艺术史学士学位

该系提供有关古代美洲，古代埃及，希腊和罗马，中世纪，文艺复兴时期，17世纪和18世纪的欧洲，现代和当代的欧美，非洲以及非洲的艺术和建筑课程与其他部门交叉列出的课程可能涵盖这些领域。学院致力于与课堂内外的本科生紧密合作。我们的课程经常利用迈克尔·卡洛斯博物馆和手抄本和稀有书籍图书馆的各种藏品，许多学生通过在卡洛斯和高级艺术博物馆的实习获得了博物馆的经验。在完成他们的本科课程后，艺术史专业的学生应该能够：在考虑形式，功能和含义的情况下，描述和分析艺术品和建筑作品。认识并解释各种艺术传统和文化古迹，并按时间顺序
The Art History Department studies the forms, functions, meanings, and theoretical underpinnings of the visual arts, broadly construed to encompass such activities as performance, construction, and installation as well as painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture. Our department considers works of art in historically and culturally specific ways, situating them within systems of belief, habits of visual literacy, practices of self-formation, social and political ideologies, patterns of sacred and secular discourse, assumptions about intentionality and authority, and currencies of global and transnational exchange. We comprise four collaborative faculty clusters: Ancient Mediterranean and American, Medieval/Renaissance/Baroque, Modern/Contemporary European, American, and African, and Architectural Studies. As a department we strive to introduce students to a rich variety of approaches to art and its study, to model for them analytical and critical thinking, and to encourage lucid writing and thoughtful response. At the graduate level, it is our mission to train students in the methods and practices of the field and to prepare them for advanced, artwork-based, interdisciplinary research with a respect for primary evidence and cultural contexts, past and present, so that they can successfully pursue careers in academic or museum work with benefit for the broader community.