MA History of Art and/or Archaeology

Master

In City of London

£ 9,225 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    City of london

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Start of programme: September intake only
Mode of Attendance: Full-time or Part-time
Introduction
This programme is a unique opportunity to study the History of Art and/or Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Students concentrate on architecture, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts and have the option of pursuing topics and approaches more archaeological in focus. They consider theoretical and methodological questions and are invited to question the relevance of the disciplinary distinction between History of Art and Archaeology to the study of the non-Western world. Courses cover a time period spanning from antiquity to present-day, contemporary art.
The Department of the History of Art and Archaeology contains some of the world’s leading experts in Asian and African art history and archaeology, whose ground-breaking research informs and is informed by their teaching. Students benefit from the unparalleled knowledge and enthusiasm of staff. As members of the School of Arts, they profit from the insights of scholars and students studying the Music, Film and Media of Asia, Africa and the Middle East in historical and contemporary contexts. They can also select from modules in other departments, taking advantage of SOAS’s unrivalled expertise in the languages, history, religions and cultures of Asia and Africa.
A Masters from the Department of the History of Art and Archaeology provides students with expertise in the History of Art and/or Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Our postgraduates progress to work in arts, culture and heritage roles, including in galleries, museums, archives, conservation, publishing and arts administration. The large portfolio of transferable skills they acquire enables them to forge careers in a range of other fields across the world. Our Masters programmes are also an excellent foundation for MPhil/PhD research.
Convenors
Timon Screech

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City of London (London)
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Subjects

  • Music
  • Media
  • Part Time
  • Cinema
  • Sculpture
  • Art History
  • Politics
  • Conflict
  • Turkish
  • Arabic
  • IT
  • Archaeology
  • Art
  • History
  • Culture
  • Historical
  • Intercultural awareness
  • Research
  • Historical Research
  • Public sectors
  • Private sectors
  • Historical knowledge
  • Heritage roles

Course programme

Students must complete 120 credits of MA taught modules in addition to the compulsory dissertation (60 credits).

  • A minimum of 75 credits must be selected from the MA modules in the History of Art and Archaeology department listed below.
  • Up to 45 credits may be selected from MA options offered by other SOAS departments, also listed below.Please note that not all option modules may run every year.
  • Students must complete the Dissertation in Art and Archaeology (15PARC999).

Students may be allowed to study for the MA on a part-time basis.

  • The part-time MA may be taken over two years, in which case the student takes two 30 credits modules (or equivalent 15 credits modules) in the first year, and two 30 credits modules (or equivalent 15 credits modules) and the dissertation in the second year.
  • Alternatively, it can be taken over three years, in which case the student can distribute the 120 credits modules evenly in each of the three years. The dissertation can be written in year two or three, but it is strongly recommended that this be undertaken in the final year of the programme. It must be submitted in September of the year in which the student registers for it.
Compulsory
  • Dissertation in Art and Archaeology
History of Art and Archaeology Options
  • Ancient Chinese Civilisation
  • Arab Painting
  • Architectural Boundaries and the Body
  • Art and Architecture of the Fatimids
  • Art and Architecture of the Early Ottomans and the Beyliks (13-15th centuries)
  • Art and Archaeology of the Silk Road
  • Art And Religious Experience In Premodern Japan
  • Arts of Koryo and Chosen Korea
  • Arts of Modern and Contemporary China (since 1800)
  • Arts of the Tamil Temple
  • Asia and Africa On Display: Objects, Exhibitions and Transculturism
  • Buddhist and Hindu Art of the Maritime Silk Route
  • Ceramics in Chinese Culture: 10th - 18th Centuries
  • China and the Silk Road: Art and Archaeology
  • Collecting and Curating Buddhist Art in the Museum
  • Contemporary Art and the Global
  • Critical Themes in Tibetan Art
  • Critical Theory in Art History and Material Culture
  • Cross-Cultural Approaches to Aesthetics
  • Curating Cultures Cohort A
  • Curating Cultures Cohort C
  • Diaspora Contexts and Visual Culture
  • (En)gendering Southeast Asia: Aesthetics and Politics of Sexual Difference
  • Illustrated Manuscript Cultures of Southeast Asia
  • Imag(in)ing Buddhahood in South Asia (1)
  • Interpreting Visual Expressions of the Mandala
  • Islam and the West: Artistic and Cultural Contacts
  • Islamic Archaeology
  • Islamic Art and Architecture of Eastern Mediterranean of the Period of the Crusades (11th-14th centuries)
  • Islamic Art & Architecture of Medieval Anatolia and the South Caucasus (11-13th centuries)
  • Issues in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art
  • Japanese Ceramics Past and Present
  • Modern and Contemporary Arts in Africa
  • Modern and Contemporary Korean Art
  • Monuments and sculpture of Angkor
  • Visuality and Islamic Art
  • Photography and the Image in Africa
  • Painting and Visual Culture in China
  • Persian Painting
  • Popular Practice in the Edo Period Arts
  • Representing Conflict: A Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Approach
  • Sacred Art and Architecture of Ancient Korea
  • The Silk Road and its Origins: Art and Archaeology
  • Shogunal Iconography in the Edo Period
  • Southeast Asia's Art Histories
  • The Art of the African Diaspora
  • The Figure of the Buddha: Theory, Practice and the Making of Buddhist Art History
  • The Indian Temple
  • Tibetan Buddhist Monuments in Context
  • Understanding Art East and West: from Asmat Shields to Tate Modern
  • Visual Arts of Dynastic China (to 1800) (Cohort A)
Options in Other DepartmentsAnthropology
  • Culture and Society of China
  • Culture and Society of East Africa
  • Culture and Society of Japan
  • Culture and Society of South Asia
  • Culture and Society of South East Asia
  • Culture and Society of West Africa
  • Culture and Society of Near and Middle East
History
  • Encountering the Other: the Middle East during the Crusading Period
  • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East Asia 1 - Making States and Building Nations
  • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East Asia 2 - Non-National Perspectives
  • Japanese Modernity I
  • Japanese Modernity II
  • Knowledge and Power in Early Modern China
  • Nationhood and Competing Identities in Modern China
  • Outsiders in Medieval Middle Eastern Societies: Minorities, Social Outcasts and Foreigners
Study of Religions
  • Avestan I
  • Buddhism in Tibet
  • Buddhist Meditation in India and Tibet
  • Chinese Religious Texts: A Reading Seminar
  • Eastern and Orthodox Christianity
  • Imag(in)ing Buddhahood in South Asia (2)
  • Non-Violence in Jain Scriptures, Philosophy and Law
  • Pahlavi Language
  • Religious Practice in Japan: Texts, Rituals and Believers
  • The Origins and Development of Yoga in Ancient India
  • Zoroastrianism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Media Studies
  • Communication, Culture and Politics in the Middle East: Theoretical and Analytical Approaches
  • Media Spectacle and Urban Space in East Asia
  • Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics and Communications
Music
  • Aspects of Music and Religion in South East Asia
  • Music, Nation and Conflict in Jerusalem
  • Music on the Silk Road: travel and circulation (PG)
  • Music, Place and Politics in Cuba
  • Musical Traditions of East Asia (Masters)
  • Popular and Fusion Music in South East Asia (PG)
  • Raga: concept and practice (PG)
Africa
  • African Philosophy (PG)
  • Afrophone Philosophies (PG)
  • Amharic 1 (PG)
  • Aspects of African film and video 2
  • Curating Africa: African Film and Video in the Age of Festivals
  • Hausa 1 (PG)
  • Literatures in African languages
  • Somali 1 (PG)
  • Swahili 1 (PG)
  • The Story of African Film: Narrative Screen Media in Africa
  • Travelling Africa: Writing the Cape to Cairo
  • Visual Cultures in South Africa: Past and Present
  • Yoruba 1 (PG)
  • Zulu 1 (PG)
China and Asia
  • Tibetan (Classical) 1 (PG)
  • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (MA)
  • Chinese 1 (PG)
  • Chinese 2 (PG)
  • Chinese 3 (PG)
  • Chinese 4 (PG)
  • Special Course in Chinese: Reading Classical and Literary Chinese (PG)
  • Traditional Chinese Language and Literature
Japan and Korea
  • Japanese 1 (PG)
  • Korean 1 (PG)
  • Cinema, Nation and Transcultural Asia
  • Japanese Television since 1953
  • Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the Avant-Garde
  • Japanese Traditional Drama (Masters)
  • Literary Traditions and Culture of Korea (Masters)
  • Trajectories of Modernity in Korean Literature (Masters)
Near & Middle East
  • Arabic 2 (PG)
  • Arabic 4 (PG)
  • Arabic Poetry and Criticism
  • Arabic Women's Writing: Theories and Practices
  • Classical Ottoman Literature (Masters)
  • Classical Persian Poetry (Masters)
  • Critical Perspectives on Palestine Studies I: History and Politics
  • Critical Perspectives on Palestine Studies II: Culture and Society
  • Elementary Written Persian
  • Elementary Persian Texts (PG)
  • Elementary Written Turkish
  • Film and Society in the Middle East
  • Intensive Turkish Language (PG)
  • Intermediate Standard Modern Arabic
  • Intermediate Modern Turkish Language (PG)
  • Introduction to Standard Modern Arabic
  • Iran: History, Culture, Politics
  • Israel and the Palestinians
  • Medieval Arabic Thought
  • New Cinemas of Turkey
  • Ottoman Turkish Language (PG)
  • Intermediate Persian Language (PG)
  • Reading Classical Arabic Historians: Themes and Trends in Islamic Historiography
South Asia
  • Bengali Language 1 (PG)
  • Bengali Language 2 (PG)
  • Hindi Language 2 (PG)
  • Hindi Language 3 (PG)
  • Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context
  • Indian Cinema: Key Issues
  • Literature & Colonialism in North India (Masters)
  • Nepali Language 1 (PG)
  • Nepali Language 2 (PG)
  • Sanskrit Language 1 (PG)
  • Sanskrit Language 2 (PG)
  • The Politics of Culture in Contemporary South Asia
  • Urdu Language 1 (PG)
  • Urdu Language 2 (PG)
South and South East Asia
  • Burmese Language 1 (PG)
  • Burmese Language 2 (PG)
  • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film
  • Indonesian Language 2 (PG)
  • Indonesian Language 1 (PG)
  • Jawi and the Malay Manuscript Tradition (Masters)
  • Khmer (Cambodian) Language 1 (PG)
  • Thai Language 2 (PG)
  • Vietnamese Language 1 (PG)
  • Thai Language 1 (PG)
  • Vietnamese Language 2 (PG)

This is the structure for 2018/19 applicants

If you are a current student you can find structure information on Moodle or through your Department.

Programme Specification
  • MA History of Art and/or Archaeology Programme Specification 2017-2018 (pdf; 59kb)
  • Programme Details - MA History of Art and or Archaeology- 2017-18 (pdf; 128kb)
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MA History of Art and/or Archaeology

£ 9,225 + VAT