Art History - Elon University

Art History from Elon University is a Campus Bachelor Art History degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. Understanding how visual objects shape and reflect our world and its ideologies Bombarded by images on televisions, movie screens, magazines and computers, it is easy to assume that we live in an increasingly ?visual? world. While art history trains us to understand and interpret these modern images, it also reminds us that the world has always been strongly visual. From the cave paintings and sculptures of the Paleolithic era to the T-shirt slogans and cell phone text messages of the present, visual images shape and reflect the world around us. Elon's art history program builds on this belief, offering in-depth examination of images, artists and their effects on society. Art history courses are beneficial to anyone wishing to develop advanced critical viewing, thinking and writing skills in a discipline that melds the arts with the humanities in a historical context. Innovative curriculum As an art history student, you will embark on a rigorous, challenging course of study that focuses on images and objects from the world's history. Art history students at Elon benefit from the university's subscription to ArtStor, a digital library encompassing more than a million images from the breadth of human history. Rather than memorize lists of artists, artworks and historical dates, you will study what these artworks mean, the contexts in which their artists produced them and how those issues relate to the way history has been constructed. You will explore the ideological biases that have informed your understanding of art to this point, and you will practice articulating a more knowledgeable position. Introductory courses consider themes of power, identity, artistic exchange, and collection and display, across time and from a global context. Upper-level courses cover specialized areas of analysis, including those defined by geographical region, time period, stylistic category, conceptual theme and/or ideology. An art historian's primary sources include visual objects themselves in addition to more typical historical resources, so specialized training in formal analysis is also vital to our studies. Art history majors complete their academic training with a senior seminar in which they research, write and present a significant project founded in their own interests. These projects may result in term papers, exhibitions, symposia or alternative ventures developed under the guidance of the faculty. The art history program is flexible, allowing students to select a double major or minor in other fields. You will be encouraged to expand your academic experience in order to gain a wide range of skills that can be useful to any career path. After Graduation When students graduate with an art history degree from Elon, they are well-prepared for an array of postgraduate opportunities. Art history alumni have gone on to work in the fields of art practice, visual culture, museum studies, international studies and history, among others. View more details on Elon University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Art History courses.