BACuratorial Studies

Study location	United Kingdom, Colchester Campus
Type	Bachelor courses, full-time
Nominal duration	3 years
Study language	English
Awards	BA
Course code	V351

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.

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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)
Art, Sex and Death
Culture, Work and Society
Art Revolutions
The Enlightenment (optional)
Space, Place and Locality (optional)
Popular Film, Literature and Television: A Psychoanalytic Approach (Freud and Jung) (optional)

Year 2

Art in Latin America
Art and Ideas II: More Art, More Ideas – Critique and Historiography in the History of Art
After Impressionism: European Art From Van Gogh to Klimt
Collect, Curate, Display
Becoming Modern: European Art From Futurism to Surrealism
The Renaissance in Tuscany (optional)
Study Trip Abroad (Year 2) (optional)
Reworking the Past (optional)
Inventing the Future: Early Contemporary 1945-1980 (optional)

Final year

Inventing the Future: Early Contemporary 1945-1980
The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, New Media, Software and the Internet
Contemporary Art: 1980 to the Present
Art, the Law and the Market
Study Trip Abroad (Final Year) (optional)
Curatorial Project

Career opportunities

The sectors with jobs best suited for students with a BA in curatorial studies include museums, galleries and auction houses. Within these sectors, you can pursue a career in curation, museum education, programming, or sales and marketing. Our degree also equips you with foundational skills to run your own gallery, to work as a PR agent, or to work in the fields of fashion, publishing or events management.

To help our students acquire the particular skills they need to gain employment in the museum and gallery sector – the single-most important area in which our students will seek jobs – we offer numerous modules dedicated to the histories, theories and practices of museums, exhibitions and galleries. Additionally, we give you the chance to think creatively and proactively about life after university through our curatorial employability module.