Art History Major

Major Requirements: 11 courses, 39-40 credits

Students in this major must earn the BA.

Core Requirements (3 courses, 9 credits)

• ARH-101 Art History I
• ARH-102 Art History II
• CAS-201 College to Career: Explore Your Options And Find Your Path

Studio Art Requirement (1 course, 3 credits)

Choose one of the following:

• Any Foundation studio course (ADF-S)
• Any Fine Arts studio course (ADFA-S)

Art History Electives (7 courses, 27-28 credits)

Choose seven electives, one of which must be an ARH 400-level seminar or ARH 502, Honors Thesis. Electives must include at least one course in groups A, B, and C

A) Ancient Through 18th Century Art

• ARH-205 Gender, Class and Alterity in Ancient and Medieval Art
• ARH-305 Art of Greece and Rome
• ARH-307 Art of the Italian Renaissance
• ARH-308 Art of the Baroque & Rococo
• ARH-312 Art of the Northern Renaissance
• ARH-404 Seminar in Art History: Caravaggio
• ARH-406 Seminar in Art History: Bernini

B) 19th Century Through Contemporary Art

• ARH-309 Art of the 19th Century
• ARH-310 Modernism in Art
• ARH-311 American Art
• ARH-316 Contemporary Art
• ARH-318 Art and Museums Today
• ARH-321 Women, Art and Society
• ARH-411 Seminar in Art History: Impressionism

C) Non-Western Art

• ARH-203 Arts of Asia
• ARH-206 Global Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Art

Notes:

One elective course may be in related areas of visual culture such as the philosophy of art, photojournalism, advertising, cinema, and certain 3-credit studio art and design courses, such as the following:

• Any Foundation studio course (ADF-S)
• Any Fine Arts studio course (ADFA-S)
• ADPR-257 Advertising
• ARH-290 Internship in Art History
• CJN-152 Visual Aesthetics
• CJN-L218 Photojournalism
• FR-220 French & Francophone Cinema
• SPAN-408 Latin American Cinema
• PHIL-219 Philosophy of Art

A relevant Seminar for Freshmen with a strong concentration in art history or visual culture may also count as an elective at the discretion of the department chair.
Upper-level Art History courses taken at other institutions or through study abroad must be approved by the department chair, and must not overlap significantly with any other upper-level Art History course(s) counted toward the major.

• AP credit cannot be applied toward the major.

Residency Requirement Policy: In the College of Arts and Sciences, a two-course (8 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for completion of a minor and a four-course (16 credit) residency requirement must be satisfied for the completion of a major.