Courses

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 4/29/2026)

Summer Session A (June 22 - July 31, 2026)

6L   Playful Spaces: A Cultural History of Games * ^ ~ - White
W 6R   Rome: the Game * ^ ~ \ - Moser
136Y   Modern Architecture in (Southern) California, c. 1890s to the Present - Luckmann

Summer Session B (August 3 - September 11, 2026)

W 6C   Survey III: Modern-Contemporary Art History (online) - Sorkin
W 6R   Rome: the Game * ^ ~ \ - Moser
112   Special Topics in Northern European Art - Gagnon

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.

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6L   Playful Spaces: A Cultural History of Games   White

This course introduces students to the history of games. It is organized chronologically as a global survey. We study games and the social, political, and economic conditions that support them, as well as the interface between the human player and the imagined world of the game. Taking as its premise that games are artifacts of culture, this course focuses on the visual and spatial practice of games in social context.

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W 6R   Rome: the Game   Moser

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.

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112   Special Topics in Northern European Art   Gagnon

Specialized classes that examine critical issues in Northern European visual culture of the seventeenth century. Courses may consider individual artists (e.g. Frans Hals, Vermeer) and/or subject genres (e.g. still-life, history painting, portraiture) in relation to the cultural function of Northern European imagery from the time of production until today.

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136Y   Modern Architecture in California, c.1890s to the Present   Luckmann

Critically analyzes the changing definitions of modern architecture in Southern California from the 1890s to the present, focusing on the work of architects like Greene and Greene, R.M. Schindler, and R. Neutra, as well as the Case Study Houses.

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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