art history requirements

Four required art history courses and an art history elective provide students with an in-depth, critical understanding of important ideas, institutions, and discourses surrounding global art and culture.

Global Art History

A course focused on varied aspects of art history from prehistory to the Middle Ages
(Taken during the First Year Program)

Modernism and Modernity

A course focused on varied aspects of art history from the Renaissance to the mid-20th century
(Taken during the First Year Program)

Art Since 1945

A course focused on contemporary art in North America and Europe from 1945 to the present

History of the Major

A course focused on the history of the medium

Art History Elective

Any undergraduate art history course

Sample art history electives include:

-Histories of Art and Empire: 1660–1830
-“Duchampitis”
-Art2K: Historicizing Contemporary Practices
-Reconsidering the Commons
-Dialogues in Contemporary Art
-Veiling and Revealing: Screens, Canvases, and Voyeurism in Western Art
-Arts of India