Art & Art History Program
Art History
The art history program offers general overviews and in-depth analyses of art and its context, from its origins more than 27,000 years ago to its very latest manifestations. An extensive slide collection (over 100,000 transparencies) enables us to study this history by means of full and appropriate illustrations. In addition, The Trout Gallery provides a growing collection of actual works (approximately 6,000) as well as a regular exhibition schedule to allow students a first-hand acquaintance with and study of art from all periods and cultures. Students also benefit from internship opportunities at the gallery and at museums in Harrisburg, as well as in the Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington D. C. areas.
Requirements for Major
Eleven courses including 101, 102; one course in studio, either 122 or 123; one course in Ancient Art, either 202 OR either Classical Studies 221 or 224; one course in Renaissance Art, either 300 or 301; one course in Modern Art, either 314 or 315; 407; 207; and three electives in art history. Art history majors are also encouraged to take additional course work in Philosophy, Religion, Classics and studio art; to consider internships or independent studies directed to future interests in the discipline; and to take German if they are considering graduate work in art history.
Senior Experience - Art Historical Methods 407
Dickinson is the only College in the United States that offers a methods course in art history that includes curatorial training in which the students research, design, and install a public exhibition in The Trout Gallery, and produce a catalogue with researched essays and reproductions of each work in the exhibition. Students work together with the faculty member teaching the course in producing the catalogue and designing the gallery exhibition which opens at the beginning of the spring semester each year. Below are covers of recent catalogues produced by students in the Art Historical Methods seminar.
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