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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2023/2024

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Year 1 Academic year: 2023/24, Starting in: September

Students should choose courses covering the period pre-1800, from the lists below.

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

Please note that History of Art Work Placement (Level 11) HIAR11126 is a full year, 20 credit course with the majority of the course content taking place in Semester 2.

Students may take Work-Based Dissertation in History of Art (Level 11) (HIAR11130) in place of the History of Art MSc Dissertation (HIAR11114).

You must take these courses.

Compulsory courses

Approaching World Objects

Must be taken during Semester 1

Global Rome

Must be taken during Semester 2

History of Art MSc Dissertation

Must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Course options

Select a minimum of 20 and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses for Semester 1.

Art and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy

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

Art and Cultural Exchange in Mughal India 1500-1900

Verdant Landscapes: Early Modern Land Imaginaries

From Versailles to Napoleon III: Visualising the Cost of Luxury, 1682-1873

AND

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

AND

Select a minimum of 20 and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses for Semester 2.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Expanding the Book: Image and Literacy in Valois France

The Celtic Question : Art in early Britain and Ireland

Around 900: The Early Islamic West in a Global Context

Art for the Afterlife: Buddhist Relics in Asian Material Culture

History of Art Work Placement (Level 11)

Wartime: Military encounters in British art from the Seven Years' War (1756-63) to the Battle of Waterloo (1815) [L11]

AND

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

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