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Art History and Global Cultures

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

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Museum employee

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 LibraryScholar 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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