Understanding Music: Past and Present is an open Music Appreciation textbook co-authored …
Understanding Music: Past and Present is an open Music Appreciation textbook co-authored by music faculty across Georgia. The text covers the fundamentals of music and the physics of sound, an exploration of music from the Middle Ages to the present day, and a final chapter on popular music in the United States.
This art history video discussion examines "The Unicorn in Captivity" (one of …
This art history video discussion examines "The Unicorn in Captivity" (one of seven woven hangings popularly known as the Unicorn Tapestries or the Hunt of the Unicorn), 1495-1505, South Netherlandish, wool, silk, silver, and gilt (The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
In this course we examine the relationship between public policy and urban …
In this course we examine the relationship between public policy and urban design through readings, discussions, presentations, and papers. We also analyze the ways in which policies shape cities, and investigate how governments implement urban design. Students gain a critical understanding of both the complex system of governance within which urban design occurs and the effective tools available for creative intervention.
The design of urban environments. Strategies for change in large areas of …
The design of urban environments. Strategies for change in large areas of cities, to be developed over time, involving different actors. Fitting forms into natural, man-made, historical, and cultural contexts; enabling desirable activity patterns; conceptualizing built form; providing infrastructure and service systems; guiding the sensory character of development. Involves architecture and planning students in joint work; requires individual designs or design and planning guidelines.
In this lesson, students will examine a preselected set of newspaper articles …
In this lesson, students will examine a preselected set of newspaper articles drawn from the "Chronicling America" website. They will determine the right each article illustrates and the responsibility that comes with that right.
This art history video discussion examines Jan Van Eyck's "Portrait of Giovanni …
This art history video discussion examines Jan Van Eyck's "Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife", tempera and oil on wood, 1434 (National Gallery, London).
This art history video discussion looks at Jan van Eyck's "The Madonna …
This art history video discussion looks at Jan van Eyck's "The Madonna in the Church", c. 1438, oil on oak (Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).
This art history video discussion looks at Rogier van der Weyden's "The …
This art history video discussion looks at Rogier van der Weyden's "The Crucifixion, with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist Mourning", c. 1460, oil on panel (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
This art history video discussion looks at Diego Rodriguez de Silva y …
This art history video discussion looks at Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez's "Las Meninas", c. 1656, oil on canvas (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
This art history video discussion examines Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez's …
This art history video discussion examines Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez's "Los Borrachos" (The Drunks) or The Triumph of Bacchus, 1628-1629 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
This art history video discussion looks at Domenico Veneziano's "Saint Lucy Altarpiece", …
This art history video discussion looks at Domenico Veneziano's "Saint Lucy Altarpiece", 1445-47, fresco transfered to canvas (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Expose middle school students to a first taste of Shakespeare from the …
Expose middle school students to a first taste of Shakespeare from the angle of the ghost story and launch into the subject of verbs. In this lesson, they learn how Shakespeare uses verbs to move the action of the play. Students then distinguish generic verbs from vivid verbs by working with selected lines in Hamlet's Ghost scene. Finally they test their knowledge of verbs through a crossword interactive puzzle.
This art history video discussion looks at Paolo Veronese's "The Family of …
This art history video discussion looks at Paolo Veronese's "The Family of Darius before Alexander", 1565-67, oil on canvas (The National Gallery, London).
British literature and culture during Queen Victoria's long reign, 1837-1901. Authors studied …
British literature and culture during Queen Victoria's long reign, 1837-1901. Authors studied may include Charles Dickens, the Brontes, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Discussion of many of the era's major developments such as urbanization, steam power, class conflict, Darwin, religious crisis, imperial expansion, information explosion, and bureaucratization. Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; syllabi vary.
This art history video discussion looks at the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin, …
This art history video discussion looks at the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin, Akkadian, pink limestone, 2254-2218 B.C.E. (Louvre, Paris). This monument depicts the Akkadian victory over the Lullubi Mountain people. In the12th century B.C.E., 1,000 years after it was originally made, the Elamite king, Shutruk-Nahhunte, attacked Babylon and, according to his later inscription, the stele was taken to Susa in what is now Iran. A stele is a vertical stone monument or marker often inscribed with text or relief carving.
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