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Maya Architecture, Design and Civilization
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Maya Architecture, Design and Civilization

Atlantida Maya
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 9/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Students who take this course will acquire and in-depth knowledge and appreciation of Maya Architecture, Design and Civilization.
  • The course seeks to enrich your life experience.
  • The course promotes self-learning.
  • The course enhances human development.

Course content

1 section • 17 lectures • 2h 26m total length

  • Introduction2:40

    Explore Maya architecture, design, and civilization, emphasizing a highly structured, hierarchical society where architecture reflects social order, alongside Maya literacy, precise counting, and astronomy.

  • Maya Architecture Lecture 210:21

    Explore the Maya region, its city-states, and its advanced knowledge in science, mathematics, and corn. Trace the timeline from early preclassic to postclassic, drought-driven decline, and rebirth.

  • Maya Architecture Lecture 311:08
  • Maya Architecture Lecture 48:45
  • Maya Architecture Lecture 518:25

    Analyze maya temple architecture as platformed, plaza-centered spaces for priest-led ceremonies and offerings, with astronomical features and monuments like the Temple of the sun.

  • Maya Architecture Lecture 620:25

    Maya pyramids serve as ceremonial and civic centers, combining form, function, and beauty, while acting as lookout posts, astronomical observatories, and royal tombs.

  • Maya Architecture Lecture 715:39
  • Maya Architecture Lecture 85:28
  • Maya Architecture Lecture 97:44
  • Maya Architecture Lecture 103:41
  • Maya Architecture Lecture 117:31
  • Maya Architecture Lecture 122:39
  • Maya Architecture Lecture 131:39
  • Maya Architecture Lecture 148:37
  • Maya Architecture Lecture 155:40

    Explore Maya sacbe road networks linking northern Yucatan cities. These arches and designs drain water and serve defensive entrances, while journeys reveal Move and Columbus mine sites in jungle settings.

  • Maya Architecture Lecture 166:21
  • Course Catalog9:23

    Examine the course catalog for Maya architecture, design and civilization, using the concise caption as a springboard to connect core topics.

Requirements

  • There are no requirements or prerequisites to this course other than an interest in Maya Architecture, Design and Civilization.

Description

Welcome to this course on Maya Architecture, Design and Civilization. This course takes you inside the world of this mysterious civilization that flourished in the jungles of Southern Mexico and Central America. It is a journey of exploration guided by an insider. Everything that we share in this course has been studied, visited and documented directly by your professor. At the end of this course you will have a unique appreciation and valuable insight into the relationship of the Architecture, the Design and the Civilization of this unique, advanced, mysterious and exquisite culture. I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • This is a course for persons looking to be able to better understand and apppreciate Maya Architecture, Design and Civilization.

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