Learning Aims

Students majoring in art history will demonstrate mastery in the following five areas:

• Visual literacy (the ability to perform formal and comparative analyses of works of art.)
• Knowledge of the terminology, methodology and historiography of the discipline.
• Knowledge of the major artists, monuments, and artistic periods of Western art; familiarity with at least one non-Western tradition.
• The ability to conduct scholarly research, as demonstrated by the responsible, thoughtful, and creative use of scholarly sources, both electronic and printed.
• Critical reading, writing, and thinking skills that enable the student to construct a complex contextual analysis of a work of art.