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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
ARTH C1100 | Title:
ART PREHISTORY-MEDIEVAL |
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| Full Title:
Survey of Art from Prehistory to the Medieval Era |
| Last Reviewed:5/5/2025 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
| Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 5 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 52.50 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
ART 2.1
Catalog Description:
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This course introduces students to visual art and architecture from prehistory to the medieval era with a focus on art from Europe, North Africa, and the near East. The course will further consider global interactions involving these regions.
Additionally at SRJC, the course will follow a chronological overview that highlights painting, sculpture, architecture, and other media that developed across the different regions of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East from prehistoric through Medieval times. The course will cover major monuments and artistic regional styles, including (but not limited to) prehistoric and ancient; Early Christian and Byzantine; Islamic and Early Medieval; Romanesque and Gothic. Students will learn vocabulary and formal analysis techniques that will help them articulate and describe what they're observing in the art and architecture from the regions and periods covered in this class. The survey will also allow students to consider art and architecture in its social and historical contexts, while recognizing and tracing the influence from one era and one region onto another.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL C1000 (formerly ENGL 1A) or EMLS 10 (formerly ESL 10) or equivalent or appropriate placement based on AB705 mandates
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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This course introduces students to visual art and architecture from prehistory to the medieval era with a focus on art from Europe, North Africa, and the near East. The course will further consider global interactions involving these regions.
Additionally at SRJC, the course will follow a chronological overview that highlights painting, sculpture, architecture, and other media that developed across the different regions of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East from prehistoric through Medieval times. The course will cover major monuments and artistic regional styles, including (but not limited to) prehistoric and ancient; Early Christian and Byzantine; Islamic and Early Medieval; Romanesque and Gothic. Students will learn vocabulary and formal analysis techniques that will help them articulate and describe what they're observing in the art and architecture from the regions and periods covered in this class. The survey will also allow students to consider art and architecture in its social and historical contexts, while recognizing and tracing the influence from one era and one region onto another.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL C1000 (formerly ENGL 1A) or EMLS 10 (formerly ESL 10) or equivalent or appropriate placement based on AB705 mandates
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
| Associate Degree: | Effective: | Fall 2025
| Inactive: | |
| Area: | E
L3
| Humanities
Arts and Humanities
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| CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | C1 | Arts | Fall 1981 | |
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| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | 3A | Arts | Fall 1981 | |
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| CSU Transfer: | | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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| UC Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
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| C-ID: |
| CID Descriptor: ARTH 110 | Survey of Western Art from Prehistory through the Middle Ages | SRJC Equivalent Course(s): ARTHC1100 |
Certificate/Major Applicable:
Both Certificate and Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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1. Place a work of art in its historical, cultural, religious, political, and/or stylistic context.
2. Identify artistic styles and their relationship to cultural values.
Objectives:
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Statewide Required Objectives/Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
1. Identify, examine, and assess representative works of art and architecture from prehistory to the medieval era employing appropriate art historical terminology.
2. Analyze works of art and architecture in terms of aesthetic, socio-political, religious, historical, technological, and cultural contexts in which they were created.
3. Develop critical thinking, information literacy, and problem solving through an engagement with art, architecture, artists, and patrons from prehistory to the medieval era.
Expanded and Additional Local Objectives/Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
4. Distinguish major works of art from the regions and eras surveyed in the course.
5. Apply vocabulary terms and formal analysis techniques to the materials presented in the course.
6. Understand the socio-cultural, religious, political, economic, and historical contexts of the art and architecture covered in this class.
7. Recognize and trace artistic influences from the regions and periods examined.
Topics and Scope
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Statewide Required Topics:
This course critically examines the art and architecture of the following periods with an integration of history, theory, aesthetics, and cross-cultural connections:
1. Prehistory, visual analysis before writing
2. Mesopotamia
3. Ancient Egypt
4. Ancient Aegean cultures
5. Ancient Greece
6. Etruria
7. Ancient Rome
8. Contextualizing Monotheism
a. Judaism
b. Early Christianity
c. Early Islam
9. Byzantine
10. Medieval
Expanded and Additional Local Topics:
I. Prehistoric Europe
A. Paleolithic
B. Mesolithic
C. Neolithic
II. Ancient Near East
A. Sumerian
B. Akkadian
C. Babylonian
D. Assyrian
E. Neo-Babylonian
F. Persian
III. Ancient Egypt
A. Predynastic
B. Old Kingdom
C. Middle Kingdom
D. New Kingdom
E. Greco-Roman
IV. Prehistoric Aegean
A. Cycladic
B. Minoan
C. Mycenaean
V. Ancient Greece
A. Geometric and Orientalizing Periods
B. Archaic Period
C. Early and High Classical Periods
D. Late Classical Period
E. Hellenistic Period
VI. Etruscans
A. Early Etruscan Art
B. Later Etruscan Art
VII. Roman Empire
A. Republic
B. Early Empire
C. High Empire
D. Late Empire
VIII. Early Christian Art
IX. Byzantine Art
X. Medieval Art
A. Early Medieval
B. Romanesque
C. Gothic
XI. Islamic Art
Assignments:
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1. Write 2000+ words as part of a research paper, museum/gallery response, formal analysis essay, and/or discussion post.
2. Take at least 3 examinations that consist of image identifications, image comparisons, vocabulary recognition, and/or vocabulary application.
3. Present visual and critical analyses (in written and/or verbal form) of works of art.
4. Read 2-3 hours per week of assigned texts.
5. Oral presentations
Statewide Required Methods of Evaluation:
Methods of evaluation will include:
1. Written essays and/or research projects
2. Exam with essay component
Methods of evaluation may also include:
1. Discussions
2. Objective exams
3. Projects and presentations
4. Quizzes
5. Group Assignments
6. Museum Assignments
Methods of evaluation are at the discretion of faculty.
Expanded and Additional Local Methods of Evaluation: See table below.
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
20 - 60% |
| Written essays and/or research projects | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 20% |
| Disscussion posts | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
0 - 20% |
| Projects and Presentations | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
20 - 60% |
| Exam with essay component; objectives exams; quizzes | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
0 - 10% |
| Attendance and participation; group assignments; museum assignments | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Statewide Representative Texts, Manuals, OER, and Other Support Materials: (Identical and Required)
Textbooks (most recent editions)
• Janson, H. W. History of Art.
• Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume 1
• Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History, Volume 1
• Stockstad, Marilyn. Art History, Volume 1
OER
• Smarthistory's (Khan Academy) materials/books (available online and to print out for free)
• Smarthistory OER Commons
• Smarthistory Reframing Art History (global perspectives) open access
• Gustlin and Gustlin. Libretexts, Introduction to Art History, A World Perspective of ArtHistory
• Met Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
These are representative texts. Texts used by individual institutions and individual instructors will
vary.
Additional Local Representative Textbooks:
OER
Smarthistory's (Khan Academy) materials/books (available online and to print out for free)
Smarthistory OER Commons
Smarthistory Reframing Art History (global perspectives) open access
Met Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
These are representative texts. Texts used by individual institutions and individual instructors will vary.
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