BA History of Art
Entry requirements
A level: AAB
About this course
BA (Hons) in History of Art, studied in connection with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Core topics include research methods for visual analysis across diverse artistic traditions and historical periods. The programme offers learning on site at the Sainsbury Centre and a final-year dissertation.
Modules
- ENVIRONMENT, ART AND CULTURE
- LEARNING ON SITE: THE SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR VISUAL ARTS
- INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY
- MAKERS AND MAKING
- PORTRAITURE AND IDENTITY
- GALLERIES & MUSEUMS: HISTORIES/POLITICS/ETHICS
- THE LIVES OF ARTWORKS
- ART IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
- LOVE, DESIRE AND SEXUALITY IN HISTORY
- MATERIAL WORLDS
- ARTISTS/MUSEUMS
- TUDOR ENGLAND
- THE ROMAN EMPIRE: CITIZENS, SLAVES, AND IMPERIAL FAMILIES
- HERITAGE AND PUBLIC HISTORY
- THE POLITICS OF STORYTELLING
- LIFE AND ART IN THE JEWISH DIASPORA
- ANATOMY OF A CITY: PARIS, 1682-1815
- THE SILK ROADS: THE ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND ART HISTORY OF EURASIAN TRADE NETWORKS IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD
- PROPAGANDA
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
- PHILOSOPHY MEETS THE ARTS (SECOND YEAR MODULE)
- THE ALCHEMY OF NATURE: ART, RELIGION AND MEDICINE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- VICTORIAN BRITAIN
- DISSERTATION
- THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE
- MUSEUM WORK: THEORY & PRACTICE
- MODERN ART AND STATES OF MIND
- DANCING ON THE VOLCANO: ART AND CULTURE IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
- THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
- DIGITAL STORYTELLING
- DEATH IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- EMBODIMENT AND REPRESENTATION IN THE ARTS OF AFRICA, OCEANIA & THE AMERICAS
- CONTESTING THE PAST: REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY