Art History (with a professional placement year) 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 – socially, economically and politically. Critically analyse visual culture, and work collaboratively to change the world around you.
Be part of Brighton’s creative arts scene, work in museums and galleries across the South East and make use of London’s rich culture, less than an hour away.
You can apply for a professional placement to help you gain concrete skills and work experience before you graduate. You’ll develop insights that will support you in planning, and succeeding in, your career.

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
  • Shaping Art
  • Stories of Art
  • Making Modernity
  • Autumn teaching
  • Critical Texts
  • Transatlantic Dialogues
  • Antiquity
  • Pop Life

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.

Placement

A placement is a great way to network and gain practical skills. When you leave Sussex, you'll benefit from already 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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