Description 

        COURSE DESCRIPTION


           ART OF THE WESTERN WORLD - This course, 
         divided into two semesters, is a survey of the history of 
         Western Art from its recorded beginnings to the present.  
         It considers major
artistic accomplishments giving 
         particular emphasis to concepts
and ideas that continue 
         through time and across space.

       
 First semester includes the study of Egypt and
         Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, and the Middle Ages.

         Second semester focuses European arts from the
         Renaissance to contemporary times.

         (Students may take either semester alone or use both
          semesters of this course as a sequence in AREA III.)
          

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