CSTU 101

LEARNING ACTIVITY: EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT IN WESTERN CULTURE

TODAY ASSIGNMENT

OVERVIEW

The Learning Activities are short written assignments which require you to apply the knowledge

you have gained in a creative and subjective way.

Read over the appropriate Learning Activity instructions before you begin the module: week, so

you can be formulating a strategy for the assignment as you proceed through the material. Each

Learning Activity must be well-structured, be carefully edited and revised, and demonstrate

knowledge and application of the concepts studied in the readings for that module: week.

Each Learning Activity must be 300–350 words and include the word count in parentheses. If

any outside sources are used, they must adhere to current APA format.

You will first submit a draft of each Learning Activity to be checked through Turnitin so you can

make adjustments prior to your final submission. Please note that the draft submission is

optional. Submit your draft by Thursday at 11:59 P.M. (ET) before the final assignment is due in

order to receive feedback on it.

INSTRUCTIONS

In Chapter 17 of your textbook you read about the development of the university and its various

intellectual expressions of entertainment, such as in literature and several styles of visual and

performing arts. These forms of expression included the literary, visual, and performative

representation of values and ideas of the culture in Europe at the time. The university provided

Western Culture with newly expanded views of Science and Liberal Arts, including philosophy

and theology. These developments had an influence on the direction that the culture was headed.

Literary- could be spoken or written account of connected events; story.

Visual- (paintings, sculptures, textiles, architecture)

Performing Arts- (dance, film, music, theatre, performance art).

In America and Western Culture today, how do the areas of modern-day education (university)

and our forms of arts and entertainment (literary, visual, performing arts) affect the development

of values and ideas of Western Culture? Please give examples and specific areas as well as how

they affect Western Culture. Your discourse must indicate that you have an understanding of this

influence.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.