Course
Description

Motifs and monuments of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Babylonia.

Methods of Course Instruction

This course is taught entirely online. It is important that you use your campus email address and log on to the Blackboard site at least three times a week. When submitting written assignments, always use MS Word, Power Point, or save your document as doc or in rich text format rtf.

The main communication between teacher and students is blackboard (BB) and email (OU email).  Every email must include the sender’s full name and course # registered in.  An email with no name and course # will not be answered.

This course exposes the students to the art of ancient Near Eastern civilizations that predated classical antiquity.  It focuses on the region of old Mesopotamia, Persia, Turkey, Egypt, and the Levant and deals with selected issues from that time period.  It also investigates the spiritual beliefs that led to the aesthetic development of the ancient representations, including painting, sculpture, and architecture of excavated sites.

Discussion board
Response to assignments
Power point presentations
Research paper

Materials

Required

Henri Frankfort, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient, fifth Edition, 1996.

ISBN: 9780300064704
ISBN-10: 0300064705

Additional or Optional Materials
Article and research assignments will be posted on blackboard

Alternative source where materials can be obtained
Available from

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300064704

or Amazon.com

Note: The books for the course are in stock at College Bookstore, (740) 594-3505. Click here for online ordering.

Exams
Requirements

No exams.