History of Art, BALAS
for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences, major in History of Art
The Program in Art History is unique at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Though housed in the School of Art and Design in the College of Fine and Applied Arts, the Program in Art History offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in the History of Art from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences administers admission to the major in the History or Art; however, the Program in Art History advises all History of Art majors.
The curriculum in the History of Art requires 120 credit hours and offers a broad historical and cultural education related to the visual and build world. The curriculum provides sound preparation for the graduate study required for museum work or teaching at the college level.
for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences, major in History of Art
Departmental distinction: To be eligible for distinction, a student must earn a high grade point average and complete at least 4 semester hours of independent research to write a senior research paper. See the undergraduate adviser for details.
General education: Students must complete the Campus General Education requirements including the campus general education language requirement.
Minimum required major and supporting course work: Twelve (12) hours of 300- and 400-level courses in the major must be taken on this campus.
Minimum hours required for graduation: 120 hours.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Total required Core Hours | 39 | |
| 1 course in studio art, graphic design or industrial design | 3 | |
| 1 foundational gateway course at the 100-level: | 3 | |
| Introduction to the History of Art and Visual Culture | ||
| Three (3) Supporting Courses in the Humanities offered by LAS: | 9 | |
These courses must be approved by the Art History advisor and be outside the field of art history with the goal of enhancing the student’s understanding of the cultural context within which works of art and architecture have been created. | ||
| See list of Approved Supplemental Courses below | ||
| Six (6) 200-400 level courses in Art History, offered in the School of Art & Design | 18 | |
| (Though students must take a total of 6 courses, some may count toward the fulfillment of more than one area and period requirement. For instance, a course in 20th century African art could count as a class covering both Africa and the Middle East and material after 1700.) | ||
Students must take at least one course in three of the following areas: 1) Africa and the Middle East; 2) Asia; 3) the Americas; 4) Europe | ||
At least one course must cover material before 1700 | ||
At least one course must cover material after 1700 | ||
With an advisor’s approval, up to 6 credit hours of courses in the history of architecture or landscape architecture at the 200-400 level may be taken towards the fulfillment of these required hours | ||
| Two (2) seminars in Art History at the 400-level | 6 | |
Courses must be designated as art history seminars (not all 400-level courses have this designation), or be approved as a seminar by the undergraduate advisor | ||
| See approved list below | ||
| Total Hours required for graduation | 120 | |
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| History of Art - List of Approved Supplemental Humanities Courses | ||
| (Please note: this is not a complete list of approved courses as individual student interests may guide supplemental courses in any number of directions. To ensure students take appropriate courses, all supplemental Humanities hours must be approved by the BALAS advisor.) | ||
| AFRO 212 | Intro African American Theat | 3 |
| AFRO 227 | Studies in Black Television | 3 |
| AFRO 228 | Hip Hop Music: History and Culture | 3 |
| AFRO 243 | Pan Africanism | 3 |
| AFRO 259 | Early African American Literature and Culture | 3 |
| or AFRO 260 | Modern African American Literature and Culture | |
| AFRO/ENGL 272 | 3 | |
| AFRO 382 | African Amer Families in Film | 3 |
| AFRO 400 | African Diasporic Thought in the Caribbean | 3 or 4 |
| AFST 222 | Introduction to Modern Africa | 3 |
| AFST 266 | 3 | |
| ANTH 224 | Tourist Cities and Sites | 3 |
| ANTH 250 | The World Through Museums | 3 |
| ANTH 364 | Performing "America | 3 |
| ANTH 462 | Museum Theory and Practice | 3 or 4 |
| AAS 200 | U.S. Race and Empire | 3 |
| AAS 211 | Asian Americans and the Arts | 3 |
| AAS 246 | Asian American Youth in Film | 3 |
| AAS/GWS 275 | The Politics of Fashion | 3 |
| AAS 300/GWS 305/LLS 305 | Theories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality | 3 |
| AAS/GWS 315 | War, Memory, and Cinema | 3 |
| CLCV 206 | Classical Allusions in Cinema | 3 |
| CLCV 240 | Gender & Sexuality in Greco-Roman Antiquity | 3 |
| ENGL 202 | Medieval Literature and Culture | 3 |
| ENGL 204 | Renaissance Literature and Culture | 3 |
| ENGL 206 | Enlightenment Literature and Culture | 3 |
| ENGL 207 | Romantic Literature and Culture | 3 |
| ENGL 208 | Victorian Literature and Culture | 3 |
| ENGL 209 | Early British Literature and Culture | 3 |
| or ENGL 210 | Modern British Literature and Culture | |
| ENGL 211/AFST 210/CWL 210 | Introduction to Modern African Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 213 | Modernist Literature and Culture | 3 |
| ENGL 224/LLS 240/SPAN 240 | Latina/o Popular Culture | 3 |
| ENGL 253 | Topics in Literature and New Media | 3 |
| ENGL 255 | Early American Literature and Culture | 3 |
| ENGL 273 | American Cinema, 1950-2000 | 3 |
| ENGL 285 | Postcolonial Literature in English | 3 |
| HIST 200 | Intro Hist Interpretation | 3 |
| HIST 202 | American Environmental History | 3 |
| HIST 203 | Reacting to the Past | 3 |
| HIST 205 | Lived Experience in Latin America | 3 |
| HIST 211 | History of Southern Africa | 3 |
| HIST 212 | History of Eastern Africa | 3 |
| HIST/EALC 220 | Traditional China | 3 |
| HIST/EALC 221 | Modern China | 3 |
| HIST/EALC 226 | Premodern Japanese History | 3 |
| HIST/EALC 227 | Modern Japanese History | 3 |
| HIST 258 | 20thC World to Midcentury | 3 |
| HIST 259 | 20thC World from Midcentury | 3 |
| HIST 260 | History of Russia | 3 |
| HIST 270 | United States History to 1815 | 3 |
| HIST 271 | Nineteenth Century America | 3 |
| HIST 272 | Twentieth Century America | 3 |
| HIST 274 | US Foreign Relations Since 1917 | 3 |
| HIST/LLS 279 | Mexican-American History | 3 |
| HIST/AAS/AFRO/LLS 281 | Constructing Race in America | 3 |
| HIST/GWS 285 | US Gender History to 1877 | 3 |
| HIST/GWS 286 | US Gender History Since 1877 | 3 |
| HIST/GWS/AFRO 287 | African-American Women | 3 |
| HIST 310 | Global Capitalism in History | 3 |
| HIST 312 | Immigrant America | 3 or 4 |
| HIST/MDVL/REL 345 | Medieval Civilization | 3 |
| HIST 347 | Protestant & Catholic Refs | 3 |
| HIST 349 | Age of Revolution, 1775-1815 | 3 |
| HIST 350 | 19thC Romanticism & Politics | 3 |
| HIST 352 | Europe in the World | 3 |
| HIST 354 | Twentieth Century Europe | 3 |
| HIST 357 | Modern France | 3 |
| HIST 360 | 3 | |
| HIST 370 | Colonial America | 3 |
| HIST 373 | Origins of the Civil War | 3 |
| HIST 374 | Civil War and Reconstruction | 3 |
| HIST 375 | 3 | |
| HIST 376 | 3 | |
| HIST 379 | Latina/os and the City | 3 |
| HIST 380 | US in an Age of Empire | 3 |
| HIST/EALC 420 | China Under the Qing Dynasty | 2 to 4 |
| HIST 425/CWL 478/EALC 476 | Classical Chinese Thought | 3 or 4 |
| HIST/GWS 459 | Postcolonial/Queer | 3 or 4 |
| HIST 462 | Soviet Union Since 1917 | 2 to 4 |
| HIST 476/LLS 475 | History of the American West | 3 or 4 |
| ITAL 406 | Italian Culture and Globalization | 3 or 4 |
| LLS/ANTH 259 | Latina/o Anthropology | 3 |
| LLS/ENGL 458 | Latina/o Performance | 3 or 4 |
| LLS 460/AAS 400 | Critical Ethnic Studies | 3 or 4 |
| LLS 465 | Race, Sex, and Deviance | 3 or 4 |
| LLS 473/ANTH 472 | Immigration, Health & Society | 3 or 4 |
| PHIL 411 | Nineteenth Century Philosophy | 3 or 4 |
| PHIL 412 | Classical Modern Philosophers | 3 or 4 |
| PHIL 414 | Major Recent Philosophers | 3 or 4 |
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| List of 400-level Seminars | ||
| ARTH 413 | Sacred African Diaspora Arts | 3 or 4 |
| ARTH 415 | The Archaeology of Greece | 3 |
| ARTH 424 | Gothic Art | 3 or 4 |
| ARTH 430 | Topics: Italian Art 1300-1500 | 3 or 4 |
| ARTH 431 | Topics: Northern Art 1300-1500 | 3 or 4 |
| ARTH 436 | 17th-Century Dutch & Flemish Art | 3 or 4 |
| ARTH 440 | Romantic Art | 3 or 4 |
| ARTH 445 | European Art Between the Wars | 3 or 4 |
| ARTH 447 | France and Its Others | 3 or 4 |
| ARTH 495 | Senior Seminar in Art History | 3 |
for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences, major in History of Art