History of Art MA
Postgraduate
In London
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
The History of Art MA at UCL draws on the world-leading research and teaching expertise within the department, and is designed to enable students to acquire specialised knowledge pertaining to the field of art history and to develop independent research skills.
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UCL's History of Art graduates have an excellent record of success in entering PhD programmes, careers in museums and galleries, the art trade, the heritage industry, art publishing, and art conservation. The unique combination of visual analysis and intellectual rigour offered by the MA has also proven valuable in diverse careers including journalism, publishing, and advertising. For those aspiring to an academic career, the MA is a requirement for a PhD, and many former MA students have successfully received funding for research degrees, and subsequently obtained academic positions, at prestigious institutions in the UK, North America, and elsewhere.
A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.
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Subjects
- Art
- Histroy of art
- Histroy of art MA
- Methodological
- Art MA
- Art as Theory
- Sex and Violence
- Technologies
- Photography
- Historical
Course programme
Students develop skills for engaging with visual materials and gain historical knowledge, enabling them to interpret artefacts in relation to their social and cultural contexts. They are introduced to current methodological debates in the field and encouraged to define their own position through reasoned historical and theoretical arguments.
Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.
The programme consists of a core module (30 credits), two optional modules (60 credits) and a research dissertation (90 credits).
Core modules- Methods, Debates and Sources in History of Art
Options may include the following:
- Human and Non-Human in Medieval Art
- Transformations of the Body in Early Modern Cabinets of Display
- Vision, Tourism, Imperialism: Art and Travel in the British Empire, 1760-1870
- American Media: Publicity and the Logics of Surveillance
- Politics of the Image: Germany 1890-1945
- Art as Theory: The Writing of Art
- Art and Technology in Nineteenth-Century France
- Photographic Cultures: Photography's Publics and the Production of Politics
- On Sex and Violence
- Race/Place: Exotic/Erotic
- Tracing the Body: Technologies of Representation in 18th and 19th-Century France
- Seeing Through Materials: Matter, Vision, and Transformation in the Renaissance
All MA students undertake an independent research project which culminates in a dissertation of approximately 13,000 words.
Teaching and learningThe programme is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, as well as gallery and museum visits. Assessment is by two essays for each of the taught modules (six essays in all), the dissertation and a viva.
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History of Art MA