# 2025-2026 General Catalog
**Source**: https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/departments-programs-degrees/art-history-art-studio/art-history-minor/
**Parent**: https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/departments-programs-degrees/#programsanddegreestext
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Art History studies the changing visual expression of values, beliefs and experiences across diverse cultures and over time. It provides training in historical, social and aesthetic understanding, critical thinking, scholarly research, and lucid, thoughtful analysis and writing. More than any other discipline art history sharpens its students’ visual acuity and deepens their visual literacy. In so doing, it prepares them to face the increasingly complex visual world we find ourselves in today.
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