Apr 06, 2025

2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

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2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Art, Art History Option, B.A.

Requirements

Lower Division:

Take all the following:

AH 111A - Foundation Art History: Prehistory-c. 1500, Middle East, North Africa, Europe (3 units)
*”C” or better
AH 111B - Foundation Art History: c.1300-present, Europe and the United States (3 units)
*”C” or better
ART 130 - Foundation Two-Dimensional (3 units)
*”C” or better
ART 131 - Foundation Three Dimensional (3 units)
*”C” or better

Take one of the following:

HIST 131 - Early Western Civilization (3 units)
HIST 132 - Modern Western Civilization (3 units)

Take 3 courses from the following:

AH 112 - Foundation Art History: Latin American Arts and Architecture (3 units)
AH 113A - Foundation Art History: Asia, Early Sacred Cultures (3 units)
or
AH 113B - Foundation Art History: Asia, Later Traditions (3 units)
AH 114 - Foundation Art History: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Indigenous North America (3 units)
or
AH 116 - Foundation Art History: Arts of Islamic Regions (3 units)

Take one course from the following:

ART 181 - Foundation Drawing (3 units)
ART 184 - Foundation Life Drawing (3 units)
ART 263 - Introduction to Sculpture/4D (3 units)
ART 287 - Introduction to Painting (3 units)

Upper Division Art History:

Take the following:

AH 447 - Historiography of Art History (3 units)

Take one of the following:

AH 446 - Art History Methodologies and Writing (3 units)
AH 453 - Arts of the African Diaspora (3 units)

Take one course from the following:

Take AH 497 plus seven courses from this list.

AH 497 - Seminar in Art History (3 units)

Take at least one course from each group:

One of the 8 courses from these groups should be: AH 497

Group 1

AH 416 - Greek Art (3 units)
AH 417 - Roman Art (3 units)
AH 465 - Ancient Art of the Near East (3 units)
AH 408 - Early Christian and Byzantine Art (3 units)
AH 409 - Romanesque Art (3 units)
AH 497 - Seminar in Art History (3 units)

Group 2

AH 410 - Gothic Art (3 units)
AH 423 - Early Renaissance Art in Italy (3 units)
AH 424 - High Renaissance Art in Italy (3 units)
AH 425 - Northern Renaissance Art (3 units)
AH 426 - Northern Baroque Art (3 units)
AH 427 - Southern Baroque Art (3 units)
AH 497 - Seminar in Art History (3 units)

Group 3

AH 400 - 19th Century Photography (3 units)
AH 401 - American Art to 1900 (3 units)
AH 402
AH 431 - History of Museums and Exhibitions (3 units)
AH 436 - Neo-Classicism to Romanticism, 1789-1850 (3 units)
AH 437 - Impressionism to Post-Impressionism, 1850-1900 (3 units)
AH 453 - Arts of the African Diaspora (3 units)
AH 454 - Contemporary Indigenous Arts in the United States and American Territories (3 units)
AH 455 - Traditional Art of Africa: A Thematic Approach (3 units)
AH 456 - Native American Art (3 units)
AH 497 - Seminar in Art History (3 units)

Group 4

AH 411 - 20th Century Photography to the Present (3 units)
AH 430 - Introduction to Curatorial Practices (3 units)
AH 432 - Museum and Gallery Practices (3 units)
AH 433 - Exhibition and Display Practices (3 units)
AH 438 - Art of Early to Mid Twentieth Century (3 units)
AH 439 - Art of Mid to Late Twentieth Century (3 units)
AH 441 - Contemporary Art in Context (3 units)
AH 497 - Seminar in Art History (3 units)

Group 5

AH 466 - Buddhist Art of India and S.E. Asia (3 units)
AH 467 - Hindu and Islamic Art of India (3 units)
AH 468 - Early Chinese Art (3 units)
AH 469 - Later Chinese Art (3 units)
AH 470A - Japanese Buddhist Art to 1500 (3 units)
AH 470B - Japanese Art 1500-1868 (3 units)
AH 471A - Modern Japanese Graphic Art (3 units)
AH 471B - Modern Japanese Plastic Art (3 units)
AH 471C - Modern Japanese Architecture (3 units)
AH 497 - Seminar in Art History (3 units)

Group 6

AH 457A - Pre-Columbian Art: Mesoamerica (3 units)
AH 457B - Pre-Columbian Art: The Andes (3 units)
AH 457C - Pre-Columbian Art (3 units)
AH 458 - Art of Latin America: 1800-1940 (3 units)
AH 459 - Art of Latin America: 1940-Present (3 units)
AH 460 - Art of Mexico: 1780 to Present (3 units)
AH 497 - Seminar in Art History (3 units)

Foreign Language Requirement:

Complete three semesters of French or German (or other pre-approved foreign language) with a GPA of 2.75 or better.