History of Art Joint Honours

Description

A Joint Honours degree programme involves the study of two subjects to Honours degree level. If you study a subject in a Joint Honours programme, you work at exactly the same level and to the same academic standard as students taking that subject in a Single Honours programme. Joint Honours students are simply required to choose fewer topics from the range of options available in each half of the programme.

These programmes provides an opportunity to study in depth the tradition of Western art primarily painting, along with sculpture and architecture from the Renaissance to the present.
You have access to the collection of original works in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, an award-winning British art gallery on the University campus, as well as the Institutes 60,000 books and extensive slide collection.

Teaching and assessment

First-year teaching is by small group seminars and lectures. Assessment is by essays and end-of-year exams. Second-year teaching is by small group seminars and lectures. Assessment is by essays and presentations. Final-year teaching is by one-to-one tutorials, small group seminars and lectures. Assessment is by dissertation and end-of-year exams.

Career opportunities

These programmes provide an excellent basis for many varied careers, as well as enhancing your knowledge of art. They equip you well for work in galleries, teaching, arts administration and research, and also provide invaluable training for all work involving visual discernment or structured thinking.

Detailed Course Facts

• English

Course Content

First year

History of Art: The first year serves as a foundation for the subject. Approaches to the History of Art introduces the methods and concepts employed in the study of art history. Other modules provide an outline of selected key historical periods and themes in the history of art such as Romanticism, Realism, the Renaissance, Modernism or the Enlightenment. Lectures and seminars are supported with study trips to galleries and current exhibitions in London or elsewhere.

History of Art first year modules include:

• Approaches to the History of Art
• Object and Medium
• Ideas of the Renaissance
• Concepts of Modernism in the History of Art
• Enlightenment and its Discontents
• The Real Realism
• Romanticism and the Idea of Romantic Art

Second year

History of Art: The Second Year is structured to allow you to acquire greater depth by focusing a number of more specific subjects. You will have the opportunity to choose from a number of optional modules on themes or periods in the history of art. These are supported by a module on research techniques in the history of art as well as a study trip to a major artistic and cultural centre overseas, where you will have the opportunity to access works of art and architecture unavailable in Britain and to study them in situ.

History of Art second year modules include:

• Renaissance Art in Italy and the Netherlands 1400-1460
• Art, Architecture and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna
• Real and Ideal: Art and Society in Mid Nineteenth-Century France
• Prague, Cracow, Budapest. Art, Architecture and Politics in Central Europe, 1867-1918
• Inside the Gallery. Histories, Theories and Practices of Museums and Galleries
• Research Techniques in the History of Art
• Art History in the Field – Overseas Study Trip

Final year

History of Art: In the fourth year you focus on a special subject, which you study in depth and detail. In addition you have the opportunity to develop your research skills in a short Dissertation, a 6,000 word piece of writing on a topic of your own choice.

History of Art fourth year modules include:

• The Special Subject. Recent subjects have included: Michelangelo; British Landscape Painting 1750-1860; Inside Out. Interiors and Interiority in French Art, Design and Visual Culture 1840-1940; Contemporary Visual Arts and Postcolonialism; After Modernism. Art and Culture since the 1970s
• The Short Dissertation

English Language Requirements

CAE score : 80(Grade A)

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Requirements

Number of A levels required: 3

Typical offer: AAB-ABB

International Baccalaureate: 34-35 points

Additional information:

Typical offer grades are for guidance only, and will depend on the subjects you are combining. Please read the entries for both subjects. Where there is a disparity between the typical offer for Subject A and the typical offer for Subject B, the higher offer should be taken as the usual offer for the combination of the two.)

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International students:

In order to undertake a programme of study here at the University, you will need to demonstrate that you have a good level of written and spoken English. You can demonstrate your level of English with IELTS/TOEFL/TEEP or alternative qualifications. The sections below will tell you what grades you need in these qualifications for the subject area you want to study.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

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