Courses in Italics are core requirement courses for at least one of our majors.
Courses in Bold are offered frequently
*Course does not meet any DSAS gen ed requirements and is rarely offered.
View History of Art & Architecture major requirements and course descriptions here.
View Architectural Studies major requirements and course descriptions here.
Introductory Level | |
HAA 0010 | Intro to World Art |
HAA 0018 | Death in the Ancient World |
HAA 0020 | Intro to Asian Art |
HAA 0030 | Intro to Modern Art |
HAA 0042/ARC 0180 | World Cities |
HAA 0050 | Intro to Medieval Art |
HAA 0065 | The Viral Image |
HAA 0070 | Art of Europe |
HAA 0090 | Intro to Contemporary Art |
HAA 0101 | Foundation of Art History |
HAA 0105 | Art and Empire |
HAA 0125 | Museums, Society and Inclusion? |
HAA 0150 | Ancient Art |
HAA 0160 | Ancient Empire |
HAA 0165 | Gods and Kings: Art in Ancient Mesopotamia |
HAA 0220* | The Medieval Book |
HAA 0302 | Renaissance Art |
HAA 0350 | Baroque Art |
HAA 0380 | Art of the Spanish World: Religion, Identity & the Art of Accommodation |
HAA 0425 | Digital Humanity |
HAA 0470 | Photography and Art |
HAA 0501 | American Art |
HAA 0520 | Art and Politics in Modern Latin America |
HAA 0620 | Art of China |
HAA 0640 | Art of Japan |
HAA 0730/ARC 0114 | Art and Architecture of the Muslim World |
HAA 0810* | Experimental Cinema |
HAA 0965/ARC 0182 | The City of Rome and its Architecture: From Aeneas to Zaha Hadid |
ARC 0110 | Approaches to the Built Environment |
ARC 0112 | Global Architecture 1 |
ARC 0116 | Global Architecture 2 |
ARC 0153 | Medieval Architecture |
ARC 0177* | Frank Lloyd Wright |
Advanced Level or Low-Enrollment Seminar or Project-Based Courses: | |
HAA 0460 | Art in Public: Inclusion, Identity and Activism |
HAA 1010 | Approaches to Art History Writing Seminar |
HAA 1011/ARC 1182 | Pittsburgh Neighborhoods |
HAA 1019 | Curatorial Development |
HAA 1021 | Inside the Museum |
HAA 1022 | Exhibition Presentation |
HAA 1025 | History and Ethics of Collecting |
HAA 1026 | Exhibitions: From World’s Fairs to Global Biennials |
HAA 1027/ARC 1340 | Heritage Sites |
HAA 1050 | World Art: Contact and Conflict |
HAA 1110 | Greek Art |
HAA 1130 | Roman Art |
HAA 1230* | Pagans and Christians: The Early Middle Ages |
HAA 1240* | Romans after Rome |
HAA 1255* | Gothic Art |
HAA 1305* | Early Renaissance Architecture |
HAA 1440 | Expressionism |
HAA 1450 | Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic |
HAA 1455 | Art in the Third Reich and Memorializations of the Holocaust |
HAA 1490 | Art since 1945 |
HAA 1520/ARC 1138 | Black Built America: Architectures of Black Resistance in the U.S. |
HAA 1630* | China: Village & Urban Architectural Space |
HAA 1641 | Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art |
HAA 1652 | Japan: Buddhist Art and Ritual |
HAA 1990 | 20th-Century Russian Art: Between East and West |
ARC 1118* | Architecture Since 1945 |
ARC 1136* | Early American Architecture |
ARC 1137* | American Architecture since Industrialization |
ARC 1152 | Roman Architecture |
ARC 1153* | Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture |
ARC 1154* | Constructing the Gothic |
ARC 1156* | High Renaissance Architecture |
ARC 1158* | Architecture and Enlightenment |
ARC 1160 | Architecture: Image, Text, Theory (Writing Seminar) |
ARC 1161* | Modernity, Modernism and Housing |
ARC 1162 | Campus Community Workshop (Writing Seminar) |
ARC 1180* | World Cities |
ARC 1181* | Pittsburgh Architecture and Urbanism |
ARC 1182 | Pittsburgh Neighborhoods |
ARC 1183 | Digital Roman Africa: Visualizing Architecture and Urbanism in Roman North Africa |
ARC 1310* | Preservation – Texts and Theory |
ARC 1330* | Global Preservation |
Architectural Studies Studio and Digital Media Courses: | |
| ARC 0201 | Foundations Studio 1 |
| ARC 1201 | Architecture Design Studio 1 |
| ARC 1202 | Architecture Design Studio 2 |
| ARC 1203 | Architecture Design Studio 3 |
| ARC 1204 | Architecture Design Studio 4 |
| ARC 1320 | Documentation and Conservation Studio |
| ARC 1911 | Architecture and Digital Media 1 |
| ARC 1912 | Architecture and Digital Media 2 |