The Art History Comprehensive Emphasis allows students to complete the B.A. in ART (Art History and Theory) and the Master in Gallery Management and Exhibits Specialization at Western in five years. To remain qualified for the 3+2 Concurrent Degree Program, at the end of the junior year in the major, each student must have:

• maintained a 3.0 cumulative GPA, and 3.0 within the emphasis in the major;
• completed two junior and two senior art history classes, having earned a B or above in each course;
• begun their senior art history thesis (which will be used as their writing sample);
• provided three letters of recommendation, at least one of which is to be an academic reference from the student’s major at Western, and one of which is preferably professional;
• written an 800-100 word Personal Statement to the MGES program, detailing early career ambitions and ideas/connections for the eventual Master’s Capstone project.

Upon satisfactory completion of these requirements, students will be designated as “MGES candidates with provisional acceptance.” Upon completion of the final undergraduate credits of the Western B.A. after Year Four of this plan, students will be designated as “MGES degree seeking students.” Students who have completed all other requirements of the 3+2 Concurrent Degree Program and all Western undergraduate requirements, yet choose to leave the MGES program before Year Five, will still have completed the ART undergraduate emphasis in Art History and have earned 120 credits necessary for a Western undergraduate degree.

A minimum of 54 credits is required, including the 24 credits of Art Foundation Courses:

Six credits of Art electives, six credits of non-Art supporting courses selected in consultation with an Art History advisor, and the following 18 credits:

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These courses are only offered every other year.

Upon successful completion of the prescribed courses listed above, University defined General Education, and elective requirements totaling 120 credits (with 40 at the 300-level or higher), students are eligible for their B.A. conferral. Students electing to complete MGES must follow the balance of their declared emphasis curriculum.

For a full description of the required Graduate coursework, please see the MGES program in the Western Graduate Catalog. 

Major: B.A. in Art – Art History AND M.A. IN GALLERY & MUSEUM MANAGEMENT (3+2 Concurrent Degree Program)