History and History of Art
UCAS Code: VV31
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Including A in History. General Studies and Critical Thinking are not accepted.
Pass Access to HE Diploma with 60 Credits overall; 45 of which must be at Level 3. Of the Level 3 credits, at least 21 should be passed at Merit or above and this must include 9 credits of History with Distinction. Considered on an individual basis, please contact the school for further information. GCSE English at grade C or above is also required.
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
Including History at D3.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
with a minimum of 6 points in History at Higher level.
Applications assessed on an individual basis, please contact the University.
Scottish Advanced Higher
Including History with grade A and Scottish Highers ABBBB including History with grade A.
Scottish Higher
Including History with grade A. This qualification is only acceptable when combined with Advanced Higher grades AB including A in History.
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015)
plus grades AB at A level including History.
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About this course
For most students on this joint honours course, history is an existing passion, and history of art provides an additional way to explore the subject. Art has an important place in history, in power and protest, status and symbolism. Visual culture surrounds us, from art galleries to advertising.
**History**
In history you will already have your favourite subjects, perhaps the Tudors, civil rights, or the Second World War. You may deepen your knowledge of these topics, but also discover new ones. You can explore many aspects of the past, from 500 CE to the present, examining a range of countries around the world. You will build on your existing research, writing and debating skills.
**History of Art**
You will think about the meaning of art and its place in society from the Renaissance to the present day. You will study a wide-range of visual arts including:
- painting
- sculpture
- architecture
- graphic arts
- photography
- other visual media
You will learn the key issues and methods relating to the interpretation of artworks.
You can tailor your degree using the wide choice of modules. This includes modules from other subjects such as American and Canadian Studies, and Culture, Film and Media. You can specialise, or maintain a breadth of interests as you progress through the course.
As a joint honours student, you will benefit from skills development and assessment methods from both subjects. Each subject is taught separately, but you can choose a uniting theme for your final year dissertation.
Modules
In year one, the Learning History and Introduction to Art History modules help students to reflect on the nature of the disciplines, enhance various intellectual and practical skills (including team work), engage with methodologies, and introduce key issues and debates. In year two, students pick from a selection of art history options ranging from the Renaissance to the present day, to examine not only traditional fine art such as painting, sculpture, architecture, and the graphic arts, but also photography, performance, film and video. In history, students take a core module on The Contemporary World since 1945, plus further optional modules. In year three, you’ll take a special subject, based heavily on primary sources, and you’ll research and produce a dissertation in art history.
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History
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This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.
Top job areas of graduates
History is a very popular subject (although numbers have fallen of late) — in 2015, over 10,000 UK students graduated in a history-related course. Obviously, there aren't 11,000 jobs as historians available every year, but history is a good, flexible degree that allows graduates to go into a wide range of different jobs, and consequently history graduates have an unemployment rate comparable to the national graduate average. Many — probably most — jobs for graduates don't ask for a particular degree to go into them and history graduates are well set to take advantage. That's why so many go into jobs in the finance industry, human resources, marketing, PR and events management, as well as the more obvious roles in education, welfare and the arts. Around one in five history graduates went into further study last year. History and teaching were the most popular further study subjects for history graduates, but law, journalism, and politics were also popular postgraduate courses.
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