Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Advisor Name:_______________________ Catalog: 2025-26 Catalog Program: Art with a Concentration in Art History

Art with a Concentration in Art History

Students must complete all of the following requirements to graduate with a bachelor of arts in this program. Some courses may apply toward multiple requirements.

College Requirements:

Degree Requirements 

Students are required to complete all standard college requirements.

Major Requirements:

Total major units: 14.5 - 18.5, depending on language proficiency

Six and One-half Units in Art History, Including:

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
ART 201 - Introduction to the History of Art
ART 301 - Ecocritical Art Histories

Prerequisite(s): ART 201 and one 300-level course in art history or studio art

One course in non-Western art

A maximum of 1 unit may be transferred to Reed from another institution

Four Units in Studio Art:

  • A minimum of two art courses in different disciplines
  • A maximum of 1 unit may be transferred to Reed from another institution

Two units of 200-level Humanities from:

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
HUM 211 - The Birth of the Modern I

Prerequisite(s): HUM 110 or sophomore standing

HUM 212 - The Birth of the Modern II

Prerequisite(s): HUM 110 or sophomore standing

HUM 221 - Modern European Humanities I

Prerequisite(s): HUM 110 or sophomore standing

HUM 222 - Modern European Humanities II

Prerequisite(s): HUM 110 or sophomore standing

HUM 231 - Human and Nature (Ancient and Early Medieval China)

Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing

HUM 232 - Empires (Medieval China: From the Tang to the Yuan Dynasty)

Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing

Proficiency in a non-English language, demonstrated by one of the following:

  • Successful completion of Reed non-English language courses:
    ⇒ Four units in one language
    OR
    ⇒ Four units from a maximum of four languages
    OR
    ⇒ One unit at the 300 level or higher

 

  • Department approval of language courses taken elsewhere, which may include:
    ⇒ Successful completion of language courses taken in secondary (high) school or at another college/university, 
    AND/OR
    ⇒ Successful completion of a language placement examination at Reed;

 

  • Department approval following an individual assessment of language proficiency.

Junior Year Requirements:

  • The following should be completed before taking the junior qualifying exam:

    ⇒Two 100-level art courses (at Reed) in different disciplines

    ⇒ ART 201 - Introduction to the History of Art 

    ⇒ A minimum of one unit of studio art at the 300-level
  • Junior qualifying examination

Two units of Thesis

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
ART 470 - Thesis
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