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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 oc- curs 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. 1 / 3
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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, 2 / 3
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or culture.
18.Theater: A branch of the performing arts in which actors perform a
drama or musical before a live audience.
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