# COURSE CATALOG
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**Parent**: https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/undergraduate-program
## Visual Summaries AY25-26: [Fall](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/2025-05/250520_fall_broadsheet.pdf) | [Spring](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/2025-05/250520_spring_broadsheet.pdf)
## [Gateway Courses Booklet AY25-26](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/2025-04/ay25-26NEWGATEWAYBOOKLET_NONPRINTORDER.pdf)
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[### EASTD 261 - Advanced Readings in East Asian Art and Literature](/class/eastd-261-advanced-readings-east-asian-art-and-literature)
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**Year offered:**
2025
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**Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…)
Melissa McCormick A seminar focusing on primary sources in classical languages, as well as recent scholarship and theoretical texts. This semester, the course centers on medieval Japanese manuscripts in the collections of the Harvard Art Museums and Harvard University...
[### FYSEMR 65W - Michelangelo: Terrible Genius](/class/fysemr-65w-michelangelo-terrible-genius)
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Spring
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**Year offered:**
2025
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**Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…)
Shawon Kinew Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is a dominant figure in the history of art and in the history of the discipline. A sculptor, architect, painter and poet, Michelangelo was the quintessential Renaissance man, one who embodies the paradigm of artistic genius...
[### HAA 100R - Sophomore Excursion Seminar](/class/haa-100r-sophomore-excursion-seminar-0)
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Spring
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**Year offered:**
2025
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**Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…)
Jeffrey Hamburger, Felipe Pereda, Seth Estrin This course introduces concentrators to on-site study of art and architecture through the case study of a particular geographic and cultural area. This year: Munich
[### HAA 11 - Landmarks of World Architecture](/class/haa-11-landmarks-world-architecture-4)
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Spring
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**Year offered:**
2025
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**Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…)
Vishal Khandelwal, David Roxburgh Examines major works of world architecture and the unique aesthetic, cultural, and historical issues that frame them. Faculty members will each lecture on an outstanding example in their area of expertise, drawing from various historical...
[### HAA 128 - Topics in Arabic Art and Culture: Art of the Qur'an](/class/haa-128-topics-arabic-art-and-culture-art-quran)
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Spring
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**Year offered:**
2025
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**Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…)
David Roxburgh A problem-oriented inquiry into Arabic art and culture (from the formation of Islam through the late medieval period), focusing on regions circling the Mediterranean, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Levant, as well as the Middle East. Materials (the book...
[### HAA 172P - Artisanal Modernism & the Labor of Women](/class/haa-172p-artisanal-modernism-labor-women-1)
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Spring
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**Year offered:**
2025
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**Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…)
Maria Gough This workshop-style seminar, which will be taught in the Study Center of the Harvard Art Museums, foregrounds the pioneering role of textiles and other artisanal media produced by women in the development of modernist art, especially abstraction, Dada...
[### HAA 172Z - Color in the Era of the Colony](/class/haa-172z-color-era-colony-0)
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Spring
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**Year offered:**
2025
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**Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…)
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth This course explores the historical functions and cultural meanings of color in the period of early modernity (18th and early 19th centuries). Focusing on France and England, we will examine specifically the role color played in the processes of...
[### HAA 179V - Vision and Justice (The Seminar)](/class/haa-179v-vision-and-justice-seminar)
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Spring
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**Year offered:**
2025
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**Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…)
Sarah Lewis How has visual representation—from videos and photographs to sculptures and memorials—both limited and liberated our definition of American citizenship and belonging? Art is often considered a respite from life or a reflection of the times, but this class...
[### HAA 187K - Architecture, Urbanism, and Design in a Global South Asia: 18th Century to the Present](/class/haa-187k-architecture-urbanism-and-design-global-south-asia-18th-century-present-0)
**Semester:**
Spring
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**Year offered:**
2025
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**Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…)
Vishal Khandelwal This seminar explores architecture, urbanism, and design in colonial and postcolonial South Asia through the region’s interactions and exchanges with other parts of the world. Extending from early European presence in the subcontinent to the formalization...
[### HAA 18J - Introduction to Japanese Architecture](/class/haa-18j-introduction-japanese-architecture-0)
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Spring
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**Year offered:**
2025
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**Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…)
Yukio Lippit A survey of the diverse architectural traditions of the Japanese archipelago from the prehistoric era through the twentieth century. Various building types-including the Shinto shrine, Buddhist temple, castle, teahouse, palace and farmhouse-will be studied...
[### HAA 193X - African Architecture](/class/haa-193x-african-architecture-0)
**Semester:**
Spring
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**Year offered:**
2025
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**Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…)
Suzanne Blier This class explores key forms of African architecture historically and into the present, with an emphasis on comparative issues of materials and technology, rural dwelling compounds (form, use, and adaptation), nomadic architecture, West African state...
[### HAA 270K - Repairing America](/class/haa-270k-repairing-america)
**Semester:**
Spring
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**Year offered:**
2025
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**Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…)
Jennifer Roberts, Horace Ballard Taking an approach that is simultaneously material and theoretical, focusing on American art from the colonial period onward, this course will explore the breakdown and repair of objects, the cultures they sustain, and the critical approaches...