Las Positas College | Summer-Fall 2022 Class Schedule

42 FALL 2022 925.424.1000 | [email protected] FALL 2022 - COURSE LISTINGS Please refer to the onl ine schedule on CLASS-Web to access course section detai ls and the course record numbers (CRNs) for registration. of theory, terminology, themes, design principles, media, techniques, with an introduction to art that offers a look at works of art through the study of theory, terminology, themes, design principles, media, techniques, with an introduction to the visual arts across time and diverse cultures. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A Students may take Art History courses in any order. ARHS 3 ARTS OF AFRICA, OCEANIA, AND 3.0 Units This course is an introduction to the visual arts produced by selected people of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas from the prehistoric to contemporary periods. The topics covered in the course are representative of the art and architecture produced by groups from Africa, Oceania and the Americas emphasizing how art is representative of the cultural, religious, social, or political orientation of each region. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A ARHS 4 WESTERN ART HISTORY- ANCIENT 3.0 Units History of Western art from prehistoric times through Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Aegean, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, Romanesque, and Gothic civilizations. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A Students may take Art History courses in any order. ARHS 5 WESTERN ART HIST - RENAISSANCE 3.0 Units History of Western art from Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, 20th Century developments of American art. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A ARHS 8 ASIAN ART HISTORY 3.0 Units Asian art history surveys the arts of India, China, Korea, and Japan. The architecture, painting, sculpture, and other arts are examined within their religious and social contexts. Strongly Recommended: ENG 1A with a minimum grade of C Students may take Art History courses in any order. ART ARTS 2A INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING 3.0 Units Introduction to principles, elements, and practices of drawing, employing a wide range of subject matter and drawing media. Focus on perceptually based drawing, observational skills, technical abilities, and creative responses to materials and subject matter. Estimated cost of supplies $100 ARTS 7A INTRO TOWATERCOLOR PAINTING 3.0 Units Introduction toprinciples, elements, andpractices of watercolor painting. Focus on exploration of paintingmaterials, perceptual skills and color theory, paint mixing and technique, as well as creative responses to materials and subject matter. Strongly Recommended: ARTS 2A with a minimum grade of C ARTS 7B WATERCOLOR PAINTING 3.0 Units Development of knowledge and skills introduced in Arts 7A with an emphasis on experimenting with the watercolor medium, perceptual skills and color theory, paint mixing central issues: how people around the world make their living (subsistence patterns); how they organize themselves socially, politically and economically; how they communicate; how they relate to each other through family and kinship ties; what they believe about the world (belief systems); how they express themselves creatively (expressive culture); how they make distinctions among themselves such as through applying gender, racial and ethnic identity labels; how they have shaped and been shaped by social inequalities such as colonialism; and how they navigate culture change and processes of globalization that affect us all. Ethnographic case studies highlight these similarities and differences, and introduce students to how anthropologists do their work, employ professional anthropological research ethics and apply their perspectives and skills to understand humans around the globe. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A. ANTR 5 CULTURES OF THE U.S. IN GLOBAL 3.0 Units Issues relevant to understanding race, class, gender and ethnicity within the American setting. Historical as well as contemporary situation of the following groups: 1) African Americans; 2) Native Americans; 3) Hispanic Americans; 4) European Americans; and, 5) Asian Americans, among other groups. Emphasis on analyzing the way that public understandings of culture and biology are translated into social policy. Contemporary social issues such as race relations, multiculturalism, affirmative action, bilingual education, and the use and abuse of I.Q. testing. ANTR 12 MAGIC/RELIGION/WITCHCRAFT/HEAL 3.0 Units Cross-cultural perspectives on spirituality, religious practice, myth, ancestor beliefs, witchcraft and the variety of religious rituals and practitioners found in the cultures of the world. Examination of the cosmologies of different cultures through the anthropological perspective. Emphasis is placed on how knowledge of the religious practices and beliefs of others can help us to understand the multicultural world in which we live. Comparison of the ways in which diverse cultures confront the large and fundamental questions of existence: those dealing with the meaning life, birth and death, and with the relationship of humans to each other and to their universe. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A/1AEX ANTR 13 INTRO TO FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY 3.0 Units Introductory course in the application of physical anthropology to the medico-legal process with an emphasis on the identification of human skeletal remains. Includes basic human osteoology and odontology , assessment of age at time of death, sex, ancestry, trauma analysis, pathology, and general physical characteristics including height and weight based upon minimal skeletal remains. Estimation of time since death, crime scene analysis, animal scavenging, and identification procedures. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A ART - HISTORY ARHS 1 INTRO TO ART HISTORY 3.0 Units Architecture, sculpture, painting, photography and design in relation to human inventiveness in providing for material and aesthetic needs. This course provides a general introduction to art that offers a look at works of art through the study

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