Additionally, there are Art History classes specific to traditional art media such as ceramics, textiles, and prints and drawings. To provide the student with art historical methodologies the curriculum includes courses in historiography, art theory, art criticism, art and anthropology, and museology. For writing and research projects students benefit from resources such as the Visual Resources Center which contains 120,000 slides, campus computer labs, and the University Art Museum. The Art History program reflects the faculty s intention to provide undergraduate and graduate students with the necessary research skills and information to easily transfer to those universities that offer a doctoral degree and to prepare students to enter the professional fields of teaching, museum work, art gallery management, art consultancy, arts management, and art writing.
Students often take advantage of university-wide programs in interdisciplinary studies.
Most of these programs provide a certificate of accomplishment. Opportunity to study abroad is also available in cooperation with the Center for International Education. It is possible to attain university credit for study periods ranging from one semester to a year at major universities in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Both students and faculty present their research at the annual meeting of the Art Historians of Southern California and other national art historical societies. Assistantships are provided to many qualified students.