Arts and Culture provides an introduction to major civilizations --- to their artistic achievements, their history, and their cultures. Through an integrated approach to the humanities, Arts and Culture offers an opportunity to view works of art, listen to music, and read literature in historical and cultural context.
The most accomplished works of painting and sculpture, of architecture and music, of literature and philosophy are studied for what they reveal about human life. They open doors to the past, especially to the values and belief systems from which those artworks sprang. They also tell us about human attitudes and feelings, about ideas that continue to have today.
Works of from different cultures reveal common human experiences of birth and death, love and loss, pleasure and pain, hope and frustration, elation and despair. Study of the humanities also reveals what others value and believe, inviting each of us to consider our personal, social, and cultural values in relation to those of others.
1. The Dawn of Culture
2. Ancient Egypt
3. Aegean Culture and the Rise of Ancient Greece
4. Classical and Hellenistic Greece
5. The Roman world
6. Judaism and the Rise of Christianity
7. byzantine and Islamic Civilizations
8. Indian Civilization
9. Early Chinese and Japanese Civilizations
10. The Civilizations of the Americas