How This Course Works

Every unit follows the same pattern, so once you have seen one you have seen them all. This page explains the parts.

📖 The four pages of a unit

• Overview: what the unit covers, what you should be able to do by the end, and a short task list
• Lesson: the Gallery, the lesson itself, an Experience It activity, and links for further exploration
• Reflection Prompt: one question to think and write about
• Quiz: ten self-study questions with instant feedback

🎨 The Gallery

Each lesson opens with a row of small pictures called the Gallery. Click any picture to enlarge it. Underneath you will find a credit line, which says who made the work, when, and where you can see it, and a sentence called What to notice that points you to something worth looking for.

Take your time here. The lesson below refers back to these works, and the more familiar they are, the more the lesson will mean.

🎬 Watch & Listen

Some art forms cannot be put in a still picture: theater, music, dance, film, and television all unfold in time. In those units the Gallery becomes Watch & Listen, a row of video clips. Click a clip and it plays right on the page, with the same credit and What to notice underneath. Use headphones if you can.

👁️ Experience It

Near the end of each lesson is a highlighted box called Experience It. It asks you to look at or listen to one work and answer three short prompts. Nothing is submitted. It is practice in noticing, which is the skill the whole course is built on.

▼ Accordions

Lesson content is divided into numbered sections. Click a numbered heading to open or close it. You can leave several open at once.

✅ Quizzes and reflections

Click an answer to see feedback immediately. A wrong answer does not give away the right one, so you can try again. Use Start Over to reset the whole quiz. For reflections, type in the box on the page; your writing is not saved, so copy it somewhere if you want to keep it.