Visual Arts Concentration

Barnard College Art History students may elect to concentrate in the visual arts. A visual arts concentration requires additional courses -- many of them studio courses -- as well art history lectures.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MAJOR IN ART HISTORY WITH CONCENTRATION IN VISUAL ARTS

A minimum of twelve courses is required for the major in Art History with concentration in the Visual Arts:

1.  Six Art History courses including:
                BC 1001 and 1002 Introduction to Art History
                One course in 19th or 20th Century Art
                One seminar in art history
2.  Five Studio courses including BC3530 Advanced Studio
3.  BC3031 Imagery and Form in the Arts

Art History senior thesis option for visual arts concentrators:
Art History Majors concentrating in Visual Arts may elect to substitute the Senior Thesis for the Senior Project. To do this they must:
1. Notify their adviser of their intention to do so by the end of their junior year.
2. Take both Methods and Theories of Art History (BC3970) and the Senior Research Seminar (BC3959 and BC3960)

Columbia University Visual Arts Department

Joan Snitzer, Director of the Visual Arts Program, can be reached by email at
jsnitzer@barnard.edu.

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