Advanced coursework for art history majors allows you to choose from a broad selection of classes, including seminars, group studies, internships, and education abroad courses. Topics include courses in Medieval art, the Italian Renaissance, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American Art, as well as courses in the Arts of Africa, Native American Art, the Arts of the Americas, Pacific Art, and the comparative study of “Global Encounters.” Additionally, majors choose a second field of study and a foreign language to complete at an introductory level.

Our capstone seminar challenges students to integrate the social, historical, and aesthetic significance of visual art in a comprehensive research paper, while learning art historical approaches and methods that can be applied to a wide array of career choices and graduate studies.

Graduates leave our program equipped with global visual literacy and transferable skills for the 21st century. These skills include the ability to implement art historical methodologies when engaging with visual culture, broad historical and cultural knowledge, aesthetic and design consciousness, critical and analytical thinking as well as applied problem solving, intensive research methods, effective oral and written communication, teamwork and leadership, and digital literacy.