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BA Fine Art with History of Art

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

This degree will allow you to develop into a thoughtful artist with strong critical, interpretative and communication skills, as well as strong visual and critical awareness and an understanding of the ways in which your practice responds to and questions the art of the past.

This will prepare you for a career in the arts and culture sectors, where you could join our graduates working in diverse careers as artists, curators, academics, writers and teachers. Others have used their skills to work in the creative industries, publishing, PR, film, television and education.

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.

General Eligibility

A-level: AAB - ABB

Other course specific tests:

Where an applicant is undertaking an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), the School may make an alternative offer that is one A level grade below that of our standard offer – on the condition that the applicant achieves a grade A in their EPQ (e.g. AAB at A level / alternative offer ABB plus grade A in EPQ).

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • A Story of Art? 1

  • A Story of Art? 2

  • Introduction to Studio Work

  • Studio Work 2

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Elements of Visual Culture I

  • Elements of Visual Culture II

  • Cultural History

  • The English Country House: Making and Meaning

  • Introduction to Museum and Art Gallery Studies

  • Approaches to Living Histories and Heritage

2 Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Studio Work

  • Keywords

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • The New York School

  • The Wanderers. Critical Realism in Nineteenth Century Russia

  • Seeing in Asia

  • Showing Asia

  • State of the Art: Contemporary Perspectives in Art, Science and Technology

  • Racist Pasts/Radical Futures

  • Art, Power and Portraiture

  • The Avant Gardes

  • Developing Your Professional Identity: Preparing for a Career in Within the Arts, Heritage and Creative Industries

  • Students Into Schools (Arts Humanities and Culture)

3 Year 3

Compulsory modules

  • Dissertation

  • Studio Work

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Periclean Athens

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

  • Critical approaches to photography

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

  • Art of the Silk Roads

  • 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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For any enquiries or further details, please don't hesitate to contact us. Let's take the next step in your academic journey together.

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