Department of Art & Humanities

Latin to Life Drawing, Printmaking to Picasso, Manuscripts to Matisse, Contemporary Art to Caravaggio: the Department of Arts and Humanities offers a broad and exciting selection of courses. Through two majors and four different minors, our students are given the opportunity to explore a range of topics in the Liberal Arts. Our courses focus on the western tradition and take maximum advantage of Rome’s unique position within it. The University’s location close to the city centre means that many classes take place on site. Some courses also have excursions to Florence, Venice, Pompeii, Ravenna, Athens, Paris and Barcelona.

Arts and Humanities is AUR’s fastest growing department, our Art History major began in Fall 2004 and offers four concentration tracks (some in conjunction with other departments): Business of Art, Classical Studies, Film Studies or Archeology. Our major in Inter-disciplinary Studies encourages students, together with their academic advisor, to craft a program of courses to foster and develop personal interests. Students with majors in other disciplines can extend their interest beyond their main field of study with minors in Art History, Archeology or Classical Studies and Classical Heritage. We also lead the field trips offered by Student Services and regularly take students to see all the best tourist spots like Florence, Venice and Pompeii but also to discover the more hard to get to places like the hill towns of Tuscany with our “Inside Italy” series. Going on field trips can also earn you credit: we offer one credit courses for Pompeii and Athens.

Come and visit! We are located in the "Villino" adjacent to main campus (entrance on Viale XXX Aprile).