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Birmingham’s fusion of language and culture places employability at its heart, preparing you to live and work as an engaged citizen of the world.
The study of one or two Modern Languages (French, Italian, Russian and/or Spanish) alongside History of Art is highly complementary and an exciting opportunity to contextualise your knowledge in each discipline. Your linguistic fluency is strengthened with a simultaneous understanding and appreciation of your target culture's literature, history, politics and society. You can even start two languages from scratch without taking an advanced language, as long as one of these is French or Spanish.
Three GCE A levels (including International A Levels)
The International Baccalaureate Diploma
SQA Highers and Advanced Highers (many programmes will accept Highers without additional Advanced Highers)
The Cambridge Pre-U (minimum three separate subjects)
A mix of A levels and Cambridge Pre-U subjects (minimum three in total)
The Irish Leaving Certificate Higher Level
The European Baccalaureate
Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (the grade required will be the same as from an A level and must be combined with 2 A levels.)
20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.
Compulsory Modules
40 credits: Historical Concepts in the History of Art (20 credits) and Debates and Methods in the History of Art (20 credits)
60 credits: Above modules plus Writing Art's Histories I: From Antiquity to Enlightenment (10 credits) and Writing Art's Histories II: Modern and Contemporary Art (10 credits)
80 credits: Historical Concepts in the History of Art (20 credits), Debates and Methods in the History of Art (20 credits), Object and Medium 1 (20 credits) and Object and Medium 2 (20 credits)
40 credits - No compulsory modules, you will spend your History of Art credits in optional modules
60 credits - Art History in the Field: Overseas Study Trip (10 credits); Research Techniques in History of Art (10 credits); 2 optional modules
80 credits - Art History in the Field: Overseas Study Trip (10 credits); Research Techniques in History of Art (10 credits); 3 optional modules
60 credits - Dissertation (40 credits or 20 credits if not taking the equivalent in Modern Languages) and optional module(s)
80 credits - Dissertation (40 credits or 20 credits if not taking the equivalent in Modern Languages) and optional module(s)
In order to undertake a programme of study here at the University, you will need to demonstrate that you have a suitable level of English proficiency.
You can demonstrate your level of English with IELTS/TOEFL/PTE or alternative qualifications. The sections below will tell you what grades you need in these qualifications for the subject area you want to study.
English tests/qualifications normally need to have been taken within two years of the start date of your programme.
For those joining us for 2022, we will accept the following additional tests as evidence of English language proficiency:
TOEFL Home Edition
IELTs Online
PTE Academic Online
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