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.