VA 101 – Introduction to Art and Culture

VA 101 – Introduction to Art and Culture, Weekly hours: 2+1, ECTS: 5, C
The main objective of this course is that the students gain a certain and basic amount of information and knowledge and ways to explore and classify them. After that, the goals can generally be conceptualized in training students to recognize the main characteristics of key art movements from prehistory to the 20th century, the main protagonists, and their artwork. Students in the final stages of the program should recognize the specifics of certain artistic directions in the field of painting, sculpture, architecture and other. In that way, they also get necessary knowledge about technologies in the creation of artwork, and about sociological and philosophical aspects which are directly related to the pre-modern artistic phenomena.