WGU C100 Objective Assessment Vocabulary

1. Humanities: seeks to understand what humans believe and why. 2. Themes: unifying ideas that are repeated or developed throughout a literary or artistic work. 3. Individualism: separates one unique person from another, as well as the social and philosophical viewpoint that celebrates that difference. 4. Revolution: A fundamental, dramatic shift in organizational structure that occurs over a short period of time. 5. Classicism: Aesthetic attitudes and principles found in the art, architecture, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome 6. Eros: Greek term for erotic love or lust. 7. Agape: Greek term for platonic love 8. Archetype: An emblematic myth character, image, plot pattern, symbol, or buried assumption shared across cultures.2 / 9 9. Humanism: The study of creative and intellectual contributions of all human cultures. 10. Myths: Traditional stories of a people or culture that serve to explain some natural phenomenon the origin of humanity, or customs or religious rites. 11. Beauty: Those qualities that give pleasure to the senses. 12. Archetypes: Emblematic mythic characters, images, plot patterns, symbols, or buried assumptions shared across cultures. 13. Aesthetic experience: An experience of beauty that inspires a feeling of pleasure which is its own justification. 14. Music: The art of organizing sound, usually those sounds created y musical instruments or the human voice 15. Cinema: An artistic medium that uses the motion picture as a vehicle for story telling an other creative expression. 16. Visual Arts: Art forms that entail creation of primarily visual works, which can be two or three dimensional. 17. Literature: Art form of the written word. It refers to an individual literary work or collectively to the creative writing of a people, nation, or culture. 18. Theater: A branch of the performing arts in which actors perform a drama or3 / 9 musical before a live audience.4 / 9 19. Dance: An art form involving a sequence of rhythmic movements or steps performed to music. 20. Architecture: The science and art of designing buildings and other structures. 21. Philosophy: The systematic investigation of fundamental questions concerning such matters as existence, reality, consciousness, knowledge, truth, and justice. 22. Humanism: The study of the creative and intellectual contributions of all human cultures. 23. Balance: The achievement of putting into harmony different elements that are in dynamic tension with one another. 24. Truth: The accurate and genuine reality of the world; that which is indisputably factual. 25. Reason: The thought and formation of judgments based on a logical process. 26. Democracy: Government directly ruled by the people, a form develo