As a Chapman Art History student, you will learn useful and necessary reading, thinking,
and speaking skills that will facilitate a critical engagement with art and culture.
Our program is founded on the principal that art is a vital feature of visual and
material culture, especially in relation to the politics of space, place and representation. The
capacity to critically examine how the visual world shapes, creates, and constitutes
our reality, and the ability to articulate those concepts, is deeply consequential.
The B.A. in Art History allows students to develop and master the ability to understand
images of all kinds through a close examination of the visual and material world.
The B.A. in Art History offers students opportunities to explore a wide range of careers
and professions. Among many career options open to them, Art History students go on
to become curators, conservators, art restorers, art dealers, art auctioneers, architects
and architectural historians, teachers and professors, cultural heritage workers,
journalists, filmmakers, game design consultants, and lawyers, to name only a selection.
