Undergraduate Courses
Please find the tentative curriculum for the 2024-25 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 2024
| 20 | Visual Cultures of Asia | Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo | |
| 40 | Museum Cultures: The Politics of Display | Jennifer A. González | |
| 51 | Greek Eyes: Visual Culture and Power in the Ancient Greek World | Maria Evangelatou | |
| 80 | Colonial Histories and Legacies: Africa, Oceania, and the Indigenous Americas | Carolyn Dean | |
| 122E | Art and Propaganda in China | Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo | |
| 124A | Arts of Ancient Southeast Asia | Boreth Ly (លី បុរ៉េត) | |
| 140D | Chicano/Chicana Art: 1970 to Present | Jennifer A. González | |
| 142 | Contemporary Art and Ecology | Madalen Benson | |
| 142M | Museum Exhibitions | Consuelo Endrigo-Williams | |
| 151 | Greek Myths Antiquity to the Present | Maria Evangelatou | |
| 160B | Indigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: The Andes | Gabrielle Greenlee | |
| 191G | Art, Cinema, and the Postmodern | Derek Conrad Murray |
WINTER QUARTER 2025
| 30 | Introduction to European Visual Culture | Allan Langdale | |
| 46 | Introduction to U.S. Art and Visual Culture | Martabel Wasserman | |
| 48 | Climate Justice Now! Art, Activism, Environment Today | T. J. Demos | |
| 64 | Indigenous North American Materiality and Resistance | TBA | |
| 76 | Oceanic Digital Arts | Nicole Furtado | |
| 100A | Approaches to Visual Studies | Albert Narath | |
| 122D | Chinese Landscape Painting | Gerui Wang | |
| 124D | Contemporary Art of Southeast Asia and its Diaspora | TBA | |
| 135H | Topics in European and Euro-American Visual Culture Winter 2025 topic: “Nature, Gender, and Modernity in the European Visual Tradition” | TBA | |
| 141M | Museum Practices | Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo | |
| 157B | Italian Renaissance: Art and Architecture | Allan Langdale | |
| 186I | Indigenous Art and Activism | TBA | |
| 191N | Topics in Renaissance Art and Visual Culture Winter 2025 topic: “Black Representation Between 15th and 18th Centuries” | Consuelo Endrigo-Williams |
SPRING QUARTER 2025
| 24 | Southeast Asia Visual Culture | Boreth Ly (លី បុរ៉េត) | |
| 35 | European Visual Culture in a Global Context 1500-1900 | Kailani Polzak | |
| 45 | Photography Now | Derek Conrad Murray | |
| 55 | Unclothed: The Naked Body from Antiquity to the Present | Maria Evangelatou | |
| 85 | Introduction to Global Architecture | TBA | |
| 116 | African Architecture | TBA | |
| 124E | Southeast Asian-American and Diasporic Visual Culture | Boreth Ly (លី បុរ៉េត) | |
| 141E | Histories of Photography | TBA | |
| 143H | City on a Hill: The Architecture of Campus (new course) | Albert Narath | |
| 144A | Latin American Art and Visual Culture | Tatiana Santa Rosa | |
| 162B | Special Studies in Early Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Inka | Gabrielle Greenlee | |
| 176 | Contemporary Oceanic Art (new course) | Nicole Furtado | |
| 188A | Introduction to Curatorial Studies | Martabel Wasserman | |
| 190H | Constructions of Identity in 20th c. Tibetan Visual Culture (undergraduate seminar; new course) | Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo | |
| 191P | Topics in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture Spring 2025 topic: “Light, Darkness, and Illumination” | Kyle Parry |
SUMMER QUARTER 2025
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.
