The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme in 2023/24 or before. For students entering the programme from September 2024 or after, you can find the details of your programme: BA Fine Art with History of Art (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)
The Fine Art with History of Art programme at the University of Leeds invites you to explore and challenge what you understand by art by engaging with a broad array of artistic practices and understanding their historical and theoretical development as the creation of ‘meaningful’ objects within emerging and often contested discourses. In a world requiring new forms of consciousness, perception and insight, we approach fine art as a constellation of materials, histories, practices, concepts, and to consider what art has already and can continue to contribute to the most pressing questions we are faced with today. This is enabled by working in an interdisciplinary space, alongside other artists, historians of art and cultural theorists, through both core and optional modules linked across the full programme of study. Within this active space there is a real emphasis on the interconnections between the creation of art, the consolidation and questioning of its practices and modes of display, as well as its creation as a subject of important historical and theoretical study. This programme therefore offers an active and creative exploration of art’s capacity to illuminate the wider frameworks, both practice-led and academic, that shape our culture, history and society, such as those of ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality, identity, and our relations to nature and the environment. You will complete the programme equipped to act in the world as well-informed artists and creative global citizens, innovators in your respective fields of making, and socially aware with a broad range of relevant and transferrable skills, as both makers and academics.
Throughout the course, you will also have opportunities to contribute to the creative community, to build networks in the city and beyond, to exhibit your work regularly and to discover what kind of practitioner you want to be. This is supported by various professional development activities, a regular Visiting Artists Talks programme and participation in local and regional artist-led spaces, museums, galleries and heritage venues. We offer an Industry Placement Programme which supports students to undertake work placements in the UK and internationally, whilst our Study Year Abroad programme at comparable international institutions has provided valuable experiences for many in our community. Our Fine Art with History of Art students programme thereby operates at the intersection of making, thinking, exploring and researching, enabling you to understand your place as artists and to actively and creatively participate within both the contemporary and historical ‘worlds’.
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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) | |
| ARTF1210 | Introduction to Practice | 40 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF1211 | Practice 2 | 40 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF2040 | Studio Work | 60 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
| ARTF2127 | Keywords | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | PFP |
Candidates will be required to study 20-40 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) | |
| 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) |
Candidates may study 0-20 credits of discovery modules
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| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF3060 | Dissertation | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
| ARTF3205 | Studio Work | 60 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
Candiates may study 0-20 credits of the following optional modules
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | |
| 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) |
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Candidates may study 20 credits of discovery modules
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