Tuesday, July 20, 2010

If I am an art history minor, can I get my masters in graduate school in art history?

I'm not too sure about this. I want to get a masters in art history. I'm an art history minor now and I'm a sophomore. When I apply to graduate school, can I just go for a masters in art history or would I have to finish up a bachelors in art history. I hope you all understand this because I'm confusing myself now!

If I am an art history minor, can I get my masters in graduate school in art history?
It depends on the school and the master's. It's more likely to be acceptable to an MA program than to an MFA program. At most, you would be required to take some more art history undergraduate courses as prerequisites.





My real question to you though, if you're going to do a master's in art history, why are you not doing your bachelor's in art history or at least the double major? The major can't be that many hours more than the minor.





As for the other poster "what do you do with that?" firstly, you would enjoy the aesthetic of art for personal satisfaction. Occupationally, you could become a college professor in an art school, a public school teacher in art, the curator of a museum of art, an art critic/journalist, art director at an ad agency or publisher, an appraiser of fine art, the SME at an auction house, the exec of a community arts council.... lots of cool things to do with a degree in art history. ☺ You could also do every job that requires a degree but doesn't specify in what - that's a big group of jobs.
Reply:What does the university counsellor say???
Reply:Once you get to post-graduate work rules for admission are fundamentally different. I once knew a person who earned his Bachelors in Spanish, and entered a Masters program in Applied Ethics (he'd never even studied ethics). I also knew a person with a Bachelors in Psychology, that was in an M.B.A. program. Hence, you do not technically need to have prior studies in the program you wish to enter in some cases. Most of the time, however, you will need to meet several entry requirements, and the graduate program to which you are entering will expect you to have a rudimentary expert knowledge of the subject. That being said a minor may satisfy the requirements for some graduate schools, and it may not for others. What you will have to do is decide where you want to go, but it is not impossible to earn a Masters in Art History per se ... you might just have to go to a different school than you may have originally planned.
Reply:What's the point? Where can you even go with that? Are you going to teach? Well, okay.





You can transfer a degree program to a masters, you need to look and do some research at the universities that offers what it is you're looking for. I don't know because I have no idea where you are, secondly, if it's not in Canada then I really don't know for sure.

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