History of Art and Visual Culture Courses by Geographic Region

Course List by Geographic Region

The courses listed herein fulfill geographic regional requirements for the history of art and visual culture (HAVC) major and minor. Please see the 'Courses' section of the general catalog for a comprehensive list of all HAVC course offerings. 

Note: Not all courses are offered each academic year.

Lower-Division Courses

HAVC 10 - HAVC 19: Africa and its Diaspora

HAVC 10Introduction to African Visual Culture

5

HAVC 20 - HAVC 29: Asia and its Diaspora

HAVC 20Visual Cultures of Asia

5

HAVC 22Religion and Visual Culture in China

5

HAVC 24Southeast Asia Visual Culture

5

HAVC 27Image and Ideology in Indian Art

5

HAVC 30 - HAVC 49: Europe and the Americas

HAVC 30Introduction to European Visual Culture

5

HAVC 35European Visual Culture in a Global Context 1500-1900

5

HAVC 40Museum Cultures: The Politics of Display

5

HAVC 41Introduction to Modern Art

5

HAVC 43History of Modern Architecture

5

HAVC 44Designing California: Architecture, Design, and Environment

5

HAVC 45Photography Now

5

HAVC 46Introduction to U.S. Art and Visual Culture

5

HAVC 47Introduction To Contemporary Art

5

HAVC 48Climate Justice Now! Art, Activism, Environment Today

5

HAVC 49From Memes to Metadata: an Introduction to Digital Visual Culture

5

HAVC 50 - HAVC 59: Mediterranean

HAVC 50Ancient Mediterranean Visual Cultures

5

HAVC 51Greek Eyes: Visual Culture and Power in the Ancient Greek World

5

HAVC 55Unclothed: The Naked Body from Antiquity to the Present

5

HAVC 58Gardens of Delight: Fifteen Centuries of Islamic Visual Culture

5

HAVC 60 - HAVC 69: Native Americas

HAVC 60Indigenous American Visual Culture

5

HAVC 64Indigenous North American Materiality and Resistance

5

HAVC 65Native American Art and the Environment

5

HAVC 70 - HAVC 79: Oceania and its Diaspora

HAVC 70Visual Cultures of the Pacific Islands

5

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 110Visual Cultures of West Africa

5

HAVC 111Visual Cultures of Central Africa

5

HAVC 115Gender in African Visual Culture

5

HAVC 116African Architecture

5

HAVC 117Contemporary Art of Africa

5

HAVC 118Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora

5

HAVC 119Arts and Politics of African Urban Space

5

HAVC 120 - HAVC 129: Asia and its Diaspora

HAVC 122ASacred Geography of China

5

HAVC 122BConstructing Lives in China: Biographies and Portraits

5

HAVC 122CWriting in China

5

HAVC 122DChinese Landscape Painting

5

HAVC 122FBodies in Chinese Culture

5

HAVC 123AModernity and the Arts of India

5

HAVC 123BReligions and Visual Culture of South Asia

5

HAVC 124AArts of Ancient Southeast Asia

5

HAVC 124BHistory of Photography in Southeast Asia

5

HAVC 124CArts and Politics in Theravada Traditions

5

HAVC 124DContemporary Art of Southeast Asia and its Diaspora

5

HAVC 124ESoutheast Asian-American and Diasporic Visual Culture

5

HAVC 127ABuddhist Visual Worlds

5

HAVC 127BBuddhist Pure Lands

5

HAVC 127CRitual in Asian Religious Art

5

HAVC 127DStorytelling in Asian Art

5

HAVC 127EModern/Contemporary Architecture of the Asia Pacific

5

HAVC 127FThe Politics of Exclusion: Asian American Visual Culture

5

HAVC 130 - HAVC 149: Europe and the Americas

HAVC 133AThemes in the Study of Medieval Visual Culture

5

HAVC 135BGerman Art, 1905-1945

5

HAVC 135DArt, Revolt, and Revolution in Europe 1750-1850

5

HAVC 135EJewish Identity and Visual Representation

5

HAVC 135FArt of the Book in Western Europe 500-1600

5

HAVC 135GBlood, Guts, and Gore: Representing War from Leonard da Vinci to Abu Ghraib

5

HAVC 135HTopics in European and Euro-American Visual Culture

5

HAVC 135KArt and Science in Europe 1500-1900

5

HAVC 135LNineteenth-Century Europe in Prints

5

HAVC 135PParis, Capital of the 19th Century

5

HAVC 137ANorthern Renaissance Art

5

HAVC 137ERenaissance Prints

5

HAVC 140AAmerica in Art

5

HAVC 140BVictorian America

5

HAVC 140CRace and American Visual Arts

5

HAVC 140DChicano/Chicana Art: 1970-Present

5

HAVC 140EArt and Science in America: Contact to circa 1900

5

HAVC 140PPop Culture as High Art

5

HAVC 141AModern Art: Realism to Cubism

5

HAVC 141BDeath, Desire, and Modernity

5

HAVC 141CModern Art: Pop to Present

5

HAVC 141EHistories of Photography

5

HAVC 141FThe Camera and the Body

5

HAVC 141HMedia History and Theory

5

HAVC 141IBe Here Now: Art, Land, Space

5

HAVC 141JCritical Issues in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture

5

HAVC 141KActivist Art Since 1960: Art, Technology, Activism

5

HAVC 141LMuseums in the Internet Era

5

HAVC 141MMuseum Practices

5

HAVC 141NData Cultures: Art, Technology, and the Politics of Visual Representation

5

HAVC 141OSex, Lies, and Surveillance: Contemporary Documentary Arts

5

HAVC 141PNetworks and Natures: Art, Technology, and the Nonhuman

5

HAVC 142Contemporary Art and Ecology

5

HAVC 142MMuseum Exhibitions

5

HAVC 143AContemporary Architecture and Critical Debates

5

HAVC 143BHistory of Urban Design

5

HAVC 143CLatin American Modern Architecture

5

HAVC 143DArchitecture and the City in Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture

5

HAVC 143EHistory of Design: The Objects of Technology, 1850-The Present

5

HAVC 143FMemory, Place, and Preservation in Modern Architecture

5

HAVC 143GAfter Utopia: Architecture and the City, 1968-Present

5

HAVC 144ALatin American Art and Visual Culture

5

HAVC 150 - HAVC 159: Mediterranean

HAVC 151Greek Myths Antiquity to the Present

5

HAVC 152Roman Eyes: Visual Culture and Power in the Ancient Roman World

5

HAVC 153Neither Venus Nor Virgin: Women's Lives Beyond Men's Constructs in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

5

HAVC 154Byzantine Visual Culture: Politics and Religion in the Empire of Constantinople, 330-1453 A. C

5

HAVC 155Constructing Cleopatra: Power, Sexuality, and Femininity Across the Ages

5

HAVC 157BItalian Renaissance: Art and Architecture

5

HAVC 157CHigh Renaissance

5

HAVC 157DArt of the Venetian Renaissance

5

HAVC 160 - HAVC 169: Native Americas

HAVC 160AIndigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: Mexico

5

HAVC 160BIndigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: The Andes

5

HAVC 162ASpecial Studies in Early Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Ancient Maya

5

HAVC 162BSpecial Studies in Early Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Inka

5

HAVC 163The Native in Colonial Spanish America

5

HAVC 164AArt and Visual Culture of Indigenous California

5

HAVC 165Indigenous Artists and the Borderland Missions

5

HAVC 170 - HAVC 179: Oceania and its Diaspora

HAVC 170Art of the Body in Oceania

5

HAVC 172Textile Traditions of Oceania

5

HAVC 178Museums and Cultural Heritage in Oceania

5

HAVC 179Topics in Oceanic Visual Culture

5