2016/17 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA History of Art
| Programme code: | BA-AH | UCAS code: | V400 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
| Programme manager: | Dr Will Rea | Contact address: | W.R.Rea@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 365
Entry requirements:
ABB at A level
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
Programme specification:
History of Art students are introduced to various ways in which art has been produced and received by different communities during the last two thousand years. The term 'art' has not always been used in the same way, nor to name the same kinds of works or artefacts, so a variety of subjects may be studied from ancient Greek art and early Christian art to Hollywood movies and modern architecture.
Art historians are interested as much in attitudes as in objects. Although art history is a relatively young discipline, it has wide effects on the making, marketing and exhibition of past and present art.
This course not only teaches the history of art but also invites students to consider critically its development and effects.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| ARTF1014 | Elements of Visual Culture I | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF1015 | Elements of Visual Culture II | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF1045 | A Story of Art I | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF1046 | A Story of Art 2 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ODLM1001 | Studying in a Digital Age (Performance, Visual Arts and Communications) | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to choose 20-40 credits from the following optional modules
| ARTF1003 | Introduction to Cultural Analysis 1 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF1004 | Introduction to Cultural Analysis II | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF1023 | Cultural History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF1025 | Studio Work ( Materiality and Process) | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF1026 | Cinema and Media History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF1047 | The English Country House: Making and Meaning | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF1048 | Introduction to Museum and Art Gallery Studies | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study 20 credits of discovery modules.
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| ARTF2072 | Art History and Art Historiography | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2127 | Keywords | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study a minimum of 60 credits and a maximum of 80 credits from the following array of Art History optional modules.
| ARTF2003 | The New York School | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2028 | The Wanderers. Critical Realism in Nineteenth Century Russia | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2044 | Cinema and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2047 | Image, Music, Text: Reading Roland Barthes | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2049 | The State of Utopia | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2051 | Seeing in Asia | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2052 | Showing Asia | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2053 | Venice: Image and Imagination | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2055 | Variant Modernism | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
| ARTF2060 | Ecologies of Medieval Art | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2063 | Modernity, Catastrophe and the Image | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
| ARTF2064 | Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2065 | Post-Colonial Critique | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
| ARTF2069 | The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2074 | African Art I: Context Representation Signification | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2083 | Image before Art | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
| ARTF2092 | The Museum | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2094 | Art, Power and Portraiture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2111 | Bodies of Difference: Gender, Power and the Visual Arts | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2117 | The Avant Gardes | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2120 | Heritage and History 1: Whose Heritage? | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2126 | Danish Golden Age Painting | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2200 | Borromini and the Roman Baroque: Skill, Knowledge, and Material’s Potential | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2205 | Renaissance / Anti-Renaissance: Critical Approaches to Early Modern Art in Europe | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2207 | Power and Practice | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates may study the following optional module
| ARTF2800 | Careers Preparation for Arts and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
OR
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study 20 credits of discovery modules
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Optional modules:
Candidates MUST choose one of the following dissertation modules.
| ARTF3060 | Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ARTF3170 | Dissertation | 60 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study a minimum of 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits from the following optional modules.
| ARTF3003 | Deconstruction Reading Politics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3008 | Beyond the Trench: Collaborative Projects on the History, Remembrance and Critical Heritage of the First World War | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
| ARTF3013 | Assessing the French Revolution 1789-1799 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3014 | Making Sense of Sound | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3016 | Soviet Socialist Realism | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3031 | Periclean Athens | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
| ARTF3034 | From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3042 | Cultural Diversity in Museum and Material Culture - Case Study | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3047 | The Complete Marilyn Monroe: The Cultural Analysis of an Icon of the 20th Century | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3051 | Sins, Sinisters and Sciapods: The Margins of Medieval Art | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
| ARTF3054 | Anthropology, Art and Representation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3056 | Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3057 | The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3058 | Reading Sexual Difference | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3059 | Critical approaches to photography | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3065 | Heritage and History 2: Survival or Revival? | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
| ARTF3066 | Critical and Curatorial Challenges in Contemporary Art: The Documenta Exhibitions 1992-2012 | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
| ARTF3067 | British Architecture in the Long Eighteenth Century | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3077 | Humanity, Animality and Globality | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3079 | Utopia: Demanding the Impossible! | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 | |
| ARTF3100 | Encountering Things: Art and Entanglement in Anglo-Saxon England | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3101 | The Origins of Postcolonial England | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3156 | The 'Rematerialisation' of Art? (circa 1960 - present) | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3166 | The Ripped and the Raw: Aspects of European Art 1945-1960 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3168 | Africa and the Atlantic World: History, Historiography and the Visual Arts | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3195 | Technology, Media and Critical Literacy | 20 credits | Not running in 201617 |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study 20 credits of discovery modules
Last updated: 16/08/2016
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