HAAVC-3000 (Course Details)

HAAVC-3000: History of Art and Visual Culture

Course Description

HAAVC 3000 seminars continue developing students' visual analysis and research skills while providing students the opportunity for in-depth study of the visual/structural artifacts associated with a particular topic, region, or movement. Students will also engage with the relevant primary/secondary literature for the specific topic/theme. Courses will pay particular attention to the larger cultural, historical, and theoretical/ideological contexts in which the visual artifacts and structures under consideration were created. This course cannot fulfill the HAAVC 2000 requirement.

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Academic Level:

Undergraduate

Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:

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Spring 2025

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
HAAVC-3000-1: Dystopian Sci-Fi Cinema Nilgun Bayraktar	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - Timken Lecture Hall	Nilgun Bayraktar
HAAVC-3000-2: Contemporary Art in the Black Atlantic Genevieve Hyacinthe	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - Timken Lecture Hall	Genevieve Hyacinthe
HAAVC-3000-3: Stuff Leslie Becker	San Francisco	Mon 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - E1	Leslie Becker
HAAVC-3000-4: Lost and Found: The Artist in the Archive Karen (Ren) Fiss	San Francisco	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, 80 Carolina - P1	Karen (Ren) Fiss
HAAVC-3000-5: Spectacle and Revolution: European Art in the 1960s Elizabeth Mangini	San Francisco	Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 141	Elizabeth Mangini
HAAVC-3000-6: Film History Nilgun Bayraktar	San Francisco	Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - W1	Nilgun Bayraktar

Fall 2024

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
HAAVC-3000-1: Art and the Machine Natalie Pellolio	San Francisco	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E1	Natalie Pellolio
HAAVC-3000-2: Why Fashion in America? Melissa Leventon	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - E4	Melissa Leventon
HAAVC-3000-3: Tasting Visual Culture: Food, Art, and Culture William Littmann	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E5	William Littmann

Summer 2024

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
HAAVC-3000-2: Study Abroad: Modernism/Postmodernism in European Design Mara Holt Skov	Off Campus	Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad - Europe	Mara Holt Skov
HAAVC-3000-3: Study Abroad: Global Perspectives on International Contemporary Art and Culture: Venice Biennale / Art Basel / Berlin Karen (Ren) Fiss	Off Campus	Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad - Berlin	Karen (Ren) Fiss

Spring 2024

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
HAAVC-3000-2: The Subversive Art of Dada Thomas Haakenson	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 141 (inactive)	Thomas Haakenson
HAAVC-3000-3: Land Art and the Global South Genevieve Hyacinthe	San Francisco	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 141 (inactive)	Genevieve Hyacinthe
HAAVC-3000-4: History of Contemporary Photography Natalie Pellolio	San Francisco	Wed 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - E1 (inactive)	Natalie Pellolio

Fall 2023

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
HAAVC-3000-2: Stuff: The Irresistibility of Products Leslie Becker	San Francisco	Mon 8:00-11:00AM, Hooper GC - GC3	Leslie Becker
HAAVC-3000-4: Visual Culture of Japanese Incarceration during WWII William Littmann	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E1	William Littmann
HAAVC-3000-5: Body Positive: Photography and the Human Form Natalie Pellolio	San Francisco	Mon 8:00-11:00AM, 80 Carolina - P2	Natalie Pellolio
HAAVC-3000-7: Why Fashion in America?	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Hooper GC - GC3	TBD

Spring 2023

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
HAAVC-3000-1: Contemporary Art in the Black Atlantic Genevieve Hyacinthe	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E2	Genevieve Hyacinthe
HAAVC-3000-2: Comics and/as Art Jeanette Roan	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Hubbell - 151	Jeanette Roan
HAAVC-3000-3: Fashioning the Social Body Deborah Valoma	San Francisco	Thu 4:00-07:00PM, 350 Kansas - Textiles Studio	Deborah Valoma
HAAVC-3000-5: Art and the Machine Natalie Pellolio	San Francisco	Wed 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - 141	Natalie Pellolio
HAAVC-3000-6: Vision and Visuality Jeanette Roan	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Hubbell - 151	Jeanette Roan
HAAVC-3000-7: Cities and Cinema Nilgun Bayraktar	San Francisco	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - Timken Lecture Hall	Nilgun Bayraktar

Fall 2022

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
HAAVC-3000-3: Avant-Garde Art and Artists Thomas Haakenson	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - 141	Thomas Haakenson
HAAVC-3000-4: Visual Culture of Japanese Incarceration during WWII William Littmann	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - Timken Lecture Hall	William Littmann
HAAVC-3000-7: Why Fashion in America? Melissa Leventon	San Francisco	Tue 8:00-11:00AM, Hooper GC - GC2	Melissa Leventon
HAAVC-3000-8: The Nature of Monsters Caty Telfair	San Francisco	Thu 8:00-11:00AM Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - 150 (Nave Presentation Space) Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - 150 (Nave Presentation Space) Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - N11 (Fine Arts Senior Studios) Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - 150 (Nave Presentation Space) Thu 8:00-11:00AM	Caty Telfair
HAAVC-3000-10: Breaking Views of the News Leslie Becker	San Francisco	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E4	Leslie Becker

Summer 2022

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
HAAVC-3000-1: Global Perspectives on International Contemporary Art and Culture: Venice Biennale / documenta 15 / Berlin	Off Campus	Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad - Berlin	TBD
HAAVC-3000-4: The Sixties: The Cool, the Turbulent, and the Transformative		Thu 5:00-08:00PM	TBD
HAAVC-3000-5: European Design Capitals	Off Campus	Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad - Europe	TBD

Spring 2022

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
HAAVC-3000-2: Spiritualities & Sexualities Viet Le	San Francisco	Thu 7:15-10:15PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC2	Viet Le
HAAVC-3000-3: Land Art and the Global South Genevieve Hyacinthe	San Francisco	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC3	Genevieve Hyacinthe
HAAVC-3000-4: Stuff: The Irresistibility of Products Leslie Becker	San Francisco	Mon 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - 140	Leslie Becker
HAAVC-3000-5: Portrait Photography Caty Telfair	San Francisco	Mon 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC3	Caty Telfair
HAAVC-3000-6: Universal Design and the Body Katherine Lambert	San Francisco	Thu 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E4	Katherine Lambert
HAAVC-3000-7: The Arts & Crafts Movement for Architects and Designers Jane McKinne-Mayer	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC3	Jane McKinne-Mayer
HAAVC-3000-8: Life of an Artwork Viet Le, Marina Pugliese	San Francisco	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N5	Viet Le Marina Pugliese

Fall 2021

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
HAAVC-3000-1: Mobility & Migration in Contemporary Cinema Nilgun Bayraktar		Mon 11:00AM-12:30PM	Nilgun Bayraktar
HAAVC-3000-2: Methods and Theories Florian Grosser		Mon 8:00-09:30PM, Online - HS-2	Florian Grosser
HAAVC-3000-3: Comics and/as Art Jeanette Roan		Mon 8:30-10:00AM	Jeanette Roan
HAAVC-3000-4: Experiments in West African Dance Genevieve Hyacinthe		Thu 8:30-10:00AM	Genevieve Hyacinthe
HAAVC-3000-6: Why Fashion in America? Melissa Leventon		Thu 8:00-09:30PM	Melissa Leventon
HAAVC-3000-7: Breaking Views of the News Leslie Becker		Thu 8:30-10:00AM	Leslie Becker
HAAVC-3000-8: Subversive Art of Dada Thomas Haakenson		Thu 8:00-09:30PM	Thomas Haakenson
HAAVC-3000-11: Hella Oakland Mitchell Schwarzer	Oakland	Thu 11:00AM-01:00PM, Online - HS-9 Thu 11:00AM-01:00PM, Oakland - Founders - Nahl Hall	Mitchell Schwarzer

Summer 2021

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
VISST-3000-3: Queer Art and Visual Culture Viet Le		Tue/Thu 4:30-06:00PM, Online - HS-2	Viet Le
VISST-3000-4: Rock and Roll Visual Culture Hossein Khosrowjah		Mon/Wed 5:00-07:00PM	Hossein Khosrowjah

Spring 2021

Section Name	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
VISST-3000-1: The Avant-Garde in Theory and Practice Thomas Haakenson	Wed 6:30-07:55PM	Thomas Haakenson
VISST-3000-2: The Visuality of Crime and Punishment Jessica Calvanico	Wed 8:00-09:25AM	Jessica Calvanico
VISST-3000-3: Vision and Visuality Jeanette Roan	Wed 5:00-06:25PM, Online - HS-1	Jeanette Roan
VISST-3000-5: Popular Indian Cinema Lucia Fagen-DeLuca	Tue 9:30-10:55AM	Lucia Fagen-DeLuca
VISST-3000-9: The Life of an Artwork Marina Pugliese	Wed 8:00-09:25AM, Online - HS-2	Marina Pugliese
VISST-3000-10: Environmental Art/Environmental Justice Karen (Ren) Fiss	Wed 9:30-10:55AM	Karen (Ren) Fiss
VISST-3000-11: Mexican Modernism Monica Bravo	Tue 9:30-10:55AM	Monica Bravo
VISST-3000-12: Rock & Roll Visual Culture Hossein Khosrowjah	Tue 5:00-06:25PM	Hossein Khosrowjah
VISST-3000-13: Stuff: The Irresistibility of Products Leslie Becker	Tue 9:30-10:55AM, Online - HS-1	Leslie Becker
VISST-3000-14: Designing for the Body Katherine Lambert	Wed 8:00-09:25AM, Online - HS-1	Katherine Lambert
VISST-3000-15: Contemporary Art of the Arab World Brian Karl	Tue 5:00-06:25PM, Online - HS-1	Brian Karl

Fall 2020

Section Name	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
VISST-3000-1: Suburbia Mitchell Schwarzer	Mon 4:00-07:00PM	Mitchell Schwarzer
VISST-3000-2: Why Fashion in America Melissa Leventon	Wed 12:00-03:00PM	Melissa Leventon
VISST-3000-3: Asian Modernism Mia Liu	Thu 4:00-07:00PM	Mia Liu
VISST-3000-4: Grotesque in Art Thomas Haakenson	Tue 4:00-07:00PM	Thomas Haakenson
VISST-3000-5: Mobility and Migration in Contemporary Cinema Nilgun Bayraktar	Thu 4:00-07:00PM	Nilgun Bayraktar
VISST-3000-6: Breaking [Views of the] News Leslie Becker	Thu 8:00-11:00AM	Leslie Becker
VISST-3000-7: Landscape in Cinema Mia Liu	Wed 12:00-03:00PM	Mia Liu
VISST-3000-8: Land Art & Global South Genevieve Hyacinthe	Wed 4:00-07:00PM	Genevieve Hyacinthe
VISST-3000-12: Rock n' Roll Visual Culture Hossein Khosrowjah	Tue 7:15-10:15PM	Hossein Khosrowjah
VISST-3000-14: Silk Road: Then and Now Hossein Khosrowjah	Wed 4:00-07:00PM	Hossein Khosrowjah

Summer 2020

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
VISST-3000-3: Dystopian Sci-Fi Cinema (online) Nilgun Bayraktar			Nilgun Bayraktar
VISST-3000-7: Visual Silk Road Then & Now (Online) Hossein Khosrowjah	San Francisco	Mon 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101	Hossein Khosrowjah

Spring 2020

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
VISST-3000-1: Landscape Mitchell Schwarzer	Oakland	Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B3	Mitchell Schwarzer
VISST-3000-2: Landscape in Cinema Mia Liu	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 102 B	Mia Liu
VISST-3000-3: Mobility & Migration Nilgun Bayraktar	San Francisco	Tue 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101	Nilgun Bayraktar
VISST-3000-4: Sexuality and Visual Culture Thomas Haakenson	San Francisco	Thu 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC6	Thomas Haakenson
VISST-3000-5: Existentialism in Modern Art Florian Grosser	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E5	Florian Grosser
VISST-3000-8: Museum and Representations of the Other Hossein Khosrowjah	Oakland	Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B3	Hossein Khosrowjah
VISST-3000-9: Cities & The Moving Image Nilgun Bayraktar	Oakland	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B1	Nilgun Bayraktar
VISST-3000-13: The Life of an Artwork Marina Pugliese	San Francisco	Fri 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 103	Marina Pugliese
VISST-3000-14: Visual Culture and Climate Change Activism Karen (Ren) Fiss	Oakland	Fri 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B2	Karen (Ren) Fiss
VISST-3000-16: Muralism from the Museum to the Street Monica Bravo	San Francisco	Tue 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - W2	Monica Bravo

Fall 2019

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
VISST-3000-1: Eco-Art Brian Karl, Laura Eliasieh	San Francisco	Tue 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC6	Brian Karl Laura Eliasieh
VISST-3000-2: Why Fashion in America Melissa Leventon	San Francisco	Mon 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - W1	Melissa Leventon
VISST-3000-3: Resistance:Ethics&Aesthetics Florian Grosser	San Francisco	Thu 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - E2	Florian Grosser
VISST-3000-4: Special Topics in Visual Studies: Black Atlantic Culture Genevieve Hyacinthe	San Francisco	Tue 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC2	Genevieve Hyacinthe
VISST-3000-5: Modern Horror Marc Le Sueur	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC4	Marc Le Sueur
VISST-3000-6: Breaking [views of the] News Leslie Becker	San Francisco	Wed 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC6	Leslie Becker
VISST-3000-8: History of Exhibitions Daniell Cornell	San Francisco	Thu 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 102 A	Daniell Cornell
VISST-3000-10: Romanticism Michael Stevens	Oakland	Fri 8:00-11:00AM, Oakland - B Building - B4	Michael Stevens
VISST-3000-11: Methods & Theories Hossein Khosrowjah	Oakland	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B4	Hossein Khosrowjah
VISST-3000-12: Marble to Chocolate Marina Pugliese	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC7	Marina Pugliese
VISST-3000-13: Lost & Found: Artists in the Archive Karen (Ren) Fiss	Oakland	Wed 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B5	Karen (Ren) Fiss

Summer 2019

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
VISST-3000-2: Silkroad Then & Now Hossein Khosrowjah	San Francisco	Mon/Tue/Thu 6:05-09:05PM, San Francisco - Main Building - W1	Hossein Khosrowjah

Spring 2019

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
VISST-300-01: Recreational Spirituality Mitchell Schwarzer	Oakland	Thu 4:00-07:00PM, B Building - B3	Mitchell Schwarzer
VISST-300-02: Landscape in Cinema Mia Liu	Oakland	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, B Building - B3	Mia Liu
VISST-300-03: TBA	San Francisco	Tue 8:00-11:00AM, Grad Center - GC3	TBD
VISST-300-04: TBA	San Francisco	Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Grad Center - GC6	TBD
VISST-300-05: (Im)possibilities of the New Florian Grosser	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Building - E5	Florian Grosser
VISST-300-08: Mad Max: An Ecocritical View Celeste Connor	Oakland	Tue 12:00-03:00PM, B Building - B3	Celeste Connor
VISST-300-09: TBA	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Grad Center - GC3	TBD
VISST-300-10: The Life of an Artwork Marina Pugliese	San Francisco	Fri 12:00-03:00PM, Main Building - 103	Marina Pugliese
VISST-300-11: Media Art in Context Rudolf Frieling	San Francisco	Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Grad Center - GC5	Rudolf Frieling
VISST-300-12: TBA	Oakland	Fri 8:00-11:00AM, B Building - B2	TBD
VISST-300-14: Vis Culture & Global Crisis Cindy Bello	Oakland	Fri 12:00-03:00PM, B Building - B2	Cindy Bello
VISST-300-15: TBA	San Francisco	Tue 8:00-11:00AM, Grad Center - GC1	TBD
VISST-300-16: Photography and Identity Monica Bravo	San Francisco	Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Grad Center - GC3	Monica Bravo
VISST-300-17: TBA	Oakland	Thu 7:15-10:15PM, B Building - B1	TBD

Fall 2018

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
VISST-300-01: Eco-Art Celeste Connor	San Francisco	Tue 8:00-11:00AM, Grad Center - GC7	Celeste Connor
VISST-300-02: Why Fashion in America Melissa Leventon	San Francisco	Mon 4:00-07:00PM, Main Building - W1	Melissa Leventon
VISST-300-03: Resistance:Ethics&Aesthetics Florian Grosser	San Francisco	Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Building - E2	Florian Grosser
VISST-300-04: Horror Before the Slasher Marc Le Sueur	San Francisco	Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Grad Center - GC2	Marc Le Sueur
VISST-300-05: Dystopian Sci-Fi Cinema Nilgun Bayraktar	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Grad Center - GC4	Nilgun Bayraktar
VISST-300-06: History of Performance Art Cindy Bello	San Francisco	Wed 8:00-11:00AM, Grad Center - GC6	Cindy Bello
VISST-300-07: TBA	Oakland	Fri 8:00-11:00AM, B Building - B1	TBD
VISST-300-08: Asian Desires Viet Le	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Grad Center - GC1	Viet Le
VISST-300-10: Romanticism Michael Stevens	Oakland	Fri 8:00-11:00AM, B Building - B4	Michael Stevens
VISST-300-11: Methods & Theories Viet Le		Wed 4:00-07:00PM	Viet Le
VISST-300-12: Marble to Chocolate Marina Pugliese	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Grad Center - GC7	Marina Pugliese
VISST-300-13: Suburbia Mitchell Schwarzer	Oakland	Wed 4:00-07:00PM, B Building - B5	Mitchell Schwarzer