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History of Art and Visual Culture Courses by Geographic Region

Course List by Geographic Region

Note: Not all of these courses are offered each academic year.

Lower-Division Courses

HAVC 10 - HAVC 19: Africa and its Diaspora

HAVC 10Introduction to African Visual Culture

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HAVC 20 - HAVC 29: Asia and its Diaspora

HAVC 20Visual Cultures of Asia

5

HAVC 22Religion and Visual Culture in China

5

HAVC 24Southeast Asia Visual Culture

5

HAVC 27Image and Ideology in Indian Art

5

HAVC 30 - HAVC 49: Europe and the Americas

HAVC 30Introduction to European Visual Culture

5

HAVC 40Museum Cultures: The Politics of Display

5

HAVC 41Introduction to Modern Art

5

HAVC 43History of Modern Architecture

5

HAVC 44Designing California: Architecture, Design, and Environment

5

HAVC 45Photography Now

5

HAVC 46Introduction to U.S. Art and Visual Culture

5

HAVC 47Introduction To Contemporary Art

5

HAVC 48Climate Justice Now! Art, Activism, Environment Today

5

HAVC 49From Memes to Metadata: an Introduction to Digital Visual Culture

5

HAVC 50 - HAVC 59: Mediterranean

HAVC 50Ancient Mediterranean Visual Cultures

5

HAVC 51Greek Eyes: Visual Culture and Power in the Ancient Greek World

5

HAVC 55Unclothed: The Naked Body from Antiquity to the Present

5

HAVC 58Gardens of Delight: Fifteen Centuries of Islamic Visual Culture

5

HAVC 60 - HAVC 69: Native Americas

HAVC 60Indigenous American Visual Culture

5

HAVC 70 - HAVC 79: Oceania and its Diaspora

HAVC 70Visual Cultures of the Pacific Islands

5

HAVC 80 may be used to fulfill a lower-division requirement for one of the following geographic regions: 10s (Africa), 60s (Native Americas), or 70s (Oceania). 

Upper-Division Courses

HAVC 110 - HAVC 119: Africa and its Diaspora

HAVC 110Visual Cultures of West Africa

5

HAVC 111Visual Cultures of Central Africa

5

HAVC 115Gender in African Visual Culture

5

HAVC 116African Architecture

5

HAVC 117Contemporary Art of Africa

5

HAVC 118Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora

5

HAVC 119Arts and Politics of African Urban Space

5

HAVC 120 - HAVC 129: Asia and its Diaspora

HAVC 122ASacred Geography of China

5

HAVC 122BConstructing Lives in China: Biographies and Portraits

5

HAVC 122CWriting in China

5

HAVC 122DChinese Landscape Painting

5

HAVC 122FBodies in Chinese Culture

5

HAVC 123AModernity and the Arts of India

5

HAVC 123BReligions and Visual Culture of South Asia

5

HAVC 124AArts of Ancient Southeast Asia

5

HAVC 124BHistory of Photography in Southeast Asia

5

HAVC 124CArts and Politics in Theravada Traditions

5

HAVC 124DContemporary Art of Southeast Asia and its Diaspora

5

HAVC 124ESoutheast Asian-American and Diasporic Visual Culture

5

HAVC 127ABuddhist Visual Worlds

5

HAVC 127BBuddhist Pure Lands

5

HAVC 127CRitual in Asian Religious Art

5

HAVC 127DStorytelling in Asian Art

5

HAVC 127EModern/Contemporary Architecture of the Asia Pacific

5

HAVC 127FThe Politics of Exclusion: Asian American Visual Culture

5

HAVC 130 - HAVC 149: Europe and the Americas

HAVC 133AThemes in the Study of Medieval Visual Culture

5

HAVC 135BGerman Art, 1905-1945

5

HAVC 135DFrench Painting, 1780-1855

5

HAVC 135EJewish Identity and Visual Representation

5

HAVC 135FArt of the Book in Western Europe 500-1600

5

HAVC 135GBlood, Guts, and Gore: Representing War from Leonard da Vinci to Abu Ghraib

5

HAVC 135HTopics in European and Euro-American Visual Culture

5

HAVC 135PParis, Capital of the 19th Century

5

HAVC 137ANorthern Renaissance Art

5

HAVC 137ERenaissance Prints

5

HAVC 140AAmerica in Art

5

HAVC 140BVictorian America

5

HAVC 140CRace and American Visual Arts

5

HAVC 140DChicano/Chicana Art: 1970-Present

5

HAVC 140EArt and Science in America: Contact to circa 1900

5

HAVC 140PPop Culture as High Art

5

HAVC 141AModern Art: Realism to Cubism

5

HAVC 141BDeath, Desire, and Modernity

5

HAVC 141CModern Art: Pop to Present

5

HAVC 141EHistories of Photography

5

HAVC 141FThe Camera and the Body

5

HAVC 141HMedia History and Theory

5

HAVC 141IBe Here Now: Art, Land, Space

5

HAVC 141JCritical Issues in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture

5

HAVC 141KActivist Art Since 1960: Art, Technology, Activism

5

HAVC 141MMuseum Practices

5

HAVC 141NData Cultures: Art, Technology, and the Politics of Visual Representation

5

HAVC 141OSex, Lies, and Surveillance: Contemporary Documentary Arts

5

HAVC 141PNetworks and Natures: Art, Technology, and the Nonhuman

5

HAVC 142Contemporary Art and Ecology

5

HAVC 143AContemporary Architecture and Critical Debates

5

HAVC 143BHistory of Urban Design

5

HAVC 143CLatin American Modern Architecture

5

HAVC 143DArchitecture and the City in Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture

5

HAVC 143EHistory of Design: The Objects of Technology, 1850-The Present

5

HAVC 143FMemory, Place, and Preservation in Modern Architecture

5

HAVC 143GAfter Utopia: Architecture and the City, 1968-Present

5

HAVC 144ALatin American Art and Visual Culture

5

HAVC 150 - HAVC 159: Mediterranean

HAVC 151Greek Myths Antiquity to the Present

5

HAVC 152Roman Eyes: Visual Culture and Power in the Ancient Roman World

5

HAVC 154Byzantine Visual Culture: Politics and Religion in the Empire of Constantinople, 330-1453 A. C

5

HAVC 155Constructing Cleopatra: Power, Sexuality, and Femininity Across the Ages

5

HAVC 157BItalian Renaissance: Art and Architecture

5

HAVC 157CHigh Renaissance

5

HAVC 157DArt of the Venetian Renaissance

5

HAVC 160 - HAVC 169: Native Americas

HAVC 160AIndigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: Mexico

5

HAVC 160BIndigenous American Visual Culture Before 1550: The Andes

5

HAVC 162AAdvanced Studies in Early Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Ancient Maya

5

HAVC 162BAdvanced Studies in Early Indigenous American Visual Culture: The Inka

5

HAVC 163The Native in Colonial Spanish America

5

HAVC 164AArt and Visual Culture of Indigenous California

5

HAVC 165Indigenous Artists and the Borderland Missions

5

HAVC 170 - HAVC 179: Oceania and its Diaspora

HAVC 170Art of the Body in Oceania

5

HAVC 172Textile Traditions of Oceania

5

HAVC 178Museums and Cultural Heritage in Oceania

5

HAVC 179Topics in Oceanic Visual Culture

5