Art history classes in the Art & Design Unit are designed to provide a conceptual and philosophical context to artmaking by investigating the stylistic characteristics of specific artists, time periods or cultures and understanding the dynamic relationship between art and society.

Our art history curriculum emphasizes an understanding of the arts through a global perspective and explores many world cultures and artistic traditions. With an art history minor, you will

• Critically engage with the visual arts using a variety of tools including careful visual analysis, scholarly research, and theoretical lenses
•  Understand the complexity and diversity of global artistic traditions and their historical contexts and gain insight into your own preconceptions of the world
• acquire the tools and vocabulary needed for interpreting visual culture and for decoding and analyzing the visual world around you

Minor 

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Supporting Courses:		15
Required:
ART 102	History of the Visual Arts: Ancient to Medieval
ART 103	History of the Visual Arts II: Renaissance to Modern
ART 202	Modern Art
Electives (choose 2 courses):
ART 203	Contemporary Art
ART 281	Art of the First Nations
ART 282	Black Art in America
ART 284	Queer Art & Cultures
Upper-Level Courses		6
Electives (choose 2 courses):
ART 376	Modern American Culture
ART 379	Women, Art and Image
ART 380	History of Photography
ART 382	Precolumbian Art of Mesoamerica
ART 383	African Art
ART 384	Asian Art
Total Credits		21

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