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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2019/2020

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Year 1 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: September

This programme is currently under review. Please note that programme structure and course availability is subject to change.

Students are required to choose 40 credits of pre-1800 courses and 40 credits of post-1800 courses as part of their elective courses across both semesters. Please note that 'Internship in a Museum or Public Institution HIAR11103' is a Semester 2 (beginning in Semester 1 ), 20 credit course and is a post-1800 option with the majority of the course content taking place in Semester 2.

Compulsory courses

Research: Theories and Methods

Must be taken during Semester 1

The Cultures and Politics of Display

Must be taken during Semester 2

Course options

A list is available annually from History of Art and course choices are at the discretion of the Programme Director.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Patronage of the Papal Court 1471-1534

Around 900: The Early Islamic West in a Global Context

Performance and Spectacle in Early Modern Europe

OR

A list is available annually from History of Art and course choices are at the discretion of the Programme Director.

Cinema Auteurs

Film and Gender

Theorising Contemporary Art

Art and Society in the Contemporary World: China

Scottish Art Since the 1960s: Practice and Debate

What Moves Them: Dance and Performance Art Since 1913

AND

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

From Jacobitism to Romanticism, The (re)invention of Scotland in visual and material culture

The Celtic Question : Art in early Britain and Ireland

Rome across Time and Space. Visual Culture and Cultural exchanges, c. 300-1300

OR

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Cinema Auteurs 2

Mediating Film

Film Adaptation

Critical Episodes in Twentieth-Century German Art: Cultural Exchanges and Divisions

Surrealism, Violence and History

The Creative City in Theory and Practice

The Aesthetics of Difference: Post-Colonial Perspectives from the 19th to the 21st century

Internship in a Museum or Public Institution

AND

Selected courses must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Dissertation (MSc in History of Art, Theory and Display)

OR

Selected courses must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Work-based Dissertation in History of Art (MSc in History of Art, Theory and Display)

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