Built on the fertile exchange between the arts and the humanities, Art History at SMU subscribes to an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to learning. We teach students to think across current categories and boundaries and practice a socially responsible art history. A major in Art History helps students negotiate a world saturated with images. It challenges them to confront critically the visual culture that mediates our understanding of the past, present and future.
B.A. Art History
The B.A. in Art History is an ideal liberal arts degree that exposes students to the study of art and architecture in the context of other disciplines such as anthropology, film, literature, history, philosophy, psychology, and religion. In addition to extending students’ visual and cultural awareness, the art history degree program gives students the ability to evaluate and organize information, conduct scholarly research and articulate their ideas in both written and spoken language.
Minor in Art History
The Minor in Art History enables all students in the University to extend their study into the realm of the visual arts and so to broaden their appreciation of the cultural content of artistic form.