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History of Art

SCQF Level 08 (6 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
HIAR08009 SV1 History of Art 1 Full Year 40
HIAR08010VV1 History of Art 1A (VS1) Semester 1 20
HIAR08011VV1 History of Art 1B (VS2) Semester 2 20
HIAR08012 SV1 History of Art 2 Full Year 40
HIAR08013VV1 History of Art 2A (VS1) Semester 1 20
HIAR08014VV1 History of Art 2B (VS2) Semester 2 20

SCQF Level 10 (99 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
HIAR10128 SS1 After Aesthetics: Philosophy and/as Art Semester 1 20
HIAR10162 SS1 Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions (Non-Compulsory Year Abroad) Semester 1 20
HIAR10162 SS1 Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions (Non-Compulsory Year Abroad) Semester 2 20
HIAR10171 SV1 Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part One Semester 1 20
HIAR10171 SV1 Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part One Semester 2 20
HIAR10170 SV1 Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part Two Semester 2 20
HIAR10177 Animal Bodies in the Art and Visual Culture of Seventeenth-Century Europe Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10008 SV1 Antiquity Recovered: Imag(in)ing Pompeii and Herculaneum Semester 1 20
HIAR10105 Art After Photography Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10159 Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part One Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10158 Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions, Part Two Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10183 SV1 Art and Capitalist Life Semester 2 20
HIAR10123 SS1 Art of Catholic Reform 1534-1610 Semester 1 20
HIAR10164 SV1 Art, Culture and Inequality Semester 2 20
HIAR10178 Art, Illness and Death in the Middle Ages Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10120 Avant-Gardes and Individuals: Art in France, 1886-1900 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10172 SV1 Bad Painting: Humour, Sarcasm and Stupidity in Modern and Contemporary Art Semester 2 20
HIAR10160 SV1 Bernini: Technologies of Wonder Semester 1 20
HIAR10155 SS1 Blood, bones, and bodies: Buddhist relics in Asia Semester 2 20
HIAR10135 SS1 Breaking Frames: Women in Dada and Surrealism Semester 1 20
HIAR10137 CONTEMPORARY ART: THEORIES AND METHODS Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10122 SV1 Caravaggio, 'the man who came to destroy painting,? Semester 2 20
HIAR10167 SV1 Charlatans and Connoisseurs: the development of the modern art market from Gambart to Kahnweiler Semester 1 20
HIAR10106 Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: The Elite World of China Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10087 SV1 City as a Work of Art: Western Urbanism 1960 to the Present Day Semester 2 20
HIAR10143 Cradle to Grave: Art and Society in Britain from Holbein to Hogarth Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10156 SV1 Curating Contemporary Art: Histories, Theories and Practice Semester 1 20
HIAR10104 Dada and Surrealism: The Shattered Subject Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10131 Dematerialized? Art and Ephemerality c. 1968 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10182 SV1 Democracy, Funding and the Arts: Understanding Cultural Policy Semester 1 20
HIAR10006 SS1 Dissertation (History of Art and Combined Degrees) Full Year 40
HIAR10067 Eating the Book: Word and Image in the Middle Ages Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10181 Envisioning the 'Foreign': European Depictions of Non-European Places and Cultures c.1550-c.1750 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10029 SV1 Europe 1900: Nationalism and Decadence at the Fin-De-Siecle Semester 1 20
HIAR10084 Eve's Children: Art and Gender 600-1400 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10014 SS1 Expanding Vision: Visual Culture in France from the Limbourgs to Leonardo Semester 2 20
HIAR10109 SS1 Expressionism, Dada, Bauhaus and Beyond Semester 2 20
HIAR10136 FROM PERFORMANCE TO PARTICIPATION: ART AFTER 1968 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10005 SS1 Fine Art Dissertation Full Year 40
HIAR10154 SV1 Forms of Life in Modern and Contemporary Art Semester 2 20
HIAR10079 Fractures: The Origin, Development and Influence of Cubist Painting Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10009 SS1 From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture Semester 2 20
HIAR10124 SV1 Golden Age Spain: Art, Politics and Religion Semester 2 20
HIAR10063 Goya: 'The last of the old masters and the first of the new' Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10138 Histories and theories of photography Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10140 History of Art Analytical Project A Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10141 History of Art Analytical Project B Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10025 History of Art Critical Portfolio Not delivered this year 40
HIAR10157 SS1 History of Art Work Placement Semester 2 20
HIAR10150 History of Art and Architectural History Combined Work Placement Not delivered this year 40
HIAR10114 SV1 How to Make Italian Renaissance Art: Media, Methods and Materials in Theory and Practice 1400-1550 Semester 2 20
HIAR10133 Iconography and Iconology: Critical Approaches to Interpretation and Visual Analysis in Medieval and Renaissance Works o Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10180 SS1 Images Under Control: Aesthetics of Digital Culture Semester 1 20
HIAR10077 Impressionism, Decadence, Rhythm: Artists in France and Britain 1870-1914 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10148 Looking at Women in Renaissance and Baroque Art Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10103 SS1 MA Fine Art Research 5 Full Year 40
HIAR10102 SS1 MA Fine Art Studio 5 Full Year 40
HIAR10179 Manuscripts, Artists & Audiences: Introduction to the Medieval Codex Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10126 Miniatures, frescoes, icons: the figural arts in the Islamic world (7th-15th century) Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10107 SV1 Modern Art in Shanghai, 1840-1930 Semester 1 20
HIAR10057 Modernism and After: Art in America and Western Europe, 1945 - The Present Day Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10147 Narrative and Storytelling in South Asian Art, from Antiquity to Modernity Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10119 Orientalism and Visual Culture Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10151 Outsider Art History Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10153 Outsider Art History Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10168 Photography in Modernism and Postmodernism Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10134 Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10149 SV1 Poetics, Piety, Politics: Approaching Indian Painting 1500-1900 Semester 1 20
HIAR10069 SV1 Poverty and Patronage: Francis, Dominic and the Arts Semester 1 20
HIAR10145 SS1 Radical Nature: art and ecology from Joseph Beuys to the Present Day Semester 2 20
HIAR10176 Representing Nature in Early Modern Northern Europe Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10108 SV1 Romanticism to Expressionism Semester 1 20
HIAR10169 SS1 Romantics, Rebels and Revivalists: From Highland Glen to Scotland's Shrine, Scottish Art 1850-1927 Semester 2 20
HIAR10070 SV1 Rome: From Imperial Capital to Holy City, c. 300-1300 Semester 2 20
HIAR10173 Rosslyn Chapel - Art, Architecture, and Experience in Late Medieval Scotland Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10110 Sacred and Profane Painting in Quattrocento Italy Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10146 Science Fictions: Cybernetics, Selfhood and Communication in Post-War Art Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10035 SV1 Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000 Semester 1 20
HIAR10066 SV1 Sexual Politics and the Image Semester 1 20
HIAR10139 SS1 Sexuality, Space and the Cinema Semester 1 20
HIAR10068 SV1 Sinners, Saints and Seers: Scottish, Irish and English art from 600-900 Semester 1 20
HIAR10166 SS1 Stars, Robots, and Talismans: Science, Magic & Medieval Islamic Visual Culture Semester 1 20
HIAR10161 Surrealism, Violence and History Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10065 SS1 The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Art Semester 2 20
HIAR10174 SV1 The Art of Revolution: A Century of Russian Visual Culture Semester 2 20
HIAR10165 SV1 The Arts in the Age of the Great Caliphs 650-1250 Semester 2 20
HIAR10097 The Death and Life of Painting Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10013 The Detailed Imagination: Netherlandish Painting in the Age of Jan van Eyck Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10144 The Golden Age of Islamic Architecture: Masterpieces from Spain to India Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10039 The High Renaissance in Rome and Florence Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10152 The Minimalist Moment: American Art, 1960-1975 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10175 SV1 The Performative Turn: Performance and Live Art since 1945 Semester 1 20
HIAR10053 SS1 The Renaissance Body Semester 2 20
HIAR10082 The Rise of Islamic Art Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10130 The Rise of the Aesthetic: Art, Nature and the Ideal Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10184 SS1 Timeless Heroines: Feminism and Sociability in South Asian Art Semester 2 20
HIAR10129 Twentieth-Century Picasso Not delivered this year 20
HIAR10163 Visions of the Buddha: Religious Art in Medieval Japan Not delivered this year 20
THET10023 Christ in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art Not delivered this year 20
ARHI10047 Renaissance Architecture: The Global Panorama Not delivered this year 20
ARHI10049 The Spaces and Architecture of Pilgrimage Not delivered this year 20

SCQF Level 11 (50 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
HIAR11083 SS1 Surrealism, Violence and History Semester 2 20
HIAR11099 SS1 Around 900: The Early Islamic West in a Global Context Semester 1 20
HIAR11092 Art and Cultural Exchange in Mughal India 1500-1900 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11034 Art and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11054 SS1 Art and Society in the Contemporary World: China Semester 1 20
HIAR11105 Art for the Afterlife: Buddhist Relics in Asian Material Culture Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11097 Art in Theory Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11098 Art in the Creative City Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11055 Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: The Elite World of China Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11093 SS1 Collections: Theories, Practices and Methods Full Year 20
HIAR11063 SS1 Critical Episodes in Twentieth-Century German Art: Cultural Exchanges and Divisions Semester 2 20
HIAR11104 Córdoba & Constantinople: Exchange & Competition between the Umayyad and Byzantine Courts Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11046 Dissertation (MSc in Art in the Global Middle Ages) Not delivered this year 60
HIAR11017 SS1 Dissertation (MSc in History of Art, Theory and Display) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
HIAR11080 SS1 Dissertation (MSc in Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating, Criticism) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
HIAR11075 Dissertation (MSc in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies) Not delivered this year 60
HIAR11040 Expanding the Book: Image and Literacy in Valois France Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11022 SS1 From Jacobitism to Romanticism, The (re)invention of Scotland in visual and material culture Semester 2 20
HIAR11045 Global Encounters in Medieval Art Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11094 SS1 Guided Research Placement Full Year 60
HIAR11021 Impressionism and the Third Republic, Culture, Politics and Social Change, 1865-1900 Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11004 Internship in a Museum or Public Institution Not delivered this year 40
HIAR11103 SS1 Internship in a Museum or Public Institution Full Year 20
HIAR11028 SS1 MSc by Research in History of Art Dissertation Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
HIAR11101 Material Culture of Health and Healing in Pre-Modern Europe Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11058 Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Texts, Objects and Practices Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11035 Mosques, Palaces and Gardens in the Golden Age of Islam Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11078 SS1 Patronage of the Papal Court 1471-1534 Semester 1 20
HIAR11102 SV1 Performance and Spectacle in Early Modern Europe Semester 1 20
HIAR11082 Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11074 Renaissance and Early Modern Studies: Objects and Practices Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11037 SV1 Research: Theories and Methods Semester 1 20
HIAR11044 SV1 Rome across Time and Space. Visual Culture and Cultural exchanges, c. 300-1300 Semester 2 20
HIAR11066 SS1 Scottish Art Since the 1960s: Practice and Debate Semester 1 20
HIAR11026 SS1 Supervised Research in History of Art 1 Full Year 40
HIAR11027 SS1 Supervised Research in History of Art 2 Full Year 40
HIAR11095 SV1 The Aesthetics of Difference: Post-Colonial Perspectives from the 19th to the 21st century Semester 2 20
HIAR11043 SV1 The Celtic Question : Art in early Britain and Ireland Semester 2 20
HIAR11084 SS1 The Creative City in Theory and Practice Semester 2 20
HIAR11038 SV1 The Cultures and Politics of Display Semester 2 20
HIAR11089 The Need to Document: Contemporary Art from Performance to Biopolitics Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11036 SV1 Theorising Contemporary Art Semester 1 20
HIAR11086 University Art Collections Project Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11100 Utopia Zones: Modernism and Abstraction Not delivered this year 20
HIAR11091 SV1 What Moves Them: Dance and Performance Art Since 1913 Semester 1 20
HIAR11072 SS1 Work-based Dissertation in History of Art (MSc in Art in the Global Middle Ages) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
HIAR11071 SS1 Work-based Dissertation in History of Art (MSc in History of Art, Theory and Display) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
HIAR11079 SS1 Work-based Dissertation in History of Art (MSc in Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating, Criticism) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
HIAR11076 Work-based Dissertation in History of Art (MSc in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies) Not delivered this year 60
ARHI11003 Architecture and Socialism: 1930 to the Present Not delivered this year 20
Key
Available to all students - SV
Not available to visiting students - SS
Part-year visiting students only - VV
 
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