Modules

This degree has three stages. In Stage 1, you'll encounter a variety of different times and places and engage with fascinating people, artworks, ideas and stories. As an art history student, this broad interdisciplinary foundation will help you develop the skills and the confident, open approach you need to tackle more specialist art history modules at Stages 2 and 3. Stage 2 engages you thematically with the central questions of art history and visual cultures from prehistory to the present day. You'll develop visual literacy skills through a cutting-edge exploration of different ways of looking and by analysing visual, spatial and material examples from a diverse range of cultural contexts. Each module introduces art and visual cultures in the broadest sense, and in everyday settings, including the transfer of art historical concepts and knowledge to wider public, curatorial, commercial and industrial contexts. Stage 3 highlights the vital role that art has played in the stories that Europeans have told about the wider world, and suggests ways in which these stories might be challenged or revised. In your final module, you'll explore a broad programme of study in art history and visual cultures that introduces the widest possible range of approaches, themes, periods and geographies. From these options, you'll select and develop an independent research project on a subject that interests you.