Entry Requirements: The typical offer is likely to be:
- SQA Highers: AAAA
- GCE A Levels: AAA
- IB: 37 points overall and grades 666 at Higher Level
PROGRAMME OF STUDY:
Year 1
COMPULSORY COURSES
This year has 1 compulsory course
Code |
Course Name |
Period |
Credits |
HIAR08009 |
History of Art 1 |
As available |
40 |
COURSE OPTIONS
This year has 2 sets of course options with the following rules:
Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
Code |
Course Name |
Credits |
MUSI08011 |
Music 1A: Music in Social Contexts |
20 |
MUSI08012 |
Music 1B: Music and Technologies |
20 |
AND
Select exactly 40 credits from
Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available
Year 2
COMPULSORY COURSES
This year has 3 compulsory course(s).
Code |
Course Name |
Period |
Credits |
HIAR08012 |
History of Art 2 |
As available |
40 |
MUSI08031 |
Music 2A: Music and Ideas |
As available |
20 |
MUSI08033 |
Music 2B: Set Works |
As available |
20 |
COURSE OPTIONS
This year has 1 set of course options with the following rules:
Select exactly 40 credits from
Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available
Notes:
To progress to Honours students must achieve a mark of 40% or above in History of Art 2 at the first attempt and an average of 50% or above in Music 2A and Music 2B at the first attempt.
Year 3
COMPULSORY COURSES
This year has 1 compulsory course
Code |
Course Name |
Period |
Credits |
MUSI10066 |
Research Methods in Music |
As available |
20 |
COURSE OPTIONS
This year has 5 sets of course options with the following rules:
Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
Code |
Course Name |
Credits |
HIAR10004 |
History of Art Analytical Report (A) |
20 |
HIAR10031 |
History of Art Analytical Report B |
20 |
Overarching rule collection group A
Select exactly 40 credits from these collections, a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 40 credits from each of the following two sets:
AND/OR
Code |
Course Name |
Credits |
MUSI10009 |
Special History in Music: Music in Christian Worship |
20 |
MUSI10071 |
Special History in Music: A Century of Rhythm |
20 |
MUSI10074 |
Special History in Music: Bach's Instrumental Music |
20 |
MUSI10075 |
Film Music to 1950 |
20 |
Overarching rule collection group B
Select exactly 40 credits from these collections, a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 40 credits from each of the following two sets:
AND/OR
Code |
Course Name |
Credits |
MUSI10009 |
Special History in Music: Music in Christian Worship |
20 |
MUSI10071 |
Special History in Music: A Century of Rhythm |
20 |
MUSI10074 |
Special History in Music: Bach's Instrumental Music |
20 |
MUSI10075 |
Film Music to 1950 |
20 |
Overarching rule collection group B
Select exactly 40 credits from these collections, a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 40 credits from each of the following two sets:
Code |
Course Name |
Credits |
HIAR10082 |
The Rise of Islamic Art |
20 |
HIAR10068 |
Sinners, Saints and Seers: Scottish, Irish and English art from 600-900 |
20 |
HIAR10008 |
Antiquity Recovered: Imag(in)ing Pompeii and Herculaneum |
20 |
HIAR10070 |
Rome: From Imperial Capital to Holy City, c. 300-1300 |
20 |
HIAR10013 |
The Detailed Imagination: Netherlandish Painting in the Age of Jan van Eyck |
20 |
HIAR10078 |
Velázquez in context |
20 |
ARHI10005 |
Evolution of the Edinburgh Townscape |
20 |
HIAR10108 |
Romanticism to Expressionism |
20 |
HIAR10114 |
How to Make Italian Renaissance Art: Media, Methods and Materials in Theory and Practice 1400-1550 |
20 |
ARHI10031 |
Leon Battista Alberti: Theory & Practice of the Visual Arts in 15th-century Italy |
20 |
ARHI10035 |
Scottish Architecture: Context and Conservation |
20 |
AND/OR
Code |
Course Name |
Credits |
HIAR10029 |
Europe 1900: Nationalism and Decadence at the Fin-De-Siecle |
20 |
HIAR10097 |
The Death and Life of Painting |
20 |
HIAR10035 |
Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000 |
20 |
HIAR10104 |
Dada and Surrealism: The Shattered Subject |
20 |
ARHI10027 |
Architecture and Empire in Britain and the British Colonial World 1783 - 1947 |
20 |
ARHI10032 |
Barcelona and Modernity |
20 |
HIAR10107 |
Modern Art in Shanghai, 1840-1930 |
20 |
HIAR10066 |
Sexual Politics and the Image |
20 |
Year 4
This year has no compulsory courses
COURSE OPTIONS
This year has 5 sets of course options with the following rules:
Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
Code |
Course Name |
Credits |
HIAR10006 |
Dissertation (History of Art and Combined Degrees) |
40 |
MUSI10016 |
Dissertation in Music |
40 |
AND
Overarching rule collection group A
Select exactly 40 credits from these collections, a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 40 credits from each of the following two sets:
AND/OR
Code |
Course Name |
Credits |
MUSI10009 |
Special History in Music: Music in Christian Worship |
20 |
MUSI10071 |
Special History in Music: A Century of Rhythm |
20 |
MUSI10074 |
Special History in Music: Bach's Instrumental Music |
20 |
MUSI10075 |
Film Music to 1950 |
20 |
Overarching rule collection group B
Select exactly 40 credits from these collections, a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 40 credits from each of the following two sets:
Code |
Course Name |
Credits |
HIAR10074 |
Persian Painting |
20 |
HIAR10053 |
The Renaissance Body |
20 |
HIAR10014 |
Expanding Vision: Visual Culture in France from the Limbourgs to Leonardo |
20 |
HIAR10009 |
From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture |
20 |
HIAR10016 |
Rubens and His World |
20 |
HIAR10106 |
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: The Elite World of China |
20 |
HIAR10084 |
Eve's Children: Art and Gender 600-1400 |
20 |
ARHI10005 |
Evolution of the Edinburgh Townscape |
20 |
ARHI10031 |
Leon Battista Alberti: Theory & Practice of the Visual Arts in 15th-century Italy |
20 |
ARHI10035 |
Scottish Architecture: Context and Conservation |
20 |
AND/OR
Code |
Course Name |
Credits |
HIAR10030 |
France, 1850-1900: Visual Culture and Social Change |
20 |
HIAR10077 |
Impressionism, Decadence, Rhythm: Artists in France and Britain 1870-1914 |
20 |
HIAR10034 |
Myth and History in Scottish Modern and Contemporary Art 1945-2000 |
20 |
HIAR10109 |
Expressionism, Dada, Bauhaus and Beyond |
20 |
HIAR10065 |
The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Art |
20 |
ARHI10027 |
Architecture and Empire in Britain and the British Colonial World 1783 - 1947 |
20 |
ARHI10032 |
Barcelona and Modernity |
20 |
HIAR10105 |
Art After Photography |
20 |
HIAR10086 |
Francis Bacon and his Artistic Affinities |
20 |
ARHI10020 |
Structure and Architecture: Technology, Design and Construction |
20 |
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