Module 2 - Learning Resources and Pre-Instructional Activities

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Activity 3: Learning Resources

There are four learning resources required for the Visual and Performing Arts.

1. Textbook: Purchase The Humanities Through the Arts, Seventh Edition by F. David Martin and Lee A. Jacobus (2008). ISBN: 978-0-07-313863-3. Go to http://www.wgu.edu/wgu/stu dent/textbook_purchase.aspto find the best prices for this textbook.
2. MindEdge Visual and Performing Arts: This series of interactive modules will assist you in developing competency in the visual and performing arts. You will enroll in this resource through your AAP. Once you have enrolled, you will receive an email from Learning Resources confirming your enrollment. When your course is available, you will receive an email notification to your WGU email account (or personal e-mail account). This email will contain login instructions, a username and your password.
3. E-Reserves: Download and read Chapters 1, 2, 5, and 8 from Perceiving the Arts: An Introduction to the Humanities, Eighth Edition by Dennis J. Spore (2006). 
• You can access the Dokutech E-reserves from the WGU student portal or click http://www.wgu.edu/wgu/student/library_login.asp.
• To access the e-reserves from the portal
• Go to the Resources tab.
• Click on Library. (Make note of the username and password for E-reserves.)
• Click "Enter the Library".
• Click on "E-Reserves".
• Click on "Liberal Arts".
• Click on "Visual and Performing Arts".
4. MyHumanitiesStudio: The MyHumanitiesStudio website is aligned to our textbook resource and helps put a lot of the information you will study into context. It has sections that deal with Visual Art, Music, Dance, Theatre, Architecture, Film, and a Timeline for the History of Art. With the music section it allows you to hear the elements as they are being discussed. Click on the following link and bookmark it for use throughout your studies: http://www.mhhe.com/HumanitiesStudio/