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Undergraduate Courses - The Honours Programme
Applying for Honours in History of Art?
At the end of second year, you must complete an application form and indicate which courses you hope to take in your 3rd year.
Your selection
of courses for each of your Honours years will be finalised at a meeting with
the Adviser of Studies to Honours students, during the Freshers' Week preceding
each Winter term, about which you will be notified in advance by post.
Entrance into
the Honours programme is normally dependent on having obtained a minimum
of 12 marks on the Common Assessment Scale for both Level 2 courses.
You will find
full details concerning the structure of the Honours degree programme in the
University
Calendar, which may be consulted in the Queen Mother Library or the Departmental
Office.
Brief descriptions
of all available courses, are provided in the Catalogue
of Courses, which is revised once a year. You can also consult this in
the Library or in the Department.
Entry
Requirements
Entry into Honours
(third and fourth years) depends on candidates having accumulated 240 credits
from Level 1 and 2. A minimum grade of 12 is required from the two Level 2
History of Art courses. Admission is at the discretion of the Undergraduate Programme Co-ordinator for History of Art.
History of Art can also be taken jointly with other subjects in the Arts
Faculty (Celtic, Cultural History, English, French, German, History,
Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Spanish). Other options are to major in
History of Art and combine it with Film Studies. History
of Art can also be taken as a component of a combined honours degree in Historical
Studies.
Core
Elements in the Honours Programme
- Fieldwork
- Fieldwork Guide (One compulsory tutor-led fieldtrip to the galleries in Edinburgh, one independent fieldtrip to Glasgow, two four-day
visits to London and Paris). Reading Party - Three-day study session held in a Scottish country house. Students in 3rd year hone their presentation skills with informal papers.
- Dissertation
- Dissertation guidelines (An 8,000 - 10,000 word study submitted
during senior honours year on a supervised topic of the student's
own choice. Compulsory for all Single Honours students and optional
for Joint-Honours students).
- Library
Skills Seminars - Held in the Sir Duncan Rice Library.
Honours
Options
The Department
runs a full and varied programme of Honours courses. These are either 6 weeks
(15 credits, 4th year only) or 12 weeks (30 credits, 3rd and 4th years) long. These are offered on a recurring two-year cycle.
Courses 2012-2013
HA3082 - Painting in Tudor and Stuart England
HA3092 - From the Wanderers to Glasnost: Russian Art 1863-1986
HA3079 - Critical Perspectives in the History of Art
HA3579 - Durham & Romanesque Architecture
HA3581 - Art & Society in Renaissance Venice
HA3586 - Art in France: Symbolism to Surrealism
HA3887 - The Carracci and their School
HA3594 - The Work of Angels
HA4057 - Critical Perspectives in Art History
HA4059 - Scottish Renaissance Gardens in Context
HA4361 - Performance Art East and West
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HA3053
Course Co-ordinator: Mr J Gash
Caravaggio
and his followers
The Gentileschi,
Honthorst, La Tour and others. Caravaggio's realism and iconography. |
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HA3594
The
Work of Angels
Insular Art
from 400-800, from Sutton Hoo to the Book of Kells. With extensive trips
to Pictland. |
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HA3579
Durham
and Romanesque Art
Twelfth century
churches in England and Scotland, with extensive trips. |
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From
Turner to Sickert
Victorian
painting in England. The Pre-Raphaelites, women, literature and landscape. |
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HA3568
Course Co-ordinator: Dr M Pryor
American
Modernism
The Armoury
Show of 1913, via Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art to Super-Realism. |
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HA3586
Art in France: Symbolism to Surrealism
Beyond Impressionism: through Symbolism, Cubism and Purism to the liberations of the unconscious mind in Surrealism. |
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The Northern Renaissance
Dürer and his contemporaries. The spread of the Renaissance to northern Europe. |
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Course Co-ordinator: Dr T Nichols
Critical
Perspectives in Art History
Compulsory
in 4th year. Key texts on ideas of progress, stylistic analysis, iconography,
genius, feminism, cultural theory. |
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The
Country House in England and Scotland
A survey
of architectural style and function. With extensive trips. |
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French
Art 1880-1935
Gauguin and
Cezanne, Art Nouveau, Matisse, Cubism. Picasso, Dada, Surrealism. |
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Identity and Change: Scottish Art 1837-1939
Scottish painting in the context of national identity, urbanisation, women, labour. |
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Seventeenth-century
Netherlandish Art
The golden
age of Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals. |
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Painting
in a Stateless Nation: Scottish Art 1707-1837
From the
Act of Union to the accession of Queen Victoria, covering questions of
patronage and national identity. This course
make use of pioneering on-line material.
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HA3581
Art
and Society in Renaissance Venice
Venice 1450-1600,
the paintings of Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto in their social
and economic context. |
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The Age of Michelangelo
Covers one of the most crucial centuries in the history of Western Art, the Italian High and Late Renaissance, and some of the world's most famous artists: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael. |
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HA4302
Course Co-ordinator: Mr J Gash
The
Carracci and their School
Painting
in Rome 1555-1609, and the development of Baroque aesthetics. |
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HA3092
Course Co-ordinator: Dr A Bryzgel
Russian Art: From the Wanderers to Glasnost
A survey of Russian art, from the early avant-garde and Socialist Realism, to Soviet Nonconformist Art. Russian art in the context of social change, national cultural identity, and the avant-garde. |
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HA4361
Performance Art East and West
An examination of the development of performance art as a key turning point in the shift from modern to postmodern art, and an analysis of how that shift played out differently in Western Europe and America versus in Eastern Europe and Russia. |
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HA3571
Course Co-ordinator: Dr A Bryzgel
From Campbell's Soup to Cremaster: Postmodern Art
This course will introduce students to the major artists and key artistic movements in the Postmodern era, focusing on the United States and Europe. |
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HA3073
Course Co-ordinator: Dr H Pierce
Art and Politics in Early Modern Britain
This course aims to provide students with a survey of the visual arts of early modern Britain, and their relationship to political opinion and upheaval during this period; it surveys a range of media and genres, including courtly portraiture, graphic satire, masque performances and book illustration. |
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HA4059
Course Co-ordinator: Professor P Davidson
Scottish Renaissance Gardens in Context
This course will introduce students to international garden history, contextualised in Scottish locations. |
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HA3572
Course Co-ordinator: Dr H Pierce
Holbein, Rubens, Van Dyck: Art and Diplomacy at the English Court, 1530-1650
This course examines the English careers of three foreign artists, whose works for three different monarchs of this period stress both the continuities and distinctions present in each ruler’s tastes, preoccupations, and self-fashioning. |
Resources
The Department
houses an extensive slide library (over 80,000 slides) accessed via an electronic
database. The Department also has a large collection of photographs and museum
catalogues which are available for use by Honours Level History of Art students.
Slide viewing machines, videos and CD-ROM's are available in the Slide Library. The department collections are supported by an extensive
History of Art section at the Queen Mother Library.
Assessment
Written examination
30%, continuous assessment 70%, including essays, presentation and slide test.
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