BA Art History [V350]

Academic Year 2024/2025

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (80 Credits)

Semester 1
AH11520

Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding

AH11320

Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century

Semester 2
AH11420

Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century

AH11720

Representing the Body

Year 1 Options

Choose 40 credits of level 1 modules from Art History, or relevant FASS modules, including from:

Semester 1
AH11820

Photography Begins

Semester 2
AH11220

Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (80 Credits)

Semester 1
AH20320

Methods and Materials for Art Historians

AH20520

Modernisms: Art in the Early Twentieth Century

Semester 2
AH21020

Dissertation Preparation and Professional Practice for Students of Art History

AH20620

Postmodernism and Contemporary Art

Year 2 Options

Art History students should take their remaining credits form the list of AH2 modules offered by the School of Art.

Semester 1
AH21620

The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400

AH23120

Adaptation: Versions, Revisions and Cultural Renewal

Semester 2
AH20120

Enlightenment and Empire: Museums, Knowledge, and Meaning

AH24020

Documentary Photography

AH20020

The Pre-Raphaelites

Final Year Core (40 Credits)

Semester 1
AH32000

Dissertation

AH30320

Methods and Materials for Art Historians

Semester 2
AH32020

Dissertation

Final Year Options

Art History students should take their remaining credits from the list of AH3 modules offered by the School of Art.

Semester 1
AH30620

The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400

AH33120

Adaptation: Versions, Revisions and Cultural Renewal

Semester 2
AH32720

Curating an Exhibition: Researching, Interpreting and Displaying

AH30120

Enlightenment and Empire: Museums, Knowledge, and Meaning

AH34020

Documentary Photography

AH30020

The Pre-Raphaelites

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