The major in art history is designed to impart an understanding of the historical development and context of art. Majors are required to take 33 credits in art history, which must include two 1000-level survey courses and a minimum of nine advanced classes or 27 credits distributed among three broad areas. At least two courses should be in two of the following fields and at least one course in the other:
- Ancient, Ancient American, Asian (before 1300), Medieval;
- Renaissance, Baroque, Colonial Latin American, and Asian (early modern period);
- American, African Diaspora, and Modern/Contemporary art.
At least three other courses must be seminars at the 6000-level. Internships in local museums, galleries and auction houses are available for academic credit. A one-credit writing practicum that satisfies the college intensive writing requirement is available with art history courses at the 6000-level.
Art History Major Coursework Requirements
Course List | Course ID | Title | Credits |
| Art Survey I: Prehistory through the Middle Ages | |
| Art Survey II: Renaissance to the Present | |
| Introduction to Asian Art | |
| Introduction to Ancient American Art: Self and Sacrifice | |
| Introduction to African Art | |
| |
| |
| Total Credit Hours | 33 |
*Distribution Requirements for the Art History Major
Five of the nine advanced level courses should come from the following fields (two each from two fields and one from the third field):
Ancient, Ancient American, African, Asian (before 1300), and Medieval
Course List | Course ID | Title | Credits |
| ARHS 3111 | Tombs and Temples: East Asian Art before 1300 | 3 |
| ARHS 3112 | Monks and Merchants: East Asian Art from Medieval to Contemporary | 3 |
| ARHS 3200 | Early Christian and Byzantine Art | 3 |
| ARHS 3210 | Art and Experience in the Middle Ages | 3 |
| ARHS 3220 | Romanesque and Gothic Art | 3 |
| ARHS 3700 | Art and Architecture of Ancient America | 3 |
| ARHS 3720 | Aztec Art in Mexico Tenochtitlan | 3 |
| ARHS 3730 | Collecting Maya Art: Praxis and Politics | 3 |
| ARHS 6210 | Medieval Pilgrimages: Saints, Bones, and Art | 3 |
| ARHS 6220 | Women and Gender in Medieval Art | 3,4 |
| ARHS 6230 | Art and Architecture of Medieval Italy | 3 |
| ARHS 6750 | Material Meaning in the Ancient Americas | 3 |
| ARHS 6871 | Art of Death: Funerary Art and Ritual in Ancient China | 3,4 |
| CLAS 3120 | Etruscans & Early Rome | 3 |
| CLAS 3160 | The Aegean Bronze Age | 3 |
| CLAS 3170 | Greek Art & Archaeology | 3 |
| CLAS 3180 | Roman Art & Archaeology | 3 |
| CLAS 4170 | Seminar: Greek Art & Archaeology I | 3 or 4 |
| CLAS 4180 | Seminar: Greek Art & Archaeology II | 3 or 4 |
| CLAS 4190 | Seminar: Greek Art & Archaeology III | 3 or 4 |
| CLAS 4200 | Seminar: Roman Art & Archaeology I | 4 |
| CLAS 4210 | Seminar: Roman Art & Archaeology II | 3 or 4 |
| CLAS 4220 | Sem Roman Art & Archaeo III | 3,4 |
| CLAS 6170 | Sem Greek Art & Archaeo I | 3 |
| CLAS 6180 | Sem Greek Art & Archaeo II | 3 |
| CLAS 6190 | Sem Greek Art & Archaeo III | 3 |
| CLAS 6200 | Sem Roman Art & Archaeo I | 3 |
| CLAS 6210 | Sem Roman Art & Archaeo II | 3 |
| CLAS 6220 | Sem Roman Art & Archaeo III | 3 |
Renaissance, Baroque, colonial Latin America, and Asian (early modern period)
American, African Diaspora, and modern/contemporary art
Course List | Course ID | Title | Credits |
| ARHS 3510 | Rococo To Romanticism | 3 |
| ARHS 3540 | Impressionism and Post-Impressionism | 3 |
| ARHS 3600 | American Art, 1700-1950 | 3 |
| ARHS 3620 | Contemporary Art Since 1950 | 3 |
| ARHS 3650 | Early Twentieth Century European Modernism | 3 |
| ARHS 3680 | History of Photography | 3 |
| ARHS 3750 | Global Contemporary Art | 3 |
| ARHS 3760 | Modern Arts Latin America | 3 |
| ARHS 3770 | Art in Latin America since 1950 | 3 |
| ARHS 3780 | Contemporary Art Latin America | 3 |
| ARHS 3790 | Art and Architecture of Brazil | 3 |
| ARHS 3871 | Introduction to African American Art and Visual Culture, c. 1700-1940 | 3 |
| ARHS 3872 | Art of the African Diaspora, c. 1925 to Present | 3 |
| ARHS 6050 | Scandals of Modern Art | 3,4 |
| ARHS 6060 | Capstone: Gender, Race & Body | 3 |
| ARHS 6090 | Intersect Art & Science | 3 |
| ARHS 6525 | Social Practice Art | 3,4 |
| ARHS 6530 | Degas | 3 |
| ARHS 6540 | Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century | 3,4 |
| ARHS 6550 | Van Gogh | 3 |
| ARHS 6620 | Reading Abstract Expressionism | 3,4 |
| ARHS 6640 | Rauschenberg, Johns & Early Warhol | 3-4 |
| ARHS 6650 | Postmodern Formations: Art Since 1980 | 3 |
| ARHS 6660 | Art Acquisitions, Collect Mgmt | 3 |
| ARHS 6874 | Race and the Art of Empire | 3,4 |
| ARHS 6875 | Race and National Mythologies in American Art and Visual Culture | 3,4 |
| ARHS 6876 | Interracial Themes in Western Art and Visual Culture | 3,4 |
| ARHS 6877 | Contested Vision Civil War I | 3-4 |
| ARHS 6878 | Contested Vision Civil War II | 4 |
