BA History of Art
Entry requirements
A level: ABB BTEC: DDM IB: 34 points overall including 16 at Higher Level with 4 in English.
About this course
BA in History of Art, a history of art degree centered on the interpretation of art across diverse cultures and historical periods. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. The curriculum includes access to several campus exhibition spaces, such as The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery and the Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. The first year establishes foundations through compulsory modules such as Art History as Practice, Ways of Seeing, Ways of Thinking Seeing, and From Art History’s Myths to Critical Art History, alongside optional choices. The second year expands the discipline with compulsory studies in Methods in Practice: Art-Historical Research, The Grand Tour: Travels, Excavations, Collections, The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings, and Bodies of Difference: Gender, Power and the Visual Arts. The final year involves advanced compulsory modules including Short Dissertation, Anthropology, Art and Representation, Critical Approaches to Photography, and Art, Ecology and Empire.
Modules
- Art History as Practice
- Ways of Seeing
- Ways of Thinking Seeing
- From Art History’s Myths to Critical Art History
- Critical Approaches to Display, Institutions and Engagement
- Discovery module
- Cultural History
- Methods in Practice: Art-Historical Research
- Origins, Structures, and Critique: Framing the Discipline of Art History
- Expanding Fields of Display, Institutions, and Engagement
- Seeing in Asia
- Variant Modernism
- The Grand Tour: Travels, Excavations, Collections
- The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings
- Bodies of Difference: Gender, Power and the Visual Arts
- Renaissance / Anti-Renaissance: Critical Approaches to Early Modern Art in Europe
- Short Dissertation
- From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust
- Anthropology, Art and Representation
- Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance
- Critical Approaches to Photography
- Postcolonial Feminisms
- Art, Ecology and Empire