艺术史与批评文学硕士课程为期两年，拥有36个学分，可以灵活攻读学位，重点是现代和当代艺术以及视觉和物质文化。在第二年的学习中，学生必须通过全面考试，并与教职顾问一起撰写书面论文或项目，这是该学位的基本要求。本学位课程允许全日制学习。艺术史与批评文学硕士是博士学位的适当准备。艺术史或其他领域的学位。学生还可以直接从事画廊和博物馆工作，教育，出版，非营利基金会和商业等职业。石溪大学的艺术史与批评研究生课程侧重于现代和当代艺术与视觉文化。我们旨在培养能够通过当代问题和范式解决全球艺术创作的学者，评论家，策展人和
The M.A. in Art History and Criticism is a two year 36-credit flexible degree program with a strong emphasis on modern and contemporary art and visual and material culture. In their second year, students must pass a comprehensive exam, and work with a faculty advisor on a written thesis or project that serves as a capstone requirement for the degree. Part-time study is allowed in this degree program. The M.A. in Art History and Criticism is appropriate preparation for Ph.D. degrees in art history or other fields. Students also move on directly to careers in gallery and museum work, education, publishing, non-profit foundations and business. The Graduate Programs in Art History & Criticism at Stony Brook University focus on modern and contemporary art and visual culture. We aim to produce scholars, critics, curators and practitioners who can address global artistic production through contemporary issues and paradigms. Media aesthetics, art and technology, public art and social practice, politics of the avant-garde, photography, film and critical curatorial studies are currently areas of departmental research. We offer a dynamic, interdisciplinary curriculum along with individual mentoring from faculty whose work has won national and international recognition. Students benefit from engagement with the department's studio programs and with faculty and students from other programs including Philosophy, History, Music, Computer Science and Engineering, and are able to pursue Graduate Certificates in Media, Art, Culture and Technology, Art and Philosophy, Creative Writing and Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, and Writing and Rhetoric, among others