NOTE: All History of Art & Architecture courses use the prefix ARTHI
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HAA Summer 2026 Courses
* = Museum Studies
^ = Architecture and Environment
~ = Game Studies
\ = Architecture & Urban History
(updated 7/27/2026)
Summer Session B (August 3 - September 11, 2026)
W 6C Survey III: Modern-Contemporary Art History (online) - Sorkin
W 6R Rome: The Game (online) * ^ ~ \ - Moser
W 105P Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture (online) - Badamo
W 6C Survey III: Modern-Contemporary Art History Sorkin
This online course is an introduction to the modern era of Western art history, with a focus on European and American histories. Its premise is that art and science as entwined enterprises within the eighteenth-century European Enlightenment: scientific inquiry, new forms of representation, looking and examining are the models for the course’s start of 1750. We proceed through nineteenth century histories of colonization and land grabs, issues of Empire and extraction, and the transatlantic slave trade. The twentieth century focuses on the rise of urbanism, migration, displacement, two world wars, and new developments in abstract art across painting, sculpture, and photography, as well as an intensive focus on ethnicity, race, sexuality and gender across the Arts & Crafts Movement, AAPI histories in California, the Harlem Renaissance, Feminist Art, LGBTQ histories, and the rise of internationalism and global art histories in the twenty-first century, ending the course examining the present moment.
This online course presented as an adventure game introduces students to the art and archaeology of Rome, with assignments that focus on writing and the research process. The course asks students to determine whether or not a collection of ancient objects from an American museum should remain in the US or be sent back to Italy. Throughout the course, students excavate artifacts at a digital dig site, visit museums, explore Roman monuments, and navigate the shadowy world of the tombaroli (tomb robbers) and mafia-run black market for antiquities.
W 105P Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture Badamo
This online course explores the soaring cathedrals, monstrous sculptures, and marvelous images that inspired The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. Beginning with the fourth-century rise of Christian images and ending with the advent of print, it traces how images developed new roles and reinvented old ones over the course of the Middle Ages. Investigating architecture, sculpture, and manuscripts in their historical contexts, it asks why medieval objects look the way the do and how viewers saw them.
HAA Fall 2026 Courses
* = Museum Studies
^ = Architecture and Environment
~ = Game Studies
\ = Architecture & Urban History
(updated 7/29/2026)
Lower Division Courses
5B Introduction to Museum Studies * ^ - Smith Flores
6G Survey: History of Photography * ^ - Garnier
6H Survey: Arts of the Ancient Americas * ^ \ - Boswell
W 6R Rome: The Game * ^ ~ \ - Moser
Upper Division Courses
105P Intro to Medieval Art and Architecture - Badamo
113F Bernini and the Age of the Baroque - Paul
120AA Special Topics in Twentieth-Century Modern Art: Print and Dissent in Western 20th-Century Art - Grego March
127A African Art I - Ogbechie
132A Mediterranean Cities - Khoury
132D Islamic Architecture 650-1400 - Khoury
141G The Architecture of Museums and Galleries from c. 1800 to the Present - Welter
142D Gardens, Land, and Landscape in the West: Renaissance to 1900 - Wittman
187H Museums in Transition: From the Early Modern to the Modern Period - Paul
Graduate Courses
200A Proseminar: Introduction to Art-Historical Methods - Badamo
266 Topics in Early Modern Architecture - Wittman
267 Topics in Modern Architecture - Welter
5B Introduction to Museum Studies Smith Flores
Designed to introduce students to various aspects of Museum Studies- historical, theoretical, and practical- by examining a range of issues and topics with which the field is engaged.
6G Survey: History of Photography Garnier
A critical survey of nineteenth and twentieth century photography as an art form.
6H Survey: Arts of the Ancient Americas Boswell
An introduction to select art traditions from the ancestral Americas, from Andean South America to Chumash Territory. Examines architecture, ceramics, sculpture, and other classes of material culture for their meaning and function within sociopolitical, religious, and economic contexts.
NOTE: ARTHI 6H and LAIS 6H are the same course.
This online course presented as an adventure game introduces students to the art and archaeology of Rome, with assignments that focus on writing and the research process. The course asks students to determine whether or not a collection of ancient objects from an American museum should remain in the US or be sent back to Italy. Throughout the course, students excavate artifacts at a digital dig site, visit museums, explore Roman monuments, and navigate the shadowy world of the tombaroli (tomb robbers) and mafia-run black market for antiquities.
105P Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture Badamo
This course explores the soaring cathedrals, monstrous sculptures, and marvelous images that inspired The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. Beginning with the fourth-century rise of Christian images and ending with the advent of print, it traces how images developed new roles and reinvented old ones over the course of the Middle Ages. Investigating architecture, sculpture, and manuscripts in their historical contexts, it asks why medieval objects look the way the do and how viewers saw them.
113F Bernini and the Age of the Baroque Paul
Examines the life and work of Gianlorenzo Bernini, best known as a brilliant and innovative sculptor, in their historical context. Also considered is the international influence that Bernini exerted on seventeenth- and eighteeth-century art.
120AA Special Topics in Twentieth-Century Modern Art: Print and Dissent in Western 20th-Century Art Grego March
Special topics in twentieth-century modern art.
The relationship of art to life in sub-Saharan Africa. A cross-cultural survey of types, styles, history, and values of arts ranging from personal decoration to the state festival, stressing Ashanti, Ife, Benin, Yoruba, Cameroon.
132A Mediterranean Cities Khoury
An exploration of the most important Medieval cities of the Mediterranean world, their urban forms, layout, architecture, and physical patterns. Venice, Cairo, and Baghdad will be among the cities discussed.
132D Islamic Architecture 650-1400 Khoury
Islamic architecture between 650 and 1400 in its historical context.
141G The Architecture of Museums and Galleries from c. 1800 to the Present Welter
Discusses the history of museums and galleries as distinct modern building types by analyzing their architectural developments from approximately 1800 to the present. Beside architectural design issues (sequence of galleries, display of exhibits, lighting, visitor routes, etc.), the course analyzes museums as sites of memory, their intersections with the modern city, and their roles in cultural and societal debates. Geographically, the course focuses on both the museums origin in Europe and its contemporary universal presence.
142D Gardens, Land, and Landscape in the West: Renaissance to 1900 Wittman
Changing nature of garden and landscape design from the Renaissance to NYC's Central Park, studied as a function of the changing functions and status of land during the long passage from feudalism to industrial capitalism.
187H Museums in Transition: From the Early Modern to the Modern Period Paul
Examines a range of issues: art historical, cultural, political, practical, and theoretical, that conditioned the development of museums and collections, primarily in Europe, from the Renaissance to the present day. Topics and format will vary.
200A Proseminar: Introduction to Art-Historical Methods Badamo
Introduction to art-historical methods, with emphasis on the historical development of current practices, critical theory, debates within the field, and cross-disciplinary dialogues.
266 Seminar: Topics in Early Modern Architecture Wittman
Special research in early modern architecture.
267 Seminar: Topics in Modern Architecture Welter
Special research in modern architecture.
2026-2027 History of Art & Architecture Course Overview
* = Museum Studies
^ = Architecture and Environment
~ = Game Studies
\ = Architecture & Urban History
Green = Undergrad Lower Division
Black = Undergrad Upper Division
Purple = Undergrad Seminars
Red = Grad Seminars
| Schedule is subject to change - last updated 7/28/2026 | |||
| INSTRUCTOR | FALL 2026 | WINTER 2027 | SPRING 2027 |
| BADAMO | 105P : Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture ^ \ | 105O : The Global Middle Ages: Visual and Cultural Encounters in the Medieval Mediterranean | Non-Teaching Quarter |
| 200A : Proseminar: Introduction to Art-Historical Methods | |||
| BARND | Non-Teaching Quarter | Non-Teaching Quarter | 263 : Topics in Contemporary Art |
| BOSWELL | ARTHI 6H / LAIS 6H : Survey: Arts of the Ancient Americas * ^ \ | 122 : Special Topics in Art of the Americas | 130D : Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Andes ^ |
| 254 : Topics in Pre-Columbian/Colonial Latin American Art | |||
| CHATTOPADHYAY | Non-Teaching Quarter | 136J : Landscape of Colonialism ^ \ | 5A : Introduction to Architecture and Environment * ^ \ |
| 265 : Topics in Architectural History & Urbanism | 136E : Food Space ^ \ | ||
| GARNIER | 6G : Survey: History of Photography * ^ | Non-Teaching Quarter | 121B : Reconstruction, Renaissance, and Realism in American Art: 1860-1900 |
| 187Z : Museum Studies Seminar * | |||
| KHOURY | 132A : Mediterranean Cities ^ \ | 132E : Islamic Architecture 1400-Modern ^ \ | 132K : The Mosque in History ^ \ |
| 132D : Islamic Architecture 650-1400 ^ \ | |||
| LUMBRERAS | Non-Teaching Quarter | 6I : The Arts of the Iberian World, 1492-1700 | 109I : Art and the Environment in the Early Modern Period |
| 109C : Art, Science, and Technology in the Renaissance | 186P : Seminar in Latin American Art ^ \ | ||
| MEADOW | Non-Teaching Quarter | 255G : Studies in the History and Theory of Museums | Non-Teaching Quarter |
| MOSER | W 6R : Rome the Game * ^ ~ \ | 103D : Introduction to Classical Archaeology ^ \ | Non-Teaching Quarter |
| 186B : Seminar in Ancient Greek & Roman Art/Architecture ^ \ | |||
| OGBECHIE | 127A : African Art I | 6E : Survey: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native North America * ^ | 127B : African Art II |
| 186N : Seminar in African Art ^ \ | |||
| PAUL | 113F : Bernini and the Age of the Baroque * ^ \ | 6B : Art Survey II: Renaissance-Baroque Art * ^ \ | Non-Teaching Quarter |
| 187H : Museums in Transition: From the Early Modern to the Modern Period * | |||
| RITTER | Non-Teaching Quarter | Non-Teaching Quarter | 141MH : Museums and History * |
| SMITH FLORES | 5B : Intro to Museum Studies * ^ | 131D : Special Topics in Latin American Art | Non-Teaching Quarter |
| 187D : Seminar: Topics in Contemporary Art | |||
| SORKIN | Non-Teaching Quarter | 263 : Topics in Contemporary Art | W 6C : Survey III: Modern-Contemporary Art History (online) * ^ |
| STURMAN | Non-Teaching Quarter | Non-Teaching Quarter | 6DS : Survey: History of Art in China * ^ \ |
| WELTER | 141G : The Architecture of Museums and Galleries from c. 1800 to the Present | 136K : Modern Architecture in Early Twentieth-Century Europe ^ \ | Non-Teaching Quarter |
| 267 : Seminar in Modern Architecture | 136Y : Modern Architecture in Southern California, c. 1890s to the Present ^ \ | ||
| WHITE | Non-Teaching Quarter | 6L : Playful Spaces: A Cultural History of Games * ^ ~ \ | 6J : Survey: Contemporary Architecture * ^ ~ \ |
| 136C : Architecture of the United States ^ \ | |||
| WITTMAN | 142D : Gardens, Land, and Landscape in the West: Renaissance to 1900 \ | 6F : Survey: Architecture and Planning * ^ \ | Non-Teaching Quarter |
| 266 : Seminar: Topics in Early Modern Architecture | 142D : Gardens, Land, and Landscape in the West: Renaissance to 1900 \ | ||
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