Art History

Admissions is competitive. The MA Art History program accepts applications for fall admissions only. The electronic application and fee payment for USF graduate Admissions must be completed by January 15 at https://secure.vzcollegeapp.com/usf/ Supportive application materials can be submitted online beginning September 30 to January 15 at https://usf.slideroom.com/#/login. All official transcripts must be postmarked by January 15 and sent directly to the School of Art and Art History.

• Departmental Requirements plus a research paper dealing directly with Art History or a related discipline (literature, political history, psychology, philosophy or classical studies).

• Three letters of recommendation from people who can professionally assess the applicant\'s ability to do scholarly and academic work.

• A short essay of one to two pages explaining the applicant\'s research interests and goals for graduate study in art history.

• A personal interview by the Art History faculty may be requested.

Undergraduate Deficiencies in Art History

• Students pursuing graduate studies in Art History, who do not have an undergraduate degree in Art History will be expected to complete four undergraduate Art History survey courses plus two courses in critical studies.

• Exceptions can be granted only with consent of the Art History faculty.

Language Requirements

Reading knowledge of the foreign language most relevant for study and research in the student\'s area of specialization must be acquired before the end of the second semester of enrollment in the program. Please see the Academic Advisor for exceptions to this rule.

The student may take appropriate courses in the Division of Language or Classics Program. Whenever the courses are available, the student should be encouraged to take one of the special one semester foreign language courses designed for graduate students.

When these courses are not available, the student may take two semesters of a beginning foreign language course. These courses may not be taken pass/fail or audit. In order to fulfill the foreign language requirement, the student must receive a letter grade of \xc2\x93B\xc2\x94 or better in both courses. Courses taken to fulfill the foreign language requirement will not count toward hours necessary for graduation and the grades in these courses will not be computed in the student\'s graduate GPA.

Students may elect to take the GSFLT (Graduate School Foreign Language Test). The student must achieve a score of 450 or above on the test in order to fulfill the foreign language requirement.

Students may take a proficiency exam in which they translate, from a foreign language into English, materials relevant to their particular disciplines. The form of these proficiency exams should be devised by the appropriate language professors from either of these two units.