ARTH at Cornell University

A suggested order for the 11 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ARTH coursework.

• ARTH 3800Introduction to the Arts of Chinaopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ARTH 3820Introduction to the Arts of Japanopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ARTH 2200Introduction to Art History: The Classical World in 24 Objectsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ARTH 2600Introduction to Art History: The Modern Eraopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ARTH 4998Honors Work Iopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate ARTH work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 11 ARTH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 293 more ARTH courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on ARTH, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in ARTH. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at ARTH 3600

  1. ARTH 2600Introduction to Art History: The Modern Era
  2. ARTH 3600Contemporary Art: 1960-Present

• 2 courses deep, ending at ARTH 3741

  1. ARKEO 2700Introduction to Art History: The Classical World in 24 Objects
  2. ARTH 3741Greco-Roman Art from Alexander to Augustus (c.350 BC - AD 20)

• 2 courses deep, ending at ARTH 4820

  1. ARTH 3800Introduction to the Arts of China
  2. ARTH 4820Art in Zen and Zen in Art

• 2 courses deep, ending at ARTH 4999

  1. ARTH 4998Honors Work I
  2. ARTH 4999Honors Work II

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on ARTH sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• An-Yi Pan
• Ana Howie
• Ananda Cohen-Aponte
• Andrew Moisey
• Cynthia Robinson
• Iftikhar Dadi
• Jolene Rickard
• Kaja McGowan
• Maria Fernandez
• Nancy P. Lin
• Patricia Ekpo
• Peter Gilgen
• Sturt Manning
• Verity Platt

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ARTH yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

ARTH does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cornell campus feed.