Art History and Spanish

The MA (Hons) in Art History will teach you critically to assess art and visual culture, together with the ideas behind them. You will learn to analyse the history, context, style and meaning of images and objects, developing visual literacy and engaging with different critical approaches and theoretical frameworks. These will allow you to explore the complex role that visual culture plays in questions of aesthetics, politics, power and identity, and understand how art and its display have both reflected and shaped human history and experience.

The MA (Honours) in Art History is a four-year course run by the School of Art History. In your first two years, you will have the opportunity to study a broad chronological span of art from the medieval period to the present day. Art History is a well-rounded discipline that brings together aspects of social and political history, language and literature, philosophy, aesthetics and psychology.

Breadth of knowledge and perspective are encouraged and, for this reason, you will be required to study an additional two subjects alongside art history in the first year of your studies. In the second year you will usually continue with at least one of these subjects, sometimes two. Find out more about how academic years are organised .