2018/19 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Art Gallery and Museum Studies
Programme code: | BA-AG/MS | UCAS code: | V351 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Mark Westgarth | Contact address: | M.W.Westgarth@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 360
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:
This programme will offer students a unique opportunity to combine the study of art history with a consideration of the role of museums from a historical and contemporary perspective. It enables you to gain valuable work experience through its links with several local country houses, museums and galleries, and to observe collections and artefacts not available to public.
You will become familiar with a number of museums and galleries through organised visits to, for example, Harewood House, Temple Newsam House, Leeds City Museum, Leeds City Art Gallery, the Royal Armouries, the Henry Moore Institute and National Media Museum in Bradford.
At Level One you take core modules. One of these is shared with the art historians, cultural studies students and fine artists, 'A story of Art?' (I & II), the others are focused on 'The English Country House', and an 'Introduction to Museums and Galleries' which introduce students to the study of museums and galleries, firstly to a wide variety of ways of thinking about museums, art galleries and heritage organisations, and in the second semester, through the theme of the English country house. You also select a number of optional and discovery modules from the large array on offer.
At Level Two, you combine your studies in the history of art through options selected according to your interests with core modules on museums and galleries, including a module that involves a number of sessions taught in local museums in conjunction with museum and gallery curators. Students develop an exhibition idea of their own as the final assessment for this module.
At Level Three, you select your options from the art history array, undertake a dedicated, supervised museum/gallery work placement, and complete a dissertation on a subject of your choice.
Throughout the course students acquire a useful network of contacts, practical work experience and a portfolio of work which helps to make graduates of this course highly employable. Previous graduates have obtained jobs at Harewood House, the National Portrait Gallery, Bonhams Auctioneers, The National Trust, and in a wide range of associated careers.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ARTF1045 | A Story of Art? 1 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF1046 | A Story of Art? 2 | 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) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 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) | |
ARTF1202 | Approaches to Living Histories and Heritage | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
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:
ARTF2092 | The Museum | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2125 | Exhibitions, Curatorship and Audiences | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 40-60 credits from the following optional modules:
ARTF2003 | The New York School | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2024 | Country Houses and the (Re)Construction of the Heritage Industry 1880-1950 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2055 | Variant Modernism | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2060 | Ecologies of Medieval Art | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2069 | The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2074 | African Art I: Context Representation Signification | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2094 | Art, Power and Portraiture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2117 | The Avant Gardes | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2200 | Borromini and the Roman Baroque: Skill, Knowledge, and Material’s Potential | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2800 | Careers Preparation for Arts and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study 20 credits of discovery modules.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module
ARTF3078 | Art Gallery and Museum Work Placement | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates MUST choose one of the following 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 20-60 credits from the following optional modules
ARTF3016 | Soviet Socialist Realism | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
ARTF3024 | Curatorial Practice and the Country House 1950-present | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3031 | Periclean Athens | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3042 | Cultural Diversity in Museum and Material Culture - Case Study | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3054 | Anthropology, Art and Representation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3067 | British Architecture in the Long Eighteenth Century | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3099 | Antique Dealers: The Market for 'Decorative Art' from Curiosities to Retro | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3101 | The Origins of Postcolonial England | 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 | Not running in 201819 |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study 20 credits of discovery modules
Last updated: 03/09/2018
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