Art History, Minor College of Letters & Science
Art History studies the changing visual expression of values, beliefs and experiences across diverse cultures and over time. It provides training in historical, social and aesthetic understanding, critical thinking, scholarly research, and lucid, thoughtful analysis and writing. More than any other discipline art history sharpens its students’ visual acuity and deepens their visual literacy. In so doing, it prepares them to face the increasingly complex visual world we find ourselves in today.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Five Upper Division Courses | ||
| Choose one course from four of the following areas: | 16 | |
| (1) The Ancient World | ||
| Arts of Oceania & Prehistoric Europe | ||
| Early Greek Art & Architecture | ||
| Later Greek Art & Architecture | ||
| Roman Art & Architecture | ||
| Architecture & Urbanism in Mediterranean Antiquity | ||
| (2) Asia | ||
| The Hindu Temple | ||
| Buddhist Art | ||
| Early Chinese Art | ||
| Chinese Painting | ||
| Early Modern Chinese Painting | ||
| The Arts of Japan | ||
| (3) The Middle Ages to 1700 | ||
| The Islamic City | ||
| Arts of the Islamic Book | ||
| Early Italian Renaissance Art & Architecture | ||
| High & Late Italian Renaissance Art & Architecture | ||
| Baroque Art | ||
| (4) Western Art 1700 to 1900 | ||
| Landscape, Nature, & Art | ||
| Great Cities | ||
| British Art & Culture (1750-1900) | ||
| Art in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 | ||
| Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: Manet to 1900 | ||
| American Art to 1910 | ||
| (5) World Art 20th Century to the Present | ||
| Sex & Space | ||
| Art from China 1900 to the Present | ||
| Modernism in France, 1880-1940 | ||
| Avant-Gardism & its Aftermath, 1917-1960 | ||
| Contemporary Art 1960-Present | ||
| Photography in History | ||
| (6) Art & Issues Across Chronologies | ||
| Cultural History of Museums | ||
| Art, Architecture, & Human Rights | ||
| Politics of Public Art | ||
| The Museum in the Age of Spectacle | ||
| Latin American Art & Architecture | ||
| The American Home | ||
| Elective | ||
| Choose any additional upper division Art History (AHI) course or seminar. | 4 | |
| Total Units | 20 | |