Courses

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 3/20/2026)

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
130D   Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Andes ^ - Boswell
131CM   Art of Colonial Mexico - Smith Flores
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
186N   Seminar in African Art ^ \ - Ogbechie

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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186N   Seminar in African Art   Ogbechie

Advanced studies in African art. Topics will vary. This course requires weekly readings and discussion, and the writing of a research seminar paper.

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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.

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263   Seminar on Contemporary Art   Smith Flores

This course will engage with decolonial theories.

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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

Crashing a History of Art & Architecture Course

Add codes will not be distributed prior to completing the following procedure:

The Department of History of Art & Architecture recognizes the difficulties that students face in adding courses and recommends the following when trying to add a closed or full course:

1. Please do NOT email the instructor to see if there is a waiting list. Instead, sign up on the waiting list on GOLD
   • Make sure to fill out your name, major/minor, and class year (e.g., third year, fourth year)
   • Please note that the enrollment availability listed on GOLD might not accurately reflect the latest enrollment for the course
   • Reminder: students cannot add themselves to a waitlist unless one of the following occurs: the student has enrolled in 12 units, or all lectures and sections of the course are full or closed
2. Attend and participate in all lecture and section (if applicable) meetings and assignments for the first week, both synchronous and asynchronous
   • If you are unable to attend a class and/or section meeting due to religious observance, illness, or other unavoidable conflict, do contact the instructor via email
3. If you haven't been admitted to the course prior to the first class, also try joining the Canvas course site, if a page exists, as another way to follow the first week of class
   • NOTE: Even if you are able to join the Canvas site, this does not mean you are officially enrolled in the course. You must be registered on GOLD to receive credit for the course
4. Continue attending lectures and discussion sections until you receive admission
   • Priority of enrollment and distribution of add codes are at the discretion of the instructor. Generally speaking, priority is given to those who participate in lectures and discussion sections - please note crashing protocol may vary by instructor