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

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Year 1 Academic year: 2020/21, Starting in: September

It is recommended that students choose 40 credits of pre-1800 courses and 40 credits of post-1800 courses as part of their option courses across the programme. A list is available annually from History of Art and course choices are at the discretion of the Programme Director.

Alternative relevant option courses to those listed below may be substituted with the written permission of the Programme Director.

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

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

Select up to 40 credits from the list of course options for Semester One. Finalised list of course options to be circulated at a later date.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Expanding the Book: Image and Literacy in Valois France

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

Art and Society in the Contemporary World: China

Scottish Art Since the 1960s: Practice and Debate

Patronage of the Papal Court 1471-1534

Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts

The Creative City in Theory and Practice

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

Around 900: The Early Islamic West in a Global Context

Utopia Zones: Modernism and Abstraction

Art and Digital Culture

Introduction to Community Arts Practice: Modes, Methods and Meanings

AND

Select up to 40 credits from the list of course options for Semester Two. Finalised list of course options to be circulated at a later date.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Impressionism and the Third Republic, Culture, Politics and Social Change, 1865-1900

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

Art and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy

Theorising Contemporary Art

The Celtic Question : Art in early Britain and Ireland

What Moves Them: Dance and Performance Art Since 1913

Internship in a Museum or Public Institution

Art for the Afterlife: Buddhist Relics in Asian Material Culture

Inequality in the arts: Understanding the production and consumption of culture.

Verdant Landscapes: Early Modern Land Imaginaries

Art and Occultism in the Long Nineteenth Century

Radical Change: The Modern Image and Political and Social Reform in Tehran, Istanbul and Bombay (1800-1950)

The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Art

Year 2 Academic year: 2020/21, Starting in: September

Alternative relevant elective courses to those listed below may be substituted with the written permission of the Programme Director.

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.