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Introduction to cultures and religions for the study of AP Art History

This course contains 14 segments:

A brief history of Western culture

Judaism, an introduction

Roots of Hinduism

Principal deities of Hinduism

Beliefs made visible: Hindu art in South Asia

Explore Hinduism through clips of significant sites in South Asia and interviews with members of the Bay Area South Asian community. Learn more about Hinduism on the Asian Art Museum's education website. 

Introduction to Buddhism

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This course contains 14 segments:

A brief history of Western culture

Judaism, an introduction

Roots of Hinduism

Principal deities of Hinduism

Beliefs made visible: Hindu art in South Asia

Explore Hinduism through clips of significant sites in South Asia and interviews with members of the Bay Area South Asian community. Learn more about Hinduism on the Asian Art Museum's education website. 

Introduction to Buddhism

The Historical Buddha

Beliefs made visible: Buddhist art in South Asia

Explore Buddhism through clips of significant sites in South Asia and interviews with members of the Bay Area South Asian community. Learn more about Buddhism on the Asian Art Museum's education website. 

Christianity, an introduction for the study of art history

Standard scenes from the life of Christ in art

About chronological periods in the Islamic world

Introduction to Islam

The Five Pillars of Islam

Stories of the modern pilgrimage

Every year, 25,000 British Muslims make the pilgrimage to Mecca. As part of the exhibition, Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam, the British Museum asked what this journey is like... ©Trustees of the British Museum. More Hajj stories from the Asian Art Museum

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This course belongs to a collection called AP®︎ Art History. It's comprised of 13 courses:
  1. Start here
  2. Introduction to cultures and religions for the study of AP Art History (viewing)
  3. Global prehistory: 30,000-500 B.C.E.
  4. Ancient Mediterranean: 3500 B.C.E.-300 C.E.
  5. Early Europe and Colonial Americas: 200-1750 C.E.
  6. Later Europe and Americas: 1750-1980 C.E.
  7. Indigenous Americas
  8. Africa: 1100-1980 C.E.
  9. West and central Asia: 500 B.C.E.-1980 C.E.
  10. South, East, and Southeast Asia: 300 B.C.E. - 1980 C.E.
  11. The Pacific
  12. Global contemporary: 1980-present
  13. West and Central Asia
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