Unit 1 Art and Nature
Creating: Project and Objectives
Project: Post on the forum an English article on the expression of natural elements in art or on the relationship between art and nature.
Module 1 Performing and Video Watching
Digital Learning: A video clip about nature and the elements of art
Classroom Interaction
Module 2 Performing and Passage Reading
Digital Learning: Art Is the Imitation of Nature
Classroom Interaction
Module 3 Responding and Connecting: China Story Telling
Digital Learning: Art Attempts to Bridge the Distance Between Humans and the Natural World
Classroom Interaction
Unit 2 Light and Shadow
Creating: Project and Objectives
Project: Create a poster for the parallel session of the Campus Art and Culture Festival— Light/Shadow Exhibition.
Module 1 Performing and Video Watching
Digital Learning: A video clip about Chinese shadow puppetry
Classroom Interaction
Module 2 Performing and Passage Reading
Digital Learning: The Beauty of Light and Shadow
Classroom Interaction
Module 3 Responding and Connecting: China Story Telling
Digital Learning: The Meaning of Light in Art: Illuminating the Depths of Creativity
Classroom Interaction
Unit 3 Nature’s Colors
Creating: Project and Objectives
Project: Contribute to a special feature on a new media platform of China Fashion Week to present a traditional Chinese color.
Module 1 Performing and Video Watching
Digital Learning: A video clip guiding viewers to observe a tranquil waterfall
Classroom Interaction
Module 2 Performing and Passage Reading
Digital Learning: The Color of Nature
Classroom Interaction
Module 3 Responding and Connecting: China Story Telling
Digital Learning: The Rich Meaning Within Traditional Chinese Colors
Classroom Interaction
Unit 4 Nature and Emotion
Creating: Project and Objectives
Project: Post a review on an art-database and fan-community website to comment on a Chinese artwork that conveys emotions through natural imagery.
Module 1 Performing and Video Watching
Digital Learning: A video clip about Caspar David Friedrich’s landscape paintings
Classroom Interaction
Module 2 Performing and Passage Reading
Digital Learning: Six Expressing the Sublime through Nature: How Romantic Artists Evoked Awe and Fear
Classroom Interaction
Module 3 Responding and Connecting: China Story Telling
Digital Learning: A Review of the Ink-wash Anime “Feeling from Mountain and Water”
Classroom Interaction
Unit 5 Flowers Represented in Art
Creating: Project and Objectives
Project: Send an email to the committee of the Shanghai International Flower Exhibition to request participation as speakers at an upcoming salon.
Module 1 Performing and Video Watching
Digital Learning: A video clip about a water lily painting by the impressionist artist Claude Monet
Classroom Interaction
Module 2 Performing and Passage Reading
Digital Learning: A Brief History of Flowers in Western Art
Classroom Interaction
Module 3 Responding and Connecting: China Story Telling
Digital Learning: Symbolic Meanings and Cultural Significance of Flowers Popular in Chinese Art
Classroom Interaction
Unit 6 Cultural Understanding of Landscapes
Creating: Project and Objectives
Project: Create a short video (with English subtitles) as the pilot preview clip for preparing an art documentary Between Shanshui and Landscape: Chinese and Western Arts.
Module 1 Performing and Video Watching
Digital Learning: A video clip about Wang Shimin’s landscape paintings
Classroom Interaction
Module 2 Performing and Passage Reading
Digital Learning: Landscape, Art and Culture
Classroom Interaction
Module 3 Responding and Connecting: China Story Telling
Digital Learning: Hokusai and Debussy’s Evocations of the Sea
Classroom Interaction
Unit 7 Art and Humans in Nature
Creating: Project and Objectives
Project: Design and record an interview with an art historian who studies art history or history of film, photography or any kind of arts on the theme of “Art and Nature.”
Module 1 Performing and Video Watching
Digital Learning: A video clip about human beings’ relationship to nature
Classroom Interaction
Module 2 Performing and Passage Reading
Digital Learning: Humans in Nature
Classroom Interaction
Module 3 Responding and Connecting: China Story Telling
Digital Learning: South African Artist Daniel Popper Creates Art Inspired by Life and Nature
Classroom Interaction
Unit 8 Art and Environmental Issues
Creating: Project and Objectives
Project: Prepare a virtual art exhibition with the theme on rural revitalization in China by selecting artworks online, writing descriptions for them and preparing a foreword and a conclusion for the virtual art exhibition.
Module 1 Performing and Video Watching
Digital Learning: A video clip about a Dutch ecological artist
Classroom Interaction
Module 2 Performing and Passage Reading
Digital Learning: The Art World’s Environmental Issues: Helping or Hurting the Cause?
Classroom Interaction
Module 3 Responding and Connecting: China Story Telling
Digital Learning: Just Imagine: Virtual Exhibition
Classroom Interaction
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艺术类大学英语2（第3版）
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