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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Please note that programme structure and course availability is subject to change.

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

Please note that not all option courses may be available due to scheduling or limited places.

Compulsory courses

Guided Research Placement

Must be taken during Full Year

Collections: Theories, Practices and Methods

Must be taken during Full Year

MSc by Research in History of Art Dissertation

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

Course options

Supervised Research in History of Art 1

OR

The following courses are NOT available to students studying on this programme, despite appearing on the list of courses:

History of Art Work Placement (Level 11)
Research, Theories and Methods
The Cultures and Politics of Display

Finalised list of course options will be confirmed at a later date.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

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

Theorising Contemporary Art

Expanding the Book: Image and Literacy in Valois France

Art and Cultural Exchange in Mughal India 1500-1900

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

Utopia Zones: Modernism and Abstraction

Art for the Afterlife: Buddhist Relics in Asian Material Culture

Art and Digital Culture

Art and Occultism in the Long Nineteenth Century

Idolatry: Images and the Sacred in the Americas and Europe, 1400-1700.

Women Artists and Surrealism

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

Contemporary Artists' Film and Video

AND

The following courses are NOT available to students studying on this programme, despite appearing on the list of courses:

History of Art Work Placement (Level 11)
Research, Theories and Methods
The Cultures and Politics of Display

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Art and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy

The Celtic Question : Art in early Britain and Ireland

Art and Society in the Contemporary World: China

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

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

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

The Modern Art Museum (Level 11)

Premodern Textiles in Europe

Archives of Dissent, Repertoires of Resistance: Photography and Civil Rights

Images, Politics and the Contemporary African Public Sphere

OR

Course selections made beyond the Collections & Curatorial Practices (MScR) recommended option courses must first be approved by your Programme Director.

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