You will pursue your studies in the context of a broad-based liberal arts education that develops your critical thinking and communication skills. You will emerge not just with a knowledge of the subject, but also with the ability to look attentively and perceptively at the world around you and to articulate clearly what you see. These are the skills that enable Assumption graduates to succeed in their professions and their lives.?
Student who minor in complete 6 or 7 courses. A minor in Art History provides students with a lively introduction to the discipline that can be applied in professional positions from museum work to publishing to landscape architecture.
Opportunities outside the Classroom
- Art History Club:?The club organizes social events and visits to museums and exhibitions.
- Museums:?The department organizes an annual trip to one of the great art museums in New York ? The Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum have featured recently ? and one other trip each year to one of the? museums closer to hand: the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Harvard Art Museums, or Mass MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), for example.? Many Art History classes involve a visit to the renowned Worcester Art Museum, only two miles from campus, and faculty often use works from the museum?s collection in their teaching.
- Internships:?Students have had internships for credit at places like the Worcester Art Museum, Davis Publications, Preservation Worcester and Museum Action Corps.
- Study abroad:?Assumption offers a number of study abroad options that complement art history. ?Most notably, the Rome Program and the annual Foundations trips to European destinations have a strong Art History component.
Career Opportunities
Our visual arts graduates find careers as:
- Teachers
- Museum curators and staff members
- Graphic designers
- Art historians
- Researchers
- Arts organization managers
- Art directors and graphics editors for newspapers and magazines
- Web designers
