Art History and Visual Culture Studies

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If you’re passionate about the visual arts and eager to explore global cultures, values, and beliefs through the study of visual representations and artifacts, this could be your ideal major.

The art history and visual culture studies program at Whitman is a perfect choice for students who seek to investigate visual culture in its historic and modern forms in order to understand its impact on the formation of human values and identity.

The major offers a flexible but rigorous curriculum that incorporates fascinating insights and perspectives from across a wide variety of fields, including history, politics, philosophy, aesthetics, religion, anthropology, sociology, and literature.

The courses are designed to enable students to explore, understand, and appreciate visual histories and representations from across a wide range of eras, countries, and cultures. They also cover an extensive variety of visual forms, including painting, sculpture, architecture, book illustration, prints, film, photography, performance art, and more.