Our Mission:
The Art History minor offers students an opportunity to focus on an expanded range of historical and cultural ideas about art and art making. The minor provides a guided and structured approach to diverse critical methods for exploring the cultural creation, meaning, dissemination, and impact of visual images, objects, and practices.
Participating Departments:
Animation
Animation: Motion Design
Fashion
Fine Arts: Painting
Fine Arts: Photography
Fine Arts: Sculpture/New Genres
Game & Entertainment Design
Graphic Design
Illustration
Product Design
Toy Design
Program Learning Outcomes:
Students enrolled in the Art History minor will:
- Develop and articulate connections across applied studio and Liberal Studies disciplinary perspectives.
- Analyze and contextualize the art historical canon(s) as tools for critical and creative problem solving, both as students and future working artist designers.
- Identify and analyze the broad history of both Western and non-Western art production in ways that connect those histories to real-world applications in current and future creative job markets.
- Demonstrate critical and imaginative approaches to the study of art history, past and contemporary, that challenge and reverse normalized, center-periphery binaries privileging western over indigenous, abled/neuro-typical over disabled/neurodivergent, cis over diverse genders.
- Develop visual and information literacy skills in order to locate, critically evaluate, and use resources from both traditional and emerging technologies effectively and ethically
- Demonstrate an awareness of how art’s diverse histories connect artists to social justice, engagement with community, and a robust respect for equity, difference, and inclusion.
Course Title
Course Number
Credits
Electives
* It is recommended that at least one AHCS310 course has a non-western focus. Students who have a discipline specific art/design history requirement for their major may have that count towards one AHCS310 elective. Certain LIBS314 topics will satisfy this requirement with approval from the Minor Area Head and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies.
** LIBS440 Capstone paper should address an Art History topic. LIBS440 Capstone/Senior
Thesis for Fine Arts majors will fulfill this requirement. Students who have a dedicated
capstone for their major will complete one capstone course that combines both their
major
and minor