Degree structure
Full-time
Taken full-time, the one-year taught MA consists of:
- Autumn and Spring Terms: a core module focusing on Research Skills and Methods in History of Art.
- Autumn Term: two taught option modules of your choice.
- Spring Term: two further modules of your choice.
- Summer Term and vacation: a dissertation of 15,000 words.
Part-time
If you study the course part-time you'll take one option in each of the Autumn and Spring Terms, and work on your dissertation during the Summer Terms and vacations.
Specialist pathways
If you have chosen to study Architectural History and Theory, British Art, Medieval Art and Medievalisms, or Modern and Contemporary Art these are referred to as pathways. At least two of your option modules and your dissertation must be completed in your chosen pathway. You will also need to complete the Research Skills core module for your programme.
Beyond this, the programme structure provides the flexibility for you to either specialise entirely in your pathway, or to select up to two of your option modules from art history modules outside the field, or from modules offered by other humanities departments and interdisciplinary centres. Training will be offered in both general and pathway-specific research skills.
Option modules
Please note that the following is a provisional list of the modules the department is hoping to offer in 2019-20 and may, therefore, be subject to change.
Autumn 2019
- Art and Imagery in York Minster
- The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites
- Critical Architecture: More Than Mere Containment
- Ceramic Arts of the Islamic World
- Fashion: Theories, Materials and Images (1540-1940)
- Installation/Participation
- J M W Turner
- Sir Christopher Wren
Spring 2020
- Art & Raj: Visual Culture & British Imperialism in India c.1780-c.1900
- Art, Nature and the Environment in Italy
- Churches & High Crosses: The Art of Stone in Anglo-Saxon England
- Mapping the World, 1100-1300
- Monument, Object, Fetish, Artefact: Contesting ‘Modern’ Sculpture
- ‘Painting on Light’: Stained Glass in the Medieval Tradition
- The Uses of Photography