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.

Academic Level: Undergraduate

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Subjects

Sections

Fall 2025

Section	Instructor(s)	Meeting Info
HAAVC-3000-1: Intergalactic: The Visual Culture and Politics of Outer Space Natalie Pellolio	Natalie Pellolio	Thu 9:00-11:30AM, Main Bldg - W1
HAAVC-3000-2: Sound Art: Music, Movement, Message Thomas Haakenson	Thomas Haakenson	Thu 3:30-06:00PM, Main Bldg - 141
HAAVC-3000-3: Art Work(ers)		Mon 12:15-02:45PM, Hooper GC - GC2
HAAVC-3000-4: Film Aesthetics and Theory TBD	TBD	Thu 3:30-06:20PM
HAAVC-3000-5: Sacred Architecture Lucia Fagen-DeLuca	Lucia Fagen-DeLuca	Wed 12:15-02:45PM, Main Bldg - 102 A

Spring 2025

Section	Instructor(s)	Meeting Info
HAAVC-3000-1: Dystopian Sci-Fi Cinema Nilgun Bayraktar	Nilgun Bayraktar	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - Timken Lecture Hall
HAAVC-3000-2: Contemporary Art in the Black Atlantic Genevieve Hyacinthe	Genevieve Hyacinthe	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - Timken Lecture Hall
HAAVC-3000-3: Stuff Leslie Becker	Leslie Becker	Mon 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - E1
HAAVC-3000-4: Lost and Found: The Artist in the Archive Karen (Ren) Fiss	Karen (Ren) Fiss	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - W1
HAAVC-3000-5: Spectacle and Revolution: European Art in the 1960s Elizabeth Mangini	Elizabeth Mangini	Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 141 Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - W2
HAAVC-3000-6: Film History Nilgun Bayraktar	Nilgun Bayraktar	Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - W1

Fall 2024

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

Summer 2024

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

Spring 2024

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

Fall 2023

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

Spring 2023

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

Fall 2022

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

Summer 2022

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

Spring 2022

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

Fall 2021

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

Summer 2021

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

Spring 2021

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

Fall 2020

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

Summer 2020

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

Spring 2020

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

Fall 2019

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

Summer 2019

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

Spring 2019

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

Fall 2018

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