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2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Fine Art with History of Art (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Programme code:BAFA/HA-RUCAS code:5Y3M
Duration:3 Years Method of Attendance: Full Time
Programme manager:Joanne Crawford Contact address:j.s.crawford@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:

Art & 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 Fine Art with History of Art

The Fine Art with History of Art programme at the University of Leeds invites you to explore and challenge what you understand by art by engaging with a broad array of artistic practices and understanding their historical and theoretical development as the creation of ‘meaningful’ objects within emerging and often contested discourses. In a world requiring new forms of consciousness, perception and insight, we approach fine art as a constellation of materials, histories, practices, concepts, and to consider what art has already and can continue to contribute to the most pressing questions we are faced with today. This is enabled by working in an interdisciplinary space, alongside other artists, historians of art and cultural theorists, through both core and optional modules linked across the full programme of study. Within this active space there is a real emphasis on the interconnections between the creation of art, the consolidation and questioning of its practices and modes of display, as well as its creation as a subject of important historical and theoretical study. This programme therefore offers an active and creative exploration of art’s capacity to illuminate the wider frameworks, both practice-led and academic, that shape our culture, history and society, such as those of ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality, identity, and our relations to nature and the environment. You will complete the programme equipped to act in the world as well-informed artists and creative global citizens, innovators in your respective fields of making, and socially aware with a broad range of relevant and transferrable skills, as both makers and academics.

Throughout the course, you will also have opportunities to contribute to the creative community, to build networks in the city and beyond, to exhibit your work regularly and to discover what kind of practitioner you want to be. This is supported by various professional development activities, a regular Visiting Artists Talks programme and participation in local and regional artist-led spaces, museums, galleries and heritage venues. We offer an Industry Placement Programme which supports students to undertake work placements in the UK and internationally, whilst our Study Year Abroad programme at comparable international institutions has provided valuable experiences for many in our community. Our Fine Art with History of Art students programme thereby operates at the intersection of making, thinking, exploring and researching, enabling you to understand your place as artists and to actively and creatively participate within both the contemporary and historical ‘worlds’.


Year1 - View timetable

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

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

ARTF1028From Art History’s Myths to Critical Art History20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF1049Art History as Practice20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF1210Introduction to Practice40 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF1211Practice 240 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)


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:

Practice 3 - 20 Credits
Practice 4 - 40 Credits

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 1:

ARTF2044Cinema and Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2055Variant Modernism20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2064Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2210Absence, Representation, Violence20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 2:

ARTF2049The State of Utopia20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2051Seeing in Asia20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2092The Museum20 creditsNot running in 202425
ARTF2094Art, Power and Portraiture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules in either Basket 3 or Basket 4:
Basket 3

ARTF2061Encountering Contemporary Art in a Global Context20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2069The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2111Bodies of Difference: Gender, Power and the Visual Arts20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2205Renaissance / Anti-Renaissance: Critical Approaches to Early Modern Art in Europe20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Basket 4

ARTF2003The New York School20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2052Showing Asia20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2059The Grand Tour: travels, excavations, collections20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2074African Art I: Context Representation Signification20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2128The Avant-Gardes20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study up to 20 credits of 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:

Practice 5 - 20 Credits
Practice, towards exhibition - 40 Credits

ARTF3060Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional modules:

Candidates may study up to 20 credits from either Basket 1 or Basket 2 (indicative, including):
Basket 1

ARTF3056Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3064Art, Ecology and Empire20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3166The Ripped and the Raw: Aspects of European Art 1945-196020 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3168Africa and the Atlantic World: History, Historiography and the Visual Arts20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Basket 2:

ARTF3003Deconstruction Reading Politics20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3034From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3063Postcolonial Feminisms20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3077Humanity, Animality and Globality20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may instead, study 20 credits of discovery modules

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