Directed Study

Students are encouraged to fulfill most, if not all, of their art history requirements through the regular curriculum. However, if there is a topic you would like to explore in more depth, and fairly independently, you may register for either AH 3993 or AH 4993. You must register for a directed study by the first week of classes. Directed studies can be taken any semester (including summer), if the faculty member is available to supervise the study.

What to do if interested:

•  Think of a relatively narrow topic in art history that you would like to research.

2) Ask the art history professor who would be most appropriate for that topic if s/he would be able to direct your study during a given semester.

•  Fill out a directed study form, in conjunction with the professor; allow time for signatures to be obtained from other art history professors and the division chair.

4) Turn in the signed form to the Humanities Office for the division chair's approval. When that is done, one of the secretaries will email you to pick up the form, and you then register in person.

Some previous examples of successful directed studies in art history:

- “Focus Exhibition: The Women Degas Created” [mock proposal and guide to a small exhibition on this theme]

- “Quilting and its Impact on Women in the U.S., Past and Present”

- “An Evaluation of Children's Art History Books and a Proposal for a New Series”

- “Notre-Dame of Paris in Text and in Reality” [done as part of the UMM July in Paris program]

- “Contemporary Art in Cameroon” [done as part of a study abroad program]

- “Readings in Surrealism”