HUMANITIES (what i learned in our class)

HUMANITIES

·         Refers to art, literature, dance, music and etc.

·         Human subjectivity is emphasized as experiences are dramatized

·         Primary concerns: human beings and their feelings

·         Records of man’s experiences, values, ideas and goals

·         Ultimate expression of thought

·         4 E’s of Humanities:

-          Exploration (sense of discovery and unending search for something new)

-          Exposure (exposure to society, media, community)

-          Experience (test in skill and patience)

-          Enjoyment (release)

·         3 domains in learning humanities:

-          Cognitive learning (mental)

-          Psychomotor learning (application)

-          Affective learning (emotion)

ART

·         Is a product of man’s creativity

·         Study of art:

-          Art has a moral implication

-          Art is educational

-          Art is social, cultural

·         Importance of art:

-          Relaxation

-          Spiritual Happiness

-          Art is a powerful means to reform to change behavior and feelings of loneliness, restlessness and uncertainty

·         Work of art applies intellectual movement

·         Subject of an art:

-          Representational art (art that have subject)

-          Nonrepresentational art (art that do not have subject, do not represent)

·         Ways of presenting the subject:

-          Realism (depict the reality)

-          Abstraction (need the meaning to be seeked)

-          Distortion (twisting, stretching, deforming the neutral form of the stage of the object)

BEAUTIFUL

·         Satisfies the eyes

·         Has order

·         Meaningful

·         Relevant

·         Relaxation for our boredom

·         Man needs to experience beautiful to free us from sorrows