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The
program in Art History offers studies leading to the Master
of Arts degree in Art History under Plan I (Thesis option)
as preparation for further graduate study or professional
work. In a small program with personal attention from faculty
and a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary training, students
study the theory of art historical interpretation, the methodology
of art historical research and writing, and a broad range
of specialized fields. Independent research as well as study
outside the art history program are both encouraged and students
are given the opportunity to take courses in museum studies.
Degree recipients may work in teaching, museums, galleries,
publishing or arts administration, or may go on to study for
the Ph.D. in other institutions or programs. The UCD Program
in Art History particularly encourages applications from students
who have undergraduate and/or graduate degrees in fields other
than Art History and who wish to redirect their career interest
and goals to Art History.
Past
graduates have gone on for doctoral study in leading programs
across the country including at University of California,
Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara, Stanford
University, Brown University, Princeton University, University
of Toronto, University of Rochester, UCD's own Program in
Cultural Studies and elsewhere. Other students have pursued
museum careers at the Getty Research Center, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York,
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Cantor Center for
Visual Arts at Stanford, the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento,
COPIA, the Nelson Art Gallery (here at UCD), the University
Art Museum at UC Santa Barbara, the Palmer Museum of Art at
Penn State and elsewhere. Still other students have gone from
their M.A. studies here to teach in the state and community
college systems in California, Oregon and Washington and to
work in arts publishing at the University of California Press,
Dwell Magazine and elsewhere.
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