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The Associate in Arts in Art History for Transfer provides courses that enable students to complete lower division prerequisites and general education requirements for transfer to the CSU within the art history major and the completion of a baccalaureate degree, with guaranteed admission to a CSU to a similar major with junior standing, and the ability to complete their remaining requirements within 60 semester or 90 quarter units.

The Associate in Arts in Art History Degree for Transfer at Pasadena City College promotes an understanding of the history of art across cultures, geographic boundaries, periods of time, and visual media. Students are taught to apply fundamental terminology and methods to critically analyze human-made objects intended to be appreciated for their creative, emotional, spiritual, persuasive, and decorative features while articulating in written and verbal form their historical, social, theoretical, and aesthetic forms and functions from a global perspective.

Program Outcomes

• Analyze and discuss works of art in a variety of media and across a diverse range of historical, geographic, and cultural contexts utilizing art historical methods, as well as college-level and scholarly resources.
• Identify and compare the aesthetic and philosophical characteristics of artistic movements, periods, styles, and cultural expressions in art history from a global perspective.
• Evaluate visual modes of creative expression as a framework for understanding the human condition.

Associate in Arts in Art History for Transfer Degree

Course List

Code	Title	Units
REQUIRED CORE
ART 001A	HISTORY OF WESTERN ART - PREHISTORIC THROUGH MEDIEVAL	3
or ART 001B	HISTORY OF WESTERN ART - RENAISSANCE THROUGH CONTEMPORARY
One of the following:
ART 001C	ARTS OF AFRICA, OCEANIA, AND INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICA	3
or ART 003A	HISTORY OF ASIAN ART: INDIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
or ART 003B	HISTORY OF ASIAN ART: CHINA, KOREA, AND JAPAN
or ART 007	PRE-COLUMBIAN ART HISTORY
or ART 008	MEXICAN AND CHICANA/O ART HISTORY
or ART 009	ISLAMIC ART HISTORY
ART 011A	FOUNDATION DRAWING	3
LIST A - SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:		3
ART 004A	HISTORY OF ANCIENT ART
ART 004B	HISTORY OF EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL ART
ART 004C	HISTORY OF EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART
ART 004D	HISTORY OF MODERN ART
ART 014	AFRICAN AMERICAN ART
LIST B - SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:		3
ART 012A	BEGINNING LIFE DRAWING
ART 016	PERSPECTIVE
ART 018	RENDERING
ART 020A	BEGINNING PAINTING
ART 020B	INTERMEDIATE PAINTING
ART 020C	ADVANCED PAINTING
ART 023A	PRINTMAKING - INTAGLIO AND RELIEF
ART 025	BEGINNING SCULPTURE
ART 026	SCULPTURE
ART 028	FIGURE SCULPTURE
ART 031A	COLOR AND COMPOSITION - TWO DIMENSIONAL DESIGN
ART 031B	COLOR THEORY
ART 032A	DESIGN - THREE DIMENSIONAL
ART 034A	APPLIED DESIGN I - MATERIALS AND PROCESSES
ART 038A	INTRODUCTION TO CERAMICS
ART 038B	INTERMEDIATE CERAMICS
ART 038C	ADVANCED CERAMICS
ART 039A	HANDBUILT CERAMICS
DMA 010	DIGITAL ART: DESIGN FOUNDATION
DMA 012	DIGITAL ART: PAINTING & DRAWING
DMA 022A	TYPOGRAPHY I
PHOT 002	DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY I
PHOT 021	INTRODUCTION TO BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY
LIST C - SELECT ONE COURSE OR ANY COURSE NOT USED IN LIST A OR B:		3-5
ART 005	ART FUNDAMENTALS
CHIN 003	INTERMEDIATE CHINESE (MANDARIN) - LEVEL 1
FRNC 003	INTERMEDIATE FRENCH - LEVEL 1
FRNC 004	INTERMEDIATE FRENCH - LEVEL 2
GRMN 003	INTERMEDIATE GERMAN - LEVEL 1
GRMN 004	INTERMEDIATE GERMAN - LEVEL 2
HIST 001A	HISTORY OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION TO 1715
HIST 001B	HISTORY OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION FROM 1715
HIST 002A	HISTORY OF WORLD CIVILIZATIONS TO 1500
HIST 002B	HISTORY OF WORLD CIVILIZATIONS FROM 1500
HIST 005A	HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN TO 1714
HIST 005B	HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN FROM 1714
HIST 007A	UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1876
or HIST 007AH	HONORS UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1876
HIST 007B	UNITED STATES HISTORY FROM 1876
or HIST 007BH	HONORS UNITED STATES HISTORY FROM 1876
HIST 008	HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA
HIST 009A	LATIN AMERICA: PRE-COLOMBIAN TO 1825
HIST 009B	LATIN AMERICA: 1825 TO THE PRESENT
HIST 016	HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
HIST 018	HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA, SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
HIST 019	HISTORY OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA
HIST 025B	WOMEN IN AMERICAN SOCIETY
HIST 025D	HISTORY OF THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
HIST 025F	AMERICA AND THE TWO WORLD WARS
HIST 025I	THE UNITED STATES & THE WARS IN VIETNAM
HIST 030	HISTORY OF MEXICO
HIST 051	HISTORY OF INDIGENOUS NATIVE AMERICANS
or ETH 051	HISTORY OF INDIGENOUS NATIVE AMERICANS
HIST 061A	AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1865
or ETH 061A	AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1865
HIST 061B	AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY FROM 1865
or ETH 061B	AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY FROM 1865
HIST 071	ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HISTORY
or ETH 071	ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HISTORY
HIST 081	MEXICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
or ETH 081	MEXICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
HUM 001	INTRODUCTION TO THE HUMANITIES
HUM 002	HUMANITIES, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
HUM 003	HUMANITIES AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
HUM 004	HUMANITIES THROUGH THE ARTS
ITAL 003	INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN - LEVEL 1
ITAL 004	INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN - LEVEL 2
JAPN 003	INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE - LEVEL 1
JAPN 004	INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE - LEVEL 2
PHIL 001	INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
or PHIL 001H	HONORS INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
PHIL 003	ETHICS
PHIL 007	CONTEMPORARY MORAL PROBLEMS
PHIL 008	PHILOSOPHY AND HUMANNESS
PHIL 020A	HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
PHIL 020B	HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY
PHIL 031	CONTEMPORARY CHICANO PHILOSOPHY
PHIL 037	PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
PORT 003	INTERMEDIATE PORTUGUESE - LEVEL 1
PORT 004	INTERMEDIATE PORTUGUESE - LEVEL 2
RELG 001	WORLD RELIGIONS
RELG 002	ASIAN RELIGIONS
RELG 003	WESTERN RELIGIONS
SPAN 003	INTERMEDIATE SPANISH - LEVEL 1
SPAN 004	INTERMEDIATE SPANISH - LEVEL 2
ANTH 001	INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
or ANTH 001H	INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY - HONORS
ANTH 002	CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
or ANTH 002H	HONORS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 003	INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY
ANTH 004	ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION, WITCHCRAFT, AND MAGIC
ANTH 005	INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 006	ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION
ANTH 009	GENDER, SEX AND CULTURE
ANTH 012	AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURES
ANTH 086	CHICANO/A AND LATINO/A AMERICAN CULTURE
or ETH 086	CHICANO/A AND LATINO/A AMERICAN CULTURE
HIST 027	AFRICAN HISTORY
PSYC 062	AFRICAN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY
or ETH 062	AFRICAN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY
PSYC 082	CHICANO/A PSYCHOLOGY
or ETH 082	CHICANO/A PSYCHOLOGY
SOC 014	INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC STUDIES
or SOC 014H	HONORS INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC STUDIES
or ETH 014	INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC STUDIES
or ETH 014H	HONORS INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC STUDIES
SOC 030	INTRODUCTION TO GENDER
SOC 063	AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY
or ETH 063	AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY
SOC 073	ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY
or ETH 073	ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY
SOC 083	CHICANO SOCIOLOGY
or ETH 083	CHICANO SOCIOLOGY
Required Subtotal		18-20
Cal-GETC 1		34
Transferable Electives (as needed to reach 60 transferable units)
Degree Total		60

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Students with rights to former general education patterns are able to use the CSU GE or IGETC-CSU in lieu of Cal-GETC to complete the general education requirement of this degree. Students should consult with an Academic Counselor to help determine which general education pattern to complete.

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General Education Requirements for the Associate in Arts Degree for Transfer

• General Information
• Cal-GETC
• Students with rights to the former general education patterns can complete IGETC-CSU or CSU GE in lieu of Cal-GETC. Students should consult with an Academic Counselor to determine which general education pattern to complete and may refer to an appropriate archived College Catalog or www.assist.org for more information.