Bachelor of Arts (Hons) - History of Art

3 years
Duration
15,950 GBP/year
Price
Sept 2024
Start
May 2024
Deadline
Bachelor
Degree
Campus
Format
Oxford / United Kingdom
Location
Oxford Brookes University
School

Program description

Studying history of art at Oxford Brookes will allow you to investigate problems in a lively, collaborative setting. Your studies will include museum visits, walk-arounds and special talks from visiting experts from the likes of:

  • National Trust
  • Ashmolean
  • Modern Art Oxford
  • The V&A
  • Tate

We are in the center of a historic city, close to galleries and museums that are well-known throughout the world. Your trip to Paris will surely be a high point of your studies here. The chance to personally tour significant art collections is provided by this journey. You will encounter both significant, enduring pieces and more avant-garde ones.

We promise you'll have a fun, enlightening experience while you're here. Your department will be supportive and close-knit. You can count on learning from subject-matter experts. And, our teaching staff will work with you to help you develop your own interests.

Recent graduates have gone into careers in:

  • public museums, galleries and collections
  • commercial art galleries
  • auction houses
  • publishing
  • events and projects organisation and management
  • teaching and education (in both schools and museums)
  • journalism

Program structure

Year 1

  • Art in Oxford
  • Museums and Society
  • Making and Meaning in Western Architecture
  • Reading Art History
  • Making and Meaning in Western Art

Optional modules

  • The Faiths of the West
  • Modern British Art
  • Powers and Dominions: Ideologies of the West, 1650-2000

Year 2

  • Themes in European Art 1450-1700: Renaissance Bodies - Transformed, Constructed, Desired
  • Themes in 18th and 19th Century European Art: European Art (1700-1840)
  • Themes in Modern Art: Art and the Modern World (1914-1939)
  • Field Work in Art History: Paris

Optional modules

  • Oxford Buildings
  • Independent Study in History of Art

Year 3

  • History of Art Dissertation
  • History of Art Synoptic

Optional modules

  • Curatorial Practice
  • Advanced Independent Study in History of Art
  • Advanced Seminar 1: Continuity and Change in Venetian Painting
  • Advanced Seminar 1: The Art of Death
  • Advanced Seminar 2: Dutch Seventeenth Century Painting
  • Advanced Seminar 2: Culture and Modernity in 1920s and 1930s England

Price

  • Tuition Fee - 15,950 GBP per year

Requirements for applicants

General Entry Requirements

  • Acceptable passes in five subjects (exceptionally four subjects) at GCSE or GCE including:
    • one 12-unit vocational A-level, or
    • two A-levels or two 6-unit vocational A-levels, or
    • one A-level or 6-unit vocational A-level plus two AS-levels, or
    • two 3-unit vocational A-levels
  • A National Certificate or Diploma at a good standard.
  • The International Baccalaureate Diploma (minimum of 24 points) or the European Baccalaureate Diploma (minimum of 60%).
  • Five subjects in SCE with two at Higher level or one at Advanced Higher level.
  • Three subjects in Scottish Highers or two at Advanced Higher level.
  • Any other qualifications considered by the Academic Board to be of equivalent standard.

English language requirements

  • IELTS level 6.5 or 7.0 overall with 6.5 or 7.0 in all components

About the university

The history of Oxford Brookes University spans more than 150 years. We began as a modest School of Art in rented classrooms and have expanded into one of the UK's top modern universities with a reputation for distinction in teaching and research on the local, national, and worldwide levels.

Our primary goal is to provide a top-notch educational experience that helps each of our graduates to be competent, self-assured, and prosperous. The standard of instruction students receive is an integral component of this.

Oxford Brookes works with a wide range of partners both domestically and internationally. Our connections are essential to improving our instruction, research, and information sharing. Additionally, they provide our students a wealth of placement, internship, and employment options.

In cooperation with our Associate College Partners as well as directly, we offer a variety of higher education and degree apprenticeships (ACPs).

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