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BA History of Art

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

The History of Art provides training in critical thinking about imagery. These are crucial skills in the modern world. Graduates of History of Art at the University of Leeds go on to enjoy a wide range of career choices.

These include employment within the national and international heritage, art gallery and museum sectors, public relations, advertising, public service administration, commercial art galleries, broadcasting and postgraduate study. Some have completed PhDs and are teaching in higher education institutions around the world.

General Eligibility

A-level: ABB

Other course specific tests:

Where an applicant is undertaking an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), the School may make an alternative offer of BBB including A in the EPQ.

NB: An EPQ is optional and not a requirement of application.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Elements of Visual Culture

  • Elements of Visual Culture II

  • A Story of Art?

  • A Story of Art?

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Cultural History

  • The English Country House: Making and Meaning

  • Introduction to Museum and Art Gallery Studies

2 Year 2
  • Art History and Art Historiography

  • Keywords

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • The New York School

  • Cinema and Culture

  • Seeing in Asia

  • Showing Asia

  • Variant Modernism

  • The Grand Tour: travels, excavations, collections

  • The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings

3 Year 3

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust

  • Cultural Diversity in Museum and Material Culture - Case Study

  • Anthropology, Art and Representation

  • Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance

  • Critical approaches to photography

  • Postcolonial Feminisms

  • Humanity, Animality and Globality

  • Antique Dealers: The Market for 'Decorative Art' from Curiosities to Retro

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic or IELTS for UKVI (United Kingdom Visas and Immigration) (Academic) or IELTS Online at 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component skill. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study.

TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) or TOEFL iBT Home Edition at 80 overall with no less than 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 19 in writing. Please note that we do not accept TOEFL My Best scores and we expect candidates to have met the relevant requirements from a single TOEFL test.

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