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» Artistic Inquiry Classes for 2023–24

This page lists all the classes that you can take to fulfill the Artistic Inquiry at Chapman University. The Artistic Inquiry:

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 class list

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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 305: Early Greek Art

AH 306: Later Greek Art

AH 310: Medieval 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 330: Nineteenth Century Art

AH 331: History of Photography

AH 333: Modern Russian Art

AH 334: Soviet and Post-Soviet Art

AH 336: The Art of Fashion

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

AH 379: Rome: The Development of the City

AH 401: Gender, Art, and Western Culture

American Studies

AMST 282: Folklore

AMST 296: Indians and Film

AMST 397: Cultural Mythology

Anthropology

ANTH 211: Visual Culture

Documentary Filmmaking

DOC 321: The Documentary Tradition

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 272: Reading Cinema

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 355: Theatre in England

ENG 360: War, Memory, and Literature

ENG 404: Techniques in Writing Fiction

ENG 406: Advanced Workshop in Writing Fiction

ENG 409: Literary Forum

ENG 430: Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories

ENG 432: Shakespeare's Tragedies and Romances

ENG 441: Topics in Drama

ENG 442: Topics in Poetry

ENG 443: Topics in Fiction

ENG 445: Major Author(s)

ENG 449: Literature in Translation

ENG 456: Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism

ENG 472: Film, Gender, Sexuality

French

FREN 323: French Popular Music: A Mirror of Society

FREN 354: French Opera in the Time of the Sun King: The “Libretti” of Quinault and Music of Lully

FREN 356: Topics in French Opera

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 342A: Film Noir

FS 342B: The Horror Film

FS 342C: The Musical

FS 342D: The Science Fiction Film

FS 342E: Screwball Comedy

FS 342F: The Animated Film

FS 342G: The Western

FS 342H: The Melodrama

FS 342J: The Gangster Film

FS 342K: Latinx Films and Filmmakers

FS 342M: The Documentary Film

FS 443A: Asian Cinema

FS 443B: British Films

FS 443C: French Cinema

FS 443D: Mexican Film

FS 443E: German Cinema

FS 443F: Italian Cinema: Politics, Art, and Industry

FS 443H: Survey of European Cinema

FS 443I: East Asian Cinema

FS 443K: Korean Cinema Today

FS 444A: Black Cinema

FS 444B: New Hollywood Cinema

FS 444C: Queer Cinema

FS 444D: Hollywood Auteurs

FS 444E: Independent American Cinema

FS 444F: Women in Film

FS 444G: Films about the Holocaust

FS 444H: Film Censorship

FS 444J: Screened Violence

FS 444K: The Hollywood Studio System

FS 444M: Italian American Cinema

FS 444N: Postwar U.S. Cinema

FS 444O: Film, Gender and Sexuality

FS 444P: Emerging Digital Media

FS 444Q: Screen Decades

FS 444S: Hollywood Stardom

Film and Television

FTV 140: Introduction to Film Aesthetics, Lecture and Laboratory

FTV 310: Industry Insiders

FTV 311: Cinema Francais/French Cinema (Cannes)

German

GER 341: German Film

GER 375: German Literature

Graphic Design

GD 304: History of Graphic Design

Honors Program

Taking a class with the "HON" label requires enrollment in the University Honors Program.

HON 224: Shakespeare, Race, Ethnicity

HON 240: Anime and War

HON 242: Beyoncé, Madonna, Nina Simone

HON 266: Sound and Spirit

HON 277: Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall

HON 288: Close Reading

HON 292: The Art of Revenge

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 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 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 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

HON 432: Queer Theory

HON 448: The Beauty of Ideas: An Experience of Florence

Humanities

HUM 250: Pop Culture and Pedagogy: Examining the Black Mirror

HUM 311: A Region of Fantasy: Journey Through Emilia-Romagna, Italy

HUM 322: Community, Justice and Imagination: An Interdisciplinary Engagement with The Saint John's Bible

Integrated Educational Studies

IES 316: Aesthetic Education: Philosophy and Practice

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

JPN 350: Topics in Japanese Cinema

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 202: Music and Gender

MUS 203: Global Popular Music

MUS 207: University Choir (travel section offered periodically)

MUS 209: University Singers

MUS 210: Opera Chapman

MUS 214: University Women's Choir

MUS 215: Wind Symphony (travel section offered periodically)

MUS 218: Big Band

MUS 221: The Chapman Orchestra

MUS 230: Introduction to Composition and Songwriting

MUS 239: Film Music

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 307: University Choir

MUS 309: University Singers

MUS 310: Opera Chapman

MUS 314: University Women's Choir

MUS 315: Wind Symphony (travel section offered periodically)

MUS 318: Big Band

MUS 321: The Chapman Orchestra

MUS 324: Audio Recording Techniques

MUS 326: Musical Cultures of the Caribbean and Latin America

MUS 344: Advanced Topics in Music Technology

MUS 345: History of Musical Theatre

MUS 405: Music History and Literature V

MUS 461: Psychology of Music

MUS 102A: Compendium of Western Music I

MUS 102B: Compendium of Western Music II

MUS 201A: History of Rock

MUS 201B: Race and Place in the U.S.

MUS 201C: Protest Music

MUS 201D: Country Music

MUS 201F: All That Jazz MUS 201G: Popular Music: Music of the 1980s

MUS 201H: Music of the Classic Rock Era

MUS 201I: Music, Politics, and Social Movements

MUS 322Q: Chapman Jams

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

Peace Studies

PCST 260: Peace and Conflict in Fiction

PCST 360: War, Memory, and Literature

Philosophy

PHIL 323: Philosophy in Literature

Psychology

PSY 461: Psychology of Music

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

Sociology

SOC 310: Feminist-Art-Theory-Power

Spanish

SPAN 344: Spanish Writing Workshop

SPAN 484: 20th Century Spanish Poetry and Drama: Literary Pictures

Screenwriting

SW 127: Writing for Film and TV I

Theatre

TH 100: Introduction to Theatre Technology

TH 110: Introduction to Acting

TH 150: Theatre in World Cultures

TH 201: Stagecraft

TH 204: Costume Construction

TH 207 Lighting Design

TH 208 Scenic Design

TH 209 Introduction to Stage Management

TH 304 Costume Design

TH 306 Advanced Theatrical Make-up

TH 309: Scene Painting

TH 314 Intermediate Stage Management

TH 345: Musical Theatre

TH 352 New York Theatre Study Tour

TH 378 Methods of Teaching Drama

TH 371: Theatre History I-Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century

TH 374: Theatre for Social Change

TH 409 Advanced Stage Managment

TH 477: Advanced Playwriting

Women’s and Gender Studies

WGST 310: Feminist-Art-Theory-Power

World Languages and Cultures

WLC 310: Japanese Film History

Writing for Film and Television

TWP 127: Introduction to Television Writing: Comedy

Liberal Arts and Sciences Focus
Artistic Inquiry
Natural Sciences Inquiry
Quantitative Inquiry
Social Inquiry
Values and Ethical Inquiry
Written Inquiry

Artistic Inquiry Learning Outcome

Students compose critical or creative works that embody or analyze conceptually an artistic form at a baccalaureate/pre-professional level.

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