Center for General Education and Core Curriculum, Tamkang 【Local Narratives and Artistic Performances】

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【Local Narratives and Artistic Performances】

Interdisciplinary Micro-Program

【Mission】

To enhance and deepen students' artistic and humanistic cultivation, the "Local Narratives and Art Performances" micro-course aims to inspire students' interest in local culture and art. It combines the expertise of art faculty with the rich humanistic and artistic resources of the locality from multiple perspectives. This allows students to gain an in-depth understanding of the creative backgrounds of local artists and the rich connotations of local narratives. Utilizing a multifaceted approach and leveraging STEAM learning, the course deepens the understanding of local narratives and art performances through guided tours and performance activities.

【Course Planning】

Students must complete at least one course in each of the three domains—"Foundational Interdisciplinary Studies," "Thematic Issues," and "Practical Orientation"—within the chosen micro-course program, totaling at least four courses. Furthermore, they must achieve passing grades in these courses to qualify for the issuance of the program certification.

Domain	Department Offering the Course	Course Name	Course Description
Foundational Interdisciplinary Studies	Arts Appreciation and Creation (M Group)	ART AND LIFE-DIALOGUE WITH THE GREAT ARTISTS	“Art & Life”, a series of art lectures concerning visual art, architecture and music, intending to enrich one’s cultural acknowledgement and to cultivate one’s character. In this course, we invite Taiwan famous artists to give talks to our students. Through sharing their works and life experiences, we hope this may bring to our students a broader cultural and international of viewpoint, furthermore, to elevate a student’s ability of critical thinking and the potential creativity in one’s mind.
Thematic Issues	Department of Architecture	THEORY OF DESIGN	This course is designed to overtake the space acknowledgement of visual orientation in the process of Design, and make responses under different changes of new circumstances. Using our body as the base experience the real environment, face the challenges form different topics and practice the dialectical ability of Design to affect the reality.
Thematic Issues	Arts Appreciation and Creation (M Group)	THE BASIC SKETCH SKILL OF MODEL ART	The content of this course is not only a technical of drawing, but also including other abilities training, such as: to recall our sensibility to things, to think independently, judgment to beauty, aesthetic literacy, flexibility in using media, and etc., besides, to take into account to the content and skill of a works, and to realize the progression of mind and thought of an artist while a creative activity is in processing.
Thematic Issues	Department of Education and Futures Design	THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CONTENT CURATION	With curatorial practice as the main axis, the first part introduces the history of contemporary curatorial development and content design in different fields, including planning, discourse writing, narrative, visual communication, display material, and space design. In the second part, students are guided by task-based learning to plan and produce exhibitions for local design and social design, as well as visit cultural institutions and exhibitions to establish students' curatorial theory and practice.
Thematic Issues	Arts Appreciation and Creation (M Group)	INTRODUCTION TO NEW MEDIA ARTS	This course focuses on investigating the artistic possibilities of science and technologies. Various topics of interactive art installations and new media artworks are introduced, analyzed and discussed in order to improve students' abilities of art appreciation. Some artistic activities are also included in the class for encouraging students' creativity and ability of critical thinking.
Practical Orientation	Arts Appreciation and Creation (M Group)	MUSIC MASTER WORKS APPRECIATION AND INTERPRETATION	The goal of this course is to introduce ideas and listening strategies to deepen your relationship with music. Music as the central axis, horizontal to explore the western classical music development and evolution of styles, vertical understanding of the nature and structure of music, musical instruments, types of musical forms, and musician biographies, etc. Finally, among the great classical works, students will have a deeper knowledge and appreciation of the history, aesthetics, techniques, forms, and genres of Western classical music.
Practical Orientation	Arts Appreciation and Creation (M Group)	EXPLORING DANCE AS NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION THROUGH ENVIRONMENTS	Dance is ubiquitous. Everyone has dance genes. But with the development of dance art and its academic status, people gradually forget that it is human instinct. This course will lead students to re-feel, explore and develop various possibilities within the body mind, to regain the original intention and fun of enjoying dance. By interacting with people and things around and exploring environmental spaces, it will help them develop creativity. The course is project-oriented service learning. It aims to practice the understanding of life and care of society through group creation and performance.
Practical Orientation	Department of Chinese Literature	MODERN DRAMA	This module is located in the College Liberal Arts. Literature focuses on the comprehension and appreciation of words while theatre focuses on the transformation from words to stage. Images, videos, play texts and theatrical exercises will be applied as materials to introduce contemporary performing arts to the students. In addition to introducing various performing forms, the students will also be asked to conduct a theatre piece in order to further understand the making of theatrical works.

【Local Narratives and Artistic Performances】Interdisciplinary Micro-Program

【Local Narratives and Artistic Performances】

Interdisciplinary Micro-Program

【Mission】

【Course Planning】