THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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

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

Compulsory courses

Guided Research Placement

Must be taken during Full Year

Collections: Theories, Practices and Methods

Must be taken during Full Year

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

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

Compulsory courses

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

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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