Overview
Description
Selected topics in the Italian Renaissance, emphasizing cultural, political, and social developments, urban identities and artistic creation.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 6 credits
Learning Outcomes
- analyze and interpret disparate primary and secondary sources – written, visual, and material.
- interpret visual and written evidence for its cultural meaning and apply an understanding of a culture to make informed conclusions about it.
- make an argument and logically support it from both primary and secondary sources.
- identify, in writing and/or class discussions, the unique characteristics, such as urban space, public ritual, consumer culture, publishing, and the Jewish ghetto, of Renaissance Venice’s cultural and urban identity.
- discuss, in writing and/or class discussions, the artistic creations and cultural/ technological innovations of Leonardo Da Vinci, and explain why they find relevance in the twenty-first century.