The art history major engages students in an interdisciplinary approach to the discipline that promotes an understanding of art in relation to aesthetic traditions, cultural values, and social experience. The degree prepares students for entry-level archive, gallery, or museum-related employment and/or for graudate studies in art history.
Note: It is recommended that students who plan to enter graduate school should complete two years of a world language at the college level.
Program Learner Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Analyze works of art and design from various global contexts from the prehistoric era to the present.
- Synthesize, summarize, and assess information from a variety of primary and secondary sources that contextualize art in historical, cultural, stylistic, and theoretical/critical contexts.
- Produce written work, including a significant research paper involving visual analysis, reading research, and critical thinking.
- Use technical skills to produce creative work contextualized within historical and contemporary visual arts.
- Conduct research through in-person observation of examples of historical and contemporary art and design.
- Convey the findings of original research through oral presentations.
- Compare works of art and design from a variety of historical, cultural, and social contexts.