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BA Art History

Aberystwyth University

Institution
Aberystwyth University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Art History
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
V350
Typical offer
A-level BBB

Entry requirements

A level: BBB-CCC IB: 30-26

About this course

BA in History of Art. Core topics include research methods and ethics and professional practice. Students curate an exhibition from the School of Art's collection of approximately 20,000 works, drawn on throughout the course as a government-accredited museum. The programme is based at the only university in Wales to award a History of Art degree, with access to the adjacent National Library of Wales for research.

Modules

  • Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding
  • Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • Representing the Body
  • Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century
  • Art in Wales
  • Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums
  • Dissertation Preparation and Professional Practice for Students of Art History
  • Modernisms: Art in the Early Twentieth Century
  • Postmodernism and Contemporary Art
  • Documentary Photography
  • Drawn to Order: British Illustration since 1800
  • Portraiture:Identity
  • The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400
  • The Pre-Raphaelites
  • Dissertation
  • Curating an Exhibition: Researching, Interpreting and Displaying
  • Documentary Photography
  • Portraiture:Identity
  • The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400
  • The Pre-Raphaelites