Not all the courses listed below will be offered in any one year; a few are offered only infrequently. A list of the expected offerings with detailed course descriptions is available from the department in July or August each year.
The M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Art History offer advanced training in the study of visual and material culture from the Middle Ages to the present. The Department is strongly committed to the training of graduate students in a variety of approaches, methodologies, and issues including the study of art, science and technology; gender, class and society; material culture and object-based analysis; museums, collecting and cultural policy; word and image studies, and post-colonial analysis.