ART HIS C170AMuseum Studies
Art History · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to museology as critical practice, with emphasis on history and theory of museums and impact of culture and society on current museum theory and practice. Concurrently scheduled with course C270A.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ART HIS C170A
- ART HIS 195Museum Studies Internship
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.