BA History of Art with a Placement Year
Entry requirements
A level: ABB
About this course
BA (Hons) in History of Art, examining how art has been created, displayed, and interpreted from prehistory to the contemporary world. Core topics include Research Methods. The programme includes a placement year and concludes with a dissertation. Teaching is based at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
Modules
- HUM PLACEMENT YEAR
- INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY
- LEARNING ON SITE: THE SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR VISUAL ARTS
- PORTRAITURE AND IDENTITY
- GALLERIES & MUSEUMS: HISTORIES/POLITICS/ETHICS
- MAKERS AND MAKING
- ENVIRONMENT, ART AND CULTURE
- THE LIVES OF ARTWORKS
- ART IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
- THE POLITICS OF STORYTELLING
- THE ROMAN EMPIRE: CITIZENS, SLAVES, AND IMPERIAL FAMILIES
- HERITAGE AND PUBLIC HISTORY
- LOVE, DESIRE AND SEXUALITY IN HISTORY
- MATERIAL WORLDS
- TUDOR ENGLAND
- ARTISTS/MUSEUMS
- THE SILK ROADS: THE ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND ART HISTORY OF EURASIAN TRADE NETWORKS IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD
- ANATOMY OF A CITY: PARIS, 1682-1815
- PROPAGANDA
- THE ALCHEMY OF NATURE: ART, RELIGION AND MEDICINE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
- VICTORIAN BRITAIN
- PHILOSOPHY MEETS THE ARTS (SECOND YEAR MODULE)
- DISSERTATION
- POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE
- MUSEUM WORK: THEORY & PRACTICE
- MODERN ART AND STATES OF MIND
- THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- DIGITAL STORYTELLING
- DANCING ON THE VOLCANO: ART AND CULTURE IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
- CONTESTING THE PAST: REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY
- THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
- DEATH IN THE MIDDLE AGES