Join ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the largest comprehensive design and arts school in the USA. The extraordinary facilities include the Fine Arts Center, 3,000-seat Gammage Auditorium, the Dance Studio Theatre and the Music Building with performance spaces.The Master of Arts program in art history is a comprehensive graduate degree program that fosters a critical understanding of visual art and material culture, and engages students in a rich and diverse curriculum. Inherently interdisciplinary, art history intersects with a variety of fields, including museum studies, archaeology, anthropology, media and performance studies, gender and ethnic studies, history, literature, philosophy and economics. Faculty members apply critical methodologies in their teaching of art history, encompassing transcultural exchange and technologies of production and reception. Faculty mentor students in the application of theoretical and methodological approaches to scholarly research, advise on their comprehensive literature review, and guide them as they determine their individual contribution to the field, culminating in a master's thesis. Students take advanced seminars that engage with critical issues in art history, preparing them to develop their research with a particular focus in the discipline of art history.
