Major
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The art history major consists of at least 12 semester courses, including:
Arth 401 Seminar
Arts of the Western Tradition, Arth 111/Arth 211, taught in the fall, and Arts of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Arth 112, taught in the spring. It is highly recommended that these courses be taken in sequence (Arth 111 or Arth 211, followed by Arth 112).
Any student who has already taken our former survey course, Great Works I and Great Works II, may substitute these courses for Arth 111 and Arth 112; if you have taken only one of the Great Works courses, you may substitute this course for Arth 111 but not for Arth 112.
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 Ancient Rome
Arth 288 Buddhist Art and Architecture
Medieval Art
One of the following:
Arth 105 Art in East Asia I
Arth 231 Italian Medieval Art and Culture
Arth 288 Buddhist Art and Architecture
Arth 352 Early Medieval Art and Culture
Arth 353 Castles and Cathedrals
Early Modern Art (1400-1700)
One of the following:
Arth 106 Art in East Asia II
Arth 208 or Arth 308 Print Cultures in Early Modern and Modern Japan
Arth 224 Chinese Art and Culture
Arth 225 Status, Gender and Identity in Japanese Visual Culture
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
Modern Art (1700-1900)
One of the followling:
Arth 106 Art in East Asia II
Arth 208 or Arth 308 Print Cultures in Early Modern and Modern Japan
Arth 224 Chinese Art and Culture
Arth 225 Status, Gender and Identity in Japanese Visual Culture
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 333 Architecture and Identity in Modern Japan
Arth 360 American Art and Architecture: 1865-1945
Non-Western Art
One of the following:
Arth 105 Art in East Asia I
Arth 106 Art in East Asia II
Arth 212 African Visual Cultures
Arth 208 or Arth 308 Print Cultures in Early Modern and 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 288 Buddhist Art and Architecture
Arth 312 Contemporary African Arts
Arth 333 Architecture and Identity in Modern Japan
Museum Studies
One of the following:
Arth 230 Introduction to Museum Studies
Arth 334 Exhibiting Africa: Past & Present
Arth 398 Exhibition Design
Note: Students who declare an Art History major after the academic year 2008-2009 will be required to take one course in Museum Studies, as well as one course in Non-Western Art, in addition to Arth 112, Arts of Africa, Asia and the Americas. Students who declare an Art History major in the academic year 2008-2009 may choose to take either one course in Museum Studies and one course in Non-Western Art in addition to Arth 112, Arts of Africa, Asia and the Americas OR two courses in Non-Western Art, in addition to Arth 112, Arts of Africa, Asia and the Americas.
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.