BAArt History (4 Years Including Foundation Year)

Study location	United Kingdom, Colchester Campus
Type	Bachelor courses, full-time
Nominal duration	4 years
Study language	English
Awards	BA
Course code	V350

Entry qualification	High school / secondary education (or higher)

Language requirements	English Accepted proof of proficiency: Cambridge English, IELTS, TOEFL or other equivalent IELTS: 5.5 TOEFL (IBT): 76 CAE: B2 with 52+ CAE (from Jan 15): 169+

Other requirements	At least 1 reference(s) must be provided.

More information	essex.ac.uk/..tercourse=UG00021&subgroup=2

Overview

Interested? To learn more about this study programme, entry requirements and application process, please contact one of our consultants in a country nearest to you.

Programme structure

Year 0

Political and Social Theory From Plato to the Present Day
An Introduction to the History of the United Kingdom During the Twentieth Century
Major Writers in English Literature
Academic Skills
Western Philosophy: Fundamental Questions, Major Thinkers

Year 1

Art and Ideas: I(A)
Art and Ideas: I(B)
Culture, Work and Society
Art, Sex and Death
Art Revolutions
Space, Place and Locality
The Enlightenment (optional)

Year 2

Picturing the City I (optional)
After Impressionism: European Art From Van Gogh to Klimt (optional)
Becoming Modern: European Art From Futurism to Surrealism (optional)
Art in Latin America (optional)
Collect, Curate, Display (optional)
Picturing the City II (optional)
Art and Ideas II: More Art, More Ideas – Critique and Historiography in the History of Art
Art and Power (optional)
Study Trip Abroad (Year 2) (optional)

Final year

Contemporary Art: 1980 to the Present (optional)
Photography in History (optional)
The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, New Media, Software and the Internet (optional)
Study Trip Abroad (Final Year) (optional)
Art, the Law and the Market (optional)
Reworking the Past (optional)
Visualising Bodies (optional)
Inventing the Future: Early Contemporary 1945-1980 (optional)
Final Year Dissertation Project (optional)
Art & Ideas III

Career opportunities

Some of the sectors with jobs well suited for our graduates include: museums and galleries, auction houses, education (e.g., in schools, universities and cultural institutions), marketing and advertising, and new media. Our degree also prepares students to run their own galleries, to work as specialist arts lawyers and PR agents, and for positions in charities, fashion and publishing.

To help our students acquire the particular skills they need to gain employment in the museum and gallery sector – arguably the single-most important area in which our students seek jobs – we offer several modules every year dedicated to the histories, theories and practices of museums, exhibitions and galleries. We also give our students the opportunity to think creatively and proactively about life after university in our curatorial employability module.

Our recent graduates have gone on to work for a wide range of high-profile companies including:

National Portrait Gallery
Victoria and Albert Museum
Sotheby’s New York
Momart Ltd
John Lewis