Art History

13 courses (BPhil or BSGS)

Art history explores the historical meaning of art, architecture and design. The study of art over time enables students to develop acute visual sensibilities and finely honed skills of critical looking, thinking, speaking and writing. Art history offers students a solid basis for a lifelong understanding of art as well as a foundation for other disciplines, including history, literature, philosophy, music, politics and law.

Art historians teach in elementary, junior and high schools, work in libraries, art galleries and auction houses and in journalism, publishing, public relations, marketing and advertising. Some pursue professional degrees in architecture, art conservation, law, medicine or attain MA or PhD degrees in art history or other fields of humanities study.

Curriculum:

• 3 200-level art history courses
• 9 300-level art history courses, with at least
• 1 ancient-medieval art
• 1 Renaissance-Baroque art
• 1 modern art
• 1 non-Western art
• 1 seminar (ART HIST 390)
• 1 studio art course

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