BAArt History and History

Study location	United Kingdom, Colchester Campus
Type	Bachelor courses, full-time
Nominal duration	3 years
Study language	English
Awards	BA
Course code	VV31

Entry qualification	High school / secondary education (or higher)

Language requirements	English Accepted proof of proficiency: Cambridge English, IELTS, TOEFL or other equivalent IELTS: 6.0 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=UG00022&subgroup=1

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 1

Art and Ideas: I(A)
Art and Ideas: I(B)
Culture, Work and Society
The Making of the Modern World 1776-1989 (optional)
The Enlightenment (optional)
Space, Place and Locality (optional)

Year 2

Making Histories: Concepts, Themes and Sources
Art and Ideas II: More Art, More Ideas – Critique and Historiography in the History of Art
Picturing the City I (optional)
After Impressionism: European Art From Van Gogh to Klimt (optional)
Supernatural and Natural Worlds in Early Modern Europe (optional)
Literature and the Condition of England (optional)
Collect, Curate, Display (optional)

Final year

Independent Research Project (optional)
Study Trip Abroad (Year 2) (optional)
The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, New Media, Software and the Internet (optional)
Photography in History (optional)
Inventing the Future: Early Contemporary 1945-1980 (optional)
The Tudors and Stuarts on Film (optional)
Fictions of Empire (optional)

Career opportunities

Our graduates are ideally prepared for roles in the media, advertising, museums and galleries, education, publishing, charities, fashion and public relations as well as more specialised roles such as conservators, auctioneers, antiques specialists and arts lawyers.

Our recent graduates have gone onto work for a wide range of organisations including:

Momart Ltd
National Portrait Gallery
Victoria and Albert Museum