Art History Minor

Art History minor requirements

  • 8 Department Courses
    • 2 200-level courses in art history
    • 6 additional 300-level courses in art history, with at least 1 300-level course from 3 out of 6 regional categories listed below.

One credit of Chicago Field Studies may be substituted for either a 200- or 300-level art history course when the internship is conducted at an arts organization approved by the Art History Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Regional categories

Africa

Course Title
ART_HIST 386-0Special Topics in the Arts of Africa
Other as approved by the director of undergraduate studies

Asia (including Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, & the Pacific)

Course Title
ART_HIST 389-0Special Topics in the Arts of Asia
Other as approved by director of undergraduate studies

Diasporic, Indigenous, and/or Transregional

Course Title
ART_HIST 384-0African American Art
ART_HIST 385-0Black Visual Culture: Race and Representation
Other as approved by director of undergradaute studies

Europe, U.S. & Canada

Course Title
ART_HIST 320-2Medieval Art: Early Medieval
ART_HIST 320-3Medieval Art: Late Medieval
ART_HIST 330-1Early Modern European Art 1400–1500
ART_HIST 330-2Early Modern European Art 1500–1600
ART_HIST 340-1Baroque Art: Italy & Spain 1600–1800
ART_HIST 342-0Eighteenth-Century European Art
ART_HIST 350-119th-Century Art 1: 1789–1848
ART_HIST 350-219th-Century Art 2: 1848–1914
ART_HIST 360-020th Century Art
ART_HIST 365-0Art of the United States
Other as approved by director of undergraduate studies

Latin America & the Caribbean

Course Title
ART_HIST 367-0Special Topics in Art of the Americas
Other as approved by the director of undergraduate studies

Middle East & North Africa

Course Title
ART_HIST 320-1Medieval Art: Byzantine
Other as approved by the director of undergraduate studies