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 10

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 28	Ghosts, Haunting, Memory, and Erasure in the Films of Asia	5

HAVC 30 - HAVC 49: Europe and the Americas

HAVC 30	Introduction to European Visual Culture	5
HAVC 35	European Visual Culture in a Global Context 1500-1900	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	5
HAVC 64	Indigenous North American Materiality and Resistance	5
HAVC 65	Native American Art and the Environment	5

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	Art, Revolt, and Revolution in Europe 1750-1850	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 135K	Art and Science in Europe 1500-1900	5
HAVC 135L	Nineteenth-Century Europe in Prints	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 141L	Museums in the Internet Era	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 142M	Museum Exhibitions	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 153	Neither Venus Nor Virgin: Women's Lives Beyond Men's Constructs in Late Antiquity and Byzantium	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	Special Studies in Early Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Ancient Maya	5
HAVC 162B	Special 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