BA - Art (Art History) in Las Cruces United States | New Mexico State University

The art history curriculum provides students with comprehensive exposure to visual arts by examining aesthetics, cultural settings, iconography, stylistic evolution, and technical methods through both factual and theoretical approaches. Learners investigate various methodologies and theoretical perspectives for analyzing artworks and imagery. Art history classes address wider societal issues concerning race, class, sexuality, gender, identity, and power dynamics in relation to art, with special focus on our distinctive border region context. As an inherently interdisciplinary field, students should complement their studies with courses in anthropology, history, languages and literature, music history, philosophy, religion, and theater history. We highly recommend learning at least one additional language to facilitate advanced research, since art scholarship often requires working with foreign language sources. An art history degree offers outstanding career preparation for diverse paths including museum and gallery work, education, travel and tourism, auction houses, art law, equity analysis, public relations, arts journalism, appraisal services, and library/archival positions.