Art History
SWC offers foundational art history courses for transfer to a university. As part of the Visual Arts Department, it shares its mission to encourage critical thinking through visual analysis to support culturally responsive teaching that provides a global context. The department provides a solid foundation in art history from periods of prehistory through the present day. It seeks to train students to critically analyze visual culture from a variety of perspectives and methodologies.
Courses
- ANTH 102 — CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- ART 100 — DRAWING I
- ART 101 — DESIGN I
- ART 103 — DESIGN II
- ART 104 — INTRODUCTION TO ART
- ART 105 — LIFE DRAWING I
- ART 110 — SCULPTURE I
- ART 112 — ARTS OF AFRICA, OCEANIA, AND INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICAS
- ART 113 — ART AND CULTURE OF PRE-HISPANIC MEXICO
- ART 129 — ASIAN ART
- ART 130 — HISTORY OF FILM AS ART
- ART 149 — WOMEN IN WESTERN ART HISTORY, 1550- PRESENT
- ART 150 — ART HISTORY SURVEY---STONE AGE TO THE AGES OF FAITH
- ART 151 — ART HISTORY-RENAISSANCE TO CONTEMPORARY
- ART 156 — HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
- ART 157 — NINETEENTH THROUGH TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ART
- ART 170 — BEGINNING CERAMICS
- ART 192 — INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL IMAGING
- ART 205 — BEGINNING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
- FIL 201 — INTERMEDIATE FILIPINO I
- FREN 201 — INTERMEDIATE FRENCH I
- FREN 202 — INTERMEDIATE FRENCH II
- FTMA 161 — HISTORY OF FILM AS ART
- HIST 100 — AMERICAN CIVILIZATION I
- HIST 110 — AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY I
- HIST 111 — AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY II
- HIST 112 — ASIAN-AMERICAN HISTORY I
- HIST 113 — ASIAN-AMERICAN HISTORY II
- HIST 132 — WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY
- HIST 141 — MEXICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY I
- HIST 142 — MEXICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY II
- HUM 101 — HUMANITIES THROUGH THE ARTS I
- HUM 120 — INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES
- HUM 123 — WOMEN AND GENDER IN WORLD ART
- ITAL 201 — INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN I
- ITAL 202 — INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN II
- JPN 201 — INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE I
- JPN 202 — INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE II
- SOC 140 — SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER
- SPAN 201 — INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I
- SPAN 202 — INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II
- SPAN 215 — SPANISH FOR BILINGUALS I
- SPAN 216 — SPANISH FOR BILINGUALS II
- SPAN 221 — INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE FOR BILINGUALS
- SPAN 225 — INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATION AND WRITING ON SPANISH CULTURE
- SPAN 226 — INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATION AND WRITING ON LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE