Our program is committed to exploring the visual arts as tools for exploring and decoding culture.
We offer art history courses on painting, sculpture, performance art, graphic arts, architecture, photography and decorative arts as ways to investigate today’s broad and immersive visual world.
Students will have the chance to explore traditional media such as painting, as well as architecture and digital media. A global approach to art history allows UB students to explore thematic elements of the fabric of visual culture such as taste and patronage, myth and narrative, gender and race, and intercultural relations.
Faculty members use a diverse range of methodological approaches to help students master the necessary tools and knowledge to understand our visual world.
Courses are offered from ancient to contemporary art history, with specific attention to social history, gender, sexuality and race, post-colonialism, and the context of history and politics.
Course Catalog Listing for BA in Art History - Contains:
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