Research Skills in History of Art - HOA00036M

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  • Department: History of Art
  • Credit value: 10 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Autumn Term 2022-23 to Spring Term 2022-23

Module aims

  • To provide guidance regarding expectations for MA work and advanced scholarly research
  • To help students make the transition from undergraduate to MA and (potentially) PhD work
  • To familiarize students with principal archival, bibliographic and art-historical resources
  • To introduce a range of significant methodologies and insights from the forefront of the discipline
  • To encourage students to adopt and adapt methodologies to suit their own developing intellectual interests
  • To demonstrate how art-historical knowledge and methodology develop within a community of scholars

Module learning outcomes

  • To be able to deploy appropriate scholarly conventions in their own work
  • To be familiar with archival, bibliographic and art-historical resources relevant to their own research
  • To be familiar with a range of methodologies significant for the discipline
  • To know how to apply and adapt methodologies appropriate to their own research
  • To be able to develop independent research within the context of previous scholarship

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100

Module feedback

Feedback on summative assessment within 20 working days.

Indicative reading

  • Donald Preziosi, ed., The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology, 2nd ed. 2009
  • Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk, Art History: A Critical Introduction to its Methods, 2006
  • Jae Emerling, Theory for Art History, 2005
  • Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff, eds, Critical Terms for Art History, 2nd ed. 2003
  • Eric Fernie, ed., Art History and Its Methods, 1995