Art History and Visual Culture
Our programme offers you flexibility to customise your degree around your own interests
Our varied programme allows you to study a range of fine arts and contemporary visual forms
Art History and Visual Culture is an exciting interdisciplinary initiative focusing on the importance of images and artefacts in our lives.
It particularly appeals to students with a background or interest in the history of art, creative practice, cinema, history, philosophy, sociology, and other cultural studies.
Single honours
The BA Art History and Visual Culture provides an excellent grounding in both traditional fine arts and contemporary visual forms. Through the flexible structure of the degree, you can study painting, sculpture, illustration and architecture alongside film, video, performance, and digital art.
Combined honours
From 2013, Visual Culture may be studied alongside Drama, English, Modern Languages, or History as a Combined Honours degree. In these programmes Visual Culture modules make up half of the credits, with half taken in the other subject. Art History may also be combined with other subjects using the Flexible Combined Honours programme.
Research
Our diverse research specialisms include historic and contemporary arts practices, museology and curatorship, art and technology, photography, performance, popular culture, visual representations of ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and visual cultures from the classical era to the present.
Meet our students
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