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2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

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

Programme code:BAHA/CS-RUCAS code:2P8P
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; Communication, Media, Fil and Cultural Studies

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 with Cultural Studies

The BA History of Art with Cultural Studies at Leeds explores practices and interpretations of art and culture across an exceptionally wide array of topics, combining a critical approach to the historical study of art with the focused study of more diverse forms of cultural practice and theory. You’ll learn about the histories of various kinds of practice (such as film, painting, literature, photography, the media and music) as well as understanding their different contexts of production and consumption.

You’ll study key moments in the chronology of art history, from a broad and global perspective, and examine their significance. We’ll guide you to become a well-rounded art historian who is confidently able to understand, consider and challenge historical perspectives through a range of critical frameworks. In a world increasingly defined through images and material culture, you’ll approach art history as a vital and dynamic framework for understanding our shared histories and some of the most pressing questions we are faced with now.


Year1 - View timetable

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

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

ARTF1003Introduction to Cultural Analysis 120 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF1004Introduction to Cultural Analysis II20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF1028From Art History’s Myths to Critical Art History20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF1049Art History as Practice20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF1056Critical Approaches to Display, Institutions, and Engagement20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Optional modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:

ARTF1300Ways of Seeing20 creditsSemester 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:

* Origins, Structures, and Critique: Framing the Discipline of Art History - 20 Credits
* Methods in Practice: Art-Historical Research - 20 Credits

ARTF2127Keywords20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 1 or Basket 2. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:

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)
ARTF2092The Museum20 creditsNot running in 202425

Basket 2

ARTF2049The State of Utopia20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2051Seeing in Asia20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2094Art, Power and Portraiture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

In Semester 2 candidates will be required to take a total of 40 credits. 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:

ARTF2047Image, Music, Text: Reading Roland Barthes20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
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)

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:

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)

Candidates will be required to take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 5:

CSER2206Developing Your Professional Identity: Preparing for a Career in Within The Arts, Heritage and Creative Industries20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

OR Candidates may take up to 20 credits of any discovery module.

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:

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)

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:

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)

OR Candidates may take up to 20 credits of any discovery module.

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:

ARTF3042Cultural Diversity in Museum and Material Culture - Case Study20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3054Anthropology, Art and Representation20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3058Reading Sexual Difference20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3059Critical approaches to photography20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3099Antique Dealers: The Market for 'Decorative Art' from Curiosities to Retro20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3111Art of the Silk Roads20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Discovery modules:

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