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Study Details: 12 months full time 24 months part time
The MA Social History of Art will equip you with a deep subject knowledge of the history of artistic practices in the broadest sense, grounded in fundamental questions about why this study matters in the world today. You’ll build the research, analytical, critical and communication skills to succeed in a variety of careers.
The emphasis of the course is on social and political approaches to art history, whether looking at the most recent and contemporary, or in the study of the deeper roots of the cultures we inhabit. From Medieval and Renaissance art to live practices now, from the study of our most local environments to the arts of Africa, Asia and beyond, we approach art as central to the production and reproduction of our shared and different social worlds.
A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons)
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This postgraduate degree will develop your visual, critical and cultural awareness and expand your subject knowledge in history of art. In addition, you will graduate equipped with sophisticated research, analytical, critical and communication skills that will support you to succeed in a variety of careers.
Our graduates have pursued careers as curators and education staff in museums and galleries and worked for national heritage organisations, as well as in journalism, publishing, arts marketing, public relations, university administration and teaching.
Others have transferred the skills they gained into industry, the charity sector, and the full range of professions where high-level analytical and communication skills are in demand.
MA Dissertation 60
MA Social History of Art Core Course 30
Year 1 optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)
Module Name Credits
Derrida and Deconstruction 30
Reading Sexual Difference 30
Jewish Museums and the Display of Cultural Difference 30
Unfinished Business: Trauma, Cultural Memory and the Holocaust 30
Aesthetics and Politics 30
Art, Ecology and Empire 30
Intersecting Practices: Questioning the Intersection of Contemporary Art and Heritage 30
Adventures in the Archive 30
Postcolonial Feminisms 30
Art of the Silk Roads 30
Anthropology, Art and Representation 30
Humanity, Animality and Globality 30
Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance 30
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age 30
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