Bachelor of Arts (Hons) - History of Art
- 3 years
- Duration
- 16,750 GBP/year
- Price
- Sept 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- 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 - 16,750 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).
