CSUSM VPA - Minor Requirements

Requirements For Minor in Art History
The Art History Minor offers students a program of integrated study in modern and contemporary art history, visual culture and cultural theory. Students will become versed in approaches to art history and visual culture through perspectives that focus on the contributions of peoples whose art has not received the recognition and critical study that it deserves. Students will be introduced to the study of art history and visual culture through engaged viewing and critical study of visual art in class and outside of the classroom: in museums, artists' studios and within the landscape and the everyday world (site-specific environmental artwork, and artists' billboards, for example). The Art History Minor expands the traditional notion of art, and allows students to approach art actively as a form of social, political and personal expression, and as a catalyst for rethinking the traditions of art history itself.
Total Units (21)
	Units	Check List
Four courses from the following:	12
VSAR 120 - Introduction to Visual Arts VSAR 222 - Survey of World Cinema VSAR 307 - Holocaust Art, Photography and Film VSAR 320 - Public Expression in the Arts VSAR 322 - Women Artists in the 20th Century VSAR 323 - Chicano Art in the Border Region VSAR 326 - Feminist Art and Motherhood VSAR 327 - Modern and Contemporary Art Movements VSAR 328 - Video Art History and Theory VSAR 405 - Critical Theories of the Arts in Cyberspace VSAR 422 - Art and Technology of the Moving Image VSAR 423 -Critical History of Photography

Two studio art courses from the following:	6
VSAR 293 - Studio Art Instruction VSAR 302 - The Computer and the Visual Arts VSAR 303 - Introduction to Video Arts VSAR 308 - Audio Art and Sound Design VSAR 309 - Generating Narrative in Video and New Media

One course in Dance, Music, or Theater Arts (studio or critical theory):	3

The Art History Minor consists of twenty-one (21) units of credit. All courses submitted for the Minor must be completed with a grade of C or better. Courses submitted for the Minor may also be used to fulfill General Education requirements. At least twelve (12) units of coursework submitted for the Minor must be completed at CSUSM. Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) majors may pursue this Minor if nine (9) units are mutually exclusive, i.e., not double-counted for the major and minor.