Re: Thank god this is UFB because something about this hits my rage button.
Politics, culture and economy are so important to art that unless your professor is really BAD, an art history course is going to include a working knowledge of the art's context. Art history students don't just memorize works, they study how artistic techniques and ideas about art evolved. I wish people would stop brushing it off as "lol they can point out the Mona Lisa."

Then again, I'm a bit baffled by why he thinks classic literature is fit for "top students," but scoffs at art history. Usually the two fields get an equal level of derision. (...Have I committed a classic blunder in thinking Scott Adams was trying to make sense?)