ART HISTORY PROGRAM COURSE REQUIREMENTS (33 credits)
Art history offers courses that consider art, craft, design, architecture, and media through the lens of history, geography, ethnicity, and identity. Although primarily designed to prepare students for graduate work in art history, careers in museums and galleries and arts administration, the curriculum also emphasizes skills that are essential to many other professions. A focus in art history can be combined with the minor in Museum Studies (see
Museum Studies 698).
CORE CURRICULUM FOR ART HISTORY (9 credits)
All courses listed are 3 credits unless otherwise indicated
Select two from the following:
50:082:101 Introduction to Art History I
50:082:102 Introduction to Art History II
50:082:104 Introduction to the Arts of Asia
50:698:105 Cross-Cultural Art History
Required
50:082:490 Art History: Theory and Method
ADDITIONAL ART HISTORY DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS (15 credits)
Select one course from five of the following six areas.
Some courses fulfill distribution requirements depending on the specific material covered in that course in a particular semester. Consult with your adviser to determine what distribution area is covered when you register. A partial list of these courses is:
50:082:200 Gender and the Arts
50:082:202 History of Design
50:082:305 Women in Art
50:082:394 Learning Abroad
Ancient
50:082:206 Art of the Ancient Near East
50:082:207 Art of Egypt
50:082:208 Greek Art and Archeology
50:082:209 Art of Ancient Rome
50:082:303 Art of the Silk Road
Medieval and Renaissance
50:082:203 Medieval Art and Culture
50:082:204 Renaissance Art
50:082:313 Renaissance Art of Northern Europe
50:082:320 Art of the Middle Ages
50:082:333 Italian Renaissance Art
17th-19th Centuries
50:082:210 Arts of Power: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe
50:082:237 Nineteenth Century Art
50:082:267 American Art
50:082:340 Art in the Age of Discovery
50:082:349 Golden Age of Dutch Art
50:082:351 European Art: 1780-1880
50:082:352 European Modern Art: 1880-1940
Design and Media
50:082:202 History of Design
50:082:280 Art in an Age of Mechanized and Electronic
Media
50:082:316 Art of Film
50:082:380 History of Animation
50:082:381 Japanese Animation
50:082:382 History of Graphic Design
50:082:383 History of Photography
Modern and Contemporary
50:082:214 Global Modern Art
50:082:238 Twentieth-Century Art
50:082:251 Modern Architecture
50:082:352 European Modern Art: 1880-1940
50:082:353 Modern Art: 1940-1980
50:082:354 Contemporary Art
50:082:368 Twentieth-Century American Art
50:082:395 Sculpture of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
In and Beyond the West
50:082:200 Gender and the Arts
50:082:201 LGBTQ/Race and Popular Culture
50:082:212 Japanese Art
50:082:213 Chinese Art
50:082:229 Art of the Americas
50:082:266 African American Art
50:082:285 Art of Africa
50:082:286 Latin American Art and Culture
50:082:305 Women and Art
50:082:329 vPre-Columbian and Meso-American Art
ART HISTORY ELECTIVES (9 credits)
- An elective may be drawn from any 200-level or higher Art History or Museum Studies course not already counted in the distribution requirements, including 50:082:491 Individual Study in Art History
- Students are encouraged to add an elective from studio course offerings.
