Art and Art History Minor

Minor Requirements

Consists of six courses including at least two 100- or 200-level studio courses and at least two 200- or 300-level art history courses in two of the different periods listed below.

One 100-level art history survey may be counted if taken before the end of the sophomore year. No independent studies courses may be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the Art and Art History minor.

Art Periods

Art Prior to 1300:

• ARTS 101 - Caves to Cathedrals: The Art of Europe and the Mediterranean to the 13th Century (AH)
• ARTS 103 - The Arts of Asia (AH)
• ARTS 207 - Roman Art (AH)
• ARTS 244 - Housing the Sacred in Ancient India (AH)
• ARTS 344 - Hindu Temples: Architecture and Sculpture, Architecture as Sculpture (AH)
• ARTS 350 - Art and the Goddess
• ARTS 357 - Storytelling Without Words (AH)

Art From 1300 to 1800:

• ARTS 216 - Nature's Mirror: Renaissance Arts 1400-1550 (AH)
• ARTS 220 - Early Modern European Architecture (AH)
• ARTS 226 - Nature's Order: Baroque Arts 1550-1750 (AH)
• ARTS 245 - Palaces and Paintings of India (AH)
• ARTS 246 - From Emperors to Anime: Pictorial Practices in China and Japan (AH)
• ARTS 311 - The Arts in Venice during the Golden Age (Venice Study Group) (AH)
• ARTS 360 - Borderlands (AH)

Art After 1800:

• ARTS 107 - What is Modern Art? (AH)
• ARTS 110 - Global Contemporary Art (AH)
• ARTS 120/MUSE 120 - Introduction to Museum Studies  
• ARTS 219 - The Economics of Art (AH)
• ARTS 236 - Art and Politics in the 19th Century (AH)
• ARTS 238 - Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: 1880-1920 (AH)
• ARTS 240 - Art and Theory 1960-1990 (AH)
• ARTS 243 - Art & Theory 1980 to Present (AH)
• ARTS 255 - Museum Exhibitions: Design, Rhetoric, and Interpretation
• ARTS 257 - Colonizing and Decolonizing Museums
• ARTS 270 - Critical Museum Theory
• ARTS 273 - Architecture of Art Museums (AH)
• ARTS 275 - American Campus Architecture (AH)
• ARTS 277 - Modern Architecture 1880-1970 (AH)
• ARTS 280 - Visual Culture of Fascism (AH)
• ARTS 287 - History and Theory of Cinema (AH)
• ARTS 348 - Modern Art on Display (AH)
• ARTS 355 - Photography and Political Conflict
• ARTS 361 - Boundary Consciousness: 1960s Art (AH)

Art and Art History Department

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