B.A. IN ART - PLAN III
(Art History)
Accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design
Requirements (82 units)
Total units required for graduation: 180
This program is designed for the student with a strong
professional interest in art history or museum work who may
wish to pursue graduate studies.
Requirements for the B.A. in Art - Plan III:
Lower-division requirements (seven courses totalling
28 units)
1. ART 120. Introduction to Two Dimensional
Design (4)
2. ART 121. Introduction to Three Dimensional
Design (4)
3. ART 122. Introduction to Drawing and Life
Drawing (4)
4. ART 123. Introduction to Art and Technology (4)
5. ART 221. Art History: Prehistoric Times through
the Middle Ages (4)
6. ART 222. Art History: Africa, Asia, the Americas
and Oceania (4)
7. ART 223. Art History: Renaissance to the
Present (4)
Upper-division requirements (54 units)
1. History of Art
Six courses consisting of two four-unit courses chosen
from each of the following three groups (A, B and C).
ART 410 may be credited where applicable with the consent
of the Chair of the Art Department.
A. ART 305. Women and Art (4)
ART 306. Greek and Roman Art (4)
ART 316. Arts of the Ancient Near East and
Egypt (4)
ART 321. Renaissance Art (4)
ART 327. Baroque and Rococo Art (4)
B. ART 311. Art of the United States to the End
of the Nineteenth Century (4)
ART 333. History of Graphic Design (4)
ART 359. History of Photography (4)
ART 423. Nineteenth Century European Art (4)
ART 420. Art from 1900 to the Present (4)
ART 520. Contemporary Art, Theory and
Criticism (4)
C. ART 310. Asian Art (4)
ART 314. The Art of Indigenous Peoples (4)
ART 323. Native North American Art (4)
ART 324. Pre-Columbian Art (4)
ART 328. Mexican Art (4)
ART 329. Chicano Art (4)
2. Upper-division studio art courses
Two five-unit courses chosen from:
ART 313. Printing Production (5)
ART 320. Digital Image Editing (5)
ART 322. Web Design (5)
ART 325. Advanced Digital Image Editing (5)
ART 326. Interactive Multimedia Design (5)
ART 330. Animation and Web Motion-Graphics (5)
ART 336. Advanced Painting (5)
ART 341. Advanced Sculpture (5)
ART 355. Ceramics II (5)
ART 357. Ceramics III (5)
ART 361. Printmaking II (5)
ART 362. Printmaking III (5)
ART 368. Woodworking and Furniture Design I (5)
ART 369. Advanced Woodworking and Furniture
Design (5)
ART 375. Glass (5)
ART 391. Intermediate Photography (5)
ART 392. Advanced Photography (5)
ART 393. Photographic Illustration and Design (5)
ART 396. New Genres (5)
3. ART 415. Senior Seminar: Art and Society (2)
4. ART 416. Senior Project (2)
5. ART 525. Seminar in Art History (4)
6. Twelve units or three quarters of one foreign language or
equivalent proficiency. (Students are strongly advised to
learn French and German.)
