# Courses in Other Departments ## expand\_more This list contains courses that have been identified as reasonable petitions to count for elective credit to a Concentration or Secondary in AFVS. Their subjects and syllabi engage substantially with methods and topics relevant to the practice and study of art, film or visual studies. This list is by no means exhaustive and some departments (for instance History of Art and Architecture) offer many courses that may arguably be relevant to your path of study. If you would like a course not found on this list to be considered, please contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies () and share information about the course, ideally a syllabus. Normally Concentrators may not count more than two non-AFVS courses for credit and **Secondaries no more than one.** CONCENTRATORS and SECONDARY FIELD STUDENTS: If you are considering taking a course outside of AFVS for concentration or secondary field credit, e-mail Paula Soares () before you take the course to determine how the course fits into to your overall plan of study and concentration requirements. After the course is approved on the departmental level, send a petition in my.harvard to have the course approved in your Academic Advising Report. **2026-2027- Courses in Other Departments** Courses taught by AFVS faculty in other departments (e.g. through GenEd or First Year Seminars) generally can be counted for AFVS credit. Most courses offered in the History of Art and Architecture will count for AFVS concentration credit. The following courses are recommended and pre-approved for History/Theory credit: **Fall:** HAA 10 Jeffrey Hamburger, Joseph Koerner, Cecile Fromont Introduction to the History of Art HAA 103 Francesca Bewer Art, Science and the Practice of Art History HAA 173P Maria Gough Architectures of Cloth HAA179K Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Ten Trails: Drawing Outdoors HAA179V Sarah Lewis Vision and Justice (The Seminar) **Spring:** HAA 172V Sarah Lewis Unseen Black Art HAA 177M Jennifer Roberts Art and Science of the Moon HAA 177P Robin Kelsey The Language of Photography in the USA All other HAA courses can likely count for the AFVS History/Theory or Elective requirements, but please check with the Manager of Academic Programs or the Director of Undergraduate Studies. \--- The following courses are pre-approved for concentration Elective credit. Courses on this list taught by Faculty Affiliates of AFVS may be petitioned to count for History/Theory or Studio/Production credit, according to the course and up to the discretion of the DUS. If you find a course in another department that is not on this list and that you'd like to petition to count for AFVS Elective credit, please reach out to Paula Soares () or the DUS. **FALL:** EAFM 151 Jie Li Documenting China on Film ENGLISH CLR Musa Syeed Introduction to Screenwriting: Workshop ENGLISH CSAS Sebastian Smee Pictures into Words: Writing About Art ENGLISH CTV Sam Marks Writing for Television: Developing the Pilot: Workshop ENGLISH 189VG Vidyan Ravinthiran Video Game Storytelling GENED 1059 David Levine Act Natural GERMAN 117 Lisa Parkes Sound, Story, Studio: The German Radio Play GERMAN 154 Eric Rentschler The Frankfurt School on Film and Mass Culture HIND-URD 123 Richard Delacy Bollywood and Beyond: Commercial Cinema, Language and Culture in South Asia HISTLIT 90HO Chloe Hawkey New York Modern HUM 7 Lauren Kaminsky, Steven Biel, Raphael Allison Culture in Context MUSIC 281R Vijay Iyer Black Sonic Avant-Gardes ROM-STD 201 Jeffrey Schnapp John T. Hamilton Questions of Theory SLAVIC 193 Daria Khitrova Introduction to Russian and Soviet Film SPANSH 122 Raquel Vega-Duran (conducted in Spanish) Spanish Film from Buñuel to Almodóvar TDM 150 Julia Smeliansky Directorial Concepts and Set Design of the 20th and 21st Centuries TDM 150VT Jeff Adelberg Visual Thinking and Creation for Theatermakers TDM 155AI Marlon Kuzmick Media Production in the Age of AI **SPRING:** AFRAMER 118X Myisha Eatmon The Black American Experience Through Film AFRAMER 274 Sarah Lewis Art, Race, and Politics ENGLISH CLR Musa Syeed Introduction to Screenwriting: Workshop GENED 1042 Tomiko Yoda Anime as Global Popular Culture GENED 1072 Karthik Pandian Video Commune GEN ED 1156 Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Maria Gough, David Joselit Modern Art and Modernity FRENCH 74 Usha Rungoo Moving Images: Global narratives in cinema and graphic novels HISTLIT 10 Angela Allan, Raphael Allison Introduction to Cultural Studies HIST 131 Cemal Kafadar Medieval History and Cinema SCAND 55 Agnes Broome One Hundred Years of Scandinavian Cinema SLAVIC 114/ TDM 114K Daria Khitrova Squaring the Circle: Russia, Art, Revolution TDM 135B Kate Brehm Puppet Theater: Designing and Directing Visual Storytelling TDM 154 Jeff Adelberg Designing with Light TDM 167MV Katelyn Hearfield “Video Killed the Radio Star”: the History and Analysis of Music Videos ## Undergraduate Contacts Matt Saunders Director of Undergraduate Studies [msaunders@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:lingford@fas.harvard.edu) Paula Soares Manager of Academic Programs (617) 496-4469 Carpenter Center 102