A SAMPLING OF ART HISTORY DEPARTMENTS
Departments in the United States
Boston
College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Information on the
department, faculty, and majors and minors is included on this
site. Links to university arts organizations and college digital
resources are also included, along with a form to send a
multimedia post card from the Fine Arts Department.
Bryn
Mawr, Bryn Mawr, PA
Includes information for
both undergraduate and graduate programs. Also listed are faculty,
their specializations, and courses for the current academic
year.
Case
Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio
The Bachelor of Arts
degree is granted in art history and in pre-architecture, and the
Bachelor of Science degree in art education. In addition, the
department offers graduate programs leading to the degrees of
Master of Arts in art history, in art history and museum studies,
and in art education; and the Doctor of Philosophy in art history,
and in art history and museum studies. All art programs are
considerably enhanced by close cooperation with and access to the
facilities of cultural institutions located in University Circle,
in particular The Cleveland
Museum of Art and The Cleveland
Institute of Art.
Columbia,
New York, NY
Requirements for graduate and
undergraduate programs are included. Course descriptions and class
schedules are also provided, along with online instructional
resources, including syllabi, images, and multimedia projects.
College of
Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
One
of the largest independent art history departments in the
Southeast and among the few in the nation that specialize in
undergraduate education. Offering a BA in Art History, a BA in
Historic Preservation & Community Planning and a MS in
Historic Preservation, the department’s curriculum combines
a wide variety of courses in art history and historic preservation
with the advantages of a liberal arts education.
Cornell,
Ithaca, NY
Site includes information on
faculty and their areas of specialization, current term course
listings, and program requirements for both undergraduate and
graduate students.
Emory,
Atlanta, GA
Online syllabi are included on this site, in
addition to course offerings, faculty and department contacts, a
description of the graduate program, and major and minor degree
requirements.
Florida State
University, Tallahassee, FL
The Department of
the History of Art offers the Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts,
and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees. The site lists program
requirements for each degree, course listings, faculty areas of
specialization, and information about annual symposium.
Harvard,
Cambridge, MA
The Fine Arts Department has recently
become the Department of History of Art and Architecture. This
site includes undergradute and graduate program requirements,
course offerings, a listing of faculty members, and Frequently
Asked Questions.
Johns Hopkins,
Baltimore, MD
Undergraduate and graduate program
requirements and course listings are provided, along with a list
of faculty and a description of the Visual Resources Collection.
Also included is an introduction to The Johns Hopkins Center for
Italian Studies at the Villa Spelman.
Miami
University, Oxford, OH
Consistently ranked by
major sources as one of the nation's top institutions.
Northwestern, Evanston, IL
Requirements for
undergraduate and graduate programs are included, in addition to
descriptions of faculty and their research, and an overview of the
slide library. Some course web sites are also provided.
NYU,
New York, NY
Graduate degree requirements are listed,
along with descriptions of special programs, course offerings for
current and past terms, events and programs. Information on the
Graduate Student Association is also provided.
Ohio State
University
Offers a substantial graduate (MA and PhD)
program with a faculty of about 18. Descriptions of programs,
areas of concentration, course listings, faculty, staff, graduate
students, Newsletter, and links are provided.
Penn State
University
The Department of Art History offers
undergraduate and graduate programs of study leading to B.A., M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees in art history. The department offers
lecture/discussion courses and graduate seminars on a broad range
of topics from ancient to contemporary art and architecture.
Courses are also offered in museum studies, historiography,
iconology, criticism, connoisseurship, and methods of research.
Courses are taught by eleven full-time faculty members and five
affiliate faculty members.
Princeton
, Princeton, NJ
Includes undergradute and graduate program
requirements, a list of faculty and specializations, course web
pages, and descriptions of slide and photograph collections. Also
has links to multimedia projects.
Rice University,
Houston, TX
Site includes degree requirements for graduate
and undergraduate programs, current course listings and online
syllabi, and job openings within the department. There is also a
link to RiceArts, a listing of arts departments and events on
campus.
Rutgers,
New Brunswick NJ
Fairly extensive site includes maps, a
Pictorial History of Voorhees Hall (which houses the department),
and a list of recent dissertations, in addition to Program
Handbooks for graduates and undergraduates, and a list of faculty.
The Visual Resources Collection includes thorough information on
color correcting slides during digitization.
Stanford,
Stanford, CA
Site includes a list of courses, description
of affiliated facilities, and information on graduate and
undergraduate programs. Links to other art and art history
departments are also included, along with links to Bay Area arts
organizations.
State University
of New York at Buffalo
Includes descriptions
of graduate and undergraduate programs, course listings, and a
list of faculty and their specializations. Online course
materialsand an application request form are also included, along
with links to area arts organizations.
Temple University, Tyler School of Art, The Department offers a variety of critical, theoretical and methodological perspectives and approaches. The goal is to equip students with strong skills in a world in which visual literacy is of great importance.
University of California, Los Angeles
In
addition to a list of faculty, course listings and online course
materials, the site offers "On-Ramp," an organized collection of
links to "Tools & Resources in Art History and the
Humanities."
University of California, Berkeley
Descriptions of
degree requirements for undergraduate and graduate programs are
provided, along with a list of faculty and specializations, and
course offerings.
University of
California, Irvine
Undergraduate major and minor
degrees offered. Ph.D program in Visual Studies.
University of
California, Santa Cruz
Undergraduate program
requirements are described. The site also includes a list of
faculty and their areas of interest, course listings, and online
course materials. There is also a very useful "Pointers &
Advice" section for art history students, with tips on writing
papers, getting internships, career opportunities and more.
University of
Chicago, IL
Site lists faculty and
specializations, graduate program requirements, and courses.
Contents of the Chicago Art Journal, a student-edited publication,
are also included, in addition to an Electronic Database of Images
from the Slide Library.
University
of Colorado at Boulder, CO
This site includes
descriptions of graduate and undergraduate programs, course
listings, a list of faculty and their specializations, as well as
study abroad options and links to other art related sites.
University of
Delaware, Newark, DE
Provides information on MA
and PhD programs, in addition to a list of faculty and their
recent publications, online syllabi, and course listings for
upcoming terms. Links to the affiliated programs (Museum Studies,
Decorative Arts and the Winterthur Program, and Art Conservation)
are also included.
University of
Iowa
The School of Art & Art History offers the
B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Art History. Specialization is
possible in traditional areas of Western, African, and Asian Art.
The Graduate Program emphasizes independence of thought, a
thorough knowledge of the field, and diverse critical methods. A
regular series of visiting lecturers from the United States and
abroad supplements an extensive program of course offerings.
University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
Site provides undergraduate and
graduate program descriptions online and in PDF format, course
listings, and online syllabi and study galleries. The Visual
Resources Collection includes an online image database.
University of
Minnesota
The department offers a broad range of
undergraduate courses covering the arts of Europe, North America
and Asia. Graduate curricula focus primarily on Asian art and
modern art (including contemporary art, popular culture and art of
the Early Modern period). Areas of faculty specialization include:
University of
Missouri-Columbia
The Department of Art
History and Archaeology offers the Bachelor of Arts, Master of
Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in art history and
Classical archaeology. It also supports interdisciplinary graduate
minors in Museum Studies and Historic Preservation, as well as in
ancient studies and in medieval and renaissance studies.
University of
New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Application
procedures are described on this site and applications are
available to download. A list of faculty is also provided. MA,
MFA, and PhD program requirements are included, along with
descriptions of museum, gallery and library resources.
University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill
The site provides descriptions
of the Research Triangle community, museum and gallery resources,
and library facilities. BA, BFA, MA and PhD program requirements
are included, in addition to online application instructions. A
section on online course resources includes The Celtic Art &
Cultures Web site.
University of Notre
Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Included are requirements
for both BA and MA degree programs, course listings, and
descriptions of museum and library resources, including the
On-Line Catalogue of Ambrosiana Drawings, from the Biblioteca
Ambrosiana in Milan. Also included is the ever-popular "Career
Alternatives for Art Historians," an overview of employment
options for art history students.
University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Program
requirements are provided for undergraduate and graduate programs
in History of Art, and a graduate program in Art and Archaeology
of the Mediterranean World. Course schedules and links to
departmental projects and faculty homepages can also be found
here. The site includes a description and photos of the newly
renovated Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe History of Art Building.
University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
The Department of History of Art and Architecture has undertaking a major initiative to reorganize faculty and graduate research along more collaborative and interdisciplinary lines.
University of
Texas, Austin
In addition to describing requirements
for BA, BFA, MA, and PhD programs, the site includes a list of
faculty, an academic calendar, and information on special programs
such as the interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Modernism,
and the Maya Meetings at Texas, a 10-day annual conference.
University of
Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA
Requirements for undergraduate major
and minor are provided, along with MA and PhD program
descriptions. Also included are online syllabi, course offerings,
a listing of faculty and staff, and an overview of the Visual
Resources Collection.
Washington University in St. Louis, MO
The
undergraduate major and minor are described, and requirements for
the MA and PhD programs are provided. Library and museum resources
are also covered.
Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williamstown, MA
Yale, New Haven, CT
A list of faculty and links to their web
pages are provided, and undergraduate and gradute programs are
decribed. Also included are digital, museum and library
resources.
Departments Abroad
British Institute
of Florence, Italy
An educational charity
established in 1917, to promote the languages and cultures of
Britain and Italy. This is accomplished through the teaching of
Italian and English as foreign languages and cultural courses
including History of Art (both short and long term), cooking,
drawing, watercolour painting, Dante and opera.
Cambridge
University, UK
In ten sequential web pages,
admissions procedures and program requirements for undergraduate
and postgraduate students are described. Library and museum
resources are also discussed.
Concordia
University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Faculty
and their areas of interest are described, in addition to course
descriptions and program requirements for an undergraduate Major
and Minor, and MA (PhD requirements forthcoming). Site includes
online form to request information and a text-only page. Also
provides links to library and web resources such as RVACanada (a
web resource for studying the visual arts in Canada, compiled by
graduate students), AHRC, and The Journal of Canadian Art
History.
Courtauld Institute, London, UK
Site includes
both an Undergraduate Prospectus and information on Postgraduate
Studies, including research degrees (MPhil & PhD), a
Postgraduate Diploma in the History of Art, and an MA in the
History of Art. Principal members of staff are listed, along with
their teaching and research interests. Also included are
descriptions of living in London, resources for study, fees &
grants, and application forms.
Moscow
State University, Moscow, Russia
Main fields of
research and specialization are listed. While more extensive
information is available on the Faculty of History (which houses
the art history departments), the pages for the Department of
General History of Arts and the Department of the History of
Russian Art are limited and dated 1997.
Okanagan University
College, British Columbia, Canada
The Fine Arts
Department provides information on a two-year diploma and a
four-year degree program. Also includes online resources such as
Art History: A Preliminary Handbook, Important Moments in Canadian
Art History, and Words of Art: A Glossary of Theory and Criticism
for the Visual Arts.
Oxford University, UK
Contact info only.
Padua,
Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy
In
Italian only, provides information on the Department, its
programs, and research activities. Course listings are included,
as are lists of faculty and staff, and descriptions of resources
and services. Special projects include "Illuminated Manuscripts in
Padova from the Middle Ages to the 18th Century" (text in Italian
and English).
Paris-Sorbonne, France
In French only,
provides descriptions of the programs, degrees offered, research
groups, and library resources. Also includes an experimental
collection of images, "Mashreq-Maghreb: Archives Photographiques
du Monde Islamique."
Universiteit
Leiden, Netherlands
The Universiteit Leiden was
founded in 1575. It is a fully accredited, classical university at
which over 15,000 students are enrolled. Leiden is a picturesque
town with 114,000 inhabitants, close to Amsterdam, Rotterdam and
The Hague. Leiden University has several educational programs,
taught in English, which are specifically designed with foreign
students in mind.
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The Leuven
Faculty of Arts includes departments such as history, archaeology,
history of art, music, linguistics and literature. Both teaching
and research in this faculty concern the cultural development of
mankind, from pre-historic times to the present, in both Western
and non-western world. (English page)
University
of Bristol, UK
The University has a very
successful and popular undergraduate program in Art History, as
well as supervising research degrees. The Masters degree provision
is taught within several interdisciplinary Masters programs within
the University of Bristol, including Medieval Studies, and The
Classical Tradition. The University of Bristol is consistently
listed among the top UK universities, and receives applications
from the highest calibre of student.
University of
Essex, UK
This site for the Department of Art History
and Theory offers undergraduate and graduate program descriptions,
and a list of faculty and their research interests. Access is also
provided to the University of Essex Collection of Latin American
Art (UECLAA), and an online journal, "ARARA: Art &
Architecture of the Americas."
University of Hong
Kong
The Department of Fine Arts was established in
1978. From its origins, the department was developed to
concentrate on teaching and research in the history of art. The
department currently has a teaching staff of five full-time
members: three specialists in European art, one in Chinese art and
one in Japanese art.
University of
Manchester, UK
Art History and Archaeology have
been taught at Manchester since the 1930s. As a result of a recent
merger both subjects are now taught and supervised within a single
department numbering twenty full-time academic staff as well as
technicians and support staff, and with an undergraduate intake of
over three hundred. There is a lso a large postgraduate community
within the department. The University has its own museum and art gallery where there
are opportunities for students to acquire work experience.
University of
Melbourne, Australia
Lists faculty and their
areas of interest, descriptions of undergraduate and graduate
programs, and resources available to students. Departmental
overview includes a section on "Why study Art History, Cinema
Studies, Classical Studies or Archaeology?" Also provides access
to a draft version of the Classics & Archaeology Virtual
Museum Project, and an online journal, "Screenscape: Essays on
Film by Students of the University of Melbourne."
University of
New South Wales, Australia
Graduate and
undergraduate program descriptions are provided, along with
biographical info on faculty and staff. Includes "Artwrite," an
online produced by students.
University of
Queensland, Australia
Provides an overview of
the department, course listings, graduate and undergraduate
program descriptions, and a list of staff and their areas of
interest. An introduction to the library and its resources is also
included.
University of
Rome, "La Sapienza", Italy
In English and
Italian, provides a description of the program and history of the
university. Also lists faculty, conferences, and application
requirements. Includes an online journal "BTA - Bollettino
Telematico dell'Arte."
University of Toronto, Canada
Undergraduate,
MA, and PhD program requirements are included here, along with
course descriptions and a list of faculty and their areas of
interest. Also provided is info on the Ancient Studies
Collaborative Program.
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