New York University
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Department of Art History
Silver Building, #303
100 Washington Square East
New York, NY 10003
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Director of Undergraduate Studies
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ART HISTORY MAJOR REQUIREMENTS FORM
Nine 4-point courses are required to fulfill the major.
SURVEY REQUIREMENT:
V43.0001 History of Western Art I and V43.0002 History of Western Art II or V43.0001 History of Western Art I and V43.0005 Renaissance Art and
V43.0006 Modern Art or V43.0002 History of Western Art II and V43.0003 Ancient Art and V43.0004 Medieval Art or V43.0003 Ancient Art and
V43.0004 Medieval Art and V43.0005 Renaissance Art and V43.0006 Modern Art NOTE: If one of the latter three options is chosen a total of ten
courses must be completed for the major. NOTE: AP credit with a score of 5 fulfills both Western Art I and Western Art II in terms of prerequisites and
counts as one 4-pt course towards the major. Students with AP credit must take eight more courses within the department to complete major.
Course #
Course Title
Grade
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ADVANCED REQUIREMENTS: One 4 point advanced course from each of the following fields:
Ancient or Medieval art chosen from: Birth of Greek Art (V43.0101), Archaic and Classical Art: Greek and Etruscan (V43.0102), Hellenistic
and Roman Art (V43.0103), Greek Architecture (V43.0104), Roman Architecture (V43.0105), Ancient Egyptian Art (V43.0110), Art of the Early Middle
Ages (V43.0201), Romanesque Art (V43.0202), Gothic Art in Northern Europe (V43.0203), Art and Architecture in the Age of Giotto: Italian Art 1200 –
1420 (V43.0204), Medieval Architecture (V43.0205), Special Topics in Ancient or Medieval Art (V43.0150, V43.0151, V43.0250, V43.0251)
3.
Renaissance or Baroque art chosen from: European Architecture of the Renaissance (V43.0301), Architecture in Europe in the Age of
Grandeur (V43.0302), The Century of Jan van Eyck (V43.0303), Italian Renaissance Sculpture (V43.0305), Early Masters of Italian Renaissance
Painting (V43.0306), The Age of Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo (V43.0307), The Golden Age of Venetian Painting (V43.0308), Italian Art in the
Age of the Baroque (V43.0309), Northern Renaissance Art, 1500-1600 (V43.0310), Dutch and Flemish Painting 1600 – 1700 (V43.0311), French Art:
Renaissance to Rococo (1520 – 1770) (V43.0313), Art in Spain from El Greco to Goya (V43.0315), Topics in Latin American Art: Colonial to Modern
(V43.0316), Special Topics in Renaissance and Baroque Art (V43.0350, V43.0351)
4.
Modern art chosen from: Neoclassicism and Romanticism (V43.0401), Realism and Impressionism (V43.0403), American Art (V43.0404),
Modern Art from Postimpressionism to Expressionism (V43.0405), Cubism to Surrealism (V43.0406), Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art (V43.0407),
Early Modern Architecture: 1776-1914 (V43.0408), Modern Architecture 1914 to the Present (V43.0409), Contemporary Art (V43.0410), Modern Latin
America (V43.0420), History of Photography (V43.0430), Aesthetic History of Photography (V43.0300), Social History of Photography (V43.0331),
Towards a Critical Vocabulary of Photography (V43.0332), Special Topics in Modern Art (V43.0450, V43.0451)
5.
Non-Western art chosen from: Asian Art in New York Museums and Galleries (V43.0507), East Asian Art I: China, Korea, Japan to 1000 CE
(V43.0510), East Asian Art II: China, Korea, Japan from 1000 (V43.0511), Arts of China (V43.0512), Introduction to Chinese Painting (V43.0513), Arts
of China (V43.0520), South Asian Art II: Indus Valley to 1200 (V43.0530), South Asian Art II: 1200 to Present (V43.0531), Art in the Islamic World:
From the Prophet to the Mongols (V43.0540), Art in the Islamic World: From the Mongols to Modernism (V43.0541), Special Topics in Non-Western Art
(V43.0550, V43.0551), Art and Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa and the South Pacific (V43.0560), Native Art of the Americas (V43.0570)
6.
SENIOR SEMINAR:
One V43.0800 course, normally taken in the student’s senior year; permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies required.
7.
ELECTIVES:
Two required. Any non-survey course offered by the Department, or any approved course offered on a NYU-Abroad campus.
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9.
FOR STUDENTS WITH AP CREDIT ONLY:
Any non-survey course offered by the Department, or any approved course offered on a NYU-Abroad campus.
10.