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Art History (Bristol School of Art)

SGS (South Gloucestershire and Stroud College)

UCAS Code: 2XG5 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

Entry requirements


UCAS Tariff

112

This can be achieved from a variety of qualifications including A Levels, Diploma's, Access To HE and Scottish Highers. GSCE requirements: GCSE English and Maths grade C or 4.

About this course


Course option

3years

Full-time | 2024

The Art History programme combines new media technologies with more traditional disciplinary practices to equip you with the professional skills you’ll need to succeed and shape the cultural and creative industries. Within the course, ethno- and gender-centric art histories are contextualised among diverse, non-Western practices with a view to redressing historic imbalances and injustices.

From Banksy to Basquiat, Kusama to Kngwarreye, you are encouraged to find your own place and voice within these fantastically complex visual worlds. The BA in Art History starts by exploring the foundations of contemporary Western culture in classical Greece and Rome, and then brings you right up to date via a survey of key art-historical periods, including the Italian and Northern Renaissances and the birth of the concept of the artist. As well as this grounding in the traditional Western art-historic canon, you will also explore non Western art histories and current challenges to the linear and historically prevailing accounts
of art history.

A key feature of the BA in Art History is the opportunity to study in a thriving art school environment, allowing you to access working art and design studios to study the production and materiality of objects and to take part in collaborative projects with fellow art and design students. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with, and acquire curatorial skills in Bristol’s many cultural institutions in each year of your studies.

This course actively seeks individuals who want to challenge and shape the future of the discipline of art history, individuals who feel disconnected from the representations that they see in galleries and museums and who want to effect change.

**Part time routes are available. For more information, please email [email protected]**

**GRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES:**
• Museum/Gallery Curator
• Museum/Gallery Education Officer • University Lecturer / Teacher
• Arts Writer/Journalist
• TV/Film Researcher
• Auctioneer
• Postgraduate study

Modules

Level 4 Modules
Surveys and Frameworks (1) - Introductions
Surveys and Frameworks (2) - Foundations
Objects and Contexts
Research Methodologies (1)
The Body
Level 5 Modules
Surveys and Frameworks (3) – The Modern World
Surveys and Frameworks (4) – Contemporary Enquiries
Live Project
Research Methodologies (2)
The Land
Level 6 Modules
Spaces
The Future of Art History?
Dissertation/ Major Research Project
Artist/Practitioner

Assessment methods

Coursework-based (i.e. no exams) and coursework takes the form of assessed essays, presentations, blogs and live briefs.

Tuition fees

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Channel Islands
£9,000
per year
England
£9,000
per year
EU
£13,250
per year
International
£13,250
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,000
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,000
per year
Scotland
£9,000
per year
Wales
£9,000
per year

The Uni


Course location:

Bristol School of Art

Department:

Art and Design

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