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Study the Arts, Understand the World
The Art and Architecture History, B.A. focuses on the different roles that art, architecture, and visual culture of places around the globe have played in human development.
Emphasis is placed on how art reflects not only its specific history, but the aesthetic, social, philosophical, and religious values of the cultures that produce it.
Contact Information
Andrew R. Casper
Professor of Art History
Department of Art
Art Building 124
400 S. Patterson Ave.,
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-2910
casperar@MiamiOH.edu
Curriculum and Courses
Art and Architecture History is an interdisciplinary major that includes the Departments of Art, Architecture + Interior Design, the program in Classical Studies, and the Miami University Art Museum. Students of Art and Architecture History acquire skills that are suitable for a far wider range of professional tasks than just those that require knowledge of the content of art history. Some course choices include:
- ART 188 History of Western Art: Renaissance-Modern
- ART 309 The Arts of African Peoples
- ART 314 The Renaissance in Italy
- ART 389 History of Photography
- ART 406 Art Since 1980
Additional Opportunities
The World in the Classroom
The Art and Architecture History, B.A. offers classes covering a broad range of global cultures and histories, from the arts of Africa, Renaissance Italy, and the contemporary world at home and abroad.
Study Abroad
Many study abroad programs offer opportunities to learn about the art of a particular place. These courses can easily be counted for the major.
Curate an Exhibition
Students in the Art and Architecture History major can take the Capstone Seminar the fall semester of their senior year. This seminar involves the design and research of actual works of art for an exhibition put on display at the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum.
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