Intermediate, Arts, Humanities, Images

Art of the Ancient Mediterranean

major art works & monuments of ancient Near East (primarily Mesopotamia), Egypt & Classical Greece, sculpture, pottery, seals, architectural remains & wall painting of these cultures, understanding of those civilizations, political & religious ideologies that shaped them, evolution of their art styles

Lectures

relationships between our collective social and cultural structures and the individual: visual communication, art & ideas, photo history, html & webdesign, Art and Photo History, photography master workshops, Media Theory, Suggested reading list

English - Course Materials

courses: early & later Shakespeare (comedies, histories, and tragedies), best sellers (The Fifties (bombshells), The Sixties (hope & despair), The Seventies (war & peace), The Eighties (communists & capitalists), The Nineties (terrorism) ), resources

History and Archaeology of the Ship

development of methods and techniques of wooden shipbuilding from the Solar Ship of the Pharoh Cheops (2600 BC) to the late 16th century AD (Problems, Sources, Terminology, Types, Definition, method, influences on boat & ship design, hydrodynamics, design, performance, mechanical stress, sources for study, Mediterranean, Ships (Egyptian, Minoan, Phoenician, Iron Age Greek), Hellenistic War Galley, Roman Navy, Classical Round Ship, Roman Ships in Northern Waters, Northern Europe, Bronze Age to Celtic, Vikings, Middle Ages, 15th & 16th Centuries), Trieres, Kyrenia and Dyflin Replicas

Southwest Archaeology Lecture Notes

philosophy of archaeology, history of archaeology in Southwest, Southwest environment, cultural periods, Mogollon, Hohokam: photo galleries, articles

Architecture of Cairo

includes extensive & heavily illustrated lecture notes covering Cairo from time of Alexander until 20th century, organized by major historical periods, glossary of terms: readings, related resources

Experiencing Architecture Studio

uses scale models to design environments orchestrating contrasting material properties & conventional constructional systems to create places fostering specific ways of inhabiting space, demonstrates how architecture differs from other forms of design: projects, gallery of student work

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