ARTS 1, a three-unit core general education course, seeks to deepen and enhance the knowledge gained from the high school curriculum through an interdisciplinary approach in studying the arts, broadly conceived. It employs discursive teaching modules to enable the student to hone aesthetic awareness, artistic literacy, and reflexive thinking; develop an understanding of critical perspectives in valuing the arts in various contexts; and foreground the particularities of the Philippine condition in connection with the arts.
The student will be equipped to understand the arts in various contexts and the issues that surround its production, circulation, and remediation in society. Such knowledge is necessary in the context of a mediascape in which texts, images, and art practices are shared freely and in multitudes every day and everywhere. ARTS 1 has no prerequisites.
- Teacher: Lara Katrina Mendoza