Art and Archaeology of Early Civilizations.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. A global, comparative study of early civilizations through their visual and material cultures. The course examines art and architecture from ancient societies across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, including Egypt, the Indus Valley, Iron Age Europe, Mesoamerica and China, to explore how these complex societies expressed social, political and cultural organization.