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Programme Details 2013-2014
ART HISTORY Not recruiting for 2013-2014
BA Single Honours, BA/BSc Combined Honours
Department of Humanities
PROGRAMME CONVENER(S): Dr Fiona McHardy, 020 8392 3733, f.mchardy@roehampton.ac.uk
For further information please contact the Department Administrator, Jane Gardiner, 020 8392 3284, j.gardiner@roehampton.ac.uk.
Please note that the single and combined honours programmes have suspended recruitment from September 2009. However, continuing (HE2/HE3 level) students will be able to complete their single and combined honours Art History degree.
LOCATION: The modules in this programme are taught at the Roehampton Lane campus unless otherwise stated.
PROGRAMME OUTLINE: Art History has been encouraged and transformed as a discipline through the radical range of exchanges with other disciplines over the past decade and more. Art History at Roehampton may now typically include techniques and methods from anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. The programme is designed to enable students to develop analytical and critical skills in the context of Art History as it is constituted in contemporary practice. The subjects and range of cultures and periods includes classical antiquity, mediæval Mediterranean, Italian Renaissance, 19th century France, and contemporary European and American. The modules are supplemented with regular field trips to museums and galleries in London to view the works at first hand.
AIMS: This programme aims to:
- enable students to develop the necessary practices, conceptual skills and techniques to engage in the pursuit of art historical investigation;
- enable students to understand the rationale for analysing visual meaning in works of art;
- enable students to evaluate critically works of art as they develop an understanding of the historical, cultural, social and spatial context of works of art, their display and their audiences;
- enable students to conduct research, to analyse and to critique works of art, their histories and their display;
- train students to find their place in society as historians of visual culture, and to use their inventive and conceptual skills to communicate effectively their ideas to enhance the quality of life and culture;
- enable students to develop transferable skills with a particular regard to self-motivation, organisation, inter-personal skills and the use of IT.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students who successfully complete the programme will have developed:
- knowledge and understanding of a range of historical, cultural and social contexts involved in the production of art in a variety of geographical regions and historical periods;
- a more concentrated knowledge and understanding of one or more periods and places;
- knowledge and understanding of the processes through which artefacts are designed and constructed within the cultures studied;
- an ability to engage with the concepts, values and debates that inform study and practice of art history as it is constituted in contemporary practice, including an awareness of the limitations and partiality of historical knowledge;
- a knowledge and understanding of the fields of art history and visual analysis and of the key intellectual tools of the discipline;
- a familiarity with some substantive areas of current research in the fields addressed by the programme.
LEVEL HE1
Any continuing part-time students select from the following modules:
HSA020C104A - Introduction to Classical Art
HSA020C105S - Reading, Writing and Seeing History
LEVEL HE2
Optional modules
Any continuing part-time students select from the following modules:
HSA020N202Y - Work Placement
HSA020N207A - Aesthetics
HSA020N210A - Pompeii: The Roman Town and its Modern Reception
HSA020N248S - Museums in London
LEVEL HE3
Please note that you may not take modules outside your registered programme(s) during your final year.
Compulsory module
either #HSA040X300Y - Dissertation
or #HSA020X301Y - Special Essay
Optional modules
HSA020X306S - Theology, Art and Culture
HSA020X307A - Gender and the Body in Classical Art
HSA020X309A - Culture, Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century
HSA020X310Y - Work Placement 2
Module annotations:
# - compulsory (must be passed)
¬ - module not available in 2013-2014.
Notes:
a) Each module code consists of a three-letter module prefix denoting the programme it belongs to (eg BSS010C110A = Biosciences), the following three digits refer to its credit value (eg BSS010C110A = 10 credits), the single letter in the middle (eg BSS010C110A) denotes the module level (eg C = HE1, N = HE2, X = HE3), the last three digits denote its unique number (eg BSS010C110A), and the final letter denotes its suffix (eg BSS010C110A). The suffixes indicate the following: A - Autumn term, S - Spring term, H – Summer term/Summer intensive mode and Y - All year.
b) Individual module details can be viewed by clicking on each module code or using the "View all modules" link below for a complete list of module assessments and descriptions. Where an assessment has more than one component all elements must be passed, unless individual module assessment details state otherwise.
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