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  "college": "san-diego-mesa-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "departmentName": "Art-Fine Art",
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  "name": "Fine Art: Art History",
  "award": "Associate of Arts Degree",
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      "markdown": "### Summary\n\nThe Fine Art: Art History Associate of Arts Degree focuses on the development of an understanding of the core foundation of a global history of art. Students will be able to apply and expand this knowledge to specific problems of media and context. Successful completion of the courses indicates that a student has achieved an applicable understanding of certain essential visual skills to critically analyze cultural and historical factors that manifest in various types of visual media.\n\n**Award Note:**\nThe Associate Degree requires a minimum of 60 degree applicable semester units.\n\n**Learning Outcome(s): Students who complete the Fine Art: Art History Program will be able to:**\n\n1.  Engage visual art as defined in a progression of change.\n2.  Expand the vision of the role of art in the greater culture.\n3.  Affect critical thinking in visual terms.\n4.  Develop an awareness of cultural diversity (and its use/effect on art-making).\n5.  Employ art concepts and terminology effectively.\n6.  Understand the creative process of art-making.\n7.  Understand materials, methods and techniques both historical and contemporary and the contexts in which they are employed.\n8.  Be assessed through a combination of performance evaluations, written assignments, and written tests and quizzes."
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      "markdown": "### Requirements"
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          "text": "COURSES REQUIRED FOR THE MAJOR:",
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          "code": "ARTF 107",
          "title": "Contemporary Art",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
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          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 109",
          "title": "Modern Art",
          "units": "3",
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          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTH C1100",
          "title": "Survey of Art from Prehistory to the Medieval Era",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTH C1200",
          "title": "Survey of Art from the Renaissance to Contemporary",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 113",
          "title": "Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 125",
          "title": "Art History: Arts of the Asian Continent",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 150A",
          "title": "Two-Dimensional Design",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 151",
          "title": "Three-Dimensional Design",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 155A",
          "title": "Freehand Drawing I",
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          "connector": "or"
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          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 231",
          "title": "Introduction to Digital Art",
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          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Select nine units (three courses) from the following:",
          "units": "9"
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 106",
          "title": "Art of the United States: Colonial to Modern Period",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 108",
          "title": "Women in Art",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 115",
          "title": "African Art",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 120",
          "title": "Native American Art",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 130",
          "title": "Pre-Columbian Art",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 161A",
          "title": "Museum Studies/Gallery Exhibition Skills I",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 165A",
          "title": "Composition in Painting I",
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          "indent": false
        },
        {
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          "code": "ARTF 175A",
          "title": "Sculpture I",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
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          "code": "ARTF 188",
          "title": "Women and Gender in Photography",
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          "indent": false
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          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 191",
          "title": "Cultural Influences on Photography",
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          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 194",
          "title": "Critical Photography",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 195A",
          "title": "Ceramics I",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
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          "type": "course",
          "code": "ARTF 210A",
          "title": "Life Drawing I",
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          "indent": false
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          "type": "course",
          "code": "BLAS 110",
          "title": "African American Art",
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          "indent": false
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CHIC 230",
          "title": "Chicano Art",
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          "indent": false
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