ART 100A: Survey of Western Art from Prehistory through the Middle Ages

• Demonstrate a knowledge of representative works of art and architecture from prehistory through the medieval period.
• Recognize the change in art styles and techniques in representative works of art and architecture from prehistory through the medieval period.
• Evaluate forms, functions, and the interrelationship of representative works of art and architecture from prehistory through the medieval period.
• Compare and be able to recognize historic and national styles as well as individual art styles of representative works of art and architecture from prehistory through the medieval period.
• Distinguish and recognize major art monuments representative of art and architecture from prehistory through the medieval period.
• Comprehend terms, techniques and processes of representative works of art and architecture from prehistory through the medieval period.
• Appreciate and assess the media, and art forms in the representative works of art and architecture from prehistory through the medieval period.

This course covers the art and architecture of the following periods:

1. Prehistoric
2. Mesopotamian
3. Egyptian
4. Aegean
5. Greek through Hellenistic
6. Etruscan
7. Roman
8. Early Christian
9. Byzantine
10. Islamic 
11. Early Medieval, including Carolingian and Ottonian
12. Romanesque
13. Gothic