Accelerated Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)/Master of Arts (M.A.) in Art History

Virginia Commonwealth University

The accelerated B.A. and M.A. program allows academically talented students to earn both the B.A. and M.A. in Art History in a minimum of five years by completing approved graduate courses during the senior year of their undergraduate program. The accelerated program may be undertaken in either concentration. Students in the program may count up to 12 hours of graduate courses toward both the B.A. and M.A. degrees. Thus, the two degrees may be earned with a minimum of 138 credits rather than the 150 credits necessary if the two degrees are pursued separately. This option offers students a faster and more cost-effective path to professional success by making them more competitive for jobs in the field immediately following graduation and for admission to doctoral programs in art history. Students holding these degrees will attain the skills considered critical to success in the field and continued advanced study in art history, including the ability to apply critical and analytical concepts, frameworks and methods the ability to contextualize scholarship in relationship to existing art historical/museological knowledge, discourse and/or debate the ability to translate art historical scholarship written in a language or languages relevant to their research and the ability to conduct scholarly inquiry that makes a scholarly professional contribution.

School of the Arts