BA Art History & Visual Culture
Entry requirements
A-Levels: ABB IB: 32/655 BTEC: DDM
About this course
BA in Art History & Visual Culture, a history of art degree examining traditional fine art and contemporary visual forms. Core topics include Fieldwork, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The curriculum features a mandatory field study component incorporating an intensive one-week trip. The first year establishes foundational perspectives through compulsory modules such as Inside the Museum, Visual Media, and Approaches to Art History and Visual Culture. The second year continues with core studies including Contemporary Visual Practices and Art History and Visual Culture Field Study for Blended Learning, alongside optional choices covering topics like Photography and Evidence, Contemporary Art and Curation, and Renaissances North and South: Italy and the Netherlands.
Modules
- Inside the Museum
- Visual Media
- Topics in Art History and Visual Culture I
- Topics in Art History and Visual Culture II
- Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture
- Approaches to Art History and Visual Culture
- Debates and Contestations in Art History
- Contemporary Visual Practices
- Art History and Visual Culture Field Study for Blended Learning
- Photography and Evidence
- Contemporary Art and Curation
- Common Threads: Art, Craft and Activism
- Renaissances North and South: Italy and the Netherlands
- Revolutions! Art and Society in France, 1770-1830
- The Dutch Golden Age
- The New York Avant-Garde 1955-1980
- Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres
- Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future
- Intimate Spaces of the French Enlightenment
- Chinoiserie and Européenerie: Artistic and Vultural Exchanges between China and Europe