
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 | 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 | |
160A | Indigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: Mexico | TBA | |
188J | Curation and Justice | TBA | |
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 | |
64 | Indigenous North American Materiality and Resistance | Clementine Bordeaux | |
TBA | Lower-division Course (TBA) | TBA | |
TBA | Lower-division Course (TBA) | TBA | |
100A | Approaches to Visual Studies | Kailani Polzak | |
123A | Modernity and the Arts of India | Kirtana Thangavelu | |
141O | Sex, Lies, and Surveillance: Contemporary Documentary Arts | TJ Demos | |
141M | Museum Practices | Tatiane Santa Rosa | |
170 | Art of the Body in Oceania | TBA | |
176 | Visual Sovereignty | Nicole Furtado | |
188A | Introduction to Curatorial Studies | Martabel Wasserman | |
TBA | Upper-division Course (TBA) | TBA | |
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.
