Arts and Ideas in the Humanities A Residential College Major |
Major Requirements
Requirements for the major are grouped
into three categories:
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John Singer Sargent Spanish Fountain, after 1902 Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York City |
I. History and Theory: Students work in two areas: (A) Historical Perspectives and (B) Issues of Modernity. They must take 2 courses in one area and 1 in the remaining area:
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Max Beckmann Acrobat on the Trapeze, 1940 The Saint Louis Art Museum |
II. Visual Studies, Performance, and Studio Arts: Students select a total of 2 courses:
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III. Specialized Study
Students who major in Arts and Ideas in the Humanities are expected to elect seven courses divided (4+3) among two upper-level specializations. This requirement provides the opportunity of pursuing sustained study in relevant disciplinary or interdisciplinary areas as well as, possibly, in the advanced practice of a particular art form. Thus, the specializations may be in critical, historical, or theoretical courses of study offered by other departments and programs, whether in the Residential College or in the LS&A (for example, in a particular literature, art history, history, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, religion, women's studies, African and African-American studies) or in the practice of a specific art form (including studio arts such as painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, printmaking or design, as well as other arts such as creative writing, theater, music, dance or video and film making). However, no more than one of the two specializations may be in the practice of an art form.
Cy Twombly Untitled 1968 Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design