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Curriculum in the History of Art

For the Degree Bachelor of Fine Arts in the History of Art

The curriculum in the history of art requires 122 credit hours and offers a broad cultural education that unites academic and studio training. The curriculum provides sound preparation for the graduate study required for museum work or teaching at the college level.

Foreign Language Requirement

Students entering the University of Illinois as freshmen in Fall 2000 or later need to complete the foreign language requirement in order to graduate. To satisfy this requirement, students must complete a third level college foreign language course. This requirement may also be satisfied by three years of the same foreign language in high school. Students entering the University of Illinois without three years of the same foreign language in high school must take a foreign language placement test to determine the courses in which to enroll. In addition to the University requirement, Art history students must complete a language through the fourth level (See below).

Hours General Education Requirements
4 RHET 105 or 108—Composition I
3 Advanced Composition
21 Six hours in each of the following areas: humanities and the arts, natural sciences and technology, social and behavioral sciences, and Western and non-Western culture. ARTH 112 satisfies half of the humanities requirement.
6 Quantitative reasoning, I and II

Hours General and Supportive Elective - Language to Fourth Level
25-43 Electives (see college list of approved electives)
0-16 One foreign language through the 104 level or equivalent is required
6 Supportive electives. A minimum of six hours must be chosen with the consent of the adviser in one of the following areas: ancient and modern literature, anthropology, classics, history, philosophy. Some may satisfy general education requirements.
62-80 Total

Hours Supporting Requirements in Art
4 ARTH 111—Ancient and Medieval Art
4 ARTH 112—Renaissance and Modern Art (General Education-Humanities & the Arts)
2 ARTF 101—Contemporary Issues in Art
6 ARTF 102 and 104—Drawing, I and II
6 ARTF 103 and 105—Design, I and II
8-14 Art electives
30-36 Total

Hours Advanced Art History
18-36 Advanced art history