Master of Arts (with a major in art history): Applicants may be admitted with 18 units of undergraduate credit in art history or with 12 such units plus a substantial amount of credit in related areas of study. The Master of Arts with a major in art history requires a minimum of 30 units in art history, including 3... Show Full Description

Master of Arts (with a major in art history): Applicants may be admitted with 18 units of undergraduate credit in art history or with 12 such units plus a substantial amount of credit in related areas of study. The Master of Arts with a major in art history requires a minimum of 30 units in art history, including 3 units of 511, 6 units of 596, and 3 to 6 units of 910. With the approval of the advisor, other courses may be substituted for a portion of the 24-unit art history requirement. A maximum of 9 units may be in individual studies including 900 and 910. A reading knowledge of French or German or other approved language must be demonstrated before the third semester. In the last semester students must either successfully pass a Comprehensive Exam or complete a thesis. The Comprehensive Exam may be taken no more than twice. Thesis must be completed by the end of the fourth semester.

The Ph.D. Program in Art History and Education is a collaborative Ph.D. program which utilizes the faculty expertise, curricular offerings, resources and creative energies of the University of Arizona Division of Art History and the Division of Art and Visual Culture Education. The Art History track’s goal is to produce excellent scholars of art history who will be uniquely competitive in the professional world of university teaching, museum and related careers.

Students specialize in one of the following areas: Arts of the Americas, Arts of the Ancient and Medieval World, Arts of Europe and the Colonial World: 1400-1850, History of Photography, Modern and Contemporary Arts, Theory and Criticism. The Ph.D. degree requires 60 semester hours beyond the M.A. or 90 beyond the B.A., including a minimum of 12 hours in the major area of emphasis, a minimum of 9 hours in the minor area, a minimum of 6 hours in interdisciplinary courses outside Art History, and a written dissertation. The remainder of the semester hours will be planned in consultation with the student's adviser. Beyond the 36 hours of course work students must take 18 hours of dissertations research. All students will complete the requirements of the M.A. before advancing into the Ph.D. program. Demonstration of reading knowledge of a second language beyond that for the M.A. is required. Students are required to pass a Comprehensive Examination, write a Dissertation, and pass an oral defense of the Dissertation.

Special facilities for graduate work include the works devoted to art within the T. E. Hanley Collection of 37,000 volumes; the Samuel H. Kress Collection of 14th to 19th century European art, including the surviving panels of the Retablo of Ciudad Rodrigo by Fernando Gallego; the Charles Leonard Pfeiffer Collection of American art, consisting of more than 100 contemporary American paintings; the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection of contemporary American paintings and European, Latin American, and Oriental objects of art; and miscellaneous collections, including the University Print Collection of notable examples of the various graphic arts. The Center for Creative Photography houses 50,000 photographic prints, archives of negatives, correspondence, and memorabilia as well as a specialized library of over 12,000 volumes. The University of Arizona Museum of Art schedules exhibitions from these collections and, from time to time, other exhibitions of general or special interest. For additional information, please visit the art history division website: http://web.cfa.arizona.edu/arh/