The Department of Art offers two independent but strongly integrated areas of study: studio art and art history. Both offer a major and minor. We help students to delve deeply into visual culture and study the role of art and architecture in shaping, embodying, and interpreting cultures from the dawn of human history to the present. We study the creative means of discovery and self-expression, and have the opportunity to explore perceptual and conceptual problem solving and also learn research methods within an interdisciplinary approach to understanding historical context.