鶹ԭ

Art History & Visual Studies BA

USA

4

What will I learn?

The Art History & Visual Studies program offers two distinct tracks for undergraduate majors and minors, designed to help students prepare for the many career choices available to students pursuing a degree in one of the richest and most diverse fields in the humanities.

Careers

Students of Art History & Visual Studies will graduate with valuable, marketable skills to include visual analysis, critical writing and thinking and a sophisticated understanding of the increasingly visual culture we all live and work in. Majors are encouraged to pursue internship opportunities to gain further experience in the field. Students have undertaken internships on-campus at the UK Art Museum and in nationally-recognized institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Career opportunities in Art History & Visual Studies:

Curating

Teaching

Arts management

Gallery Director

Publishing

Art journalism

What You'll Study

The Art History and Visual Studies program offers two distinct tracks for undergraduate majors: Art History focuses on the development of the visual arts, particularly on the histories of “high” or “fine” art within a broad liberal arts tradition. Visual Studies offers majors a broad interdisciplinary selection of courses and methodologies from the arts, design, humanities, social sciences, and sciences to study the uses to which people put the visual and the place of the visual within the context of diverse cultures and within a global context.

Majors

  • Visual Studies
  • Art History

Which department am I in?

College of Fine Arts

Study options

Full Time (120 Hours)

Tuition fees
$33,406.00 (28,18,596) per year
Application deadline

Expected May, October 2025

Start date

January 2025

Venue

College of Fine Arts

202 Fine Arts Building,

465 Rose Street,

LEXINGTON,

Kentucky,

40506, United States

Entry requirements

For international students

Freshman Admission: Applicants who have not attended a college or university upon completion of secondary school AND who have met all requirements including English proficiency as noted below. English proficiency Scores: TOEFL: 71 iBT; IELTS: 6.0; Duolingo: 105. Priority Application Deadline: December 1 for Fall semester (August start); October 15 for Spring semester (January start).

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

ADD TO MY FAVOURITES