B.A. in Art History degree requirements

The B.A. in Art History provides students with a broad and rigorous education in the art produced around the world throughout human history. Students in this degree program take a wide variety of Art History courses, spanning many different cultures, geographies, time periods, and artistic styles. Students receive grounding in the traditional research methods and cutting-edge theoretical approaches of our discipline. Our program challenges students to confront art from a critical lens, analyzing how visual culture shapes and influences our understanding of the past, present and future. Students are taught to think across boundaries and question current categories, in order to practice a socially responsible art history. In addition to developing acute visual sensibilities, students acquire the ability to evaluate and organize information, conduct their own scholarly research and articulate their ideas in both written and spoken language.

The Art History major is particularly ideal if you want to:

• Go to graduate school in Art History at the MA or PhD level. Writing a Senior Honors Thesis is also encouraged, although not required.
• Take the broadest possible range of Art History courses.
• Study Art History as your second major, especially if you plan to pursue a career in your other major.