History Of Art With Curating (Ba): 4-Year, Part-Time

Birkbeck, University of London

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 6,935 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

Are you interested in a career in galleries and museums, arts policy and education, or in the broader cultural and heritage sectors? On our BA History of Art with Curating you will learn to research the social and historical contexts in which visual art has been produced, and write confidently and analytically about texts and images. At the same time, you will be introduced to current curatorial approaches and debates, and given opportunities to put your knowledge and ideas into practice in a supportive and collaborative environment.

While some of our students have studied art history at school or have completed short courses, most haven’t studied the subject in any depth prior to starting this course. The first-year modules are therefore intended to provide you with academic skills and a good grounding in the discipline. As you progress through the course, you will have opportunities to explore different types of visual culture in more detail. Studying at Birkbeck you are based in the heart of London, close to museums and galleries, while being part of a vibrant and stimulating student community.

This programme is also available for full-time evening study over three years and part-time evening study over six years.

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Location

Start date

London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

About this course

Our students develop the ability to think critically and creatively, and to articulate their ideas persuasively. Intellectual rigor, visual sensitivity and informed debate are fundamental to the discipline of history of art, as well as being transferable skills relevant to a range of careers. Graduates can pursue jobs in arts management, conservation and policy; in education, marketing and publishing; in the museums and heritage sectors; and in research and academia.

Jobs gained by some of our BA and MA graduates include:

Head of Learning, Design Museum
Curator, Schools Programmes, Tate Modern
Curatorial Assistant, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Curatorial Officer, National Army Museum
Head of Campaign Management, Science Museum
Curator, Handel House Museum
Head Curator, National Maritime Museum
Director, Foundling Museum
Curator, British Art 1850-1915, Tate Britain
Courses and Events Programmer, National Gallery.
We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.

We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications, as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.

Admission is based on an interview and a written exercise.

Awarding Body
University of London

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Subjects

  • Aesthetics
  • Art design
  • Networks
  • Politics
  • Market
  • Art History
  • Design
  • Painting
  • Art
  • Cinema
  • Part Time
  • British Empire
  • Architectural

Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

The 12 modules required for this programme range from broad introductory modules to more focused thematic and period-based modules to specialised seminar modules as the degree progresses. You also complete a dissertation. You may take two modules in other disciplines as part of the programme, in consultation with your personal tutor.

In Year 1, you take three compulsory modules.

In Year 2, you take two compulsory modules and choose one option module at Level 5.

In Year 3, you choose two option modules at Level 6 and take the Level 5 Research Portfolio module.

In Year 4, you choose two option modules at Level 6 and complete your dissertation.

YEAR 1 COMPULSORY MODULES
  • Art History: A Survey
  • Doing Art History
  • Visual Art: Histories, Networks and Organisations
YEAR 2 COMPULSORY MODULES
  • Curating Culture
  • Debates in Art History
YEAR 2 OPTION MODULES
  • Art and Society Between 1900 and the Present
  • Art and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • Art and Society in the Nineteenth Century
YEAR 3 COMPULSORY MODULE
  • Research Portfolio
YEARS 3 AND 4 OPTION MODULES
  • Art and Patronage in Papal Rome c. 1534-1590
  • Art and the Sacred in the Middle Ages
  • Art as Critique: Caricature, Modernity and the Avant-Garde
  • Art of the British Empire
  • Concrete and Flesh: Modern Architecture and the Body
  • Impressionist Paris: Modernity and Difference
  • Modernism in Scandinavian Art and Design
  • Photography Between Art and Document, 1839 to Now
  • Seventeenth-Century Painting in the Netherlands
  • Strategies of Display: Avant-Garde Exhibitions, The White Cube and Beyond
  • The Aesthetics of Politics: Picturing the Victorian State
BA HISTORY OF ART WITH CURATING DISSERTATION
  • Dissertation
Option provision is reviewed each year; the list above gives an indication of the range of subjects offered.

Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.

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Course Fee - 

Part-time international students: £10710 pa

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