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Art Specialty Advising Guide

Art, Art History, Fine Arts

The following USAC Specialty programs offer courses and internships targeted to the academic needs and interests of Art, Art History, and Fine Arts.

Please visit program course pages for course descriptions and terms offered; and meet with your academic advisor to see how you can best fit study abroad into your university degree program. Syllabi are available upon request at syllabus@usac.edu.

Disciplines by Specialty Program Location

Chile | Costa Rica | Czech Republic | France | Italy | Spain

Chile

Program City Course Title Credits Area/Level
Santiago Latin American Cinema 3 FILM/SPAN 300
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Latin American Cinema 3 FILM/SPAN 300

Costa Rica

Program City Course Title Credits Area/Level
Heredia Survey of Art II: Colonial Period to the Present 3 ART/SPAN 200
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Latin American Cinema 3 FILM/SPAN 400

Czech Republic

Program City Course Title Credits Area/Level
Prague Art Photography 3 ART 300
Czech Cinema – Image and Memory 3 FILM 300
Experiments in Czech Film 3 FILM 300
From Medieval to Contemporary: Exploring the Great Art and Architecture of Prague 3 ART/ARCH 300
Travel Photography 1 ART/JOUR 200

France

Program City Course Title Credits Area/Level
Lyon Art, City, and Society in Lyon from the Middle-Ages to Nowadays 3

ART/FREN/HIST 300

Drawing and Painting in Lyon 1 ART 100
French Art and Architecture I: Classical to Beaux Arts 3 ART/HIST 300
French Art and Architecture II: Art Deco to Today 3 ART/HIST 300
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism 3 ART 300
Travel Photography 3 ART/JOUR 200
Travel Writing: French Art and the Art of Being French 3 ART/ENG 300
Pau European Cinema 3 FILM/FREN 300
Language and Cinema 3 FILM/FREN 300
Survey of Art I: European/Western Art 3 ART/FREN 200
Survey of Art: European/Western Art 3 ART/FREN 200

Italy

Program City Course Title Credits Area/Level
Verona Renaissance Art and Architecture 3 ARCH/ART 300
Roman Art and Architecture: Verona and Veneto Region 3 ARCH/ART 300
Viterbo Arts as Visual Language 3 ART/COM 300
Contemporary Italian Cinema 3 FILM 400
Documentary Photography 3 ART/JOUR 300
Drawing and Painting Italy I 3 ART 100
Gender and the Arts 3 ART/WS 300
Italian Art: Etruscan and Roman Art 3 ART 300
Italian Art: Italy in the Renaissance 3 ART 300
Italian Renaissance Arts 3 ART 300
Museum Studies 3 ART/HIST 300
Roman Art and Architecture 3 ART/HIST 300
Survey of Italian Art 3 ART 300
Travel Photography 3 ART/JOUR 300

Spain

Program City Course Title Credits Area/Level
Madrid Drawing Madrid 3 ART 100
Drawing and Painting in Madrid 1 ART 100
Masterpieces of European Art I 3 ART 300
Masterpieces of European Art II 3 ART 300
Museum Studies 3 ART/ANTH/HIST 300
Spain Seen through the Photographer's Lens 3 ART/JOUR 300
Survey of Art I: European/Western Art 3 ART/SPAN 200
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary European History and Cinema 3 FILM 300
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Spanish History and Cinema 3 FILM/SPAN 300
Women in Art 3 ART 300
San Sebastián Contemporary Spanish Art 1 ART 300

*Field Study courses have an additional fee

Updated: 7 Apr 2023

Course offerings must meet minimum enrollments and are subject to change.