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Marketable Graduates

Marketable Graduates

The Art History study programme at Department of Fine Arts enables the students to follow either a visual arts related career or obtain jobs available for graduates with a degree in Art History. The graduates of this programme have the foundations to work in the following capacities an fields and areas related to visual arts; 

  • • Art Historian
  • • Curator
  • • Curatorial assistant
  • • Museum educator
  • • Gallery Assistant
  • • Researchers/ Research Assistant
  • • Artist
  • • Cultural officers/ Cultural relation officer
  • • Art teacher/ Lecturer
  • • Heritage Manager
  • • Conservator
  • • Archivist
  • • Event Managers/ Art Manager
  • • Creative writer/ Art critic
  • • Art Publisher
  • • Art Librarian
  • • Historic preservationist
  • • Art dealer

The Honors degree in Art History by the department of Fine Arts enables students to  develop a number of transferable skills that can be applied to other professions.  These include: research skills; written and oral communication skills; visual awareness; and specialized subject knowledge in Western, Indian and Sri Lankan art history and the theories of Visual Art.