The Art History concentration seeks to develop students' critical and analytical skills and ability to comprehend global visual arts within social, historical, cultural, and aesthetic frameworks. Students develop an understanding about the visual and material culture of societies from around the world. Our Art History program champions a global history of art, offering courses that range from the Italian Renaissance to contemporary African art, women in art, and native North American art. Students in art history go on to careers in academia, museums, historical societies, and auction houses, and can apply their skills in visual literacy and analytical research to a wide range of careers.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Art History students will demonstrate:

• Knowledge of the tools and techniques of art historical research and scholarship.

1. Communication skills, original thinking, art historical interpretation, and research skills in written form, resulting in a work of original scholarship.
2. Communication skills, original thinking, art historical interpretation, and research skills in oral form.
3. General knowledge of the monuments and principal artists of global art, including a broad understanding of historical monuments as well as the art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

• Adequate mastery of a foreign language to support research through the reading of primary source materials.
• Functional knowledge of the creative process.