Visual Arts Courses at UCSD
Every Visual Arts course at University of California, San Diego, with difficulty, workload, and ratings. 161 courses · 365 ratings across the web
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Students give VIS courses 3.4 out of 5, and 56% would take one again.
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Easiest course
VIS102
Democratizing the City · 47/100 difficulty
Most challenging
VIS122D
69/100 difficulty
All Visual Arts Courses (161)
CAT2Culture, Art, and Technology 2
3.6 out of 5 stars3.6· 139 ratings
VIS41Design Communication
2.6 out of 5 stars2.6· 36 ratings
VIS60Introduction to Digital Photography
3.2 out of 5 stars3.2· 34 ratings
VIS120AGreek Art
2.4 out of 5 stars2.4· 9 ratings
VIS100Introduction to Public Culture
3.1 out of 5 stars3.1· 8 ratings
VIS122D
3.1 out of 5 stars3.1· 8 ratings
VIS3Introduction to Art Making: Three-Dimensional Practices
2.8 out of 5 stars2.8· 8 ratings
VIS85AMedia History
3.3 out of 5 stars3.3· 8 ratings
ICAM101
2.5 out of 5 stars2.5· 7 ratings
VIS6Race, Gender, and Robots
2.3 out of 5 stars2.3· 7 ratings
VIS112Theories and Methods
4.3 out of 5 stars4.3· 6 ratings
VIS120BRoman Art
2.6 out of 5 stars2.6· 6 ratings
VIS124CNNineteenth-Century Art
4.5 out of 5 stars4.5· 6 ratings
VIS140
3.4 out of 5 stars3.4· 6 ratings
VIS101Introduction to Urban Ecologies
4.4 out of 5 stars4.4· 5 ratings
VIS103Architectural Practices
3.4 out of 5 stars3.4· 5 ratings
VIS103BArchitecture and Urbanism of Korea
2.6 out of 5 stars2.6· 5 ratings
VIS126PLatin American Art: Modern to Postmodern, 1890-1950
4.4 out of 5 stars4.4· 5 ratings
VIS164Photographic Strategies: Looking and Seeing
4.8 out of 5 stars4.8· 5 ratings
VIS183BStrategies of Alterity
5.0 out of 5 stars5.0· 5 ratings
VIS106BPainting: Practices and Genre
1.8 out of 5 stars1.8· 4 ratings
VIS183AStrategies of Self
3.0 out of 5 stars3.0· 4 ratings
ART207
3.4 out of 5 stars3.4· 3 ratings
VIS102Democratizing the City
5.0 out of 5 stars5.0· 3 ratings
VIS105ADrawing: Representing the Subject
4.7 out of 5 stars4.7· 3 ratings
VIS105BDrawing: Practices and Genre
4.0 out of 5 stars4.0· 3 ratings
VIS106APainting: Image Making
1.6 out of 5 stars1.6· 3 ratings
VIS107ASculpture: Making the Object
2.4 out of 5 stars2.4· 3 ratings
VIS122
4.0 out of 5 stars4.0· 3 ratings
VIS126QLatin American Art: Modern to Postmodern, 1950-Present
3.6 out of 5 stars3.6· 3 ratings
VIS134Introduction to 3-D Asset Design
3.0 out of 5 stars3.0· 3 ratings
VIS163Design Research and Criticism
1.0 out of 5 stars1.0· 3 ratings
VIS175Editing: Theory and Practice
4.3 out of 5 stars4.3· 3 ratings
VIS180BFiction and Allegory in Current Media Practices
4.7 out of 5 stars4.7· 3 ratings
VIS183Film Production Studio Technique
3.6 out of 5 stars3.6· 3 ratings
VIS100ADesign of Public Culture
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VIS101ADesigning Urban Ecologies
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VIS103AContemporary Arts in South Korea
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VIS103CSilk Roads: A Critical Study
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VIS104CPerformance: Art and Public Culture
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VIS105CDrawing: Portfolio Projects
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VIS106CPainting: Portfolio Projects
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VIS107BSculpture: Practices and Genre
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VIS107CSculpture: Portfolio Projects
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VIS108Advanced Projects in Art
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VIS110AContemporary Issues and Practices
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VIS110BProfessional Practice in the Visual Arts
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VIS110CProposals, Plans, Presentations
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VIS110DVisual Narrative
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VIS110EArt in Public Spaces/Site-Specific Art
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VIS110FInstallation: Cross-Disciplinary Projects
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VIS110GThe Natural and Altered Environment
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VIS110HArt and Text
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VIS110IPerforming for the Camera
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VIS110KDigital Studio
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VIS110MStudio Honors I
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VIS110NStudio Honors II
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VIS113ANHistory of Criticism I: Early Modern
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VIS113BNHistory of Criticism II: Early Twentieth Century (1900-1950)
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VIS113CNHistory of Criticism III: Contemporary (1950-Present)
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VIS114ALandscape and Memory
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VIS114BThe Fragment: Uses and Theories
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VIS114GSArts and Visual Culture in China
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VIS117EProblems in Ethnoaesthetics
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VIS117FTheorizing the Americas
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VIS117GCritical Theory and Visual Practice
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VIS120CLate Antique Art
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VIS121ANArt and Experience in the Middle Ages
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VIS121CArt and the Bible in the Middle Ages: Sign and Design
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VIS122ANRenaissance Art
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VIS122BBaroque: Painters, Sculptors, Architects
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VIS122GSThe City in Italy
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VIS123BContemporary Art of the African Diaspora
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VIS123CArt and Visual Culture of the United States
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VIS124BNArt and the Enlightenment
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VIS124DParis, Capital of the Nineteenth Century
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VIS124EThe Production of Nature
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VIS124FArt in the Age of Revolutions
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VIS124GArt and Modernity
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VIS125ATwentieth-Century Art
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VIS125BNContemporary Art
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VIS125EFaces and Powers
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VIS125GRHistory of Socially Engaged Art
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VIS126ANPre-Columbian Art of Ancient Mexico and Central America
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VIS126EIndigenisms I: The Making of the Modern, Nineteenth Century to Mid-Twentieth Century
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VIS126FIndigenisms II: Contemporary Disseminations, Neo-Avantgarde to the Present
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VIS126HNPacific Coast American Indian Art
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VIS126ISouthwest American Indian Art
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VIS126JAfrican and Afro-American Art
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VIS127GSIssues in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art
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VIS127QJapanese Painting and Prints
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VIS128BTopics in Early Modern Art History
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VIS128DTopics in Art History of the Americas
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VIS128ETopics in Art History of Asia
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VIS129ASeminar in Premodern Art History
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VIS129BSeminar in Early Modern Art History
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VIS129CSeminar in Modern Art History
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VIS129DSeminar in Art History of the Americas
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VIS129ESeminar in Art History of Asia
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VIS129FSeminar in Art Theory and Criticism
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VIS12RRace and Class in American Visual Culture
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VIS130Special Projects in Visual Arts
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VIS131Special Projects in Media
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VIS133Lecture Topics in Speculative Design
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VIS133AStudio Topics in Speculative Design
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VIS135Design Research Methods
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VIS136ASpeculative Fiction Seminar
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VIS141AComputer Programming for the Arts I
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VIS141BComputer Programming for the Arts II
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VIS143AVirtual Environments I
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VIS143BVirtual Environments II
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VIS145ATime- and Process-Based Digital Media I
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VIS147AElectronic Technologies for Art I
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VIS147BElectronic Technologies for Art II
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VIS148Visualizing Art Practice
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VIS150Landmarks of World Cinema
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VIS150ASeminar in Film History and Theory
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VIS151Experimental Cinema
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VIS151ASeminar in Media History and Theory
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VIS156Latino American Cinema
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VIS157Environmentalism in Arts and Media
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VIS158ATopics in Contemporary Photography
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VIS158BPhotography after 1960
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VIS158CHistory of Social Documentary
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VIS158DBlack Subjects and Black Material in Photography
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VIS160ASenior Project in Computing Arts I
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VIS160BSenior Project in Computing Arts II
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VIS161Systems and Networks at Scale
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VIS162Speculative Science and Design Invention
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VIS165Black and White Darkroom
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VIS165AThe Photographic Print
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VIS165BThe Photographer's Studio
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VIS167Social Engagement and Photography
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VIS168Pictorialism and Constructed Reality
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VIS169APhotography in Exhibition and Artist Books
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VIS169BAdvanced Photographic Print
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VIS172Motion Design and Visual Effects
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VIS173Introduction to Animation
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VIS17616mm Filmmaking
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VIS179Intermediate Projects in Media
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VIS180Advanced Projects in 3-D and CGI
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VIS180ADocumentary Evidence and the Construction of Authenticity in Current Media Practices
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VIS181Advanced Sound and Lighting
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VIS182Advanced Editing
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VIS182AAdvanced Digital Photography Editing
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VIS184Advanced Scripting
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VIS190Design Master Studio
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VIS199Special Studies in the Visual Arts
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VIS21CIntroduction to African Art
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VIS32Art, Design, and the Brain
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VIS42Introduction to Creative Coding
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VIS7Movie Magic: From Méliès to Marvel
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VIS71Introduction to Cinematography
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VIS72Introduction to Directing
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VIS73Introduction to Editing
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VIS8Visuality and the African Diaspora
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VIS80Introduction to the Studio Major
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VIS84BFilm Aesthetics
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VIS85BMedia Aesthetics
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VIS87First-year Seminar
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VIS9Introduction to Digital Photography for Non-Majors
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