- Is part of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Focus, a General Education requirement at Chapman.
- Is designed to teach you how to create, critique or engage with a form of art.
- Requires you to take one class in total.
Artistic Inquiry list
Art History
AH 200: Ancient to Medieval Art
AH 201: Renaissance to Modern Art
AH 202: Art of India, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia
AH 203: Exchange and Evolution in the Arts of China and Japan
AH 204: Introduction to Museum Studies AH 205: Art of the Ancient Americas
AH 205: Arts of the Ancience Americas
AH 303: The Ancient Greek City
AH 304: Etruscan and Roman Art
AH 321: Northern Renaissance Art
AH 322: Baroque Art
AH 323: Arts of Tenochtitlan - Mexico City
AH 324: The Visual and Material Culture of the Early Modern World (1450-1650)
AH 329: Asian-American Visual Art and Culture
AH 329: Art and It's Enviornments in Brazil
AH 330: Nineteenth Century Art
AH 331: History of Photography
AH 334: Soviet and Post-Soviet Art
AH 340: Contemporary Art: 1945-1970
AH 341: Contemporary Art: 1970-Present
AH 342: Black Subjects in White Art History
AH 350: Chromophobia-Chromophilia: Color and the Making of the Atlantic World
AH 351: Brazilian Art: 1500-2000
American Studies
AMST 282: Folklore
AMST 296: Indians and Film
AMST 397: Cultural Mythology
Anthropology
Art
ART 115: Foundation Course in Ceramics
ART 116: Ceramics: Form and Surface
ART 117: Ceramics of China, Korea and Japan
ART 123: Painting and Mark Making
ART 125: Introduction to Transdisciplinary Studio
ART 211: Introduction to Life Drawing
ART 215: Intermediate Ceramics
ART 312: Advanced Painting: Oils
ART 387: The Origins of Art and Science: The Ride and Influence of Alchemy, Anatomy, Machines, and Astronomical Discoveries in Art of the Italian Renaissance
ART 388: Feminist Field Studies
ART 389: International Contemporary Art in Berlin and Venice
ART 460: 19th and 20th Century French Art (taught in English)
ART 461: 19th and 20th Century French Art (taught in French)
Animation and Visual Effects
AVE 245: The Influence of French Animation
AVE 247: History and Aesthetics of Animation and Visual Effects
Cultural Media Studies, Creative Industries
Dance
Documentary Filmmaking
Economics
English
ENG 204: Introduction to Creative Writing
ENG 227: Writing the One-Act-Play
ENG 250: Introduction to Fiction
ENG 252: Introduction to Poetry
ENG 256: Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
ENG 260: Literature into Film
ENG 320: Topics in American Literature before 1870
ENG 325: Introduction to Shakespeare
ENG 326: Topics in American Literature
ENG 327: Multicultural Literatures of the U.S.
ENG 337: Topics in British Literature
ENG 339: World Literature from 1900 to the Present
ENG 340: Bible As Literature: The Hebrew Scriptures
ENG 341: Bible As Literature: The Christian Scriptures
ENG 345: Topics in British Literature after 1850
ENG 346: Special Studies in Literature
ENG 347: Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies
ENG 351: Writing the Graphic Novel
ENG 360: War, Memory, and Literature
ENG 404: Techniques in Writing Fiction
ENG 406: Advanced Workshop in Writing Fiction
ENG 430: Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories
ENG 432: Shakespeare's Tragedies and Romances
ENG 442: Topics in Poetry
ENG 449: Literature in Translation
French
Film Studies
FS 244: History of Film to 1959, Lecture and Laboratory
FS 245: History of Film 1960-Present, Lecture and Laboratory
FS 339: Hollywood’s Greatest Year: 1939
FS 444: Advanced Topics in Film and Media Studies
FS 445: Film Theory and Criticism, Lecture and Laboratory
FS 342D: The Science Fiction Film
FS 342K: Latinx Films and Filmmakers
FS 443: Advanced Topics in World Cinema: East Asian Cinema
FS 443F: Italian Cinema: Politics, Art, and Industry
FS 443H: Survey of European Cinema
FS 444E: Independent American Cinema
FS 444G: Films about the Holocaust
FS 444K: The Hollywood Studio System
FS 444M: Italian American Cinema
FS 444O: Film, Gender and Sexuality
Film and Television
Graphic Design
Honors Program
Taking a class with the "HON" label requires enrollment in the University Honors Program.
HON 224: Shakespeare, Race, Ethnicity
HON 242: Beyoncé, Madonna, Nina Simone
HON 270: The Rhetoric of Horror Films
HON 277: Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall
HON 302: Witnessing the World: The Art of Travel Writing
HON 305: Antigone and I
HON 314: Narrating the Afterworld: Dante’s Spiritual Journey
HON 315: Power and Imagination in the Italian Renaissance
HON 317: Visual Literacy in a Generation of Visible Surplus: Its Theory, Practice and Application
HON 329: Antigone Through the Centuries
HON 329IV: Criticism as a Way to Train the Aesthetic Judgement: Why do we Like What we Like
HON 338: ThanaTourism: Traveling the "Dark Side"
HON 344: Illustrating History/the World: Graphic Memoirs, Novels and Reportage
HON 347: Listening to Time: Area Studies in Ethnomusicology
HON 360: Performing Americas: Celebrating American Identities
HON 361: How Art Can Help Us Save the Planet
HON 362: Philosophical Themes in the Films of Ingmar Bergman
HON 363: The Castaway Narrative in World Literature
HON 371: The World of Fellini’s Cinema
HON 373: Pinocchio & Co: The Puppet Across Media
HON 380: Legends, Rumors, Conspiracies
HON 393: Tricksters and Cosmopolitans
HON 412: “Seas of Stories”: Postcolonial Literature and Theory
HON 419: The Search for an American Voice: Huck Finn to Harlem
Humanities
Integrated Educational Studies
Italian
ITAL 301: Conversation and Composition: Italian Regional Culture and Tradition
ITAL 341: Italian Cinema: Politics, Art, and Industry
ITAL 353: The Short Narrative in Italian Culture: Oral Tradition, Literature, and Cinema
ITAL 354: Songs of Italy: Voices of Yesterday and Today
ITAL 357: Serious Laughter: Italian Comedy of Yesterday and Today
ITAL 375: Masterpieces of Italian Literature
ITAL 385: From Page to Screen: Literature and Film in Italy
ITAL 387: Italian American Cinema
ITAL 301A: Conversation and Composition: Italian Regional Culture and Tradition
Japanese
Music
MUS 101: Introduction to Music
MUS 102: Compendium of Western Music History
MUS 122: Musical Cultures of the World
MUS 128: Fundamentals of Music Theory
MUS 207: University Choir (travel section offered periodically)
MUS 214: University Women's Choir
MUS 215: Wind Symphony (travel section offered periodically)
MUS 221: The Chapman Orchestra
MUS 230: Introduction to Composition and Songwriting
MUS 244: Principles of Music Technology
MUS 249: Film Music Composition I
MUS 301: Music History and Literature I
MUS 302: Music History and Literature II
MUS 303: Music History and Literature III
MUS 304: Music History and Literature IV
MUS 314: University Women's Choir
MUS 315: Wind Symphony (travel section offered periodically)
MUS 321: The Chapman Orchestra
MUS 324: Audio Recording Techniques
MUS 326: Musical Cultures of the Caribbean and Latin America
MUS: 332D: Folks and Traditional Musical Cultures
MUS 344: Advanced Topics in Music Technology
MUS 345: History of Musical Theatre
MUS 356: Topics in French Opera
MUS 405: Music History and Literature V
MUS 102A: Compendium of Western Music I
MUS 102B: Compendium of Western Music II
MUS 201B: Race and Place in the U.S.
MUS 201E: Popular Music: LGBT Perspectives
MUS 201F: All That Jazz MUS 201G: Popular Music: Music of the 1980s
MUS 201H: Music of the Classic Rock Era
MUS 201G: Popular Music: Music of the 1980s
MUS 201I: Music, Politics, and Social Movements
MUS 332A: Musical Cultures of Africa/Middle East
MUS 332B: Musical Cultures of Asia/Pacific
MUS 332C: Musical Cultures of the Americas
MUS 496D: Seminar: Topics in World Music and Culture
MUS 496E: Opera History and Cultural Practice
Philosophy
PHIL 323: Philosophy in Literature
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Diversity: What is it and why does it matter?
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Toleration and it's Discontents
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- What is Progress?
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Inventing the Individual
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- The (Im)mortality of Market Exchange
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Shame: The Civilizing Emotion
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Life Through the Eyes of the Nobel Lauretes
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Becoming Human: Understanding Moral Development
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Hannah Arendt: Philosopher of Freedom
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Justice-fying Property
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Cause, Effect, and Freedom
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Women's Liberty
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- The Promise and Peril of Civil Society
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Working with Marx
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Milton's Paradise Lost and the Ethics and Economics of Wealth Creation
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Consumerism and it's Discontents
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Beauty Matters: Sex, Evolution, Romance, and the Marriage Market
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Equality
PHIL 357: Topics in Humanomics- Social (In)Justice
PHIL 357: The Rules of the Game
PHIL 357- What is Competition
Psychology
Religion
REL 150: The Bible and Popular Culture: Engaging the Sacred Text
REL 312: Religious Experience in Film and Fiction
REL 314: Fiction, Film and the Western Contemplative Tradition
REL 340: The Bible as Literature: The Hebrew Scriptures
REL 341: The Bible as Literature: The Christian Scriptures
REL 366: The Latino/a Religious Experience: From Colonialism to Liberation
Spanish
Screenwriting
Theatre
TH 100: Introduction to Theatre Technology
TH 110: Introduction to Acting
TH 150: Theatre in World Cultures
TH 209: Introduction to Stage Management
TH 221: Introduction to Theatrical Makeup
TH 301: Drafting for the Stage
TH 306: Advanced Theatrical Make-up
TH 307: Lighting Design and Technology
TH 314: Intermediate Stage Management
TH 340: Production Collaboration for Directors and Designers
TH 351: Exploring Theatre Around the World
TH 352: New York Theatre Study Tour
TH 371: Theatre History I- Antiquity through the Eighteeneth Century
TH 372: Theatre History II- Eighteenth Century to the New Millenium
TH 374: Theatre for Social Change
TH 378: Methods of Teaching Drama
TH 401: Advanced Technology for Live Entertainment
TH 406: Study in Theatrical Design
