This list contains courses that have been identified as reasonable petitions to count for elective credit to a Concentration or Secondary in AFVS. Their subjects and syllabi engage substantially with methods and topics relevant to the practice and study of art, film or visual studies. This list is by no means exhaustive and some departments (for instance History of Art and Architecture) offer many courses that may arguably be relevant to your path of study. If you would like a course not found on this list to be considered, please contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies (AFVS-DUS@fas.harvard.edu) and share information about the course, ideally a syllabus. Normally Concentrators may not count more than two non-AFVS courses for credit and Secondaries no more than one.
CONCENTRATORS and SECONDARY FIELD STUDENTS: If you are considering taking a course outside of AFVS for concentration or secondary field credit, e-mail Paula Soares (soares@fas.harvard.edu) before you take the course to determine how the course fits into to your overall plan of study and concentration requirements. After the course is approved on the departmental level, send a petition in my.harvard to have the course approved in your Academic Advising Report.
Fall 2024 - Courses in Other Departments
AFVS Affiliates' courses:
HAA 17K
Introduction to Contemporary Art
HIST 1912
History Design Studio
GENED 1145
Global Japanese Cinema
TDM 172B
Performing Outside the Theater
TDM 187B
Collective Protocols as Public Space
Additional courses:
AFRAMER 178V / HAA 178V
Art of the Black World
EAFM 123
Korean Stars
ENGLISH CACD
The Art of Criticism
ENGLISH CACF
Get Real: The Art of Community-Based Film
ENGLISH CLR
Introduction to Screenwriting: Workshop
ENGLISH CTV
Writing for Television: Developing the Pilot: Workshop
FRENCH 74
Moving Images: Global narratives in cinema and graphic novels
HAA 177M
Art and Science of the Moon
HAA 206
Science and the Practice of Art History
HAA 278K
On Line: Drawing Then and Now
HIST-LIT 90GE
Screen Cultures from Cinema to TikTok
HUMAN 20
A Colloquium in the Visual Arts
MUSIC 22
Film Sound/Film Music
TDM 154
Designing with Light
TDM 155
Foundations in Production Technology
TDM 158A
Introduction to Costume Design
TDM 166H
TV Writers Room
TDM 173BF
Black Feminist Theory in Media and Performance
Spring 2025 - Courses in Other Departments
AFVS Affiliates' courses:
EAFM 207R
Topics in Asian Media Studies
HAA 278P
Art After Nature: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Process
TDM 185B
The School of Arte Útil
TDM 168B
Podcast: Uploading the Present
Additional courses:
EAFM 129
"Bad" Art in Korea
EAFM 226
East Asian Documentary Media
EMR 163
Asian American Graphic Narratives
ENGLISH CALR
Advanced Screenwriting: Workshop
ENGLISH CMWD
The Writer Directs: A Script to Screen Workshop
GERMAN 159
100 Years of Queer German Cinema
GERMAN 192
Artificial Intelligences: Body, Art, and Technology in Modern Germany
HAA 172Z
Color in the Era of the Colony
HAA 179V
Vision and Justice (The Seminar)
HAA 186K
Gender and Japanese Art
HAA 194M
The Museum
HAA 270K
Repairing America
HAA 274
American Racial Ground
HAA 277P
The Art of Refuge
HAA 279P
The Object in the Art Museum
HIND-URD 123
Bollywood and Beyond: Commercial Cinema, Language and Culture in South Asia
HIST-LIT 93AA
Queer Archives
MUSIC 167
Storytelling with Sounds
ROM-STD 162
Landscapes of Cinema
SCAND 55
One Hundred Years of Scandinavian Cinema
TDM 154B
Stage Lighting Studio
TDM 162DC
Performance and Its Documentation
TDM 182B
Black Arts Movement to #blacklivesmatter