DPT: History of Art, Theory and Display (MSc) (Part-time) (PTMSCHISTD2P)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2

Year 1 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: September

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

It is recommended that students choose 40 credits of pre-1800 courses and 40 credits of post-1800 courses as part of their option courses across the programme.

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 Programme Director 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.

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.

Research: Theories and Methods (HIAR11037) may be substituted by students who have taken Analysing Art History, Part 1 (HIAR10171) and achieved a 2.1 or above with written permission of the Programme Director.

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 of courses for Semester 1.
You should choose one course from the pre-1800 period, and one from the post-1800 period.
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

Art and Society in the Contemporary World: China

Art and Digital Culture

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

Modern and Contemporary Art of the Black Atlantic

The Modern Art Museum (Level 11)

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

Human Nature: Looking at Ourselves and Others in Northern European Art, 1400-1600

Topics in the History of Art (level 11)

AND

Select a minimum of 0 and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses for Semester 2.
You should choose one course from the pre-1800 period, and one from the post-1800 period.
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 2

Theorising Contemporary Art

The Celtic Question : Art in early Britain and Ireland

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

Art and Cultural Exchange in Mughal India 1500-1900

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

Digital Islamic Art History

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

The Need to Document in Contemporary Art

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: 2026/27, 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 a maximum of 40 credits from the list of course options for Semester 1.
You should choose one course from the pre-1800 period, and one from the post-1800 period.
Alternative relevant elective 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

Art and Society in the Contemporary World: China

Art and Digital Culture

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

Modern and Contemporary Art of the Black Atlantic

The Modern Art Museum (Level 11)

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

Human Nature: Looking at Ourselves and Others in Northern European Art, 1400-1600

Topics in the History of Art (level 11)

AND

Select a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 40 credits from the list of course options for Semester 2.
You should choose one course from the pre-1800 period, and one from the post-1800 period.
Alternative relevant elective 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 2

Theorising Contemporary Art

The Celtic Question : Art in early Britain and Ireland

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

Art and Cultural Exchange in Mughal India 1500-1900

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

Digital Islamic Art History

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

The Need to Document in Contemporary Art

AND