Art History BA (Hons)

University of Sussex

Bachelor's degree

In Brighton

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Brighton

  • Duration

    3 Years

Learn about why art history matters. Find out about art’s relationships with museums and heritage, as well as its place in feminism and queer studies, empire and postcolonialism, criticism and the media.
At Sussex, you benefit from Brighton’s creative arts culture while enjoying access to London’s world-leading resources. You'll explore every aspect of visual culture, from photography to architecture, collaborating with renowned curators and our partners within the industry.
With our Art History BA, you develop analytic and practical skills that ready you for work in the cultural, creative and academic sectors.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

On request

About this course

Recent graduates have gone on to work as:
creative director, Big Al’s Creative Emporium
exhibitions and collections assistant, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
individual giving officer, English National Opera.

You should have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.

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Subjects

  • Art History
  • Art
  • Industry
  • Media
  • Shaping Art
  • Making Modernity
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Art of History
  • Critical Texts

Course programme

Year 1 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Art on Site: Place, Identity, Meaning
  • Stories of Art I: Shaping Art
Spring teaching
  • Stories of Art II: Making Modernity
  • Writing Art History: Media, Society, Culture
Customise your course

At Sussex, you can choose to customise your course to build the sort of degree that will give you the knowledge, skills and experience that could take you in any direction you choose.

Year 2 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Reading Art History: Critical Texts
Autumn and spring teaching
  • Art and the City
Options

Autumn teaching
  • Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues
  • Statues to Saints: The Art of Late Antiquity
Spring teaching
  • Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues
  • Pop Life: After Modern Art
  • Selling yourself: 18th Century Art and Society
  • Victorian Visions: Art, Industry, Modernity
Customise your course

At Sussex, you can choose to customise your course to build the sort of degree that will give you the knowledge, skills and experience that could take you in any direction you choose.

Student abroad or Placement

Study abroad (optional)

Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career.

Placement (optional)

A placement is a great way to network and gain practical skills. When you leave Sussex, you’ll benefit from having the experience employers are looking for.

Year 3 at sussex

Options

Autumn teaching
  • A Great and Golden Age:Byzantium 843-1204
  • Inhuman Bondage: the Image of Slavery 1750-1850
  • Sex and the City: The Origins of Modernism in Britain 1870-1910
  • The Order of Things: The Museum and its Objects
Spring teaching
  • Album to Algorithm: Photography in Context
  • Art and Letters: Visual Culture in its Literary Contexts
  • Representing Women
  • The World Encompassed: Art and Empire


Additional information

International students Fee :  £20,750 per year

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