BA Art History and History
Entry requirements
A level: AAA including History
About this course
BA in History and History of Art, combining both disciplines across a three-year undergraduate programme. Core topics include Research Methods and Historical Research. Teaching takes place in Manchester, incorporating local galleries and museums such as the Whitworth and the Manchester Museum.
Modules
- History in Practice
- Ice Age to Baroque: Artworks in History
- Rococo to Now: Artworks in History
- A Global Nation: Power, Politics, and Struggle Across the American Century, 1870-2020
- Constructing Archaic Greek History
- From Republic to Empire: Introduction to Roman History, Society & Culture 218-31BC
- The Odyssey
- Cities and Citizens
- Discoveries and Discoverers: Sights and Sites
- Virgil's Aeneid
- Introduction to the History and Culture of Pharaonic Egypt
- Art Spaces
- Art History Tutorial 1
- Art History Tutorial 2
- Modern China: from the Opium Wars to the Olympic Games
- Histories of the Islamic World
- Capitalism in Historical Perspective: 1700-1913
- Imperial Nation: Empire and the Making of Modern Britain, 1783-1902
- An Introduction to the Medieval World
- Forging a New World: Europe c.1450-1750
- States, Nations and Empires. Europe, c.1750-1914
- Science & the Modern World
- Bodies in History: An introduction to the History of Medicine
- Science and the Modern World (20 Credits)
- Japanese History and Civilisation
- Empire and Culture in East Asia
- The History and Sociopolitics of Palestine/Israel (1882-1967)
- History and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
- Standing on The Shoulders of Giants: Foundations for Study in The Arts
- Humanities in Public: The Politics and Value(s) of Knowledge
- Art in Theory
- European Art History Fieldtrip
- The Conquering Hero: The Life, Times and Legacy of Alexander The Great
- The Roman Empire 31BC - AD313 Rome's Golden Age
- Politics and Society in Classical Greece
- Roman Women in 22 Objects
- Weimar Culture? Art, Film and Politics in Germany, 1918-33
- British Art and The Environment, 1800–1900
- Art Markets
- The Art of Late Medieval Italy: Commerce, Religion, Travel
- Renaissance and Baroque Architecture 1450-1750
- Surrealism, Gender, Sexuality
- Digital Ways of Seeing: Theory and Practice
- Making of the Modern Mind: European Intellectual History in a Global Context
- Winds of Change: Politics, Society and Culture in Britain, 1899 -1990
- Independent Research Project
- Late Imperial China: the Great Wall and Beyond
- The Cultural History of Modern War
- Colonial Encounters: Race, Violence, and the Making of the Modern World
- Back to the Future: The Uses and Abuses of History
- Histories of the Islamic World
- Capitalism in Historical Perspective: 1700-1913
- A Transnational History of Europe in the Short Twentieth Century, c.1917-1991
- Revolutionary Cities: The Urban World of the Middle Ages
- From Cholera to COVID-19: A Global History of Epidemics
- The Crisis of Nature: Issues in Environmental History
- In Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science Fiction in Literature and Film.
- Aesthetics and Politics of Italian Fascism
- The Italian Renaissance
- Core Themes in Animated Film and Visual Culture of Postwar Japan
- Themes in the Histories of Arab and Jewish Nationalisms
- 100 Years of Revolution: from Lenin's Soviet Union to Putin's Russia
- The Revolutions of 1989 and their Aftermaths: Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
- American Hauntings
- History of Art Dissertation
- Victorian Bodies: Art, Science, and Modernity 1848 - 1901
- Art and Ecology: Bodies, Environments and Technology
- Digital Art
- Architecture of Devotion: Art, Architecture and Material Culture in Early Modern Italy and Beyond
- Art After Modernism: Approaching Contemporary Art
- Picasso
- The Art of European Medieval Books
- History Dissertation
- Wealth and Welfare: Reconceptualising British Economy and Society between 1832 and 1942
- China and the West: the Age of Empire and Beyond
- Heroes and Holy Men: The Irish Sea World in the Viking Age, c. 780-1100
- The Holocaust: History, Historiography, Memory
- The Comparative and Transnational History of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
- John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1960s
- Defining the Deviant: Crime and British Society, 1888-2000
- Ceaseless Revolution: France, 1781-1871
- The Black Freedom Movement, 1955-1975
- Pirates: The Sea, The Empire and The Other
- The Normans and the Kingdom of Sicily in the Mediterranean World (1000-1200)
- From New Left to New Times: Socialist Ideas in Post-War Britain
- Black Britain: Power, Neighbourhoods and the Everyday, 1948-1990
- Africa and Development: A Political History of the Social Sciences
- Cultural Entanglements: Life and Death in Colonial America
- The Anglo-American Connection & National Identity in the long C19: Race, Reform & National Identity
- Contesting Hitler's Empire:Resistance,Collaboration,and Mass Violence in Occupied Europe (1939–1945)
- Vanished: Histories of Extinction from the Mammoth to Extinction Rebellion
- Global China in the Second World War
- Democracy and Authoritarianism in Latin America’s Twentieth Century
- The Nuclear Age: Global Nuclear Threats from Hiroshima to Today
- From Sherlock Holmes to CSI: a History of Forensic Science and Medicine
- Climate Change & Society
- Madness and Society
- Tools and Techniques for Enterprise
- Tools & Techniques for Enterprise
- Enterprise Feasibility
- Culture, Media and Politics in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia
- History of the Spanish Atlantic World: Empire, Trade, War