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
| 28 | Ghosts, Haunting, Memory, and Erasure in the Films of Asia | Boreth Ly | |
| 47 | Introduction To Contemporary Art | TBA | |
| 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 | Tatiane Santa Rosa | |
| 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 | Alexandra Moore | |
| 190Y | Art and the Sea: Visualizing Knowledge and Political History in Europe and North America (1500-1900) | Kailani Polzak |
WINTER QUARTER 2026
| 27 | Image and Ideology in Indian Art | Kirtana Thangavelu | |
| 44 | Designing California: Architecture, Design, and Environment | Albert Narath | |
| 46 | Introduction to U.S. Art and Visual Culture | TBA | |
| 50 | Ancient Mediterranean Visual Cultures | TBA | |
| 64 | Indigenous North American Materiality and Resistance | Clementine Bordeaux | |
| 100A | Approaches to Visual Studies | Kailani Polzak | |
| 123A | Modernity and the Arts of India | Kirtana Thangavelu | |
| 140B | Victorian America | TBA | |
| 141M | Museum Practices | Tatiane Santa Rosa | |
| 170 | Art of the Body in Oceania | TBA | |
| 175 | Oceanic Futurities (new course) | Nicole Furtado | |
| 188A | Introduction to Curatorial Studies | Martabel Wasserman | |
| 191I | Topics in Architecture and Urban History (specific topic TBA) | Albert Narath |
SPRING QUARTER 2026
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.
