Art History: 72 credits including:

  • the seminar for art history majors (ARTH 298)
  • the integrative exercise (ARTH 400)
  • two six-credit Studio Art courses
  • 48 elective credits in Art History, including:

at least six credits in non-Western art history

  • ARTH 140: African Art and Culture · not offered in 2023-24
  • ARTH 155: Islamic Art and Architecture · not offered in 2023-24
  • ARTH 165: Japanese Art and Culture
  • ARTH 166: Chinese Art and Culture · not offered in 2023-24
  • ARTH 209: Chinese Painting · not offered in 2023-24
  • ARTH 220: The Origins of Manga: Japanese Prints · not offered in 2023-24
  • ARTH 266: Arts of the Japanese Tea Ceremony
  • ARTH 267: Gardens in China and Japan
  • ARTH 321: Arts of the Chinese Scholar’s Studio

at least six credits in art history of the western tradition before 1800

  • ARTH 203: Intersectional Medieval Art
  • ARTH 230: Princesses as Patrons circa 1500 · not offered in 2023-24
  • ARTH 232: Spanish Studies in Madrid Program: Spanish Art Live
  • ARTH 235: Revival, Revelation, and Re-animation: The Art of Europe’s “Renaissance” · not offered in 2023-24
  • ARTH 236: Baroque Art
  • ARTH 263: Architectural Studies in Europe Program: Prehistory to Postmodernism
  • ARTH 324: The Sexuality of Jesus Christ · not offered in 2023-24
  • CLAS 123: Greek Archaeology and Art · not offered in 2023-24

at least six credits in art history of the western tradition after 1800

  • ARTH 100: Art and Culture in the Gilded Age
  • ARTH 160: American Art to 1940 · not offered in 2023-24
  • ARTH 171: History of Photography · not offered in 2023-24
  • ARTH 172: Modern Art: 1890-1945 · not offered in 2023-24
  • ARTH 218: History of Performance and Body Art
  • ARTH 240: Art Since 1945 · not offered in 2023-24
  • ARTH 241: Contemporary Art for Artists · not offered in 2023-24
  • ARTH 247: Architecture Since 1950
  • ARTH 262: Architectural Studies in Europe Program: Community-Engaged Design
  • ARTH 265: Architectural Studies in Europe Program: Urban Planning in Europe
  • ARTH 265: Planning Utopia: Ideal Cities in Theory and Practice · not offered in 2023-24
  • ARTH 266: Arts of the Japanese Tea Ceremony
  • ARTH 327: A History of Campus Planning · not offered in 2023-24

at least one 300-level seminar.

Art History majors are encouraged to take advantage of off-campus study programs. No more than two art history courses taken outside of the department can be counted toward the major. Occasionally one course in a related department such as Cinema and Media Studies or Classics may count as an elective toward the major.