History of Art and Visual Culture Courses by Geographic Region

Course List by Geographic Region

Note: Not all of these courses are offered each academic year.

Lower-Division Courses

HAVC 10 - HAVC 19: Africa and its Diaspora

Introduction to African Visual Culture

HAVC 20 - HAVC 29: Asia and its Diaspora

HAVC 20	Visual Cultures of Asia	5
HAVC 22	Religion and Visual Culture in China	5
HAVC 24	Southeast Asia Visual Culture	5
HAVC 27	Image and Ideology in Indian Art	5

HAVC 30 - HAVC 49: Europe and the Americas

HAVC 30	Introduction to European Visual Culture	5
HAVC 40	Museum Cultures: The Politics of Display	5
HAVC 41	Introduction to Modern Art	5
HAVC 43	History of Modern Architecture	5
HAVC 44	Designing California: Architecture, Design, and Environment	5
HAVC 45	Photography Now	5
HAVC 46	Introduction to U.S. Art and Visual Culture	5
HAVC 47	Introduction To Contemporary Art	5
HAVC 48	Climate Justice Now! Art, Activism, Environment Today	5
HAVC 49	From Memes to Metadata: an Introduction to Digital Visual Culture	5

HAVC 50 - HAVC 59: Mediterranean

HAVC 50	Ancient Mediterranean Visual Cultures	5
HAVC 51	Greek Eyes: Visual Culture and Power in the Ancient Greek World	5
HAVC 55	Unclothed: The Naked Body from Antiquity to the Present	5
HAVC 58	Gardens of Delight: Fifteen Centuries of Islamic Visual Culture	5

HAVC 60 - HAVC 69: Native Americas

HAVC 60

Indigenous American Visual Culture

HAVC 70 - HAVC 79: Oceania and its Diaspora

HAVC 70

Visual Cultures of the Pacific Islands

HAVC 80 may be used to fulfill a lower-division requirement for one of the following geographic regions: 10s (Africa), 60s (Native Americas), or 70s (Oceania).

Upper-Division Courses

HAVC 110 - HAVC 119: Africa and its Diaspora

HAVC 110	Visual Cultures of West Africa	5
HAVC 111	Visual Cultures of Central Africa	5
HAVC 115	Gender in African Visual Culture	5
HAVC 116	African Architecture	5
HAVC 117	Contemporary Art of Africa	5
HAVC 118	Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora	5
HAVC 119	Arts and Politics of African Urban Space	5

HAVC 120 - HAVC 129: Asia and its Diaspora

HAVC 122A	Sacred Geography of China	5
HAVC 122B	Constructing Lives in China: Biographies and Portraits	5
HAVC 122C	Writing in China	5
HAVC 122D	Chinese Landscape Painting	5
HAVC 122F	Bodies in Chinese Culture	5
HAVC 123A	Modernity and the Arts of India	5
HAVC 123B	Religions and Visual Culture of South Asia	5
HAVC 124A	Arts of Ancient Southeast Asia	5
HAVC 124B	History of Photography in Southeast Asia	5
HAVC 124C	Arts and Politics in Theravada Traditions	5
HAVC 124D	Contemporary Art of Southeast Asia and its Diaspora	5
HAVC 124E	Southeast Asian-American and Diasporic Visual Culture	5
HAVC 127A	Buddhist Visual Worlds	5
HAVC 127B	Buddhist Pure Lands	5
HAVC 127C	Ritual in Asian Religious Art	5
HAVC 127D	Storytelling in Asian Art	5
HAVC 127E	Modern/Contemporary Architecture of the Asia Pacific	5
HAVC 127F	The Politics of Exclusion: Asian American Visual Culture	5

HAVC 130 - HAVC 149: Europe and the Americas

HAVC 133A	Themes in the Study of Medieval Visual Culture	5
HAVC 135B	German Art, 1905-1945	5
HAVC 135D	French Painting, 1780-1855	5
HAVC 135E	Jewish Identity and Visual Representation	5
HAVC 135F	Art of the Book in Western Europe 500-1600	5
HAVC 135G	Blood, Guts, and Gore: Representing War from Leonard da Vinci to Abu Ghraib	5
HAVC 135H	Topics in European and Euro-American Visual Culture	5
HAVC 135P	Paris, Capital of the 19th Century	5
HAVC 137A	Northern Renaissance Art	5
HAVC 137E	Renaissance Prints	5
HAVC 140A	America in Art	5
HAVC 140B	Victorian America	5
HAVC 140C	Race and American Visual Arts	5
HAVC 140D	Chicano/Chicana Art: 1970-Present	5
HAVC 140E	Art and Science in America: Contact to circa 1900	5
HAVC 140P	Pop Culture as High Art	5
HAVC 141A	Modern Art: Realism to Cubism	5
HAVC 141B	Death, Desire, and Modernity	5
HAVC 141C	Modern Art: Pop to Present	5
HAVC 141E	Histories of Photography	5
HAVC 141F	The Camera and the Body	5
HAVC 141H	Media History and Theory	5
HAVC 141I	Be Here Now: Art, Land, Space	5
HAVC 141J	Critical Issues in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture	5
HAVC 141K	Activist Art Since 1960: Art, Technology, Activism	5
HAVC 141M	Museum Practices	5
HAVC 141N	Data Cultures: Art, Technology, and the Politics of Visual Representation	5
HAVC 141O	Sex, Lies, and Surveillance: Contemporary Documentary Arts	5
HAVC 141P	Networks and Natures: Art, Technology, and the Nonhuman	5
HAVC 142	Contemporary Art and Ecology	5
HAVC 143A	Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debates	5
HAVC 143B	History of Urban Design	5
HAVC 143C	Latin American Modern Architecture	5
HAVC 143D	Architecture and the City in Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture	5
HAVC 143E	History of Design: The Objects of Technology, 1850-The Present	5
HAVC 143F	Memory, Place, and Preservation in Modern Architecture	5
HAVC 143G	After Utopia: Architecture and the City, 1968-Present	5
HAVC 144A	Latin American Art and Visual Culture	5

HAVC 150 - HAVC 159: Mediterranean

HAVC 151	Greek Myths Antiquity to the Present	5
HAVC 152	Roman Eyes: Visual Culture and Power in the Ancient Roman World	5
HAVC 154	Byzantine Visual Culture: Politics and Religion in the Empire of Constantinople, 330-1453 A. C	5
HAVC 155	Constructing Cleopatra: Power, Sexuality, and Femininity Across the Ages	5
HAVC 157B	Italian Renaissance: Art and Architecture	5
HAVC 157C	High Renaissance	5
HAVC 157D	Art of the Venetian Renaissance	5

HAVC 160 - HAVC 169: Native Americas

HAVC 160A	Indigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: Mexico	5
HAVC 160B	Indigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: The Andes	5
HAVC 162A	Advanced Studies in Early Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Ancient Maya	5
HAVC 162B	Advanced Studies in Early Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Inka	5
HAVC 163	The Native in Colonial Spanish America	5
HAVC 164A	Art and Visual Culture of Indigenous California	5
HAVC 165	Indigenous Artists and the Borderland Missions	5

HAVC 170 - HAVC 179: Oceania and its Diaspora

HAVC 170	Art of the Body in Oceania	5
HAVC 172	Textile Traditions of Oceania	5
HAVC 178	Museums and Cultural Heritage in Oceania	5
HAVC 179	Topics in Oceanic Visual Culture	5