Academic Requirements for a B.A. in Art History
A minimum of 120 credit hours is required to complete the Bachelor of Arts in Art History degree.
A minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0(C) is required for graduation.
Art History majors must fulfill the IUPUI general education requirements corresponding to IUPUI's Statewide Transferrable General Education Core:
Foundational Intellectual Skills
- Analytical Reasoning (6 cr. of which 3 must be Quantitative Reasoning)
- Core Communication (6 cr.)
- Cultural Understanding (3 cr.)
Intellectual Breadth and Adaptiveness
- Arts/Humanities and Social Sciences (9 cr. total, with at least 3 cr. in each area)
- Life and Physical Sciences (6 cr.)
- 1 credit hour in a first-year seminar
- 3 credit hours in English Composition II (ENG-W270)
- 8 credit hours in foreign language
- 3 credit hours in natural science
- 6 credit hours in history
- 6 credit hours in arts and humanities
- 3 credit hours in social and behavioral sciences
- 6 credit hours in studio art
- 9 credit hours in advanced courses
- A minimum of 36 credit hours of Art History courses are required. HER-H 100 Art Appreciation and HER-H 221 Art Past and Present may not be counted for the Art History major or minor requirements, but may be used for general elective credit. However, HER-H 100 and HER-H 221 may count toward elective credit in the major only if taken before HER-H 101, HER-H 102, and HER-H 103. No course in Art History in which a student receives a grade below C (2.0) may be used to fulfill the 36 credit hour requirement.
- A minimum of 18 credit hours of electives is required.
- A minimum of 26 credit hours of 300- and/or 400-level courses must be completed at Herron/IUPUI.
- A maximum of eight courses may be taken Pass/Fail but no more than two Pass/Fail courses may be taken in any one academic year. Pass/Fail courses can be used only as electives or no major 300- or 400-level requirements.
- A maximum of 12 credit hours may be taken by correspondence through the Indiana University School
- of Continuing Studies. Authorization from the Art History Program faculty and the Student Services Office at Herron School of Art and Design is required prior to registration.
- Once a course has been applied toward one requirement, it cannot be used again to satisfy a second requirement except where explicitly stated otherwise. In addition, except in cases of variable title courses, internships, and other special topics courses, no course number can be counted more than once toward graduation.
- Credit hours from the following courses will not count toward the 122 hours needed for graduation: English G009, G010, G011, G012, G013, G015, and W001; Mathematics M13000, M13100, M13200, M13600, and any mathematics course lower than M118 (e.g., MATH 00100, 11000; 111000).
Last updated: December 2013