In this art history course, students learn the research skills essential to any creative practice. Students engage with a wide variety of research methodologies for studio art and art history including: factual research in museums, libraries, and special collections; critical, analytical, and expository writing; sketching, drawing, and other forms of graphically recording and organizing their ideas. This is a college composition course that requires critical writing and oral presentations. General Education: WAC 3: Writing and Research for the Major