»Artistic Inquiry Classes

This page lists all the classes that you can take to fulfill the Artistic Inquiry at Chapman University based on the 2026-2027 catalog year. 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; and requires you to take one class in total.

AFST 344 Black Music and the African Diaspora
AH 200 Ancient to Medieval Art
AH 201 Renaissance to Modern Art
AH 203 Arts of China and Japan
AH 204 Introduction to Museum Studies
AH 205 Arts of the Ancient 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 323 Arts of Tenochtitlán-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 337 Culture(s) of Outer Space
AH 340 Contemporary Art: 1945 - 1970
AH 341 Contemporary Art:1970-Present
AH 350 Chromophobia-Chromophilia: Color and the Making of the Atlantic World
AH 351 Brazilian Art: 1500-2000
AH 379 Rome: 3000 Years of the Eternal City
ANTH 211 Visual Culture
ANTH 337 Culture(s) of Outer Space
ART 115 Foundation Course in Ceramics
ART 116 Ceramics: Form and Surface
ART 117 Ceramics of China, Korea and Japan
ART 120 Photographic Imaging
ART 123 Painting and Mark Making
ART 124 Drawing and Planning
ART 125 Introduction to Transdisciplinary Studio
ART 195 Visual Thinking
ART 211 Introduction to Life Drawing
ART 307 Witnessing Landscape
ART 311 Life Drawing
ART 312 Advanced Painting: Oils
ART 313 Advanced Sculpture
ART 315 Advanced Ceramics
ART 324 Video Art
ART 388 Feminist Field Studies
ART 389 International Contemporary Art in Berlin and Venice
AVE 247 History and Aesthetics of Animation and Visual Effects
CCI 204 Introduction to Museum Studies
CCI 302 Cultural Memory
DANC 342 Dance in Film
DANC 347 Music for Dancers
DANC 353 Dance in World Cultures
DANC 453 Dance History: Forces and Figures
DOC 321 The Documentary Tradition
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 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 Lit From 1900 to the Present World Literature from 1900-the Present
ENG 340 The 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 Theater 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: John Fowles Center Contemporary Writers Core
ENG 430 Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories
ENG 432 Shakespeare's Tragedies and Romances
ENG 441 Topics in Drama
ENG 443 Topics in Fiction
ENG 445 Major Author(s)
ENG 447 Advanced Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies
ENG 449 Literature in Translation
ENG 456 Topics in Literary Theory & Criticism
ENG 472 Film, Gender, Sexuality
FREN 300 Comic Strips, Graphic Novels, Illustrations, and Animations: An Iconography of French Society
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
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 Film and Television
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 444H Film Censorship
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
FTV 140 Introduction to Film and Media Aesthetics, Lecture and Laboratory
FTV 310 Industry Insiders
GER 341 German Film
GER 351 The Holocaust in German Literature and Film
GER 375 German Literature
HON 242 Beyonce, Madonna, Nina Simone
HON 270 The Rhetoric of Horror Films
HON 302 Witnessing the World: The Art of Travel Writing
HON 307 Topics in the Great Operas of the Western Tradition
HON 314 Narrating the Afterworld: Dante’s Spiritual Journey
HON 315 Power and Imagination in the Italian Renaissance
HON 330 Shakespeare, Race, Ethnicity
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 361 How Art Can Help Us Save the Planet
HON 371 Tales of a Creative Mind: Fellini, the Dream-Director
HON 373 Pinocchio & Co: The Puppet Across Media
HON 380 Legends, Rumors, Conspiracies
HON 383 The Art of Revenge
HON 393 Tricksters and Cosmopolitans
HON 412 "Seas of Stories": Postcolonial Literature and Theory
HON 432 Queer Theory
HON 448 The Beauty of Ideas: An Experience of Florence
HUM 250 Pop Culture and Pedagogy: Examining the Black Mirror
HUM 260 What Pokémon Know: Yokai and Japanese Mythology
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
IES 316 Aesthetic Education: Philosophy and Practice
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
JPN 350 Topics in Japanese Cinema
MUS 101 Introduction to Music
MUS 122 Musical Cultures of the World
MUS 128 Fundamentals of Music Theory
MUS 202 Music and Gender
MUS 203 Global Popular Music
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/Literature III
MUS 304 Music History/Literature IV
MUS 307 University Choir
MUS 309 University Singers
MUS 310 Opera Chapman
MUS 314 University Treble Choir
MUS 315 Wind Symphony
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 Musical Theatre History and Cultural Practice
MUS 405 Music History and Literature V
MUS 461 Psychology of Music
MUS 102A Compendium of Western Music History I
MUS 102B Compendium of Western Music History II
MUS 201A History of Rock
MUS 201B Music, Race and Place in the U.S
MUS 201C Protest Music
MUS 201D Country Music
MUS 201E Popular Music: LGBTQ Perspectives
MUS 201F All That Jazz
MUS 201G 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 332D Folk and Traditional Musical Cultures of Europe
MUS 496D Seminar: Topics in World Music and Culture
MUS 496E Opera History and Cultural Practice
PCST 260 Peace and Conflict in Fiction
PCST 360 War, Memory, and Literature
PHIL 323 Philosophy in Literature
POSC 351 Politics in Film
PSY 461 Psychology of Music
REL 150 Disney Does Religion: Popular Culture and Religion
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 Bible As Literature: the Christian Scriptures
REL 366 Blood, Passion, and the Spirit: The Latin American and Latinx Religious Experience
SOC 310 Feminist-Art-Theory-Power
SOC 340 Black Music and African Diaspora
SPAN 344 Spanish Writing Workshop
SPAN 484 20th Century Spanish Poetry & Drama: Literary Pictures
SW 127 Writing for Film and TV I
SW 356 Hemingway in Europe: A Writing Workshop
TH 100 Introduction to Entertainment Design and Technology
TH 110 Introduction to Acting
TH 150 Theatre in World Cultures
TH 201 Stagecraft
TH 204 Costume Construction
TH 207 Lighting for the Stage
TH 208 Scenic Design
TH 209 Stage Management I
TH 221 Introduction to Theatrical Makeup
TH 304 Costume Design
TH 306 Advanced Theatrical Make-up
TH 309 Scene Painting
TH 314 Stage Management II
TH 340 Production Collaboration for Directors and Designers
TH 345 Musical Theatre
TH 352 New York Theatre Study Tour
TH 374 Theatre for Social Change
TH 409 Advanced Stage Management
TH 477 Advanced Playwriting
WGST 310 Feminist-Art-Theory-Power
WLC 310 Japanese Film History