Art History A.B.
Coordinator: Associate Professor Gatti
Chair, Department of History, Geography and Art History: Associate Professor Clare
A Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Art History requires the completion of the Elon Core Curriculum as well as the Major Requirements listed below.
Major Requirements:
Required courses: 20 sh
| ARH 2100 | Art History of the Ancient World | 4 sh |
| ARH 2110 | Art History of the Medieval and Premodern World | 4 sh |
| ARH 2120 | Art History of the Modern World | 4 sh |
| ARH 3010 | Art History Methodologies | 4 sh |
| ARH 4970 | Senior Seminar in Art History | 4 sh |
Art History (ARH) electives at the 3000-4000 level: 16 sh
Electives selected from any of the following: 4 sh
- An additional ARH course at any level
- GEO, HST, or a World Language course at the 3000-4000 level;
- ART course at any level.
Total Credit Hours: 40
Program Outcomes
Goal 1: Understanding Art History: An understanding of art history as both a discrete discipline and in relationship to museum studies, visual and material culture, and the study of built environments.
Outcome 1: Students can provide evidence that art historical categories are ideologically based rather than self-evident.
Outcome 2: Students can show competency in global art history. Outcome 3: Students can synthesize materials from distinct courses or approaches in order to demonstrate a “big picture” view of art history as a discipline.
Goal 2: Critical Thinking, Reading, Writing & Looking: An ability to think, read, and look critically and analytically and be able to articulate those critical analyses both orally and in writing.
Outcome 1: Students can locate, distinguish among, and state the meaning of a wide variety of textual and visual sources.
Outcome 2: Students can interpret and analyze these materials in written form.
Outcome 3: Students can interpret and analyze these materials in oral form
Goal 3: Decolonizing the Discipline: An understanding of power, identity, and cultural exchange across time and in a global context.
Outcome 1: Students can articulate their own engagement with and reflection upon that understanding.
Outcome 2: Students can recognize and identify the workings of power systems and critique them.
Outcome 3: Students can demonstrate the language, skills, and problem-solving abilities to protest those power systems.