THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2020/2021

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

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

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

Select up to 40 credits from the list of course options for Semester One.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Art and Society in the Contemporary World: China

Scottish Art Since the 1960s: Practice and Debate

The Creative City in Theory and Practice

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

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

Theorising Contemporary Art

What Moves Them: Dance and Performance Art Since 1913

Internship in a Museum or Public Institution

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

AND

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

Dissertation (MSc in Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating, Criticism)

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 Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating, Criticism)

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