BA History of Art (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Programme overview

Entry requirements

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Programme specification

The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme from September 2024. For students who entered the programme before September 2024, you can find the details of your programme: BA History of Art

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.   

Year 1

(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

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Compulsory Modules

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)

Optional Modules

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

Discovery Modules

Year 2

(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for years 2 and 3 are not yet available. Before you enter years 2 and 3 details of modules for those years will be provided.

Optional Modules

Candidates will be required to take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules in either Basket 1 or Basket 2. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:

Basket 1

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ARTF2044	Cinema and Culture	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2055	Variant Modernism	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2064	Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2092	The Museum	20	Not running in 202425

Basket 2

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ARTF2049	The State of Utopia	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2051	Seeing in Asia	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2094	Art, Power and Portraiture	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Candidates will be required to take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 3. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ARTF2047	Image, Music, Text: Reading Roland Barthes	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2061	Encountering Contemporary Art in a Global Context	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2069	The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2111	Bodies of Difference: Gender, Power and the Visual Arts	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2205	Renaissance / Anti-Renaissance: Critical Approaches to Early Modern Art in Europe	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Candidates will be required to take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 4. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ARTF2003	The New York School	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2052	Showing Asia	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2059	The Grand Tour: travels, excavations, collections	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2074	African Art I: Context Representation Signification	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2128	The Avant-Gardes	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Candidates will be required to take up to 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 5:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
CSER2206	Developing Your Professional Identity: Preparing for a Career in Within The Arts, Heritage and Creative Industries	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

OR Candidates may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules.

Discovery Modules

Year 3

(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for year 3 are not yet available. Before you enter year 3 full details of modules for that year will be provided.

Optional Modules

Candidates will be required to take 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 1. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ARTF3056	Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3064	Art, Ecology and Empire	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
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)

Candidates will be required to take 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 2. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:

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)
ARTF3063	Postcolonial Feminisms	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3077	Humanity, Animality and Globality	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

OR Candidates may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules

Candidates will be required to take 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 3. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
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)
ARTF3058	Reading Sexual Difference	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3059	Critical approaches to photography	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)

Discovery Modules

Last updated: 01/07/2024 15:02:56

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