BA Art History & Visual Culture and History
Entry requirements
A-Levels: ABB IB: 32/655 BTEC: DDM
About this course
BA in Art History & Visual Culture and History, a History and History of Art degree exploring visual culture alongside political and social pasts. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Historical Research, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme covers periods ranging from the Roman Empire to the twentieth century, incorporating local cultural resources such as a campus cinema museum and theatres. The first year establishes fundamental competencies through compulsory modules including Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture, Becoming a Historian: Core, Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History, and Understanding Modern History, alongside optional choices exploring museum concepts or visual media. In the second year, students undertake compulsory field study involving an intensive trip, while selecting from specialised options covering contemporary visual practices, environmental arts, or specific historical eras. Optional modules span subjects from twentieth-century European memory to early modern society, allowing students to tailor their studies across both disciplines.
Modules
- Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture
- Becoming a Historian: Core
- Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History
- Understanding Modern History
- Inside the Museum
- Visual Media
- Topics in Art History and Visual Culture I
- Topics in Art History and Visual Culture II
- Approaches to Art History and Visual Culture
- Climate Emergency! An Introduction to Environmental Arts and Humanities
- Sources and Skills: Modern
- Sources and Skills: Early Modern
- Sources and Skills: Medieval
- Art History and Visual Culture Field Study for Blended Learning
- Debates and Contestations in Art History
- Contemporary Visual Practices
- 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
- Adventures in Environmental Arts and Humanities
- Forgetting Fascism, Remembering Communism: Memory in Modern Europe
- Deviants and Dissenters in Early Modern England
- From Gallows to ASBOs: Crime, Punishment, and Society in Britain and Ireland
- Strategy and Success in the Second World War
- Vikings and Other Invaders: Europe under Siege in in the Tenth Century
- Beyond Bridgerton: A Peoples' History of Britain, 1688-1834
- Creating an American Empire: From Westward Expansion to Colonial Empire
- Hunger Games: Poverty, Famine, and Environment
- Russia’s Empires: Societies, Peoples and Cultures
- Beyond the Tudors: Europe’s Worldview Transformed c.1500-1600
- Uses of the Past
- Doing History in the Digital Age