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 | |
| 160A | Indigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: Mexico | TBA | |
| 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 | |
| TBA | TBA | 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.
