Humanities and the Arts will be characterized by exploration and appreciation of the ways people document and understand the human experience through literature, philosophy, religion, architecture, and the visual and performing arts. Students will be able to:

• Describe, interpret, and appreciate literary and artistic works and their contexts.
• Analyze the impact and role of artistic and literary production and achievement on our understanding of the human condition.
• Identify and express the role of landscape in literature through reading, analyzing, discussing, and formulating responses to assigned works of literature.
• Identify and express the role of landscape in film, television, video, music, and/or theater through watching, listening, analyzing, discussing, and formulating responses to assigned productions.
• Attend and compose written responses to assigned extracurricular events that connect landscapes to popular culture or the arts.
• Identify and express the role of landscape in the visual arts through observation, comparison, research, analysis, diagramming, discussion, and formulating responses to assigned works and/or exhibits.
• Identify and express the role of the landscape in advertising through observation, comparison, research, analysis, and the presentation of findings to the class.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the landscape’s role in or influence on a variety of artistic and cultural endeavors as measured by quizzes, exams, or brief papers.
• Present how they personally view landscapes through their development of a final project that demonstrates their personal and cultural views on the landscape through an original work of literature, painting, graphic art, video, ad campaign, musical composition, sculpture, board game, comic strip, children’s book, photo essay, or other approved media.

Visual Art
Literature
Film
Music
The Forest
Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales
Advertising and Marketing
Utopia and Dystopia
The Gothic Landscape
The Urban Landscape