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As a student, I feel like it is important for Studio Art majors to have art history courses in addition to their studio art training. It is important to know how art and artists have impacted the next generations up to this point. From what I’ve seen, I think this is standard at most universities and art schools; in fact, too many art history courses are usually required for a studio art degree. Many studio art courses infuse background information and require personal research on techniques and artists; this in combination with 2-3 general art history courses should be enough. Not the usually required 6-9, mostly high level art history courses.
Along the same lines, art history majors should have to take a course or two of studio course (or be required to audit at least one studio art course in the subject of their history course) per semester. For example, if they are taking History of Printmaking, they should have to sit in on a print making studio course so they will know what they are looking at.
I don’t think art education needs to be involved unless they specifically want to go into education, or think they might at some point.

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