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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2026/2027

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

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

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.¿

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

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.

Students may take Work-Based Dissertation in History of Art (Level 11) (HIAR11130) in place of the History of Art MSc Dissertation (HIAR11114).

Compulsory courses

Research: Theories and Methods

Must be taken during Semester 1

The Cultures and Politics of Display

Must be taken during Semester 2

History of Art MSc Dissertation

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

Course options

Select a minimum of 20 and maximum of 40 credits from the following list.

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

Modern and Contemporary Art of the Black Atlantic

The Modern Art Museum (Level 11)

Topics in the History of Art (level 11)

AND

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

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

AND

Select a minimum of 20 and maximum of 40 credits from the following list.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Theorising Contemporary Art

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

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

History of Art Work Placement (Level 11)

AND

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

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

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