History of Art with Curating (MA)

The MA comprises a compulsory module, one option module, an intensive Curating module, an independent research exercise or a work placement, and a 15,000-word dissertation.

The compulsory module Frameworks: Histories and Theories of Art, Architecture, Photography is designed as an introduction to current theoretical and historiographical issues in the study of the discipline.

The Curating module will be delivered across a five-day period. It introduces you to a range of practical curatorial skills and areas of knowledge, and to some of the core principles of museum curation, including exhibition development, object interpretation, public engagement and the use of digital technologies.

Option modules offer you the opportunity to follow specific interests and areas of research. The option modules listed below are a selection of those offered in past years.

• Curating
• Frameworks: Histories and Theories of Art, Architecture, Photography

• Art and Devotion in Fifteenth-Century Italy
• Art and Identity: 'Race', Ideology, Culture
• Art and War 1814-2004
• Art in the Age of Giotto: evidence and interpretation
• Curating Difficult Histories: Museums, Exhibitions, Art Activism
• Fashioning the Body
• Gender, Modernity and the City
• Impressionism Now
• Inventing the Victorians
• The Art of Persuasion: Religious Imagery and the Catholic Reformation

• Museum Cultures Work Placement
• Research Exercise

• Dissertation MA History of Art