»Artistic Inquiry Classes

This page lists all the classes that you can take to fulfill the Artistic Inquiry at Chapman University based on the 2025-2026 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.

• 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 Arts of the Ancient Americas
• AH 303 The Ancient Greek City
• AH 304 Etruscan and Roman 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 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 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: 3000 Years of the Eternal City
• AH 401 Gender, Art, and Western Culture
• ANTH 211 Visual Culture
• ART 307 Witnessing Landscape
• ART 388 Feminist Field Studies
• ART 389 International Contemporary Art in Berlin and Venice
• CCI 302 Cultural Memory
• DANC 353 Dance in World Cultures
• DOC 321 The Documentary Tradition
• ENG 204 Introduction To Creative Writing
• ENG 250 Introduction to Fiction
• ENG 252 Introduction to Poetry
• ENG 256 Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
• ENG 327 Multicultural Literatures of the U.S.
• ENG 340 The Bible As Literature: the Hebrew Scriptures
• ENG 341 Bible As Literature: the Christian Scriptures
• ENG 346 Special Studies in Literature
• ENG 355 Theater in England
• ENG 360 War, Memory, and Literature
• ENG 449 Literature in Translation
• ENG 472 Film, Gender, Sexuality
• 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 342A Film Noir
• FS 342K Latinx Films and Filmmakers
• FS 443A Asian Cinema
• FS 443B British Film and Television Post-1960
• FS 443C French Cinema
• FS 443D Mexican Film
• FS 443E German Cinema
• FS 443H Survey of European Cinema
• FS 443I East Asian Cinema
• FS 443K Korean Cinema Today
• FS 444A Black Cinema
• FS 444C Queer Cinema
• FS 444F Women in Film
• FS 444H Film Censorship
• FS 444J Screened Violence
• FS 444M Italian American Cinema
• FS 444N Postwar U.S. Cinema
• FS 444O Film, Gender and Sexuality
• FTV 140 Introduction to Film Aesthetics, Lecture and Laboratory
• GD 304 History of Graphic Design
• GER 341 German Film
• GER 375 German Literature
• HON 224 Shakespeare, Race, Ethnicity
• HON 240 Anime and War
• HON 242 Beyonce, Madonna, Nina Simone
• HON 302 Witnessing the World: The Art of Travel Writing
• HON 314 Narrating the Afterworld: Dante’s Spiritual Journey
• HON 315 Power and Imagination in the Italian Renaissance
• HON 338 ThanaTourism: Traveling the "Dark Side"
• HON 347 Listening to Time: Area Studies in Ethnomusicology
• HON 361 How Art Can Help Us Save the Planet
• HON 363 The Castaway Narrative in World Literature
• HON 380 Legends, Rumors, Conspiracies
• 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 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
• 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 375 Masterpieces of Italian Literature
• ITAL 385 From Page to Screen: Literature and Film in Italy
• JPN 350 Topics in Japanese Cinema
• MUS 101 Introduction to Music
• MUS 102 Compendium of Western Music History
• MUS 122 Musical Cultures of the World
• MUS 202 Music and Gender
• MUS 203 Global Popular Music
• MUS 207 University Choir
• MUS 209 University Singers
• MUS 210 Opera Chapman
• MUS 214 University Women's Choir
• MUS 215 Wind Symphony
• MUS 221 The Chapman Orchestra
• MUS 239 Film Music
• 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 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 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 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 Literature
• PHIL 323 Philosophy in Literature
• 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 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
• TH 150 Theatre in World Cultures
• TH 374 Theatre for Social Change
• WLC 310 Japanese Film History