What You'll Study

The Art History & Visual Studies offers majors a broad interdisciplinary selection of courses and methodologies from the arts, design, humanities, social sciences, and sciences to study the uses to which people put the visual and the place of the visual within the context of diverse cultures and within a global context. 

Careers

Students of Art History & Visual Studies will graduate with valuable, marketable skills, including visual analysis, critical writing and thinking, and a sophisticated understanding of the increasingly visual culture within which we all live and work. 

Majors are encouraged to pursue internship opportunities to gain further experience in the field. Students have undertaken internships on-campus at the UK Art Museum and in nationally-recognized institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Career opportunities in Art History & Visual Studies:

  • Curating
  • Teaching
  • Arts Management
  • Gallery Director
  • Publishing
  • Art Journalism