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Undergraduate Bachelor of Arts Programs The Department of Art History offers undergraduate majors a program of study which furnishes a strong foundation in the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of the arts. While drawing on the liberal arts and humanities, the department also emphasizes a close bond with the studio and performing arts. It is precisely this unique combination of disciplines, which produces well-rounded and knowledgeable art historians. The historical subject areas in the department are many, including painting, sculpture, architecture, crafts, decorative arts, museum studies, photography, and film. In addition, the department offers opportunities to study artistic production worldwide, hoping, with such a multicultural approach, to provide students with a strong understanding of the history of the human aesthetic endeavor. Professional art historians are employed in a variety of areas. Traditionally, they can become college and university professors, museum curators, museum administrators, critics and specialists for antiquarian auction houses. Less traditionally, opportunities for art historians include such positions cultural specialists in the United States Foreign Service as art appraisers, as specialists in the restoration and conservation of historical buildings and works of art, and as art consultants. Two concentrations are offered within the Bachelor of Art degree program. The Art Historical concentration (curriculum A) offers a liberal Arts curriculum that introduces the student to the scholarship and research methods of art history as well as related disciplines in the humanities. This program offers the best background for future graduate work in art history, one which will enable the student to attain professional status as an educator, scholar, or critic. The Architectural History concentration (curriculum B) emphasizes the study of both Western and non-Western architecture, with strong liberal Arts and Studio components. This program offers the students an excellent background for graduate work in architectural and/or art history, as well as career opportunities as practitioners in the field. Given the region's rich and diverse architectural resources, this program provides an unusual opportunity for on-site studies. By providing the student with additional training in such related areas as Art History, Fine Arts Studio, and Urban Studies and Planning, this program offers a well-rounded knowledge of architectural history.
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