Course of Study

To complete a concentration in art history, students take a 30-credit major (10 courses) including two of the following:

• Origins and Transformations in Western Art
• Visual Culture Since 1400: Expression and Experimentation
• Introduction to the Art History of Asia, Africa, and the Americas

Students also take at least one course from the following five areas:

Ancient/Non-Western

• Arts of India, China and Japan
• Ancient Near East, Egypt and the Aegean Bronze Age
• Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
• Through Egyptian Eyes
• Greek Art and Archaeology
• Etruscan and Roman Art and Archaeology
• Myth in Classical Art

Medieval

• Medieval Art
• The Celtic World and Early Irish Art

Renaissance

• Early Renaissance Art in Italy
• High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy
• Northern Renaissance Art
• Renaissance and Baroque Architecture

Baroque

• Baroque Art
• The Arts of Spain and Its World, 1474-1700

Modern/American/Photography/Graphics

• Neoclassical and Romantic Art
• Modern Art
• Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
• American Architecture
• American Art: Colonial to Civil War
• American Art: Civil War to Civil Rights
• The Black Experience: African-American Art and Criticism in the 20th Century
• History of Photography
• Modern Architecture
• Art & Mythologies of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Bolshevik Russia
• Contemporary Art: 1940 to Present

In addition, students:

• complete one semester of a museum or gallery internship or a senior research project
• take a capstone seminar both junior and senior year
• take at least one Studio Art course from the following:
  
  • Interpreting the Self
  • Structure, Space and Environment
  • Drawing I
  • Figure Drawing