Major
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The art history major consists of at least 12 semester courses including:
Arth 401 Seminar
Great Work I Arth 101 and Great Works II Arth 102 or their equivalents Arth 201 and Arth 202.
Beginning in the Fall of 2008, the former introductory course known as Great Works 1 Arth 101 Arth 102, taught in the fall, and Great Works II Arth 101 Arth 102, taught in the spring, will be replaced by a new year-long introductory survey known as "Arts of the Western Tradition" Arth 111, taught in the fall, and "Arts of Africa, Asia and the Americas" Arth 198, taught in the spring. The current experimental course number ("198") attached to these new courses will be changed to a permanent 100-level course number during the 2008-2009 academic year, subject to approval by the Committee on Educational Policy.
For all Art History and Studio art majors/minors who have NOT yet taken Great Works I and Great Works II, these new Arth 111 and 198 courses replace the Arth 101 Arth 102 requirement. For students who declare beginning next year, these new Arth 111 and 198 courses now constitute our required year-long survey for the major/minor.
Two semester courses in Studio Art:
One must be either Two-Dimensional Design Arts 111, Three-Dimensional Design Arts 112 or Drawing I Arts 116.
The other may be any 100- or 200-level Studio Art course. Any 100-level Studio Art course must be taken before the senior year.
Seven additional courses.
Majors must take at least one semester course from each of the following five groups, and two semester courses from the non-Western category:
Ancient Art
One of the following:
Arth 105 Art in East Asia I
Arth 255 Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture
Arth 273 Greek Art and Architecture
Arth 274 Visualizing Power in Ancient Rome
Arth 288 Buddhist Art and Architecture
Medieval Art
One of the following:
Arth 106 Art in East Asia II
Arth 231 Italian Medieval Art and Culture
Arth 288 Buddhist Art and Architecture
Arth 352 Early Medieval Art and Culture
Arth 353 Castles, Cathedrals and Monasteries
Early Modern Art (1400-1700)
One of the following:
Arth 106 Art in East Asia II
Arth 218 Print Cultures in Early Modern Japan
Arth 232 Art and Architecture of the 14th and 15th Centuries in Italy
Arth 241 Northern Renaissance Painting 1400-1550
Arth 270 The Art of the Print
Arth 332 Art and Architecture of the 16th Century in Italy
Modern Art (1700-1900)
One of the followling:
Arth 218 Print Cultures in Early Modern Japan
Arth 260 American Art and Architecture: Colonial to 1865
Arth 270 The Art of the Print
Arth 275 Arts in an Age of Revolution: Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism
Arth 276 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
Arth 333 Architecture and Identity in Modern Japan
Contemporary Art (1900-present)
One of the following:
Arth 263 African American Art
Arth 312 Contemporary African Arts
Arth 314 Modern Architecture
Arth 317 Cubism, Expressionism and Surrealism
Arth 318 Art since 1945
Arth 333 Architecture and Identity in Modern Japan
Arth 360 American Art and Architecture: 1865 - 1945
Non-Western Art
Two of the following:
Arth 105 Art in East Asia I
Arth 106 Art in East Asia II
Arth 212 African Visual Cultures
Arth 218 Print Cultures in Early Modern Japan
Arth 221 Arts of India
Arth 223 Islamic Art
Arth 224 Chinese Art and Culture
Arth 225 Status, Gender, and Identity in Japanese Visual Culture
Arth 255 Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture
Arth 256 Native North American Arts and Culture
Arth 312 Contemporary African Arts
Arth 333 Architecture and Identity in Modern Japan
For the major the college requires at least three courses at the 300 level or above.
Students may elect up to 16 credits in art. It is urged that students take a course in European history prior to 1800. Students who plan to do graduate work in art history are strongly advised to develop a reading knowledge of German and French. Italian may sometimes be substituted.