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.


WINTER QUARTER 2026

41Introduction to Modern ArtBrian Karl
44Designing California: Architecture, Design, and EnvironmentAlbert Narath
46Introduction to U.S. Art and Visual CultureMary Zundo
50Ancient Mediterranean Visual CulturesAmanda Reiterman
64Indigenous North American Materiality and ResistanceClementine Bordeaux
100AApproaches to Visual StudiesKailani Polzak
140BVictorian AmericaMary Zundo
141MMuseum PracticesTatiane Santa Rosa
142Contemporary Art and EcologyTBA
170Art of the Body in OceaniaMarata Tamaira
175Speculative Currents: Art, Oceans, and Imagined Worlds (new course)Nicole Furtado
188AIntroduction to Curatorial StudiesMartabel Wasserman
191ITopics in Architecture and Urban History (specific topic TBA)Albert Narath

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.

Students sitting at computers alongside a costumed banana slug mascot

Questions?

Email: havc@ucsc.edu


Last modified: Oct 21, 2025