DPT: History of Art, Theory and Display (MSc) (Part-time) (PTMSCHISTD2P)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2

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.

Half of the full-time credit load must be taken in each year. Exact arrangements can be arranged to suit the individual student's requirements but this must be discussed with the Director of Studies before any courses are chosen.

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 (across Year 1 and Year 2). Please note that 'Internship in a Museum or Public Institution HIAR11103' is a full year, 20 credit course and is a post-1800 option with the majority of the course content taking place in Semester 2.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Please note, students must undertake both Research: Theories and Methods and The Cultures and Politics of Display as compulsory courses for this programme. However, students may take 1 of each course per year if undertaken as part-time.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Research: Theories and Methods

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

The Cultures and Politics of Display

AND

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

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

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

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

Year 2 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: September

This programme is currently under review for the 2019/20 Academic Year. Please note that programme structure and course availability is subject to change.

Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Director of Studies.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.