2022-2023 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Apr 24, 2024  
2022-2023 Pierce College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ART 243 History of Art - Ancient World Through the Middle Ages (5 credits)



Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
A concise chronological history of paintings, sculpture, drawings, and architecture from the dawn of recorded art to the gothic movement and related issues.

Course Content
A. Prehistoric art
B. Ancient Near East art
C. Egyptian art
D. Aegean art
E. Greek art
F. Etruscan art
G. Early Jewish, Christian and Byzantine art
H. Islamic art
I. Medieval art
J. Romanesque art
K. Gothic art

Student Outcomes
1. Identify and apply fundamental methods of visual analysis, art criticism, and critical vocabulary.

2. Define the role of basic visual elements and principles of design, architecture, and iconography within a cultural and social context.

3. Identify basic types of media and styles prevalent in architecture, painting, sculpture, drawing, and mixed media.

4. Identify major approaches and their characteristics that evolved from the dawn of humanity to the end of the gothic period.

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50



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