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BA History of Art with Cultural Studies

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Graduates from this course have pursued careers in the arts and related industries. Others have gone onto postgraduate study and some have completed PhDs and are teaching and researching in higher education institutions around the world.

Graduates from our School have gone on to work at the Guggenheim Museum in Venice, the Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The Saatchi Gallery, The Henry Moore Institute, National Trust, Bonham’s, Leeds City Museums, The Hepworth Gallery, The Geffrye Museum London, The Heritage Lottery Fund and the Rydale Folk Museum.

Some examples of roles they have gone on to have include Head of House and Collections at Harewood House, Events Manager at the National Portrait Gallery, PR Officer at Christie’s (London and New York), Lecturer at the University of Leeds and Chief Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The School is committed to helping you achieve your career ambitions - you'll be able to work closely with staff in the School to source opportunities throughout your degree to gain experience, develop your skills and build networks.

The optional study abroad or work placement year offer opportunities to gain transferable skills, develop your experience and build your networks.

The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures offers a number of paid internships every year too.

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

  • Introduction to Cultural Analysis

  • Introduction to Cultural Analysis II

  • A Story of Art?

  • A Story of Art?

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Elements of Visual Culture I

  • The English Country House: Making and Meaning

  • Introduction to Museum and Art Gallery Studies

2 Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Art History and Art Historiography

  • Keywords

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • The New York School

  • The Wanderers. Critical Realism in Nineteenth Century Russia

  • Cinema and Culture

  • Seeing in Asia

  • Showing Asia

  • Racist Pasts/Radical Futures

  • The Grand Tour: travels, excavations, collections

  • The Museum

  • Art, Power and Portraiture

  • The Avant Gardes

3 Year 3

Compulsory modules

  • Dissertation

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Deconstruction Reading Politics

  • Making Sense of Sound

  • Periclean Athens

  • Critical approaches to photography

  • British Architecture in the Long Eighteenth Century

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

  • Africa and the Atlantic World: History, Historiography and the Visual Arts

  • Movies, Migrants and Diasporas

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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