BA History of Art
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB. IB: 6,5,5 including 32 points overall.. BTEC: BTEC Extended Diploma: DDD. Equivalent accepted, see below for full information.
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in History of Art History of Art BA, a history of art degree centred on the study of visual culture and creative practices. Core topics include Research Methods. Students complete a dissertation in the final year and undertake study trips and gallery-based learning in various locations. The second year focuses on advanced methodologies and specialised periods through modules such as Research Techniques in History of Art, Art History in the Field: Overseas Study Trip, and Inside the Gallery: Curating an Exhibition. Optional study covers topics ranging from modernism and political art to nineteenth-century French society and global cultural studies. The third year centres on independent research via the Long History of Art Dissertation alongside advanced optional modules including Michelangelo, Rodin Reconsidered, and Contemporary Art and Home.
Modules
- Art History in the Field: Overseas Study Trip
- Research Techniques in History of Art
- Abstraction and Beyond
- American Art in the 1960s
- Art, Architecture and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
- Art, Race and the British Empire, 1837-1901: Contexts, Approaches, Legacies
- Craft: Practices, Concepts, Activism
- Impressionism and After: Art and Society in Late Nineteenth-Century France
- Inside the Gallery: Curating an Exhibition
- Making Culture: New Ways of Reading Things
- Modern Erotica: Sex, Censorship, and Art
- Nature framed: the art and politics of landscape 1700 to 1900
- Political Art
- Post-War: Art in Britain After the Second World War
- Power, Society, Politics: Religious Art in Northern Europe, c. 1400-1600
- Real and Ideal: Art and Society in Mid Nineteenth Century France
- History of Art Semester Abroad
- Long History of Art Dissertation
- An Unnatural History: Animals in Modern Western Art
- Berlin 1890-1933: Symphony of a (Great?) City
- Contemporary Art and Home
- Contemporary Art and Masculinity
- Fashioning Flesh and Technology: Modernism and the Body in Germany 1918-1933
- Global Art and Cultural Studies
- Image as Witness
- Inside Out: Interior and Interiority in French Art, Design and Culture 1840-1940
- Michelangelo
- Paris Moderne 1850-1930: Image, Concept, Femininity
- Queer Art From Britain Since 1957
- Rodin Reconsidered
- Sculptural Experiments in Britain, 1837-1901
- Sound and Vision: Word, Music, Image 1860-Now
- The Pre-Raphaelites: Contexts, Approaches and Reputations
- The Public Museum: Architecture, Time, Memory (semester 1)
- The Public Museum: Architecture, Time, Memory (semester 2)
- Turning the Pages: Manuscript and Print, Past and Present
- Women and Artistic Culture in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period
- ‘Islamic’ Aesthetics in Art