This is an Arts 1303 - Art History I survey course designed based on Smarthistory.org, an OER art history textbook. Sources include Smarthistory as well as online materials produced by art museums including videos and art-historical essays. This is a Texas Core Course in Creative Arts. Developed by Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas A&M University-Commerce. This resource will continuously be updated throughout 2022.This course was developed for Texas art history instructors to replace expensive commonly used textbooks with OER content adaptable for use with various learning manage systems.*Unless otherwise noted all entries are licensed Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

This is an Arts 1304 History of Art II course that compiles online OER resources primarily from Smarthistory.org, an OER art history textbook, and other online materials produced by art museums including videos and art historical essays.  Developed by Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas A&M University-Commerce, this is a Texas Core Course in Creative Arts designed to replace expensive commonly used textbooks with OER content adaptable for Texas art history instructors using various learning manage systems.*Unless otherwise noted all entries are licensed under Creative Commons-Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 

The purpose of this course is to explore the foundations of the Humanities and to increase our understanding of the relationship between history and philosophy and how these relate to the issues concerning the human condition. During this course we will learn about some of the many traditions in the humanities, including the foundations of artistic expression. One of my main goals for this course is to demonstrate that every aspect of the humanities (art, history, philosophy, science, etc.) are all inherently related, and that we cannot accurately study one component of society or humanity without having a working understanding of the related components.