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Art History

Seaver College's Art History Department offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History. 

Bachelor of Arts in Art History

Lower Division Courses

The student must take the following as prerequisites for Art History courses:

HUM 111 Western Heritage I* (for ARTH 422, ARTH 424, and ARTH 426)
HUM 212 Western Heritage II* (for ARTH 428 and ARTH 430)
HUM 313 Western Heritage III* (for ARTH 434, ARTH 436, and ARTH 440)
*Satisfies general education requirement; should be completed first two years.

It is recommended that Art History majors and minors take ARTH 438 Non-Western Art as their non-Western general education requirement (satisfies either the Art History or the Non-Western GE requirement, but not both).

Art History majors should select German, French, or Italian for their language requirement. In graduate Art History programs, Spanish is accepted as a research language only if the student is concentrating on Pre-Columbian or Latin American Art. Students who test out of the Seaver College language requirement are strongly encouraged to take a 252 course, as well as one upper division language course, in their language of choice.

Upper Division (32 units)

The student must take eight of the following Art History courses, two of which must be ARTH 390 Methodological Approaches to Art History and ARTH 590 Senior Thesis in Art History:

ARTH 390 Methodological Approaches to Art History (4 units) (no prerequisites; required of all Art History majors: to be taken ideally in the junior year.)
ARTH 422 Ancient Art (Prehistoric, Ancient Near East, Egypt) (4 units) (prerequisite HUM 111)
ARTH 424 Classical Art (Greece and Rome) (4 units) (prerequisite HUM 111)
ARTH 426 Early Christian and Medieval Art (4 units) (prerequisite HUM 111)
ARTH 428 Renaissance Art (4 units) (prerequisite HUM 212)
ARTH 430 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Art (4 units) prerequisite HUM 212)
ARTH 432 American Art (4 units) (prerequisite HUM 313)
ARTH 434 Nineteenth Century Art (4 units) (prerequisite HUM 313)
ARTH 436 Modern Art 1900 to the Present (4 units) (prerequisite HUM 313)
ARTH 438 Non-Western Art (4 units) (no prerequisite; satisfies either the non-Western general education requirement or the Art History requirement, but not both)
ARTH 440 Multicultural Arts in America (4 units) (prerequisite HUM 313)
ARTH 590 Senior Thesis in Art History (4 units) (required of all Art History majors; prerequisite: consent of the Art History faculty)
   

Electives (8 units)

The student will take at least one course from two of the following areas outside of Art History:

History, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, and Social Science (8 units). It is recommended that students take courses appropriate to their area of Art History emphasis: Ancient, Classical, Early Christian/Medieval, Renaissance, 17th & 18th Century, 19th Century, Modern, or Multicultural.

History

HIST 510 The Ancient World
HIST 511 The Middle Ages
HIST 512 Renaissance and Reformation
HIST 513 The Enlightenment Era
HIST 514 The French Revolution and Napoleon
HIST 515 Europe in the Nineteenth Century
HIST 516 Europe in the Twentieth Century
HIST 520 Colonial and Revolutionary America
HIST 521 Early United States: Early National Period
HIST 522 Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 523 United States: 1877-1920
HIST 524 United States: 1920-1952
HIST 525 United States Since 1952
HIST 530 Social and Intellectual History of the United States

Literature

ENG 310 British Literature before 1485
ENG 320 British Literature from 1485 to 1780
ENG 330 British Literature from 1780 until the present
ENG 340 American Literature before the Civil War
ENG 350 American Literature after the Civil War
ENG 410 Genre Study (topics change, select a topic related to your area of study)
ENG 420 Major Writers (topics change, select a topic related to your area of study)
ENG 430 Anglophonic Literature/Literatures in Translation (topics change, select a topic related to your area)
ENG 440 Topics in Literature (topics change, select a topic related to your area of study)

Philosophy

PHIL 300 Ancient Philosophy
PHIL 310 Modern Philosophy
PHIL 518 Existentialism

Religion

REL 501 The World of the Old Testament
REL 510 The World of the New Testament
REL 520 The Christian Faith
REL 521 Modern Christian Thought
REL 522 Contemporary Christian Thought
REL 536 History of Christianity-Ancient and Medieval
REL 537 History of Christianity-Reformation and Modern
REL 538 History of Religion in America
REL 526 Religions of the World
ISAR 510 Archaeology, Religion, and Culture of the Middle East: Judaism, Christianity, and Paganism in the Eastern Roman Empire (300 BC-400AD)
ISAR 520 Archaeology, Religion and Culture of the Middle East: Medieval and Modern (400-1967 AD)

Social Science

POSC 511 History of Economic, Political, and Social Thought
POSC 516 19th and 20th Century Political Thought
POSC 518 Contemporary American Ideologies

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