Liberal Arts Major

BA degree

Requirements

Seven of the 10 classes must be at the 300 or 400 levels. Pre-requisites in the major concentration department are the student’s responsibility and do not count towards the 15 credits in each concentration unless listed as a concentration requirement.

Liberal Arts Core

Six (6) credits required, plus the Intermediate Writing course, ENL 260.

LAR 201 - Introduction to Studies Across the Disciplines Credits: 3
LAR 401 - Seminar in Multidisciplinary Studies Credits: 3
ENL 260 - Intermediate Composition Credits: 3

Choose Two Concentrations

Fifteen (15) credits required in each concentration, for a total of thirty (30) credits. Choose two: Art History, Economics, English, Foreign Literature & Languages, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Portuguese Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, Sustainability, Urban Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies.

Art History

ARH Core

Three (3) credits required.

Note: ARH 125 and ARH 150 are prerequisites for ARH 200. LAR Majors who want to concentrate in Art History are encouraged to build these pre-reqs into their distribution requirement courses at the 100 level.

ARH 200 - Theory & Criticism of Art & Design Credits: 3

ARH Electives

Nine (9) credits required at the 300 level. At least one non-western topic is encouraged.

ARH 322 - Art of the City Credits: 3
ARH 323 - Women, Film and Popular Culture Credits: 3
ARH 324 - Medieval Art Credits: 3
ARH 325 - Italian Renaissance Art Credits: 3
ARH 337 - Baroque Art Flan Hol Spn Credits: 3
ARH 343 - Cubism Credits: 3
ARH 344 - Expressionism Credits: 3
ARH 347 - Dada & Surrealism Credits: 3
ARH 349 - Architecture and Sustainability in American Post-Industrial Cities Credits: 3
ARH 356 - Art Since 1945 Credits: 3
ARH 361 - Art & Culture of Africa Credits: 3
Non-Western topic
ARH 375 - Exhibiting Culture Credits: 3
ARH 380 - Feminist Perspectives on Art History Credits: 3
ARH 390 - Special Topics in Art History Credits: 3

Seminar

Three (3) credits required at the 400 level.