Art History

Professor George Gorse, department chair

Study of the history of art enhances general education by revealing how meaning can be made visual. Students gain the ability to deal with the imagery of their own and other cultures more effectively and critically. Questions concerning historical method, cultural diversity, feminism, gender, class, race, critical media theory, museum and conservation studies inform the art history curriculum. Pomona College and Scripps College have a joint art history program, with courses at Pitzer College, that treats in a transcultural way European, Native American, North and South American, African, African Diaspora, Islamic, Asian and Oceanic topics through introductory and advanced courses. Art history courses are taught in collaboration with the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery and Clark Humanities Museum of Scripps College, and Pitzer Art Gallery, along with fieldtrips to art museums and galleries, major cultural sites of greater Los Angeles. Students are advised to start with the ARHI 001A PO  and ARHI 001B PO  introductory series, but may enroll in the upper-division courses at any time with permission of the instructor.

• Art History Major
    
• Art History Minor
    
• Art History Courses
     

Read more about our learning objectives:
www.pomona.edu/administration/academic-dean/learning-objectives