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Sep 07, 2024
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2023-2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Art History, BA
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(Note: This program is closed to new students.)
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.
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Requirements for the Major
Requirements for the major and an example of a typical program of courses are as follows:
Spring Term
- AH 300-Level Course (non-Western, this will often fulfill the Core diversity course requirement)
- PL 200-Level or TH 200-Level Course
- Math/Science Core
- Social Science Core
- Elective
Spring Term
- AH 300-Level Course (or higher)
- AH 300-Level Course (or higher)
- Math/Science Core
- Elective
- Elective
Fall Term
- AH 300-Level Course (or higher)
- AH 300-Level Course (or higher)
- Ethics Core
- Elective
- Elective
Spring Term
- AH 300-Level Course (or higher)
- AH 300-Level Course (or higher)
- Elective
- Elective
- Elective
Notes:
- Art history majors take AH 110 , AH 111 , PT 270 or SA 224 , and nine upper-division courses (300-level or higher). Majors must take one course in non-Western art. (This course may be taken at Loyola, abroad, or at another institution; however, only courses taken at Loyola can fulfill the University's core diversity requirement).
- Interdisciplinary art history majors take AH 110 , AH 111 , and five upper-division courses (300-level or higher). Interdisciplinary majors are strongly encouraged to take a course in non-Western art.
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