Bachelor's
About Art History and Global Cultures at CSUSB
Earn your B.A. in Art History and Global Cultures at CSUSB. Study global art traditions, visual storytelling, and the impact of history, politics and technology. Prepare for careers in museums, galleries, archives and more.
Careers in Art History and Global Cultures
This bachelor’s degree prepares CSUSB graduates for meaningful and rewarding careers working at/in:
- galleries
- museums
- archives
- visual-arts libraries
- non-profit arts organizations
- governmental and non-governmental (NGO) arts-funding bodies
- arts journalism and communications
- advertising and marketing
Sample Courses
Globalization, Art, and Visual Culture
Providing an overview of historical world art and contemporary global art, and an update on the conditions of globalization in the 21st century, this course will reveal how global issues, global communities, and digital forms of communication are more and more constructed through visual expressions.
Asian Contemporary Art
Exploration of aesthetic experiences of the contemporary visual arts of Asian cultures such as China, India, Korea, and Japan.
Visualizing Gender, Performing Identity
Examines the ways in which gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and disability are visual forms of identification, in addition to how identities are performed through stylized repetitions accepted as social norms across diverse cultural communities.
Opportunities for Students
CSUSB’s Art History and Global Cultures majors have ready access to the Visual Resource Center, a collection of study images and current research resources, and to the John M. Pfau Library. Scholar Art is a peer-reviewed journal in which art history students can publish their work; the publication also gives students an opportunity to learn how to edit papers and work on the online presentation of their essays.
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