B.F.A. in Art History
Savannah, USA
DURATION
180 Hours
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
USD 41,130 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* total, full-time student for one academic year
Introduction
As an art history student at SCAD, you’ll learn from one of the largest full-time faculty groups with doctoral degrees in North America in a program that emphasizes research, interpretation, and critical analysis of art and artifacts. Courses are complemented by exclusive opportunities to study and intern at breathtaking university museums and galleries around the world. You’ll also benefit from events, symposia, and classroom visits with celebrated art luminaries.
Admissions
Curriculum
Foundation studies: 25 hours
- DRAW 100 Drawing I: Form and Space
- DSGN 100 Design I: Elements and Organization
- DRAW 101 Drawing II: Composition and Media
- DSGN 101 Color: Theory and Application
- DSGN 102 Design II: 3D Form in Space
General education: 65 hours
- COMM 105 Speaking of Ideas
- BUSI 110 Business I: Fundamentals
- ENGL 123 Ideas to Ink: Critical Concepts in Academic Writing
- DIGI 130 Digital Communication
- BUSI 220 Business II: Economic Principles
- ENGL elective
- ENGL elective
- Foreign language I *
- Foreign language II *
- Foreign language III *
- General education elective
- General education elective
- Mathematics/natural sciences elective
Major curriculum: 65 hours
- CTXT 121 Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives
- CTXT 122 Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities
- ARTH 400 Methods of Art History
- ARTH 499 Art History B.F.A. Thesis
- 200-level ARTH elective †
- 300-level ARTH elective †
- 300- to 400-level ARTH elective †
- 300- to 400-level ARTH elective †
- 300- to 400-level ARTH elective †
- 400-level ARTH elective †
- 400-level ARTH elective †
- 400-level ARTH elective †
- Select one of these three options:
- ARTH 479 Undergraduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- Business-focused elective
- ARTH 479 Undergraduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- Business-focused elective
Additional electives: 25 hours
Total course of study: 180 hours
Career Opportunities
Become a curator, collections manager, or visual arts and digital media archivist. Art historians view the world through the lens of creative expression and seek to preserve art as a source for understanding the world and its cultures. The study of art history develops visual sensitivity, knowledge of history, training in research methods, and writing skills.
Launch your career as a professional:
Curator
Manager for art programming
Fine art specialist and appraiser
Art journalist
Gallerist
Collections manager
Culture conservator
Art historian
Visual arts archivist
Get recruited and hired by the best of the best:
Smithsonian Institution
Art Papers
National Portrait Gallery
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Ballroom Marfa
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Rowman & Littlefield Scarecrow Press
Senator John Heinz History Center
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts