Studying art and architectural history provides students with the necessary skills to critically analyze and comprehend the arguments conveyed in those images and forms. The art history program also provides students with the means necessary to communicate this understanding in coherent written and verbal expression. Studying the history of art and architecture allows students to engage with the ways in which people in the past and present — patrons, artists, architects, users, and viewers — have created and employed images and forms and to what ends. Indeed, students study works of art and architecture that embody the most important ideas and cherished aspirations of cultures through time and across the globe. As a result, they gain a deeper understanding of a global, and multicultural, past and present.
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