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Art History

Like the other humanities, the history of art as an undergraduate major offers an enrichment of and a preparation for life, rather than training for a specific occupation. The student who goes on to graduate work in the field can look forward to becoming a teacher of the subject, to membership on the staff of a museum, or to employment in a commercial art gallery.

Working in consultation with the undergraduate adviser for art history in the School of Art and Design, each student will design a program of study that satisfies the requirements listed below. Students who wish to take a considerable number of studio courses as part of their major should enroll in the history of art option offered by the School of Art and Design within the College of Fine and Applied Arts.

Major in Sciences and Letters Curriculum

E-mail address: cdolske@uiuc.edu

Web address for most current program requirements:
http://www.las.uiuc.edu/students/programs/ARTH/f_ARTH.shtml

Degree title: Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences

Minimum required major and supporting course work equates to 47 hours including 32 hours of Art History courses

General education: The LAS General Education requirements are set up so students automatically complete the Campus General Education requirements.

Minimum hours required for graduation: 120 hours

Departmental distinction: To be eligible for distinction, a student must earn a high grade point average and complete at least 4 semester hours of independent research to write a senior research paper. See the undergraduate adviser for details.

HOURS     REQUIREMENTS
4         ARTHI 111-Ancient and Medieval Art
4         ARTHI 112-Renaissance and Modern Art
24        200- and 300-level courses in Art History including 
          one 3 hour course in each of the following areas:1 
          Ancient and medieval art
          Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo art
          Late eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century
           art African, Asian, Oceanic, and pre-Columbian art
15        200- and 300-level courses in supporting areas chosen 
           with the approval of the adviser. Although the 
           program in art history allows considerable latitude
           in the selection of such courses, they should be 
           chosen with the goal of enhancing the student's
           understanding of the cultural context within which 
           works of art and architecture have been created.
           Recent practice suggests that supporting courses 
           will most commonly be drawn from such fields as 
           anthropology, classics, history, literature, music
           and dance history, philosophy, psychology, and 
           religious studies.

Twelve hours of advanced-level (300- and approved 200-level) courses in the major must be taken on this campus.

All foreign language requirements must be satisfied. French or German is strongly recommended for fulfilling the foreign language requirement; however, another language may be used with the approval of the adviser as the needs of the student's program dictate. A student who has decided to make the history of Oriental art his or her major study area in undergraduate and graduate work would be well advised to satisfy the foreign language requirement with Chinese or Japanese rather than with a European language.

A Major Plan of Study Form must be completed and submitted to the LAS Student Affairs Office before the end of the fifth semester (60-75 hours). Please see your adviser.

1. Courses in the history of architecture, excluding ARCH 210, may be used with the approval of the adviser for as many as 12 hours of credit in meeting the 24-hour requirement.

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