NOTE: All History of Art & Architecture courses use the prefix ARTHI
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HAA Spring 2026 Courses
* = Museum Studies
^ = Architecture and Environment
~ = Game Studies
\ = Architecture & Urban History
(updated 1/30/2026)
Lower Division Courses
6B Art Survey II: Renaissance-Baroque Art - Paul
6F (online) Survey: Architecture and Planning ^ \ - Wittman
6I The Arts of the Iberian World, 1492-1700 - Lumbreras
Upper Division Courses
121B Reconstruction, Renaissance, and Realism in American Art: 1860-1900 - Garnier
121D African American Art and the African Legacy - Ogbechie
130D Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Andes ^ - Boswell
131CM Art of Colonial Mexico - Smith Flores
132J Modern Art of the Arab World - Khoury
ARTHI 134K/CHIN 134K Chinese Calligraphy: History and Aesthetics - Sturman
141MH Museums and History * - Ritter
142B (online) Architecture and Planning in Rome: Napoleon to Mussolini ^ \ - Wittman
186Q Seminar in Islamic Art and Architecture ^ \ - Khoury
Graduate Courses
256 Topics in Early Modern Iberian Art - Lumbreras
263 Topics in Contemporary Art - Smith Flores
6B Art Survey II: Renaissance-Baroque Art Paul
Renaissance and baroque art in Northern and Southern Europe.
6F (online) Survey: Architecture and Planning Wittman
A wide-ranging introduction to architecture and urban design around the world from the earliest human constructions to the middle of the 20th century. Students will encounter a global variety of buildings and cities, and will be introduced to a range of different ways of understanding and studying them. Writing assignments involve the analysis of local architecture and planning.
6I The Arts of the Iberian World, 1492-1700 Lumbreras
This survey course offers an overview of the varied artistic cultures developed under the Spanish Empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, covering, besides the Iberian Peninsula, different parts of Europe and North and West Africa, the Spanish Americas, and a number of transpacific territories. In addition to exposing students to an astoundingly rich set of materials, it introduces them to key theoretical themes, such as Indigenous agency, borderlands and frontier territories, religious intolerance and coercion, cross-cultural exchange, resistance, racialization, and revisions of the center/periphery and hybridity/mestizaje models.
121B Reconstruction, Renaissance, and Realism in American Art: 1860-1900 Garnier
Painting and human-made environments from the onset of the Civil War to just before World War II, tracing the role of art in the rise of modern, corporate America.
121D African American Art and the African Legacy Ogbechie
Examination of the three centuries of African-American art in North America, the Carribean, and Brazil, stressing the African legacy. Colonial metalwork and pottery, folk or outsider genres, and mainstream nineteenth-and twentieth-century work are among traditions studied.
130D Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Andes Boswell
The architecture, ceramics, textiles, and other classes of material culture of Andean societies from 3000 BCE to the Conquest examined within their cultural contexts with a focus on sociopolitical organization and cultural traditions.
131CM Art of Colonial Mexico Smith Flores
This course will look at the role of Mexican colonial images and racial ideologies and the ways they impact Mexican and Afro-Mexican identities and lived experiences.
132J Modern Art of the Arab World Khoury
Explores modern and contemporary art, artists and art movements of the Arab world from nineteenth century to the present.
134K Chinese Calligraphy: History and Aesthetics Sturman
Examines the different scripts in historical context, surveys significant movements and artists, and considers the ideas, theories and aesthetic principles that have enriched the art of writing to elite status in China.
141MH Museums and History Ritter
Examines the 20th century museums engagement with history. Explores curatorial strategies for telling stories about the past through historical objects, written narratives, photography, performance, architecture, and art.
142B (online) Architecture and Planning in Rome: Napoleon to Mussolini Wittman
An investigation of the architecture, planning, history, and culture of Rome from 1798 to 1943, a period during which Rome was substantially rebuilt, its population massively enlarged, and its core meanings aggressively redefined by successive governments (papal, Napoleonic, republican, national, and finally Fascist, one following another).
186Q Seminar in Islamic Art and Architecture Khoury
Advanced studies in Islamic art and architecture. Topics will vary. This course requires weekly readings and discussion, and the writing of a research seminar paper.
256 Topics in Early Modern Iberian Art Lumbreras
This seminar explores a variety of topics in the arts and visual cultures of the Iberian world at large, from 1450 to 1700.
263 Seminar on Contemporary Art Smith Flores
This course will engage with decolonial theories.
2025-2026 History of Art & Architecture Course Overview
* = Museum Studies
^ = Architecture and Environment
~ = Game Studies
\ = Architecture & Urban History
Red = Grad Seminars
Purple = Undergrad Seminars
Black = Undergrad Upper Division
Green = Undergrad Lower Division
| Schedule is subject to change - last updated 1/30/2026 | |||
| INSTRUCTOR | FALL 2025 | WINTER 2026 | SPRING 2026 |
| BADAMO | 105R: Arts of Medieval Spain | 105P: Intro. to Medieval Art and Architecture ^ \ | Non-Teaching |
| 186D: Seminar in Medieval Architecture & Sculpture ^ | |||
| BARND | 119G: Critical Approaches to Visual Culture | Non-Teaching | Non-Teaching |
| BOSWELL | 6H: Survey: Arts of the Ancient Americas * ^ \ | Non-Teaching | 130D: Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Andes ^ |
| 187A: Approaches to Objects * | LAIS 200: Introduction to Latin American and Iberian Studies | ||
| LAIS 200: Introduction to Latin American and Iberian Studies | |||
| CHATTOPADHYAY | Sabbatical | Sabbatical | Sabbatical |
| GARNIER | 139A: Special Topics in Photographic History: Re-Reading American Photographs | Non-Teaching | 121B: Reconstruction, Renaissance, and Realism in American Art |
| 261A: Topics in American Art: Material Ecologies of American Art | |||
| KHOURY | Non-Teaching | Non-Teaching | 132J: Modern Art of the Arab World |
| 186Q: Seminar in Islamic Art and Architecture | |||
| LUMBRERAS | Non-Teaching | Non-Teaching | 6I: The Arts of the Iberian World |
| 256: Topics in Early Modern Iberian Art | |||
| MEADOW | Non-Teaching | 107A: Painting in the 15th-Century Netherlands | Non-Teaching |
| MOSER | W 6R: Rome the Game * ^ ~ \ | 103G: Ancient Spectacle ~ | Non-Teaching |
| 252B: Topics in Roman Architecture and Urbanism | |||
| OGBECHIE | 127B: African Art II | 6E: Survey: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native North America * ^ | 121D: African American Art and the African Legacy |
| 186N: Seminar in African Art | |||
| PAUL | 115E: The Grand Tour: Experiencing Italy in the Eighteenth Century * | Non-Teaching | 6B: Art Survey II: Renaissance-Baroque Art * ^ ~ \ |
| 187B: Public Art * | |||
| RITTER | Non-Teaching | Non-Teaching | 141MH: Museums and History * |
| SMITH FLORES | Non-Teaching | 5B: Intro to Museum Studies * ^ \ | 131CM: Special Topics in Latin American Art |
| 263: Seminar: Topics in Contemporary Art | |||
| SORKIN | Non-Teaching | 263: Seminar: Topics in Contemporary Art | Non-Teaching |
| STURMAN | Non-Teaching | 134E:
The Art of the Chinese Landscape
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134K: Chinese Calligraphy |
| WELTER | 136M: Revival Styles in Southern Californian Architecture ^ \ | 136K: Modern Architecture in Early Twentieth-Century Europe ^ \ | Non-Teaching |
| 186SV: Seminar in Modern Architecture ^ \ | 136Y: Modern Architecture in Southern California, c. 1890s to the Present ^ \ | ||
| WHITE | 6L: Playful Spaces: A Cultural History of Games * ^ ~ \ | 6J: Survey: Contemporary Architecture * ^ ~ \ | Non-Teaching |
| 136C: Architecture of the United States ^ \ | |||
| WITTMAN | 142E: Architecture, Planning, and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris ^ \ | Non-Teaching | 6F (online): Survey: Architecture and Planning ^ \ |
| 186SR: Seminar in Architectural History ^ \ | 142B (online): Architecture and Planning in Rome: Napoleon to Mussolini ^ \ | ||
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