Art History (F45) (Taught)

Our MA in Art History allows you to deepen your understanding of art, design, architecture, and visual cultures as created, encountered, and interpreted across a range of cultures and historical periods. Adopting an object-centred approach, you will explore the relationship between art history and contemporary debates concerning decolonisation, ecocriticism, and digital visual culture. You’ll develop the tools required to be a successful art historian, including visual analysis and critical reading. These will enable you to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to produce an extended independent research project on a topic of your choice.

Key features of the course

• Develop your understanding of art history as it is practised today

• Draw on a wide range of art-historical and interdisciplinary approaches

• Draw on a wide range of art-historical and interdisciplinary approaches

Course Modules

To gain this qualification, you need 180 credits. You'll study two compulsory 90-credit modules. You must pass part 1 before progressing to part 2.

MA Art History part 1 - this first part of the MA will deepen your understanding of art, architecture, and visual cultures as encountered across a range of cultures and periods.

MA Art History part 2 - building on part 1, you will consider art history and art and design in their intellectual, institutional and professional contexts. before writing a dissertation.