Program Information
Art History Program Information
The Bachelor of Arts in Art History provides students with opportunities to explore the history of art as undergraduate scholars interested in careers in the Arts. Course offerings prepare students for careers in the arts, museum studies, education, writing, gender and environmental studies as well as public relations and business. The program allows students to combine it with other majors and minors to pursue combined degrees that lead to graduate schools in heritage preservation, information technology and cultural law.
Program Learning Outcomes
Students will:
- Demonstrate the Ability to Find, Validate and understand the source of Data.
- Understand Global challenges and process that formed major artistic movements.
- Demonstrate the Basic Written and Oral Communication (GLOBE).
- Demonstrate Knowledge and ability to select Methodological Approaches.
- Demonstrate Visual Analysis Terminology.
- Demonstrate Knowledge of Historiography.
- Demonstrate Argument Development.
- Recognize and analyze nuance and complexity of meaning through critical reflections on text, visual images, or artifacts.
- Understand systems of value and meaning as embodied in one or more different cultures outside of the Western tradition.
- Assess interconnections among/across local and global systems and cultures.
- Understand that role of creative expression, art, and invention as foundational to culture and inclusive societal betterment.
- Understand the relationship between individual creative work or innovation and wider contexts.
- Describe the historical and contemporary factors that shape the development of individual and group identity involving race, class, and gender.
- Analyze the role that complex networks of social structures and systems play in the creation of and perpetuation of power, privilege, oppression, and opportunity.
- Apply the principles of rights, access, equity, and autonomous participation to past, present, or future social justice action.