Go to the admissions department webpage at "admissions.mansfield.edu" and click on the button that says "Apply Now."
Click on the link that says "First Time Student Online Application" on the following page.
Complete the application fully, typing in your personal and academic information. Also enter the semester that you would like to enroll in. Click on the "submit information" button at the bottom.
Contact the art department directly and ask them to transfer you to a representative in the art history department. Ask for a suggested schedule of coursework for an online art history student, working toward his degree.
Contact the registrar's office once your application is approved and pay for the courses you plan to take in the upcoming semester. You can tell them whether you plan to study full time or part time. For online students, tuition costs $382 per credit.
Enroll in a part-time or full-time basis. Part-time students can expect to devote 15 to 20 hours per week and full time students can expect to devote 30 to 40 hours per week.
Complete your required core classes first--you must complete 30 credits. Some of your required classes are: Introduction to Art, Visual Studies in Aesthetic Experience and Special Problems in Art. For each class there's one to two hours of reading per night. Some classes have weekly quizzes based on the assigned reading and all courses require students to complete a midterm exam and final. These exams could be 10 page papers or short answer exams.
Complete your "General Education" requirements. Your "General Education" requirements are classes not in the realm of art history that you must take and pass in order to get a degree in art history. For example, you need to fulfill three credits of math, six credits of English composition, six credits of natural sciences, nine credits of social sciences and others. Some of these classes will require that you hand in weekly homework assignments. Others will require you to keep up with the reading assigned. Some of these courses will have a midterm--all of them will have a final.
Complete your required electives. You have 35 free elective credits you must fulfill for your degree. The university offers electives such as: Ancient and Medieval Art, Baroque and Rococo Art, Native Arts of the Americas, History of Modern Art, Trends in Modern Art and Art of Ancient Egypt, among others. Each class has one to two hours of reading per night at a minimum. Each course has a midterm and a final exam which might be a 10 page paper that you'll have to write or an exam that you'll have to complete.
Visit the website "www.breyerstate.com." Click on the link at the bottom left-hand side of the page that says "apply online."
Complete the application with your personal and academic information. Click on the button that says "Submit Application."
Click on the "tuition" link on the left-side menu of the main page, once your application has been accepted. Acquaint yourself with the school's tuition bank payment plan and make a payment online or send a check to Breyer State University, 6080 Center Drive 6th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90045.
Enroll as a part-time or full-time student. Regardless of how many classes you take each semester each course will require eight hours of your time.
Begin work in the online course "Introduction to Art," a required course for all students in the bachelor's degree art history program. There will be one exam for this course, a written paper on the assigned readings in "The Methodologies of Art" by Laurie Schneider Adams.
Take the next following required courses for art history such as, Art in Theory, Philosophy and History and History of Color and Mixing Colors. There will be one exam for this course as well--you'll have to write two papers on the assigned readings in: "Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society," by Meyer Shapiro and "Art History's History," by Vernon Hyde Minor.
Choose seven electives out of the 12 offered. For example, you could take the elective "Greek Art," during which you'll have to complete assignments on material from the book "Greek Art," by John Boardman. The final exam is programmed via the computer system--it is open book and you have two days to finish it. Alternatively, you could take "Painting in Spain: El Greco to Goya." During the course you must complete the readings from the textbooks "From El Greco to El Goya, Painting in Spain 1561-1828," by Janis Tomlinson, and "Painting in Spain 1500-1700," by Jonathan Brown. There is a programmed final exam at the end of the course that is open book. You have 48 hours to complete it.
Take your final required course for your degree, "Theories and Methods of Art Historical Research." This involves you securing a mentor in your area, such as an expert or professional in a local gallery, art institute or museum. You must complete 40 hours of service and submit a 10 page report on your experience. Your mentor must also submit an evaluation on your work. You will have 15 weeks to complete this experience.