Deepen Your Awareness of Historical Trends in Art & Design
While UW-Stout Polytechnic's Art History Minor is most often pursued by art and design majors, art history is naturally interdisciplinary and is suitable for anyone who has a strong visual interest. You will gain the tools and vocabulary needed for interpreting visual culture and for decoding the visual world around you.
Minor Requirements
As we discuss world cultures and traditions, you'll learn to promote and value diversity and gain insight into your own preconceptions of the world. You'll develop a strong ability in visual analysis, close looking, and communication skills that have applications in many other fields.
By exploring the social and cultural contexts of art and architecture, our program incorporates not only social, economic, and intellectual history, but gender history and gender politics, religious belief, human psychology and motivation, modes of creativity, and issues of ethics, aesthetics and artistic practice.