BFA Degree

The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a major in the history of art is offered in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences through the Visual Art Department. 

History of Art BFA majors learn how to investigate and analyze the aesthetic characteristics, meaning, and function of works of art, and to place works in historical, cultural, and stylistic contexts. Students gain a general knowledge of the monuments and principal artists of all major periods of the past, with an emphasis on the art of the 20th- and 21st- centuries and gain a sophisticated understanding of what can be learned about different cultures and time periods through the study of art.