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General Education Program

GE-A, The Arts

About Courses in GE-A

 

The creative act, in its many manifestations, reflects, defines, and is defined by human experience and endeavors. The Arts curriculum perpetuates this proud heritage. The goal of general arts education is to help students discover, explore and interpret this rich and multi-faceted history and to situate themselves within its traditions.  The following courses have been approved to satisfy the GE-A, The Arts requirement.  This list also notes any additional GE requirements the course may satisfy.

updated: 9/18/2024

American Studies and Ethnicity

  • AMST 325gw, The Middle East in Hollywood
    also satisfies GE-G and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Animation (Cinematic Arts)

  • CTAN 200g, The Rise of Digital Hollywood
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

Architecture

  • ARCH 214ag, World History of Architecture
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors and pre-professional students.

    ARCH 214bg, World History of Architecture
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors and pre-professional students.

Art

  • ART 141Lg, Creating and Understanding Visuals
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

Art History

  • AHIS 120gp, Foundations of Western Art: Prehistoric to Renaissance
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 121gp, Foundations of Western Art: Renaissance to Contemporary
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 125gp, Arts of Asia I: Antiquity to 1300
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 126g, Arts of Asia II: 1300 to the Present
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 128gp, The Arts and Society in Latin America, Colonial to Contemporary
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 215g, Studies in Architecture and Urbanism
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 220g, Medieval Visual Culture
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 240g, Introduction to American Art
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 250mg, Art, Modernity and Difference
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 255g, Culture Wars: Art and Social Conflict in the Modern World
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 304mg, Art, Power and Identity in Renaissance Italy
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 361g, British Modernism, 1780-1918
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 366g, Picturing Democracy: American Art and Visual Culture, 1750-1900
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 367g, Early American Modernism: American Art and Visual Culture, 1876-1939
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 370g, Modern Art III: 1940 to the Present
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    AHIS 373g, History and Theory of Photography
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation

  • ACAD 309g, Dreams and Madness: The Art of Japan’s Golden Age of Animation
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    ACAD 324g, The Practice of Design: Ideation to Innovation
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

Cinema and Media Studies

  • CTCS 190g, Introduction to Cinema
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    CTCS 192mg, Race, Class, and Gender in American Film
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    CTCS 200g, History of International Cinema I
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

Classics

  • CLAS 170gp, Classics of Music and Literature: from Ancient Greece through Contemporary L.A.
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    CLAS 280gp, Classical Mythology in Art and Literature
    also satisfies GE-H and the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Communication

  • COMM 396g, Fashion, Media and Culture
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

Critical Studies

  • CRIT 150gp, Histories of Art, Design and Visual Culture
    also satisfies GE-H

Dance

  • DANC 212g, Dance in Popular Culture
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    DANC 280g, Introduction to Dance as an Art Form
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    DANC 302g, Hip Hop Don’t Stop: Black Social Dance Culture and Media
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    DANC 308g, Dance and Feminine Sexuality
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    DANC 312gw, African American Dance
    also satisfies GE-G

    DANC 333gw, Origins of Jazz Dance
    also satisfies GE-G

    DANC 352g, Dancing with Words
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.
    Effective Summer 2023, DANC 352 is no longer offered.

    DANC 363g, Dancing on the Screen
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

Dramatic Arts

  • THTR 192g, History of Stand-Up Comedy
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    THTR 194g, Women in Performance
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    THTR 195g, Theatre on Film
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    THTR 196g, Shakespeare on Film
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    THTR 197g, Comedy and Performance
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    THTR 205g, Stardom: Creation, Management and Cultural Impact
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    THTR 225g, Theatre Across History and Cultures
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    THTR 229g, Sports on Stage and Film
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

Design

  • DES 123Lg, The Design Challenge: Exploring the Design Process
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    DES 323g, Design Theory
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

East Asian Languages and Cultures

  • EALC 333g, Introduction to Korean Film
    Effective Fall 2024, EALC 333 satisfies the GE-A requirement.  This course will only satisfy the GE-B requirement if taken between Fall 2015 and Summer 2024.  EALC 333 also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement since Fall 2015.

    EALC 360g, Performing Japan: Bodies, Media, and Textuality
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

French

  • FREN 320g, The French New Wave and its Legacy
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

General Education Seminars

GE Seminars are limited to freshmen.

  • GESM 110g, Seminar in the Arts
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    GESM 111g, Seminar in the Arts
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

History

  • HIST 260g, Dramatizations of Korean History
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Italian

  • ITAL 340g, Italian and French Cinema and Society
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

    ITAL 360g, Italian Cinema
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Jazz Studies

  • MUJZ 350g, A History of Jazz Music
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors and pre-professional students.

Music

  • MUSC 102gw, World Music
    also satisfies GE-G

    MUSC 105g, Exploring Our Musical Campus
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.
    effective Fall 2024

    MUSC 115gp, Western Music as Sounding History
    also satisfies GE-H

    MUSC 200mgw, The Broadway Musical: Reflections of American Diversity
    also satisfies GE-G

    MUSC 210g, Electronic Music and Dance Culture
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    MUSC 250mgw, The Music of Black Americans
    also satisfies GE-G

    MUSC 320mgw, Hip-hop Music and Culture
    also satisfies GE-G

    MUSC 371g, Musical Genre Bending
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    MUSC 372g, Music, Turmoil and Nationalism
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    MUSC 373g, Writing About Popular Music
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    MUSC 374g, Beatles, Stones, Bowie: Empire and Masculinity
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

Music History and Literature

  • MUHL 350g, Western Art Music History I
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors and pre-professional students.

Performance (Popular Music)

  • MPPM 350g, A History of Popular Music
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.
    This course is not for a general student audience.  It is part of the curriculum for certain majors and pre-professional students.

Physics

  • PHYS 111xg, Representations of Physics and Astronomy in the Arts
    also satisfies the Dornsife Core Literacy requirement

Writing (Cinematic Arts)

  • CTWR 211g, The Television Writer: An Agent of Change
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.

    CTWR 303g, From Page to Screen: Adapting Stories for Film and TV
    This course does not satisfy an additional GE requirement.