Requirements
General education requirements and art history major requirements.View the History of Art major requirements.
Note: the requirements in the section below are for all majors except History of Art and Art Education.
General Education Requirements
Freshman Seminar is a course that focuses on critical reading and thinking skills. The course has multiple sections, each with a different theme; some sections focus on the history of art while others focus on liberal arts. Thus, students earn either 3 or 0 credits in the history of art for the seminar depending upon the theme they choose.*
Foundation Year
| Credits | |||
| FRSM100 | F/S | Freshman Seminar* | 0 - 3 |
| HART100 | F | Intro to Western Art | 3 |
| HART (200 level) | S | History of Art Elective | 3 |
| 6 - 9 | |||
Sophomore to Senior Years
| HART |
History of Art Electives | 6 |
| HART/LALW/LASS/LAMS |
History of Art or Lit/writing/film or Social Science or Math/science Elective | 0 - 3* |
| 6 - 9 |
Summary
| FRSM100 |
Freshman Seminar |
0 - 3* |
| HART100 | Intro to Western Art | 3 |
| HART |
History of Art Electives |
9 - 12 |
| 12 - 18 |
F (fall) or S (spring) — the semester in which the course must be taken due to course availability or major sequencing.
*This course may be taken in liberal arts (which implies 0 credit history of art) or in history of art (3 credits)
History of Art Major Requirements
Foundation Year
| Credits | |||
| SFDN181 | F | Drawing I | 3 |
| SFDN182 | F | Visual Language I | 3 |
| SFDN185 | S | Drawing II | 3 |
| SFDN191 | S | Time |
3 |
| SFDN183 | Form Study | 3 | |
| Studio Elective | 3 | ||
| HART100 | F | Intro to Western Art | 3 |
| HART (200 level) | S | History of Art elective | 3 |
| LALW100 | S | Written Communication | 3 |
| HART190 or LAFS100 | F/S | Freshman Seminar | 3 |
| 30 | |||
Sophomore Year
|
Choose one course from three of the four areas below |
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| Ancient/Medieval | |||
| Renaissance/Baroque/18th Century | |||
| Modern/Contemporary | |||
| Ancient and Native Americas | |||
| 9 | |||
| LALW200 | Literary Traditions | 3 | |
| LASS | Social Science Elective | 3 | |
| Studio Electives | 15 | ||
| 30 | |||
Junior Year
| Choose one course from the remaining area. | |||
| Ancient/Medieval | |||
| Renaissance/Baroque/18th Century | |||
| Modern/Contemporary | |||
| Ancient and Native Americas | |||
| 3 | |||
| HART | 400-Level Seminar | 3 | |
| HART | History of Art Elective | 3 | |
| LASS | Social Science Elective | 3 | |
| LALW | Lit/Writ/Film Elective | 3 | |
| LAMS | Math/Sci Elective | 3 | |
| Studio Electives | 12 | ||
| 30 | |||
Senior Year
| HART | 400-Level Seminar | 3 |
| HART | History of Art Electives | 6 |
| LASS/LW/MS | Soc Sci, Lit/Writ/Film, or Math/Sci Electives | 9 |
| Studio Electives | 12 | |
| 30 |
Summary
| Studio Foundation | 18 |
| History of Art | 33 - 36 |
| Liberal Arts | 27 - 30 |
| Studio Electives | 39 |
| 120 |