Minor Requirements

Minor Requirements – 36 Total Credits

Art History 300 Level Seminar Course – Required 6 credits

Elective Courses – Required 30 credits

Minors are required to complete at least six credits in two of three art historical distribution areas: art history of the Western tradition before 1800, art history of the Western tradition after 1800, and non-Western art history.

Western Tradition Before 1800

  • ARTH 101: Introduction to Art History I
  • ARTH 102: Introduction to Art History II
  • ARTH 120: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt and West Asia
  • ARTH 225: The Naked and the Nude: A History (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 232: Spanish Studies in Madrid Program: Spanish Art Live (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 235: Revival, Revelation, and Re-animation: The Art of Europe’s “Renaissance”
  • ARTH 236: Baroque Art (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 263: Architectural Studies in Europe Program: Prehistory to Postmodernism (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 324: The Sexuality of Jesus Christ
  • CLAS 123: Greek Archaeology and Art (not offered 2025-26)
  • HIST 233: The Byzantine World and Its Neighbors 750-ca. 1453 (not offered 2025-26)

Western Tradition After 1800

  • ARTH 102: Introduction to Art History II
  • ARTH 160: American Art to 1940 (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 171: History of Photography (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 172: Modern Art: 1890-1945 (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 205: Invisible From Space: Representing Ecosystems
  • ARTH 207: Cultivating the Future: “Growing” Together
  • ARTH 218: History of Performance and Body Art
  • ARTH 240: Art Since 1945
  • ARTH 241: Contemporary Art for Artists (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 245: Modern Architecture
  • ARTH 247: Architecture Since 1950 (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 262: Architectural Studies in Europe Program: Community-Engaged Design (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 265: Architectural Studies in Europe Program: Urban Planning in Europe (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 266: Arts of the Japanese Tea Ceremony
  • ARTH 270: Contemporary Art and Fiction (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 272: Contemporary Art and Non-Fiction (not offered 2025-26)

Non-Western Art History

  • ARTH 120: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt and West Asia
  • ARTH 140: African Art and Culture (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 155: Islamic Art and Architecture (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 165: Japanese Art and Culture (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 166: Chinese Art and Culture
  • ARTH 209: Chinese Painting (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 216: Revolutionary Image Regimes: Curating Middle Eastern Photographs and Prints after the Digital Turn (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 220: The Origins of Manga: Japanese Prints (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 257: Modern Art and the Museum in the Middle East (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 266: Arts of the Japanese Tea Ceremony
  • ARTH 267: Gardens in China and Japan (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 321: Arts of the Chinese Scholar’s Studio (not offered 2025-26)

Other Electives

  • AMST 204: Museums, Native Americans, and Decolonization (not offered 2025-26)
  • ARTH 288: Curatorial Practicum (not offered 2025-26)
  • CLAS 123: Greek Archaeology and Art (not offered 2025-26)
  • CLAS 124: Roman Archaeology and Art (not offered 2025-26)
  • HIST 236: The Worlds of Hildegard of Bingen (not offered 2025-26)
  • SPAN 349: Madrid Program: Four Masters of Spanish Art (not offered 2025-26)

Additional Departmental Notes

Art History minors are encouraged to take advantage of off-campus study programs and to explore visual cultural analysis in other departments such as Studio Art, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) or Classics. However, no more than one art history course taken outside of the department can be counted toward the minor.

Finally, Senior Art History minors will work closely with Junior Art History majors assisting in the arrangements for the Art History Comps Symposium in Spring Term. This includes preparing response questions to the senior comps presentations.