2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Fine Art with History of Art (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)
Programme code: | BAFA/HA-R | UCAS code: | 5Y3M |
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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
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) | |
ARTF1210 | Introduction to Practice | 40 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF1211 | Practice 2 | 40 credits | Semester 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:
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) | |
ARTF2210 | Absence, Representation, Violence | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules in 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) | |
ARTF2092 | The Museum | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
ARTF2094 | Art, Power and Portraiture | 20 credits | Semester 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
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) |
Basket 4
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) |
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
ARTF3060 | Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 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
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) |
Basket 2:
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) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may instead, study 20 credits of discovery modules
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