2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA History of Art (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)
| Programme code: | BAAH-R | UCAS 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:
Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry
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:
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
History of Art, Architecture and Design
Programme specification:
The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme from September 2024. For students who entered the programme before September 2024, you can find the details of your programme: BA History of Art
The BA History of Art at Leeds explores practices and interpretations of art across an exceptionally wide array of intersecting cultures and different periods. In a world increasingly defined through images and material culture, we approach art history as a vital and dynamic framework for understanding both our shared histories, and some of the most pressing questions we are faced with now.
With an emphasis on the interconnections between art and larger social dynamics, the programme offers an active engagement with questions of power, politics and society, and the potential for a deep understanding of art history to illuminate the wider frameworks that shape our culture, such as those of race, our relations to nature and the environment, class, gender and sexuality.
Our students are equipped to become global citizens, as experts in their fields of study and as socially aware thinkers with a panoply of dynamic, relevant and transferrable skills.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules
| ARTF1028 | From Art History’s Myths to Critical Art History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF1049 | Art History as Practice | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF1056 | Critical Approaches to Display, Institutions, and Engagement | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF1300 | Ways of Seeing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF1301 | Ways of Thinking Seeing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates may take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:
| ARTF1027 | Cultural History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
OR Candidates may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules
Discovery modules:
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for years 2 and 3 are not yet available. Before you enter years 2 and 3 details of modules for those years will be provided.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
* Expanding Fields of Display, Institutions, and Engagement - 20 Credits
* Origins, Structures, and Critique: Framing the Discipline of Art History -20 Credits
* Methods in Practice: Art-Historical Research - 20 Credits - 20 Credits
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules in either Basket 1 or Basket 2. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:
Basket 1
| ARTF2044 | Cinema and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2055 | Variant Modernism | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2064 | Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2092 | The Museum | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 |
Basket 2
| ARTF2049 | The State of Utopia | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2051 | Seeing in Asia | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2094 | Art, Power and Portraiture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 3. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:
| ARTF2047 | Image, Music, Text: Reading Roland Barthes | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2061 | Encountering Contemporary Art in a Global Context | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2069 | The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2111 | Bodies of Difference: Gender, Power and the Visual Arts | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2205 | Renaissance / Anti-Renaissance: Critical Approaches to Early Modern Art in Europe | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 4. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:
| ARTF2003 | The New York School | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2052 | Showing Asia | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2059 | The Grand Tour: travels, excavations, collections | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2074 | African Art I: Context Representation Signification | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2128 | The Avant-Gardes | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 5:
| CSER2206 | Developing Your Professional Identity: Preparing for a Career in Within The Arts, Heritage and Creative Industries | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
OR Candidates may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules.
Discovery modules:
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for year 3 are not yet available. Before you enter year 3 full details of modules for that year will be provided.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
* Dissertation - 60 Credits
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to take 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 1. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:
| ARTF3056 | Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3064 | Art, Ecology and Empire | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3166 | The Ripped and the Raw: Aspects of European Art 1945-1960 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3168 | Africa and the Atlantic World: History, Historiography and the Visual Arts | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to take 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 2. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:
| ARTF3003 | Deconstruction Reading Politics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3034 | From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3063 | Postcolonial Feminisms | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3077 | Humanity, Animality and Globality | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
OR Candidates may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules
Candidates will be required to take 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 3. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:
| 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) | |
| ARTF3058 | Reading Sexual Difference | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3059 | Critical approaches to photography | 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) | |
| ARTF3111 | Art of the Silk Roads | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
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