CCAS 187CAztec Art
Chicana/o and Central American Studies · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to Aztecs through analysis of art in different media including sculpture, featherworks, polychrome pottery, manuscripts, and architecture. Readings from ethnohistoric sources compiled in early colonial period by indigenous scribes and Spanish officials (friars, soldiers, chroniclers, and administrators). Study of Aztecs, their art, their civilization, and major topics discussed in existing, scholarship, including calendar, foundational and creation myths, stories of migration, human sacrifice, rulership, warfare, gender, religion, philosophy, and art and architecture. Assessment of validity of scholarly assumptions about Aztecs, their art, and society in light of available sources.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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