printer friendly pageCLASSART 21Q: Eight Great Archaeological Sites in Europe
Preference to sophomores. Focus is on excavation, features and finds, arguments over interpretation, and the place of each site in understanding the archaeological history of Europe. Goal is to introduce the latest archaeological and anthropological thought, and raise key questions about ancient society. The archaeological perspective foregrounds interdisciplinary study: geophysics articulated with art history, source criticism with analytic modeling, statistics interpretation. A web site with resources about each site, including plans, photographs, video, and publications, is the basis for exploring.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, Writing 2
Instructors:
Shanks, M. (PI)
CLASSART 42: Pompeii
The Roman town of Pompeii, buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E., provides information about the art and archaeology of ancient social life, urban technology and production, and ancient spatial patterns and experience. Its fame illustrates modern relationships to the ancient past, from Pompeii's importance on the Grand Tour, to plaster casts of vaporized bodies, to debates about reconstruction, preservation, and archaeological methods.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Trimble, J. (PI)
CLASSART 81: Introduction to Roman Archaeology
Methods and materials, from the 8th century B.C.E. to the 4th century C.E. The physical remains of the Roman world and their relationship to today. What material culture reveals about the Romans; the legacy of the Romans in the modern world. Sculpture, wall painting, mosaics, tombs, and architecture; and practical, field-oriented approaches. Settlement patterns; development of artistic and architectural expertise; monumentalization in the late republic and early empire; and shifts and tensions in social norms.
Last offered: Winter 2008
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
CLASSART 101: Archaic Greek Art (ARTHIST 101, ARTHIST 301, CLASSART 201)
The development of Greek art and culture from protogeometric beginnings to the Persian Wars, 1000-480 B.C.E. The genesis of a native Greek style; the orientalizing phase during which contact with the Near East and Egypt transformed Greek art; and the synthesis of East and West in the 6th century B.C.E.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Maxmin, J. (PI)
CLASSART 102: Classical and 4th-Century Greek Art (ARTHIST 102, ARTHIST 302)
The formation of the classical ideal in 5th-century Athenian art, and its transformation and diffusion in the 5th and 4th centuries against changing Greek history, politics, and religion.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
CLASSART 109: Greek Art in and out of Context (ARTHIST 203)
The cultural contexts in which art served religious, political, commercial, athletic, sympotic, and erotic needs of Greek life.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Maxmin, J. (PI)
CLASSART 110: Appropriations of Greek Art (ARTHIST 204A)
Upper division seminar. The history of the appropriation of Greek art by Rome, the Renaissance, Lord Elgin, and Manet. Enrollment limited to 6. Prerequisite:
ARTHIST 102 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Maxmin, J. (PI)
CLASSART 112: Ancient Urbanism (CLASSART 212)
The nature and significance of ancient urbanism in the Mediterranean and western Asia, including Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece and Rome. Some comparative material from Chinese and Islamic cities. Emphasis is on very large cities: why they grew up; how they worked; why they mattered; how and why they stopped being very large; and how they affected human lives and historical developments.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Trimble, J. (PI)
;
Sutherland, J. (TA)
CLASSART 113: Ten Things: An Archaeology of Design (CLASSART 213, STS 112)
Connections among science, technology, society and culture by examining the design of a prehistoric hand axe, Egyptian pyramid, ancient Greek perfume jar, medieval castle, Wedgewood teapot, Edison's electric light bulb, computer mouse, Sony Walkman, supersonic aircraft, and BMW Mini. Interdisciplinary perspectives include archaeology, cultural anthropology, science studies, history and sociology of technology, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
CLASSART 114: Ceramics: Art and Science (ARCHLGY 117)
From clay to culture. Design, technology, manufacture, and consumption of ceramics. Guest lecturers, site visits, and hands-on studio work.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Chatfield, M. (PI)
;
Shanks, M. (PI)
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