Bachelor's in Art and Art History Major

Art and Art History Major is a Bachelor program taught at Kalamazoo College, USA. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time options.

The Art and Art History major at Kalamazoo College includes studio art courses and art history courses. Studio art classes cover contemporary issues in the visual arts and offer beginning to advanced instruction in drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, printmaking, digital art, documentary video, and combined media. Art history classes develop critical looking, thinking, and analysis through historical and theoretical study of art and visual cultures.

Courses are supplemented with experiential learning, including visiting museums and galleries, working with local and visiting artists and art historians, and attending external lectures. Students also complete a Senior Integrated Project (SIP), a capstone that can take the form of creating a body of artwork, conducting in-depth research, or doing an internship—typically at a museum or gallery—paired with reflection and research.

This major leads to careers that include artist, art therapist, curator, marketer, and designer. Alumni employers named include Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Lionsgate, Toledo Museum of Art, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The program also prepares students for graduate study, with graduate schools listed from Washington University in St. Louis, University of Iowa, Claremont Graduate University, University of Washington, University of Michigan.

Modules

• Public Art and Its Publics
• “Primitivism” to Surrealism
• Art and Gender
• Contemporary African Art

The minimum requirements for admission in Art and Art History Major at Kalamazoo College for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Kalamazoo College.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Kalamazoo College as pre-requiste for admission in Art and Art History Major.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.kzoo.edu/academic/programs/art/

• Artist
• Art Therapist
• Curator
• Marketer
• Designer
• Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
• Lionsgate
• Toledo Museum of Art
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago

80 fully funded scholarships are listed for USA. See USA scholarships.