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Trinity's Fine Arts Department takes great pride in its Art History Program -- and rightfully so. While it is small enough to offer students individual attention, it is also worldly enough to endow them with a breadth of knowledge essential to a career in art history or related fields -- and the depth of curiosity, sense of purpose, and clarity of thought requisite to success in any endeavor. Trinity's Art History faculty is one of many outstanding strengths. Department Chairman Michael FitzGerald, for example, publishes and lectures widely on 20th-century art, and his teaching encompasses the history of photography and film
HIST-05 Britain Since 1815 Michal Shapira (Section 01) HIST-07 Ecological Imperialism, c. 1492-Present Jill R. Payne (Section 01) HIST-08 Colonial North America Kevin M. Sweeney (Section 01) HIST-12 Black Diaspora from Emancipation to the Present J. Celso Castro Alves (Section 01) HIST-21 Race, Empire, and Transnationalism: Chinese Diasporic Communities in the World Richard T. Chu (Section 01) HIST-22 Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa Sean Redding (Section 01) HIST-28 People and Pollution, c. 1760-Present Jill R. Payne (Section 01) HIST-30 The European Enlightenment Margaret R. Hunt (Section 01) HIST-34 Nazi Germany Catherine A. Epstein (Sections 01 and 02) HIST-37 Material Culture of American Homes Kevin M. Sweeney (Section 01) HIST-53 Popular Revolution in Modern Mexico Rick A. Lopez (Section 01) HIST-54 Environmental History of
History enables students to become proficient in skills such as researching, assessing evidence, and oral and written communication. History teaches critical thinking and the ability to develop an argument. The wide-ranging skills graduates thus acquire are highly relevant in the world of employment. Many leading politicians (current British Chancellor Gordon Brown, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Tory MP Michael Portillo, and US President George Bush), business people (Anita Roddick of The Body Shop, Carly Fiorina the CEO of Hewlitt-Packard, and David Drumond the Vice President of Corporate Development at Google), journalists (Louis Theroux), novelists (Salman Rushdie and Don DeLillo)
Studying History allows you to ask important questions about the past and the present, and encourages you to develop essential critical and analytical skills. Through reading and interpreting historical documents and comparing the lives of different people, you will come to understand more about the forces and events that shape our current world, and be able to evaluate and communicate your own ideas in an effective way . History opens up new worlds and allows you to explore revolutions, slavery, wars and battles, the making of great leaders, the rise of the middle classes and the suffering of the poor.
Studying History allows you to ask important questions about the past and the present, and encourages you to develop essential critical and analytical skills. Through reading and interpreting historical documents and comparing the lives of different people, you will come to understand more about the forces and events that shape our current world, and be able to evaluate and communicate your own ideas in an effective way . History opens up new worlds and allows you to explore revolutions, slavery, wars and battles, the making of great leaders, the rise of the middle classes and the suffering of the poor.
The Department of Art and the History of Art offers a singular means within the College for developing artistic awareness, historical understanding, critical faculties and practice with regard to the visual arts and their values in society. This objective may be accomplished with emphasis upon work in art history, the practice of art or the integration of the two disciplines. In order to identify and serve each student's personal interests and goals the department is organized into two distinct programs: The Practice of Art which offers one concentration, and Art History which offers two concentrations. We encourage students to study