Plan to spend, on average, 2-3 hours preparing for each class. You may like to work in one block, or spread this out in smaller  periods; you are advised to work through the readings and online materials in the sequence indicated for each day. To receive full credit for taking online quizzes, take "pre-study quizzes" once; take "post-study quizzes" until you achieve a score of 90%. All online work is due at 1 PM the day before the class meeting for which it has been assigned (unless noted otherwise). Do not proceed through days labeled "preliminary."

Before class

Remember, through the semester, that your learning will be improved by conscientious efforts to remain engaged with the material (immediate review, note-taking, self-quizzing, etc.) with all new material that you study, both in and outside of class (lectures, discussions, group activities, readings, online videos, etc.).

1. Review: the course website in its entirety; click on everything. Can you answer the following?
   1. What style guide should you use for bibliographies?
   2. What's the policy on extra credit?
   3. When's the final exam? Is it cumulative?
   4. How many images of Islamic architecture are provided for your study?
2. Review: advice from last year's class
3. Take: survey on course content
4. Take: pre-study quiz
5. Consult: outline
6. Read: Buildings Across Time, Introduction & pp. 9-14
7. Read: about dates
8. Join: sign up for our VoiceThread group, ARC231-2018, by following this link
9. Watch: How to Make Comments in VoiceThread (5 min.) (note: Make a good browser choice when connecting with VoiceThread; Chrome is recommended)
10. Watch: The Seven Lamps of Architecture VoiceThread (25-30 min.)
11. Watch: Stonehenge & associated sites (3 min.)
12. Take: post-study quiz
13. For additional insights, watch: The "Venus" from Willendorf (4 min.)

In class

1. Introduction to the course & discipline
2. Time-lining Exercise
3. Introduction to the first section
4. "Seven Lamps" project (discussion board)
5. Prehistory: Lascaux

Before class

NEW RESEARCH FROM TURKEY

1. Take: survey on teaching/learning perspectives (start-of-term)
2. Take: pre-study quiz
3. Consult: outline
4. Read: Buildings Across Time, pp.14-20, 63-65, 81-83
5. Watch: ULCA's Cuneiform Tablets (4 min.)
6. Watch: Seated Gudea with Temple Plan (5 min.)
7. Watch: Towers of Babel (4 min.) (note: click here to see a full version of the Breugel painting)
8. *Read: DNA of Stonehenge Builders
9. Take: post-study quiz
10. For further insights, watch: Writing Cuneiform (2 min.)

In class

1. Review "Seven Lamps" assignment (discussion board)
2. Prehistory: Stonehenge
3. First Historic Cultures of the "Old World" (Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, Yellow River Valley)

Before class

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Consult: outline
3. Read: Buildings Across Time, chapter 3 (63-79)
4. Watch: The Five Major World Religions (11 min.)
5. Watch: Hinduism & Buddhism VoiceThread (12 min.)
6. Watch: The Stupa (4 min.)
7. Watch: Hindu Temples (5 min.)
8. Take: post-study quiz

In class

1. Survey of Old World Cultures
2. Introduction to Hinduism & Buddhism in India: cave shrines & freestanding structures

On your own

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Consult: outline and study guide
3. Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 81-86
4. Watch: What Makes the Great Wall of China So Extraordinary (4 min.)
5. Watch: The Silk Road (5 min.) (and reference map)
6. Watch: Spread of Buddhism Timeline (3 min.)
7. Watch: Cave Shrines (5 min.)
8. Watch: The Symbolic Nature of Chinese Architecture--lecture by Prof. John Lobell, Pratt (27 min.)
9. Watch: Chinese Courtyard Houses/Sihuyuan (2 min.)
10. Watch: Dougong construction (5 min.)
11. Watch: Traditional Design for Building Chinese Wooden Arch Bridges (10 min.)
12. Take: post-study quiz
13. Prepare: Study stupas and pagodas (here,  here, and other sites that you might find helpful). Create a concept map that answers the question: How are stupas and pagodas related? Use examples in at least three different countries and make sure to reference the "lamps" as a way to think about the subject. Concept maps can be hand-drawn or digitally-produced but all will be submitted as an 8.5 x 11" JPEG attached to an email submitted to Dr. Amundson by Monday, Sept. 3 at 1 PM. You may work in pairs.
14. Bonus: Read Understanding the Principles of Feng Shui, Beginner's Guide to Feng Shui, Feng Shui Tips for your Dorm Room and Dorm Room Feng Shui and consider to what extent the room where you sleep is in harmony with feng shui principles. Prepare a one-page, illustrated analysis of the room and submit to Dr. Amundson by Monday at 1.

No F2F meeting

Before class

• Take: pre-study quiz
• Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 87-93
• Watch: Forbidden City (4 min.)
• Explore: The Palace Museum (click along the axis to see the progression of spaces and buildings from the Meridian Gate to the Gate of Divine Prowess (and anything else you'd like to see).
• Prepare: Respond to the latest discussion board prompt.
• Explore: Buddhist temple (multimedia tour of Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery) by clicking around the site.
• Prepare: In your notebook, generate your own plan of this monastery. Make notes (graphic or text):  What traditional Chinese principles does it illustrate? In what ways is it different from the planning of a palace or siheyuan? What explains those anomalies?
• Take: post-study quiz

In class

1. Quiz: Old World Cultures, India & China (image identification, vocabulary, basic historical facts)
2. China: palace & monastery

Before class

• Respond: return to "Lamps" discussion
• Take: pre-study quiz
• Consult: outline
• Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 94-103
• Watch: Katsura Imperial Villa (5 min.)
• Watch: making tatami mats (2 min.)
• Watch: Katsura tea house animation (2 min.)
• Watch: tea ceremony (2 min.)
• Take: post-study quiz

In class

1. vernacular & prestige architecture in Japan
2. History in the Recent Past, Case Study 1: Japan
3. Discussion on test format

1. Quiz: China & Japan
2. Test: from Old World Cultures through Japan
3. Introduction: Egypt & Greece

Optional: At the start of class, turn in your amended quiz 1 to earn up to half of the points that were missed, abiding by the following:

• Use a different color pen for your comments
• Make corrections to the items that were incorrect
• Explain why your first response was incorrect (this is an exercise in metacognition, asking you to reflect upon your learning of the subject)

Before Class

1. Watch: Introduction: Egypt & Greece (VoiceThread, 25 min.); alternate link
2. Take: pre-study quiz
3. Consult: outline
4. Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 20-28
5. Watch: Egypt (VoiceThread, 27 min.)
6. Take: post-study quiz
7. Prepare: bio card
8. Further: news

In class

1. Turn in bio card
2. The Old Kingdom
3. Introduction to the New Kingdom

On your own

• Take: pre-study quiz
• Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 28-33
• Read: "The Dead Pharaoh Ascends" (Pyramid Texts)
• Watch: How were the Pyramids Built? (6 min.)
• Watch: Great Pyramid Mystery Solved? (5 min.)
• Watch: Karnak 1 (start at 2:15-9:00) & Karnak 2 (Ancient Art Podcast, 20 min.)
• Watch: Hatshepsut (SmartHistory, 6 min.)
• Take: post-study quiz
• Prepare: In 100 words or fewer, answer one of the following discussion board prompts (due Weds. at 1 PM):
  • Compare and contrast buildings designed for burial in the Old and New Kingdoms. To what extent are they alike or different? What accounts for the similarities?
  • Explain the role of "art" in Egyptian culture. Discuss something in our 21st culture that plays a similar role. How does this differ from "fine art"?

• For additional insights, watch: Teotihuacan (5 min)

No F2F meeting

Before class

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Consult: outline
3. Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 35-44
4. Watch: Knossos (4 min.)
5. Watch: Palace & Grave Circle, Mycenae (4 min.)
6. Take: post-study quiz
7. For additional insights, watch: Lion Gate (7 min.) and Treasury of Atreus (4 min.)

In class

1. Quiz: Egypt & the Ancient Aegean
2. Minoans
3. Mycenaeans

Before class

• Take: pre-study quiz
• Consult: outline
• Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 44-51
• Watch: Intro to Greece (VoiceThread, 33 min.) Note: there's no getting around the fact that getting used to Greek principles and terminology is a long haul. Pace yourself!
• Read: Vitruvius
• Watch: The Classical Greek Orders (11 min.)
• Watch: Ancient Greek Temples at Paestum (7 min.)
• Take: post-study quiz
• Prepare: Create a concept map for Ancient Aegean & Greek architecture. Using the basic parameters of the assignment, and based on feedback from the first one, prepare a concept map that represents relationship(s) between the Ancient Aegean cultures and the Greeks. Before starting, think about what is most important. It may not be advantageous (or advisable) to make every connection possible, so be clear about defining the assignment in terms that show the most important associations between the two. Concept maps can be hand-drawn or digitally-produced but all will be submitted as an 8.5 x 11" paper at the start of class. You may work in pairs. Here are some good ones.
• Sign up: On Thursday we'll do a project in class. If you'd like to work in a group of your choosing, sign up early on this form. If you don't have a group, or would prefer to be placed, you can ignore this. Dr. Amundson will finalize the groups at the normal due date for preparatory work.

In class

1. Turn in concept map
2. Development of Greek temple typology

Before class

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 52-54
3. Watch: Parthenon (16 min.)
4. Watch: Sculpture on the Parthenon (14 min.)
5. Watch: Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi (5 min.)
6. Read: myths of Persephone and Artemis. Talk about them a little with the people in your group. Which goddess has the more compelling story?
7. Take: post-stdy quiz

In class

note: please bring a sketch book or other large drawing paper and other drawing implements to class, along with an internet-enabled device, preferably at least one laptop per group

1. Sanctuaries
2. Design project

your groups, your project, the two best ones via VoiceThread

Before class

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 19-20 & 54-61
3. Watch: The Agora, Athens (5 min.)
4. Watch: Altar of Pergamon (9 min.)
5. Take: post-study quiz
6. For additional insights, watch: Visiting Babylon (8 min.),  Ishtar Gate (7 min.), Lamassu (Khorsabad) (5 min.), & Capital from column, Palace of Darius I, Susa (4 min.)

In class

1. Persia (very briefly)
2. Hellenistic architecture & Greek cities
3. History in the Recent Past, Case Study 2: The Greek Revival in America

1. Quiz: Greece
2. Test: cumulative, with primary focus on Egypt and Greece

Before class

1. By 12 noon Saturday, Oct. 6, sign up for Tuesday's group work (alternately, Dr. Amundson will assign you to a group; check back after 1 PM on Saturday to see what your assignment for Tuesday is) Follow this link to find  your area of expertise for Tuesday!
2. Take: pre-study quiz
3. Watch: Introduction to Etruscans, Rome, Early Christian & Byzantine (VoiceThread, 18 min.)
4. Consult: outline
5. Read: Buildings Across Time, chapter 5 (yep, the whole thing)
6. For the Greek oikos, read: Daily Greek Life/The Greek House and Delos: Domestic Architecture; watch: Classical Greek Home 3D Reconstruction (altogether, 5 min.)
7. Watch: Etruscan Temple (4 min.)
8. Watch: Etruscan Necropolises (3 min.)
9. Watch: Temple of Portunus (Fortuna Virilis) (3 min.)
10. Watch: Villa of Livia (4 min.)
11. Take: post-study quiz
12. For additional insights, watch: "A Day in Pompeii" by Zero One Animation (9 min.)

In class

1. group exercise: Greek, Etruscan, & Roman experts on house & temple design
2. fora in the Republic and the Early Empire

Before class

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Review: Buildings Across Time, pp. 120-25
3. Track down Augustus, Nero, Vespasian, Hadrian, Trajan, Caracalla and Constantine the Great here
4. Read: more from Vitruvius
5. Watch: Arch of Titus (7 min.)
6. Take: post-study quiz
7. For extra insights, watch: Every Roman Emperor And How They Died and Crash Course Roman History

In class

1. fora in the later Empire
2. public buildings
3. Vitruvius
4. the Domus Aurea & introduction to concrete

Before class

1. Take: survey on teaching/learning perspective (midterm)
2. Take: pre-study quiz
3. Watch: The Roman Structural Revolution (VoiceThread, 18 min.)
4. Watch: Colosseum (9 min.)
5. Watch: Pantheon (9 min.)
6. Watch: Hadrian's Villa (8 min.)
7. Watch: Circular Casino (Maritime Theatre) (5 min.)
8. Take: post-study quiz

In class

1. Review structural concepts
2. Late imperial architecture (Hadrian, Trajan, Caracalla)

Before class

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Watch: Basilica Nova (4 min.)
3. Watch: Jerash (5 min.)
4. Watch: Petra (4 min.)
5. Take: post-study quiz

In class

1. Quiz: Etruscans & Romans
2. The Roman Empire under Constantine
3. Roman architecture outside of the capital
4. History in the Recent Past Case Study: The idea of renaissance & later life of the Pantheon

Before class

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Consult: outline
3. Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 133-38
4. Review: The Five Major World Religions (11 min.)
5. Read: Lliturgy (article on Jewish & Christian liturgies; read up to the medieval period)
6. Watch: Catacombs of Priscilla (11 min.)
7. Visit: Santa Costanza (panoramas)
8. Take: post-study quiz
9. Prepare: One discussion board post due by Monday, Oct. 22, at 1 PM
10. For further insights, read: Jewish architecture (article) and watch:: Santa Maria Antiqua (7 min.); read: Jewish architecture (article)

In class

1. Jewish traditions
2. Christian traditions under the Empire
3. Christian traditions after Constantine (Sta. Costanza, St. Peter's)

Before class

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 139-40
3. Watch: mosaic materials (3 min.)
4. Watch: Santa Sabina (7 min.)
5. Take: post-study quiz
6. For further insights,watch: Sant'Apollinare in Classe (4 min.); visit Baptistery of the Orthodox (panorama); watch: Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (8 min.); visit: Mausoleum of Galls Placidia (panoramas)

In class

1. Early Christian
2. Ravenna

Before class

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 140-46 & 151
3. Watch: Architecture in the Christian East (VoiceThread, 20 min.)
4. Watch: Hagia Sophia (11 min.)
5. Read: Procopius on the building of Hagia Sophia
6. Watch: San Vitale (10 min.)
7. Take: post-study quiz
8. Prepare: Respond to a peer's post on the discussion board from last week, choosing one from the option you did not answer for Monday. What evidence or insight can you offer to support or challenge the statement made by your peer? (due by Monday, Oct. 29, at 1 PM).
9. For additional insight: visit SS. Sergius & Bacchus and San Vitale (panoramas); watch Hagia Sophia as a mosque (7 min.) and Deësis mosaic (5 min.); visit

In class

1. church planning in the Byzantine Empire: early centralized examples in Constantinople & Ravenna
2. traditions in the Eastern (Orthodox) church after (or around) the Schism: Istanbul, Venice, Phocis,and Göreme

1. Quiz: late Rome, Early Christian & Byzantine
2. Test: cumulative, with primary focus on Etruscan/Roman, Early Christian & Byzantine)

Before class

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Consult: outline (note: updated 11/2/18)
3. Review: The Five Major World Religions (11 min.)
4. Watch: Crash Course World History on Islam (12 min.)
5. Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 153-59
6. Watch: Islam (VoiceThread, 24 min.)
7. Watch: Geometry in Islamic Design (5 min.)
8. Read: Islam texts (& bring a copy to class)
9. Sign up: to work in groups on Thursday (if you'd rather, Dr. Amundson will complete the signups after 1 PM Monday)
10. Take: post-study quiz

In class

1. Intro: Medieval Islam & Christianity
2. The Prophet
3. Foundations of Muslim art & architecture
4. Prep for next class (group work)

In class

• Mosques around the Mediterranean (group work): due Monday, Nov. 12 at 1 PM
• Assignment Resources
  1. Groups
  2. Assignment narrative
  3. Map of locations
  4. ArchNet

Groups

1. Choose: Cristo de la luz/Mezquita Bab-al-Mardum, (Spain) or Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Egypt)
2. Choose: Grande Mosquée de Bougoufié (Mali) or Great Umayyad Mosque (Syria)
3. Choose: Kairouan Central Mosque (Tunisia) or Great Mosque of Samarra (Iraq)
4. Choose: Zaytuna Mosque (Tunis) or Great Masjid of Demak (Indonesia)
5. Choose: Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Egypt) or Cristo de la luz/Mezquita Bab-al-Mardum, (Spain)
6. Choose: Mosque of Amr ibn al-As (Egypt) or Grande Mosquée de Bougoufié (Mali)
7. Choose: Great Umayyad Mosque (Syria) or Kairouan Central Mosque (Tunisia)
8. Choose: Great Mosque of Samarra (Iraq) or Zaytuna Mosque (Tunis)
9. Choose: Great Masjid of Demak (Indonesia) or Mosque of Amr ibn al-As (Egypt)

Before class

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 170-75
3. Watch: the Alhambra (focus: 7:30-22:10; 15 min.)
4. Watch: muqarnas
5. Watch: Building the Moroccan Court (18 min.)
6. Take: post-study quiz
7. For extra insight, visit the Alhambra in panoramas

In class

1. Recap: hypostyle mosques
2. Al-Andalus, the "Ornament of the World"
3. History in the Recent Past, Case Study: Jean Nouvel

On your own

• Take: pre-study quiz
• Consult: outline
• Read: Buildings Across Time, chapter 8
• Watch: Early Medieval (VoiceThread, 21 min.)
• Take: post-study quiz
• Complete: Romanesque project
  • claim one of the buildings listed here
  • if you discuss, share resources (etc.) with someone else who is working on your building, just make sure that the final result is your own independent work
  • submit your assignment by 1 PM, Monday Nov. 19
  • here are some resources you will find helpful:
    • Books on reserve in the JU library (you are required to use a minimum of print sources for this project)
    • Digital Collection, Univ. of Washington
    • Great Buildings 
    • Internet Archive
    • Jackson, Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture (1913)
    • others (Princeton site)
    • Wikipedia: use with care; seek out the links usually provided at the bottom of an article

No F2F meeting

Before class

1. Review Carolingian & Romanesque architecture
2. For further insights, watch: Last Judgement, St. Lazare (10 min.)

In class

1. Quiz: Islam
2. Carolingian overview
3. Romanesque (?) Scandinavia & France

Before class

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 213-26, 239-40; skim rest of chapter
3. Watch: Later Medieval Architecture (VoiceThread, 25 min.)
4. Watch: St. Denis (5 min.)
5. Watch: Chartres (19 min.)
6. Watch: Sainte-Chapelle (6 min.)
7. Visit: S.-Denis (look around the chevet to get a sense of the space that 2D pictures can't communicate)
8. Take: post-study quiz
9. For further insights, watch: These people building a castle in 2016 with 12th-century methods (6 min.); Reims (18 min.), Amiens (16 min.) and visit: Chartres (esp. up on the roof); & Amiens (esp. wooden roof structure over vaults); review: the complete iconography from the Book of Revelation in the rose window of Sainte-Chapelle

In class

1. Medieval builders
2. Gothic France

Before class

1. Take: pre-study quiz
2. Read: Buildings Across Time, pp. 226-39
3. Watch: Salisbury (7 min.)
4. Watch: Henry VII Chapel, Westminster (5 min.)
5. Watch: Rick Steves tours you around the Cathedral in Siena (only watch through 2:30, after which he goes beyond the medieval material and we're not licensed to look at that yet; 2.5 min.)
6. Watch: a narration-free tour of Sta. Croce (Florence) (watch through 4:20); use this guide
7. Take: post-study quiz
8. For further insights, watch: Lincoln (11 min.) and Wells (8 min.); visit: Salisbury Cathedral (panoramas) & King's College Chapel/Cathedral (panoramas)

In class

1. Recommended: bring a laptop
2. Required: bring a copy of your Romanesque project
3. Gothic England and Italy (with group work)
4. Florence

Note: Dr. Amundson's office hours will be Wednesday, Dec. 5, 9 AM to 1 PM.

By Wednesday, Dec. 5 at 1 PM:

1. Take: survey on teaching/learning perspective (end-of-term)
2. Review: how much you've learned through the semester
3. Don't forget your JU course evaluation!

At special finals week meeting time, Thursday from 8:30 - 10:00 AM:

1. Quiz: Romanesque and Gothic [HERE IT IS]
   • Note: I will use your top seven quiz scores to calculate your final grade in the class.
2. Test: cumulative, with primary focus on medieval Islam & Christianity
   • Note: to prepare, make sure to review two mosque projects and four Romanesque projects (10 min.)