Art History B.A. Learning Outcomes

Analytical Skills

1. Visual Analysis: Ability to recognize, distinguish, and characterize styles of objects, artists, movements, media, etc.
2. Communication: Skills for writing critically and persuasively, and effectively presenting research through public speaking, with specific application to art history. 

Historical Knowledge

   3. Past and Present History: Familiarity with societies of past and present. 

   4. Objects in Societies: Understanding of the roles objects play in societies; patrons and collectors, sites of exhibition and display (religious institutions, museums), critics and critical reviews.

Global and Cultural Perspective

   5. Global Cultures and Difference: Build understanding of cultures across the globe and across time that differ from students’ own, attained through study of works of art, monuments, and social practices produced by those cultures.

   6. Theories and Methods: Awareness of major theories and interpretive debates in the study of visual art, architecture, and archaeology, to develop different approaches to analyzing problems and applying conceptual strategies.