Topic: The Caribbean

Appropriate for First Year students.

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
10:40am-11:30am
MWF
Carlos Hall 212
Rebecca Stone. HSC. 413149 TBA.

January 13, 2010- April 26, 2010

Crosslisted: ARTHIST226-000

Catalog Description: Topics vary.

Semester Details:

This introductory course covers the arts of the indigenous cultures of ancient lower Central America (Costa Rica and Panama) and Andean South America (Peru/Bolivia/Chile) before A.D. 1550.  Media include architecture, textiles, featherwork, ceramics, stone sculpture, and metalwork.  Andean cultures include: Chavín, Paracas, Nasca, Moche, Wari-Tiwanaku, Chimú, Chancay, and Inka. Original works of art in the Michael C. Carlos Museum will be featured.

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