Why the catalog year matters
Your catalog year is the year you started at SDSU, and it decides which rules apply to your degree, not the current semester's course list. A class that is offered this term may not count toward your requirements, and one that counts for a newer catalog year may not be on an older list at all. Always check the requirements for your own catalog year, not the newest one.
Admission to the Degree Curriculum
No course list published for this category.
Advancement to Candidacy
Areas of Focus and Related Art and Design Courses (33 units)
Art History, Criticism, and Aesthetics Courses (6 units)
- ART 506 - Contemporary Issues
- ART 547 - The Modern Built Environment
- ART 557 - Nineteenth Century European Art
- ART 558 - Twentieth Century Art, 1900 to 1945
- ART 559 - Twentieth Century Art, 1945 to 1990
- ART 560A - Art Since 1990
- ART 564 - Art of China
- ART 565 - Art of Japan
- ART 568 - Art of Ancient Greece and Rome
- ART 569 - History of Craft and Design
- ART 570 - African American Art History
- ART 571A - Modern Art of Latin America
- ART 571B - Contemporary Art of Latin America
- ART 572 - Art, Gender, and Sexuality
- ART 573A - Italian Art of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
- ART 573B - Italian Art in the Sixteenth Century
- ART 575 - European Art from 1600 to 1750
- ART 576 - History of Performance Art
- ART 577 - History of Architecture
- ART 578 - Seminar in History of Museums and Exhibitions
- ART 593 - Seminar in History and Methodology of Art History
- ART 660 - Seminar in Art History
Course Outside the School of Art and Design (3 units)
Transfer Credit, Residency, and GPA
No course list published for this category.
This checklist reflects San Diego State's published catalog for 2026-27 and may not capture every substitution, waiver, or advisor-approved exception. Confirm anything that affects graduation with your own advisor or degree audit.