Students majoring in art history
take a minimum of 17 courses (49 credits) in art history, studio art and the Freshman Studio Seminar.
Required
courses:
- Freshman Studio Seminar
- Art History Survey I: Prehistoric Through Gothic Art
- Art History Survey II: Renaissance Through Early 20th Century Art
- Art Beyond the West
- Impressionism to Pollock: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Modernism
- Pollock to the Present: The Sixties, Postmodernism and Contemporary Art
- Survey of American Decorative Arts
- Newport Through its Architecture I, 1639 to 1860
- Newport Through its Architecture II, 1860 to present
- Senior Thesis in Art History (two semesters)
- Apprenticeship/Internship in the Visual Arts
- Two art history electives
- Drawing I
- Photography I
- One studio art elective
Minor in Art
History
Students
completing a minor in art history take a minimum of seven courses (21 credits).
Required courses:
- Drawing I
- Art History Survey I: Prehistoric Through Gothic Art
- Art History Survey II: Renaissance Through Early 20th Century Art
Students choose four additional courses in art history, approved in
consultation with a departmental adviser.