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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 or the fine arts GE requirement - satisfies only one of the three).

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 Near Eastern and Egyptian Art (4 units) (prerequisite HUM 111)
ARTH 424 Greek and Roman Art (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)
ARTH 592 Selected Topics

Electives (8 units)

Electives should be chosen in consultation with your art history faculty advisor.

Art History Course Two-Year Rotation Cycle

FALL 2008/2010 SPRING 2009/2011
ARTH 426 Early Christian/Medieval ARTH 428 Renaissance
ARTH 434 Nineteenth Century ARTH 436 Modern
ARTH 438 Non-Western ARTH 438 Non-Western
ARTH 390 Methodological Approaches ARTH 590 Senior Thesis
   
FALL 2009/2011 SPRING 2010/2012
ARTH 422 Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Art ARTH 424 Greek and Roman
ARTH 430 17th and 18th Century ARTH 434 American
ARTH 438 Non-Western ARTH 590 Senior Thesis
   
EVERY SUMMER  
ARTH 438 Non-Western & Selected Topics  
   

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