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This Humanities 1023 textbook introduces the interdisciplinary study of ideas that have defined the changes that occurred in human culture since the seventeenth century. We will study painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and poetry. Our goal is to encourage students to look critically at the arts and ideas of cultures in the past and to learn to write about what they see and feel. We hope students will think about and answer these questions: How do these art forms make me feel? Why were they created? How does understanding these works of art help me to be part of the human conversation going on around me? How can internalizing works of art from the human past help me to express my creative self?