4 & 1 B.A./M.A. in Art History (four years for a B.A. plus one year of graduate work culmination in a Master’s degree in Art History. [UCI catalogue copy: The M.A. degree program in Art History is designed to provide students with advanced skills and broad knowledge in the discipline of art history. The faculty is particularly well equipped to guide students with special interests in American, Asian, and European art history. This is a 4+1 M.A. Program for UCI undergraduates majoring in Art History or other majors. Students can begin course work during the last year of the B.A. and are required to take a total of nine courses, equivalent to 36 units toward the M.A. Nine courses are required for the degree: two Art History Masters Seminars (AH 298), Art History Theory and Methods (VS 290A), three Graduate Seminars in Visual Studies taught by Art History faculty (AH 295), an additional elective graduate seminar; and two quarters of Masters Thesis Research (AH 299). The Masters Thesis is an approximately twenty-page work of independent research supervised by a member of the faculty. Students wishing to participate in the program should apply either in the spring quarter of their penultimate year, which would allow them to begin course work toward the M.A. in their last undergraduate year, or in their final undergraduate year. For more information, please visit: (add link to our website here)] [Above paragraph will also appear on our website along with the following information] Application: Only current UCI undergraduates can apply for admission. UCI Art History majors and minors are automatically eligible to apply. Other UCI students may apply as well if they have taken two upper division Art History courses. Students must fulfill the School of Humanities foreign language requirement by the time they complete the M.A. program: “two years of a single college-level language other than English or equivalent. The final courses must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a grade of C or better.” There is no language requirement for application to the program. Students in majors in Schools that have a one-year Langue Other Than English requirement must be prepared to satisfy the two-year requirement as defined for the School of Humanities B.A. Students wishing to participate in the program should apply either in the spring quarter of their penultimate year or the fall of their final year, which would allow them to begin course work toward the M.A. in their last undergraduate year. In exceptional cases, applications may be submitted as late as spring of a student’s final year. Full acceptance into the M.A. program will be contingent on the successful completion of an undergraduate degree with a minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.2 overall and in completed AH courses. The following will be required in order to apply for the program: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. An official transcript A completed graduate application A statement of purpose (1-2 pages) An academic writing sample (5-10 pages) One letter of recommendation from a faculty member in Art History or related field of study Prospective students should contact either the Chair of Art History or the undergraduate advisors. The Chair and undergraduate advisors will review the applications and make recommendations to the faculty for admissions to the program. For procedural questions, please contact staff member, Clara Quijano. Requirements: The proposed program of study meets the ASM requirements for a Plan I MA (with thesis). All students in the program are requirement to take a minimum of nine courses, equivalent of 36 units. 1. Two AH 298 seminars, typically taken Senior year. Participation in AH 198 with significant additional graduate level work. In order to count toward the M.A., Masters Seminars (AH298) taken in the last year of the undergraduate study must be in excess of both the unit and the major requirements for the Bachelor’s degree. Credit for these seminars would be transferred upon matriculation into the Master’s program. 2. Three Graduate Seminars in Visual Studies (VS 295) taught by Art History faculty. VS295 is a topics varies course and students will be required to complete VS295 in three separate topics. 3. One Graduate level elective. This can be a VS295 seminar, a AH298, or a graduate level class in another department. 4. VS290A Visual Studies Art History Theories and Methods seminar. This is a foundational graduate methods course to be taken in the fall of the M.A. year. 5. Two quarters of Masters Thesis Research (AH299), taken during the winter and spring quarters of the M.A. year, under the supervision of a member of the Art History faculty. This is for the purpose of writing a master’s thesis of approximately twenty pages. The normative schedule of course work required for the 4 & 1 M.A. will be completed in the fourth year of undergraduate study and the fifth year of graduate study. Maximum time to degree is two years after the bachelor’s degree.