2.3.3 Landscapes
2.3.4 Development of impressionism
2.4 Philosophy - Dionysian vs. Apollonian
2.5 Concepts
2.5.1 Back-to-nature
2.5.2 The sublime
2.5.3 Primacy of feeling and imagination
2.5.4 Classicism vs. romanticism
2.5.5 Nationalism
3.0 Modernism and the 20th Century
3.1 Visual Arts
3.1.1 Expressionism
3.1.2 Abstraction
3.2 Philosophy
3.3 Literature
3.4 Music:  breakdown of traditional tonality
3.5 Concepts
3.5.1 Pluralism:  isms/schisms
3.5.2 Skepticism and tradition (breakdown)