Art history

An art history major will help you to develop competence in visual literacy, analytical skills, communication skills, and cultural and historical awareness. Art history is a marketable major, and graduates make competitive candidates in museums, galleries, archives, and cultural institutions as well as business, education, law, private and nonprofit organizations, professional writing, and publishing.

Art history students explore global history, culture, and society through art and architecture from antiquity to the present day. Trained to celebrate cultural differences and the broad spectrum of human creativity and expression, art history students are natural ambassadors of pluralism and tolerance. As an art history student, you'll develop skills in appreciating visual and material culture to help you become a true global citizen–ideally equipped to understand how historical events and concerns relate to important contemporary and international phenomena.

For admission consideration, students from the Jordanian education system should have an average high school academic performance of at least 70 out of 100. If your secondary school uses a different grading scale, please contact us.

Art history grads attain among the highest LSAT scores and GRE scores nationally, and they are competitive applicants for law school and graduate school. Graduates from our department have worked for institutions, organizations, and businesses around the globe, including the Portland Art Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Columbus, Ohio, Princeton University in New Jersey, and Vogue International in London, England.