2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Art, Art History Concentration, B.A.
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Art and Design
615-898-2455
Laura Cochrane, program coordinator
Laura.Cochrane@mtsu.edu
The B.A. program in Art with a concentration in Art History is designed for those who wish to pursue careers in museums, galleries, or arts organizations and/or pursue further study at the graduate level. Students should consult with their advisors each semester in order to plan their schedule of courses.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) | 41 hours | | Major Requirements | 39 hours | | Major Core | 15 hours* | | Art History Concentration | 24 hours | | Foreign Language | 6 hours | | Minor | 15-18 hours | | Electives | 16-22 hours | | TOTAL | 120 hours | *This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours will increase. True Blue Core (41 hours)
True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category. The following courses required by the major meet True Blue Core requirements: - ART 1920 (CCE)
- 3 credit hours from foreign language 1010, 1020, 2010, or 2020 (NWC)
Major Requirements (39 hours)
Majors must maintain a GPA of at least 2.00 in the major. Art History Concentration (24 hours)
- ART 3940 - Art History Methods 3 credit hours
- Modern/Contemporary 6 upper-division credit hours
- Non-Western Art 6 upper-division credit hours
- Medieval/Renaissance 6 upper-division credit hours
- Electives from any of the above categories 3 upper-division credit hours
Foreign Language (6 hours)
B.A. Students must successfully complete 2010 and 2020 or any courses numbered above the 2000 level in a single foreign language. Curriculum: Art, Art History
Sophomore Fall
- ART 1910 - Survey of Non-Western Art 3 credit hours
- Non-Written Communication 3 credit hours
- Quantitative Literacy 3 credit hours
- Foreign Language 3 credit hours
- History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
Sophomore Spring
- Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
- Foreign Language 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression/Elective 3 credit hours
- Minor course 3 credit hours
- History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
Junior Fall
- Upper-division Art History 6 credit hours
- Minor course 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
- Elective 3 credit hours
Junior Spring
- Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
- Upper-division Art History 6 credit hours
- Minor course 3 credit hours
- Elective 1 credit hours
Senior Fall
- ART 3940 - Art History Methods 3 credit hours
- Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
- Upper-division Art History 6 credit hours
- Elective 3 credit hours
Senior Spring
- Elective/minor course 3 credit hours
- Minor courses 6 credit hours
- Elective 3 credit hours
- Upper-division Art History 3 credit hours
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