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RISD offers courses in the History of Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture spanning a wide range of media, time periods, and and critical perspectives. Courses on topics as diverse as Museum Culture, Landscape in American film, Architecture and Urbanism of Berlin, or African Women Artists are available. The College offers a 27-credit undergraduate and a 36-credit graduate Concentration in Art History designed for students who wish to complement their studio major with in-depth studies in Visual Culture: art history, theory, criticism and museum studies. The undergraduate art history concentration can be completed within a 4- or 5-year degree program and requires a total of 51 credits in Liberal Arts. The graduate concentration requires a semester and a Wintersession beyond the MFA studies. All RISD BFA and MFA candidates are eligible to undertake a concentration in Art History and Visual Culture. The concentration coordinator in Art History and Visual Culture can provide program specifics. Contact Lucretia Giese (lgiese@risd.edu) or call 401 454 6269.
Undergraduate Concentration in Art History and Visual Culture Distribution Requirements Two courses (6 credits): - Introduction to Art History - Topics in Art History Two courses (6 credits) from any of the following: - Contemporary Art History and Criticism - Methodology and Historiography - Philosophy of Art and/or Sociology of Art, Aesthetics Three courses (9 credits) from any three of the following categories: - Prehistory through Medieval - Renaissance through 1800 - 19th and 20th centuries - Asian, African, Islamic, or Indigenous Arts of the Americas Two courses (6 credits) from either of the following categories: - Area courses or Studio/Art History team taught courses - Museum studies, Museum/Art History team taught courses - two above categories
Graduate Concentration in Art History and Visual Culture Distribution Requirements One course (3 credits), Methodology and Historiography One course (3 credits), Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics Three courses (9 credits) from any two of the following: - Prehistory through Medieval - Medieval or Islamic - Renaissance through 18th century - 19th and 20th century - Asian, African, Indigenous Arts of the Americas, Ethnography Three courses (9 credits) from at least two of the following: - Contemporary Art History and Criticism - Area courses or Studio/Art History team-taught courses - Museum studies, Museum/Art History team-taught courses - Advanced area studies Two courses (6 credits), any category Six-credit Thesis supervised by a faculty member in the Art History Department.
