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2022/23 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA History of Art

Programme code:BA-AHUCAS code:V350
Duration:3 Years Method of Attendance: Full Time
Programme manager:Dr Richard Checketts Contact address:R.S.Checketts@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:

Students must study a total of 120 credits per academic year.

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:

ARTF1014Elements of Visual Culture I20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF1015Elements of Visual Culture II20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF1045A Story of Art? 120 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF1046A Story of Art? 220 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to choose 20-40 credits from the following optional modules

ARTF1026Cinema and Media History20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF1027Cultural History20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF1047The English Country House: Making and Meaning20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF1048Introduction to Museum and Art Gallery Studies20 creditsSemester 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:

ARTF2072Art History and Art Historiography20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2127Keywords20 creditsSemester 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 optional modules

ARTF2003The New York School20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2024Country Houses and the (Re)Construction of the Heritage Industry 1880-195020 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF2028The Wanderers. Critical Realism in Nineteenth Century Russia20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF2044Cinema and Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2047Image, Music, Text: Reading Roland Barthes20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2049The State of Utopia20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2051Seeing in Asia20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2052Showing Asia20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2053Venice: Image and Imagination20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF2054State of the Art: Contemporary Perspectives in Art, Science and Technology20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF2055Variant Modernism20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2057Racist Pasts/Radical Futures20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF2058Home, Exile and Displacement - Histories and Representations of Belonging in the 20th Century20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF2059The Grand Tour: travels, excavations, collections20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2060Ecologies of Medieval Art20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF2061Encountering Contemporary Art in a Global Context20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2064Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2065Post-Colonial Critique20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF2069The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2074African Art I: Context Representation Signification20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2092The Museum20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2094Art, Power and Portraiture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2111Bodies of Difference: Gender, Power and the Visual Arts20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2117The Avant Gardes20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2126Danish Golden Age Painting20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF2200Borromini and the Roman Baroque: Skill, Knowledge, and Material’s Potential20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF2205Renaissance / Anti-Renaissance: Critical Approaches to Early Modern Art in Europe20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CSER2206Developing Your Professional Identity: Preparing for a Career in Within The Arts, Heritage and Creative Industries20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CSER2207Students Into Schools (Arts Humanities and Culture)20 creditsNot running in 202223

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study 20 credits of discovery modules


Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates MUST choose one of the following dissertation modules

ARTF3060Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ARTF3170Dissertation60 creditsSemesters 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.

ARTF3003Deconstruction Reading Politics20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3014Making Sense of Sound20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3016Soviet Socialist Realism20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF3024Curatorial Practice and the Country House 1950-present20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF3031Periclean Athens20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF3034From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3042Cultural Diversity in Museum and Material Culture - Case Study20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF3051Sins, Sinisters and Sciapods: The Margins of Medieval Art20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF3054Anthropology, Art and Representation20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3056Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3057The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF3058Reading Sexual Difference20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3059Critical approaches to photography20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3063Postcolonial Feminisms20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3067British Architecture in the Long Eighteenth Century20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF3077Humanity, Animality and Globality20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3099Antique Dealers: The Market for 'Decorative Art' from Curiosities to Retro20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3100Encountering Things: Art and Entanglement in Anglo-Saxon England20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF3101The Origins of Postcolonial England20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF3109Prehuman to Post-Anthropocene20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF3111Art of the Silk Roads20 creditsNot running in 202223
ARTF3166The Ripped and the Raw: Aspects of European Art 1945-196020 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3168Africa and the Atlantic World: History, Historiography and the Visual Arts20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3173Movies, Migrants and Diasporas20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study 20 credits of discovery modules

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