Art: Art History, BA

Requirements for Students Matriculating in or before Academic Year 2025-2026. Learn more about University Academic Regulation 3.1.

Minimum Overall Grade Point Average: 2.00
Total Hours: 120 

General Education Requirements
English Composition
See Academic Regulation 3.5
ENGL 1113Composition I3
or ENGL 1313 Critical Analysis and Writing I
Select one of the following:3
Composition II
Critical Analysis and Writing II
Technical Writing
American History & Government
HIST 1103Survey of American History3
or HIST 1483 American History to 1865 (H)
or HIST 1493 American History Since 1865 (DH)
POLS 1113American Government3
Quantitative Thought & Logical Reasoning (Q)
MATH or STAT course designated (Q)3
Understanding Humanities-Human Heritage & Cultures (H)
Courses designated (H)6
Reasoning in the Natural Sciences (N)
Must include one Laboratory-Based Inquiry (L) course
Courses designated (N)6
Exploring Society & Human Behavior (S)
Course designated (S)3
Diversity (D)
Courses designated (D)3
Global Cultural Competency (G)
Courses designated (G)3
Additional General Education
Additional general education credit hours (at least 4 hours) are required to meet the total 40-hour minimum. If courses carry more than one general education designation and can be used to meet multiple minimum general education designation hours above, more than 4 hours of additional general education will be required here to meet the 40-hour minimum.
Courses designated (Q), (H), (N), (S), (D), (G), or (F)4
Hours Subtotal40
College/Departmental Requirements
UNIV 1111First Year Seminar (or other approved first-year seminar course)1
Arts & Humanities
See note 2.a.9
Natural & Mathematical Sciences
See note 2.b.3
Foreign Language
See note 39
Non-Western Studies
Select at least one course
See note 2.d.
Upper-Division General Education
Select 6 hours outside major department
See note 2.c.
Hours Subtotal22
Major Requirements
Minimum 3.00 GPA in all Art History courses 1
Minimum grade of “C” in all ART courses
Art History Core
ART 1503Art History Survey to 1400 (H)3
ART 1513Art History Survey Since 1400 (H)3
ART 2573Art History Sophomore Seminar3
ART 4943Art History Senior Capstone3
ART 4920Art History Symposium (Specifically for art history majors, and typically taken during the student’s final year. Students participate in a public presentation of a research paper prepared in ART 4943 (Art History Senior Capstone). Special attention is given to argument, methodology, visual, and overall presentation.)1
Art History Electives
Select 24 hours (18 hours must be upper-division) from:24
Leonardo, Art, And Science (H)
Fashioning and Self Fashioning: The Renaissance Portrait (H)
History of Prints and Printmaking
Introduction to Museum and Curatorial Studies (H)
Writing Methods In Art History
History of Classical Art (H)
History of Italian Renaissance Art (H)
History of Baroque Art (H)
History of Graphic Design
History of 19th Century Art (H)
History of American Art (DH)
History of Northern Renaissance Art
History of 20th Century Art (GH)
Survey of Asian Art (H)
Early Medieval Art: Saints, Martyrs, Pagans (H)
Court and Cloister: Medieval Art 1050-1400 (H)
History of Latin American Art I
History of Latin American Art II (GH)
The Arts of Spain and the Spanish World (H)
Rome: The Eternal City in Art and Film (H)
Art of Conversion: 16th Century Art in Mexico (H)
History of Ancient Egyptian Art
Art Since 1960
History of Indian Art
History of Chinese Art (H)
History of Japanese Art
Modern and Contemporary Art in Asia
Gender And Visual Culture
Art East and West: Biases and Borrowings
The Visual Culture of the Islamic World (GH)
History of Museums and Collecting
Museum Education
Native American Art and Material Culture
Architecture and Space in East Asia
Special Studies in Art
Museum Internship
Museum Exhibition
Apprenticeship
Directed Study in Art History
Art History Symposium
20th Century Chinese Art
Senior Honors Project
Upper-Division Related Courses
Select 6 hours of ARCH, AMST, ANTH, HIST, PHIL, or other courses with approval of departmental advisor6
Hours Subtotal43
Electives
Select 15 hours. May need to include 6 hours upper-division general education outside major department (see note 2.c.) and 9 additional upper-division hours15
Hours Subtotal15
Total Hours120
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Courses include those listed below:

Art History course list
Introduction to Museum and Cultural Studies (H)
Art History Survey Since 1400 (H)
Introduction to Global Art (H)
Leonardo, Art, And Science (H)
Fashioning and Self Fashioning: The Renaissance Portrait (H)
History of Prints and Printmaking
History of Photography
Introduction to Museum and Curatorial Studies (H)
Writing Methods In Art History
History of Classical Art (H)
History of Italian Renaissance Art (H)
History of Baroque Art (H)
History of Graphic Design
History of 19th Century Art (H)
History of American Art (DH)
History of Northern Renaissance Art
History of 20th Century Art (GH)
Survey of Asian Art (H)
Early Medieval Art: Saints, Martyrs, Pagans (H)
Court and Cloister: Medieval Art 1050-1400 (H)
History of Latin American Art I
History of Latin American Art II (GH)
The Arts of Spain and the Spanish World (H)
Art Travel Course
History of African American Art
Special Topics in Art History
Art History Honors Course
Rome: The Eternal City in Art and Film (H)
Art of Conversion: 16th Century Art in Mexico (H)
History of Ancient Egyptian Art
Art Since 1960
History of Indian Art
History of Chinese Art (H)
History of Japanese Art
Modern and Contemporary Art in Asia
Gender And Visual Culture
Art East and West: Biases and Borrowings
The Visual Culture of the Islamic World (GH)
History of Museums and Collecting
Museum Education
Native American Art and Material Culture
Rembrandt Van Rijn
Special Studies in Art
Museum Internship
Museum Exhibition
Apprenticeship
Directed Study in Art History
Art History Symposium
Art in Context
20th Century Chinese Art
Senior Honors Project

Other Requirements

  • See the College of Arts and Sciences Requirements.
  • Upper-Division Credit: Total hours must include at least 40 hours in courses numbered 3000 or above.

College of Arts and Sciences Requirements

  1. Hours in One Department: For B.A. and B.S. degrees, no more than 54 hours in one department may be required to meet degree requirements. Courses used to satisfy the General Education English Composition, U.S. History, American Government, and Mathematics or Statistics requirements will not count toward the 54-hour maximum required from one department.
  2. A&S College/Departmental Requirements
    1. Arts and Humanities are defined as any course carrying an (H) designation or courses from AMST, ART, DANC, ENGL (except ENGL 3323 Technical Writing) HIST, MUSI, PHIL (except PHIL 1313 Logic and Critical Thinking (Q), PHIL 3003 Symbolic Logic (Q) and PHIL 4003 Mathematical Logic and Computability), REL, TH, and foreign languages.
    2. Natural and Mathematical Sciences are defined as any course from the following prefixes: ASTR, BIOC, BIOL, CHEM, CS (except CS 4883 Social Issues in Computing), GEOL, MATH, MICR, PBIO, PHYS, and STAT; or courses from other departments that carry an (A) or (N) general education designation.
    3. Six upper-division hours are required from General Education or any CAS courses outside the student’s major department. This requirement may be satisfied by courses also used to satisfy any part of a student’s degree program (i.e., in General Education, College Departmental Requirements, Major Requirements or Electives).
    4. Non-Western Studies Requirement for B.A. and B.F.A.; One course in Non-Western Studies (N.W.). This requirement may be satisfied by courses also used to satisfy any part of a student's degree program (i.e., in General Education, College Departmental Requirements, Major Requirements or Electives).
    5. The College of Arts & Sciences requires a minimum 2.0 GPA in all major requirements and a minimum 2.0 GPA in all major-prefix courses applied to the degree.
  3. Foreign Language Proficiency
    1. The foreign language requirement for the B.A. may be satisfied by 9 hours college credit in the same language, which must include 3 hours at the 2000-level, or equivalent proficiency (e.g., passing an advanced standing examination; TOEFL exam; presenting a high school transcript which demonstrates the high school was primarily conducted in a language other than English; etc.). Computer Science courses may not be used to satisfy this requirement. Currently Arabic and Mvskoke are not offered at the 2000-level at OSU.
    2. The foreign language requirement for the B.S., B.M. and B.F.A. may be satisfied by presenting a high school transcript which demonstrates two years of study of a single foreign language (passing grades at second-year level of study). It may also be satisfied by 6 hours college credit in the same language, which must include language courses 1713 and 1813, or equivalent proficiency (e.g., passing an advanced standing examination; TOEFL exam; presenting a high school transcript which demonstrates the high school was primarily conducted in a language other than English; etc.). Computer Science courses may not be used to satisfy this requirement.
    3. In addition to a. and b., students pursuing teacher certification must meet novice-high foreign language proficiency by presenting a high school transcript which demonstrates two years of study of a single foreign language with no grade below B. Or, students may complete 3 hours college credit in a single language with no grade below C (or pass an advanced standing examination, College Level Examination Program (CLEP) exam, or Oral Proficiency Interview developed by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, equivalent to 3 hours of college credit.) Or, students may meet the requirement by transfer of documentation of meeting the foreign language competency from one of the teacher education programs in the State of Oklahoma approved by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.
  4. Exclusions. Courses with ATHL or LEIS prefixes and leisure activity courses may not be used for degree credit.

Additional State/OSU Requirements

  • At least: 60 hours at a four-year institution; 30 hours completed at OSU; 15 of the final 30 and 50% of the upper-division hours in the major field completed at OSU.
  • Limit of: one-half of major course requirements as transfer work; one-fourth of hours earned by correspondence; 8 transfer correspondence hours.
  • Students will be held responsible for degree requirements in effect at the time of matriculation and any changes that are made, so long as these changes do not result in semester credit hours being added or do not delay graduation.
  • Degrees that follow this plan must be completed by the end of Summer 2031.

Finish in Four Plan of Study

The plan below is an example of how students can successfully complete degree requirements in four years. This suggested class schedule plan may be used as a guide and can be adjusted based on individual needs. Students are required to meet with an academic advisor prior to enrollment each semester to plan their class schedule, and students are ultimately responsible for completing all degree requirements.

Plan of Study Grid
Freshman
FallHours
ENGL 1113 Composition I 3
ART 1503 Art History Survey to 1400 (H) 3
General Educations courses 9
 Hours15
Spring
ENGL 1213 Composition II 3
ART 1513 Art History Survey Since 1400 (H) 3
General Education Courses 9
 Hours15
Sophomore
Fall
1713 First Semester Foreign Language 3
Upper-division Art History 3
Major, College, and Elective courses 9
 Hours15
Spring
1813 Second Semester Foreign Language 3
3 hours Upper-Division Art History 3
Major, College, and Elective courses 6
ART 2573 Art History Sophomore Seminar 3
 Hours15
Junior
Fall
2000-level Foreign Language 3
6 hours Upper-Division Art History 6
Major, College, and Elective courses 6
 Hours15
Spring
3 hours Upper-Division Art History 3
Major, College, and Elective courses 12
 Hours15
Senior
Fall
6 hours Upper-Division Art History 6
Major, College, and Elective courses 6
ART 4943 Art History Senior Capstone 3
 Hours15
Spring
ART 4920 Art History Symposium 1
3 hours Upper-Division Art History 3
Major, College, and Elective courses 11
 Hours15
 Total Hours120