The BA History of Art at Leeds explores practices and interpretations of art across an exceptionally wide array of intersecting cultures and different periods. In a world increasingly defined through images and material culture, we approach art history as a vital and dynamic framework for understanding both our shared histories, and some of the most pressing questions we are faced with now.
With an emphasis on the interconnections between art and larger social dynamics, the programme offers an active engagement with questions of power, politics and society, and the potential for a deep understanding of art history to illuminate the wider frameworks that shape our culture, such as those of race, our relations to nature and the environment, class, gender and sexuality.
Our students are equipped to become global citizens, as experts in their fields of study and as socially aware thinkers with a panoply of dynamic, relevant and transferrable skills.
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF1028 | From Art History’s Myths to Critical Art History | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF1049 | Art History as Practice | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF1056 | Critical Approaches to Display, Institutions, and Engagement | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF1300 | Ways of Seeing | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF1301 | Ways of Thinking Seeing | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates may take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF1027 | Cultural History | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
OR Candidates may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF2072 | Art History and Art Historiography | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | PFP |
| ARTF2127 | Keywords | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | PFP |
Candidates will be required to study a minimum of 60 credits and a maximum of 80 credits from the following optional modules
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF2003 | The New York School | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2044 | Cinema and Culture | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2047 | Image, Music, Text: Reading Roland Barthes | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2049 | The State of Utopia | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2051 | Seeing in Asia | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2052 | Showing Asia | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2055 | Variant Modernism | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2059 | The Grand Tour: travels, excavations, collections | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2061 | Encountering Contemporary Art in a Global Context | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2064 | Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2069 | The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2074 | African Art I: Context Representation Signification | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2092 | The Museum | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ARTF2094 | Art, Power and Portraiture | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2111 | Bodies of Difference: Gender, Power and the Visual Arts | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2128 | The Avant-Gardes | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2140 | Earth and Environment in Nineteenth-century British Art | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2205 | Renaissance / Anti-Renaissance: Critical Approaches to Early Modern Art in Europe | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2210 | Absence, Representation, Violence | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CSER2206 | Developing Your Professional Identity: Preparing for a Career in Within The Arts, Heritage and Creative Industries | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| HIST2260 | Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates may study 20 credits of discovery modules
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF9003 | Study Year Abroad | 120 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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Candidates MUST choose one of the following dissertation modules
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF3060 | Dissertation | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
| ARTF3170 | Dissertation | 60 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
Candidates will be required to study a minimum of 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits from the following optional modules.
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF3003 | Deconstruction Reading Politics | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3034 | From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3042 | Cultural Diversity in Museum and Material Culture - Case Study | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3054 | Anthropology, Art and Representation | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3056 | Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3058 | Reading Sexual Difference | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3059 | Critical approaches to photography | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3063 | Postcolonial Feminisms | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3064 | Art, Ecology and Empire | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3077 | Humanity, Animality and Globality | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3099 | Antique Dealers: The Market for 'Decorative Art' from Curiosities to Retro | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3111 | Art of the Silk Roads | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3166 | The Ripped and the Raw: Aspects of European Art 1945-1960 | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3168 | Africa and the Atlantic World: History, Historiography and the Visual Arts | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3173 | Movies, Migrants and Diasporas | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates may study 20 credits of discovery modules
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