
Undergraduate Courses
Please find the tentative curriculum for the 2025-26 academic year below.
The specific schedule for the current quarter can be reviewed in the Schedule of Classes.
A full list of HAVC course offerings can be found in the UCSC General Catalog.
FALL QUARTER 2025
20 | Visual Cultures of Asia | Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo | |
28 | Ghosts, Haunting, Memory, and Erasure in the Films of Asia | Boreth Ly | |
51 | Greek Eyes: Visual Culture and Power in the Ancient Greek World | Maria Evangelatou | |
70 | Visual Cultures of the Pacific Islands | Nicole Furtado | |
118 | Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora | TBA | |
122E | Art and Propaganda in China | Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo | |
135D | Art, Revolt, and Revolution in Europe 1750-1850 | Kailani Polzak | |
141C | Modern Art: Pop to Present | Derek Murray | |
141I | Be Here Now: Art, Land, Space | Jennifer González | |
141L | Museums in the Internet Era | Kyle Parry | |
151 | Greek Myths Antiquity to the Present | Maria Evangelatou | |
188J | Curation and Justice (new course) | TBA | |
190Y | Art and the Sea: Visualizing Knowledge and Political History in Europe and North America (1500-1900) (undergraduate seminar; new course) | Kailani Polzak |
WINTER QUARTER 2026
27 | Image and Ideology in Indian Art | Kirtana Thangavelu | |
30 | Introduction to European Visual Culture | TBA | |
42 | Art and Light (new course) | Kyle Parry | |
44 | Designing California: Architecture, Design, and Environment | Albert Narath | |
64 | Indigenous North American Materiality and Resistance | TBA | |
100A | Approaches to Visual Studies | Kailani Polzak | |
123A | Modernity and the Arts of India | Kirtana Thangavelu | |
141B | Death, Desire, and Modernity | Jennifer González | |
141O | Sex, Lies, and Surveillance: Contemporary Documentary Arts | TJ Demos | |
143D | Architecture and the City in Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture | Albert Narath | |
170 | Art of the Body in Oceania | TBA | |
176 | Visual Sovereignty (link forthcoming) | Nicole Furtado | |
188A | Introduction to Curatorial Studies | TBA | |
191D | Semiotics and Visual Culture | Jennifer González |
SPRING QUARTER 2026
35 | European Visual Culture in a Global Context 1500-1900 | Kailani Polzak | |
40 | Museum Cultures: The Politics of Display | Jennifer González | |
55 | Unclothed: The Naked Body from Antiquity to the Present | Maria Evangelatou | |
80 | Colonial Histories and Legacies: Africa, Oceania, and the Indigenous Americas | TBA | |
122D | Chinese Landscape Painting | Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo | |
124B | History of Photography in Southeast Asia | Boreth Ly | |
124C | Arts and Politics in Theravada Traditions | Boreth Ly | |
143H | City on a Hill: The Architecture of the Campus (link forthcoming) | Albert Narath | |
152 | Roman Eyes: Visual Culture and Power in the Ancient Roman World | TBA | |
164A | Art and Visual Culture of Indigenous California | TBA | |
172 | Textile Traditions of Oceania | Stacy Kamehiro | |
175 | Oceanic Futurities (new course) | Nicole Furtado | |
188C | Site-Specific Art, Installations, Artists and Institutional Practice | TBA | |
191L | Topics in Native American Visual Culture: Indigeneity and Pop Culture | TBA | |
191M | Exploring Black Cultural Representation in Art (undergraduate seminar; new course) | TBA |
SUMMER QUARTER 2026
The HAVC Department regularly offers courses during Summer Session. A minimum of one upper-division course will be offered during Session 1 and Session 2 (specific courses vary). For the latest offerings, please visit the Summer Session website.
