BA History of Art (Asia, Africa and Europe)

SOAS, University of London
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    Bachelor's degree

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    City of london

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    Different dates available

Programme Code: V351 BA/HArAAE
Mode of Attendance: Full-time
Introduction
This is the only degree in the UK to combine the specialist study of Asian, African and European art history. It is taught jointly by the Department of the History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS and the History of Art department at UCL. Students select courses from each institution. They receive theoretical and methodological training, which is combined with the study of particular regions, themes and critical issues.
The History of Art and Archaeology department at SOAS 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 courses in other departments, taking advantage of SOAS’s unrivalled expertise in the languages, history, religions and cultures of Asia and Africa.
A degree 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 graduates 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. Many graduates decide to pursue postgraduate study in the History of Art and Archaeology or a related discipline.
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Simon O'Meara
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Subjects

  • Project
  • Global
  • IT
  • Archaeology
  • Art History
  • Art
  • Skills and Training
  • History
  • History of art
  • Communication Skills
  • Research skills
  • Written and oral communication skills
  • Visual awareness
  • Conservation organisations
  • Commercial galleries
  • Arts administration
  • Heritage management

Course programme

Learn a language as part of this programme

Degree programmes at SOAS - including this one - can include language courses in more than forty African and Asian languages. It is SOAS students’ command of an African or Asian language which sets SOAS apart from other universities.

Please note that a 15 credits module corresponds to a 0.5 unit (taught over one term) and a 30 credits module corresponds to a full unit (taught over both terms).

Students take 120 credits modules in each year. In the first year the student will take two modules at UCL to the value of 60 credits and 60 credits modules in the department of History of Art and Archaeology. They must take a minimum of 45 credits modules from either side in the second year, and a minimum of 30 credits modules from either side in the final year. Thus they bring together the study of European, Asian and African Art in a flexible manner unique within the British University system.

The modules in the UCL part of this degree include, in the first year, general modules which survey the history of art and introduce students to a range of the intellectual, observational and professional skills demanded of the art historian.

In the second year students work on more focused study of aspects of the history of western art since c.1200, and take at least one module concerned with the development of the western idea of art and current approaches to art history, or with the history of the methods and materials of artists.

In the final year students take a Special Subject (a module which treats a theme or career in detail), and may do another special subject and/or an Undergraduate Report (similar to a SOAS Independent Study Project).

Anyone requiring further information on the UCL part of this course should contact Mr Robert Brown at University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, Telephone (0)20 3108 4012, Email

The modules taken at SOAS are as follows:

Year 1
  • Themes in the Art and Archaeology of Africa
  • Themes in the Art and Archaeology of East Asia
  • Themes in the Art and Archaeology of the Near and Middle East
  • Themes in the Art and Archaeology of South and South East Asia
  • Two UCL modules
Year 2
  • at least 45 credits SOAS modules:
    • may include one open option module
  • at least 45 credits UCL modules
Year 3
  • at least 30 credits SOAS modules:
    • normally including an Independent Study Project
    • may include one open option module
  • at least 30 credits UCL modules
SOAS Modules UnitsYear 1
  • Themes in the Art and Archaeology of Africa
  • Themes in the Art and Archaeology of East Asia
  • Themes in the Art and Archaeology of South and Southeast Asia
  • Themes in the Art and Archaeology of the Near and Middle East
Years 2 and 3
  • African Art III: the Art and Architecture of North Eastern Africa
  • Africans in the Americas: Identities and Representation
  • Approaches to Modern and Contemporary Arts in Africa
  • Art and Archaeology of Ancient China
  • Art and Archaeology of Medieval China
  • Art and Architecture of Medieval Islamic Turkey: the Seljuks and their Neighbours
  • Art and Architecture of Tibet
  • Art and Culture in Imperial China
  • Art and Culture in Modern China
  • Art and empire in India 1300-1800
  • Art and Material Culture of the Islamic World: 7th to 14th Centuries
  • Arts and Society in Africa
  • Arts, Culture and Commodification: Themes in the Global Creative and Cultural Industries
  • Arts of SouthEast Asia
  • Art, Performance and The Body in Africa
  • Buddhist Arts of Korea
  • Chinese Art and Modernity
  • Chinese Contemporary Art
  • Collecting and Collections
  • Comparative Avant-Gardes: Global Perspectives in Modern Art
  • Critical Readings in Arts and Cultures
  • Curating Global Arts
  • Early Indian Art
  • Exploring Visual Expressions of the Mandala
  • Gandharan Art and its Heritage
  • Gender, Art and Visual Culture: Explorations in the Representation of Southeast Asia
  • Global Cultures of Chinese Ceramics
  • Hindu Art in Medieval India
  • House and Tomb in the Muslim World
  • Imag(in)ing Buddhas in South Asia (1)
  • Imag(in)ing Buddhas in South Asia (2)
  • Islamic Art and Architecture of Medieval Iran and Central Asia (10th-13th centuries)
  • Islamic Art Theories and Aesthetics
  • Islamic Urbanism: Medina to Dubai
  • Japanese Art
  • Mosaics, Manuscripts, and Wall Painting in Islamic Art
  • Mosque and Palace in the Muslim World
  • Mughal Arts: Sound, Text, and Image
  • Museums and Museology
  • Music and travel on the Silk Road
  • Ottoman Art and Architecture (14th-17th centuries)
  • Painting in Africa
  • Paintings of Korea
  • Representing China in Museums
  • Royal Arts of Korea
  • Southeast Asia in the Modern Imagination: Art, Visuality, Exchange
  • The `Historical` Buddha: Explorations in Southeast Asian Arts
  • Visual Culture of Early-Modern Japan
  • Undoing Asia: Artistic Perspectives from the 20th and 21th Centuries
  • Visual Arts of Africa and The Atlantic World: History, Creativity and Agency
  • War and Peace in the Eastern Mediterranean: Art and Architecure of Medieval Syria and Palestine
Year 3
  • Independent Study Project in Archaeology
  • Independent study project in History of Art
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