Undergraduate Program

The goal of the art history program at Purdue University is to give students a broad, well-rounded training in this discipline, through a variety of courses offered at regular intervals and including classes in western and non-western art. Our courses cover all major historical periods within the mainstream of the western tradition from antiquity to the modern era, in addition to classes dealing with Islamic art and Latin American art. The minor consists of 15 credit hours, with the two basic survey courses of western art required, and with the remaining 9 hours chosen from the categories of ancient and medieval art, renaissance and baroque art, and art of the modern era.