DPT: Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating, Criticism (MSc) (Part-time) (PTMSCIMCAH1P)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

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

Half of the full-time credit load must be taken in each year. Exact arrangements can be made to suit the individual student's requirements but this must be discussed with the Director of Studies before any courses are chosen.

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.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Please note, students must undertake both Research: Theories and Methods and The Cultures and Politics of Display as compulsory courses for this programme. However, students may take 1 of each course per year if undertaken as part-time.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Research: Theories and Methods

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

The Cultures and Politics of Display

AND

Select a minimum of 0 and maximum of 40 credits from the following list.
Alternative relevant option courses to those listed below may be substituted with the written permission of the Programme Director.
Please note that not all option courses may be available each year.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

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

Theorising Contemporary Art

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

Utopia Zones: Modernism and Abstraction

Art and Digital Culture

Art and Occultism in the Long Nineteenth Century

Women Artists and Surrealism

Contemporary Artists' Film and Video

AND

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Art and Society in the Contemporary World: China

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

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

The Modern Art Museum (Level 11)

History of Art Work Placement (Level 11)

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

Images, Politics and the Contemporary African Public Sphere

AND

Select a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 20 credits from the following list of courses for Semester 1 & 2.

Selected courses must be taken during Blocks 1-3 (Sem 1-2)

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

History of Art MSc Dissertation

Must be taken during Semester 2

Course options

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

The Cultures and Politics of Display

AND

Select a minimum of 0 and maximum of 40 credits from the following list.
Alternative relevant elective courses to those listed below may be substituted with the written permission of the Programme Director.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

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

Theorising Contemporary Art

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

Utopia Zones: Modernism and Abstraction

Art and Digital Culture

Art and Occultism in the Long Nineteenth Century

Women Artists and Surrealism

Contemporary Artists' Film and Video

AND

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Art and Society in the Contemporary World: China