Visual literacy, critical thinking, and research skills meet professional experience in a combined art history and arts management curriculum designed to help students thrive in the art world. The program offers students the knowledge, skills and life experience they will need to become successful professionals in the art world and to prepare those who plan to continue their studies in graduate programs in Arts Management, Museum Studies, or Art History. Students will gain: solid historical knowledge of the objects of art and principal artists of all major periods, and their associated theories, analysis and criticism, including broad understanding of the cultural diversity of art movements from prehistoric times through contemporary culture, both locally and globally an understanding of basic visual principles, concepts, media, and formats in the various fine art disciplines, and the ability to apply them to meet a specific objective, including an ability to think critically and propose creative solutions to aesthetic problems