艺术史学士学位

艺术史研究从古代到现在的世界艺术和建筑。作为艺术史学家，我们从多个角度考虑对象和建筑物，包括但不限于它们的视觉和物理特征，美学和历史背景，技术的使用及其与科学的关系以及其思想或社会功能。我们还研究个人艺术家或制作者，文化机构，受众和跨文化交流。由于该领域本质上是跨学科的，因此通常与人类学，哲学，政治学，历史，文学，电影，表演，戏剧以及种族，性别，阶级和性理论等其他部门的工作进行对话。
Art history studies the arts and architecture of the world from antiquity to the present. As art historians, we consider objects and buildings from multiple perspectives including but not limited to their visual and physical characteristics, their aesthetic and historical contexts, their use of technology and their relationship to science, and their ideological or social function. We also study individual artists or makers, cultural institutions, audiences, and intercultural exchanges. Because the field is inherently interdisciplinary, it is often in dialogue with work done in other departments such as anthropology, philosophy, political science, history, literature, film, performance, theater, and theories of race, gender, class, and sexuality.<br><br>A major in art history is designed to provide knowledge of a geographically and historically diverse corpus of art and architecture, as well as the related cultural practices of the societies that produced and encountered them. As a key component of a liberal arts education, the study of art history emphasizes informed and critical looking, reading, writing and speaking. With its broad historical, cultural, geographic, and methodological range, it meets the needs of burgeoning specialists while it also offers an excellent formation for those who intend to specialize in other areas including business, education, international relations, law, medicine or politics. Those interested in the classic art history careers will generally find that museum (curatorial) work often requires at least a master's degree, while college and university teaching and research require a Ph.D. The major is an essential platform to those degrees.