- Technical developments that develop visual art
- The role of Christianity in the content of art
- The difference between religious and secular art
- The differences between Italian Renaissance Art and the Art of the north
- The religious and political forces behind the Reformation
- The effect of the Reformation on nationalism
- The effect of nationalism on different styles and subjects of Baroque art
- How to read a painting
- Placing creator & work within both a cultural and historic context
- The Early Italian Renaissance
- The effects of Florentine and Papal politics on religious art of the period
- The High Renaissance in Italy and in the North: Germany, the Netherlands, the low countries
- The effects of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation on culture
- The qualities of Baroque in both art and music
- The different styles of Baroque found in different nations: Italy, Spain, France and England
- The effect of English religious and class struggles on culture
- Technical developments that develop visual art
- The development of Neo-Classical style
- Neo-Classicism as the motif behind the American and French Revolutions
- The Napoleonic reflected in art and culture
- The development and evolution of the Romantic movement throughout the 19th century
- Romanticism as reaction to industrialism
- The relationship of Romanticism to the growth of Nationalism
- How to identify classical music structures and forms: symphony, concerto, opera
- The breakdown of patronage and the growth of artist/composer as commercial commodity
- Neoclassic art/architecture styles and examples
- Romanticism in visual art
- Romantic musical forms and structures: symphony, concerto, opera, song cycle.
- Qualities identifying nationalism in music
- Technical developments that develop visual art & music
- Impressionism as a radical movement
- Defining modernism
- Post-Impressionist art
- Other modernist movements: Realism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstraction, dada – and their cultural connections
- The role of major events such as World War I on cultural change
- How the development of psychology helped change art and music
- How both psychology and the development of photography relate to the growth of abstraction in art, literature and music
- How visual art moved away from depicting literal reality
- The aspects of impressionism
- The defining qualities of modernism in art and music
- How modernism permeates all aspects of late 19th century and 20th century society
- Various forms of modernism, both as reaction to romanticism and reaction to other forms of modernism
- The growth of abstraction in both visual art, music and literature