5/22/2025 10:33:32 PM	ARTH C1100 Course Outline as of Fall 2026	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ARTH C1100	Title:  ART PREHISTORY-MEDIEVAL
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
		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:

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.

 

 

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:

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.

 

(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 1981	Inactive:
Area:	E	Humanities
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	C1	Arts		Fall 1981
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	3A	Arts		Fall 1981
CSU Transfer:		Effective:		Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
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:

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:

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.

Topics and Scope

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

Assignments:

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:

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

Gustlin, Deborah and Zoe Gustlin. A World Perspective of Art Appreciation. Open Education Resource (OER) LibreTexts Project. 2021. https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Art/A_World_Perspective_of_Art_Appreciation_(Gustlin_and_Gustlin)  CC BY

SmartHistory. Open Education Resource (OER) LibreTexts Project. 2020. https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Art/SmartHistory   CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Legal.

Art History I. Lumen Learning. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-arthistory1/ CC0: No Rights Reserved

Met Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

These are representative texts. Texts used by individual institutions and individual instructors will vary.

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