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Master of Arts (Honours) Art History and Comparative Literature


MA (Hons) Art History (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 20 and 40 credits from Module List: AH1001, AH1003 AND
Art in Europe and Beyond to 1600 20
Art in Europe and Beyond 1600-1800 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20 AND
Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


MA (Hons) Art History (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
* Modernity, Empire, and Revolution: Art from 1789-1900 20 AND
* Art, Culture and Politics, from 1900 to Now 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 11 or better in the modules marked *
MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
Good and Evil 20 AND
Journeys 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

OR with the approval of the UG Comparative Literature Programme Director, a pass in one of CO2001 or CO2002 and 20 credits in a cognate subject.

If credits are taken in a cognate subject an average of grade 11 or better across these and the CL modules must be achieved to guarantee honours entry.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • Average of grade 11 or better OR With the approval of the UG Comparative Literature Programme Director, a pass in one of CO2001, CO2002 and 20 credits in cognate subject with an average of grade 11 or better across these and the CL credits.

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

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MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.


MA (Hons) Art History (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: AH3000 - AH4089, AH4100 - AH4899 (excluding AH4794 - AH4795) AND
Central European Art, Architecture and Design, c. 1900 30
Approaches to Art History 30
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH3196 Modern Art beyond the West 30
Spanish Painting in the Age of Velázquez 30
AH3901 Walter Richard Sickert and European Art c. 1880 - 1940 30
AH3902 The Country, City and Society in Nineteenth-Century French Art 30
From Hogarth to Sickert: British Painting and the Theatre (1740 - 1930) 30
'No day without a line': The Etching Revival in Britain: 1830-1930 30
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
‘Ajab: The Aesthetics of Wonder in Islamic Art 30
Rubens and Rembrandt: Parallel Worlds 30
AH4078 Art and Politics in France, 1945 - 1975 30
The Scandinavian Art of Building and Design: Identity and Myth 30
Aspects of Surrealism 30
Realism and Symbolism in Russian Art 1820-1910 30
AH4142 Aspects of Modern Photography, 1910 - 1950 30
Classicism in Western Art: The Legacy of Greece and Rome 30
AH4148 Orientalism and Visual Culture 30
AH4156 Seeing the Sixties 30
AH4161 Gauguin and Primitivism 30
AH4163 Approaches to Modern Sculpture 30
Histories of Photography (1835 - 1905) 30
AH4167 Symbolism, Decadence and Modernity 30
AH4170 Art, Piety and Performance: Charitable Institutions in Early Modern Venice 30
AH4173 Architecture and its Image. From Brunelleschi to Palladio 30
AH4174 Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela 30
AH4175 Luxury Goods in the Middle Ages 30
AH4176 Early Modern Cities 30
Objects of Devotion: The Art and Material Culture of Medieval Christianity 30
AH4182 Principles and Protagonists of Italian Renaissance Architecture 30
AH4183 The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe 30
The Art of the Apocalypse from the Middle Ages to the Present 30
AH4185 Michelangelo: Sculptor, Painter, Architect 30
AH4190 Romanticism and Visuality 1780 - 1830 30
AH4191 Art, Science and Technology 1700-1900 30
AH4192 Images of Empire 30
English Art and Modernism 30
AH4205 Byzantium, 330 - 1453: Art, Religion and Imperial Power 30
AH4206 Raphael and His Reception 30
The Portrait in Western Art 30
Portuguese Renaissance from Local to Global 30
AH4211 Islam and the Arts 30
AH4213 Dada and Surrealism 30
AH4214 Body / Politics: Performance Art Since 1960 30
AH4215 Critical Issues in Contemporary Art 30
AH4216 Medieval Islamic Painting 30
AH4218 The Art of Iran, 600 B.C. to 1700 A.D. 30
AH4221 The French Avant-Garde from Realism to Impressionism 30
Art, Theatre and Performance in France 1600-1800 30
AH4226 African Modernisms 30
Scotland and the Arts of Africa 30
Communication in Art History 15
Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4240 The Art of War: Battle, Rivalry, Paragone, 1400-1700 30
AH4241 Leonardo da Vinci, 500 years later 30
AH4245 The Intersectional Body in Art Since the 1960s 30
AH4246 The Art and Visual Culture of the Global HIV/AIDS epidemic 30
Latin American Modernisms 30
AH4251 Postmodernism and Contemporary Art in Latin America 30
Art History and Environmental Crisis 30
Decolonial, Feminist, Queer: Histories of Art in Britain Since 1945 30
AH4260 Ottoman Art and Architecture 30
Aspects of Japanese Visual Culture 1820-1920 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

With the permission of the Director of Teaching and the relevant Head of School, 30 credits in Third or Fourth year may be substituted by 3000- or 4000- level credits from another subject.
MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module Grouping: CO3000 - CO3019 AND
Comparative Literature: Contours and Constellations I 15
Comparative Literature: Contours and Constellations 2 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list 30 credits from Module Grouping: CO3020 - CO3049, CO4002 - CO4049
Cultural Memory and Literature 15
CO3021 Crossing the Mediterranean 15
CO4002 The Literary Canon 15
CO4003 Issues in Cultural Studies 15
CO4020 Literature and the Bible 15
Autobiography and the Visual Arts 15
CO4022 Illness and Literature 15
CO4024 Performing Early-Modern Sexualities 15
Classicism in European Literature 15
CO4027 Folk and Fairy Tales 15
Great Works and their Adapations 15
CO4029 Science and Culture in European Modernisms 15
The Short Story 15
Experiences of Exile 15
CO4032 Bad Books 15
CO4033 Essays, Manifestos, and Epigrams 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year


MA (Hons) Art History (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AH4097, AH4099, AH4794 - AH4795 AND
60-Credit Honours Dissertation in Art History 60
30-Credit Dissertation in Art History 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AH3000 - AH4089, AH4100 - AH4899, ID4002
Central European Art, Architecture and Design, c. 1900 30
Approaches to Art History 30
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH3196 Modern Art beyond the West 30
Spanish Painting in the Age of Velázquez 30
AH3901 Walter Richard Sickert and European Art c. 1880 - 1940 30
AH3902 The Country, City and Society in Nineteenth-Century French Art 30
From Hogarth to Sickert: British Painting and the Theatre (1740 - 1930) 30
'No day without a line': The Etching Revival in Britain: 1830-1930 30
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
‘Ajab: The Aesthetics of Wonder in Islamic Art 30
Rubens and Rembrandt: Parallel Worlds 30
AH4078 Art and Politics in France, 1945 - 1975 30
The Scandinavian Art of Building and Design: Identity and Myth 30
Aspects of Surrealism 30
Realism and Symbolism in Russian Art 1820-1910 30
AH4142 Aspects of Modern Photography, 1910 - 1950 30
Classicism in Western Art: The Legacy of Greece and Rome 30
AH4148 Orientalism and Visual Culture 30
AH4156 Seeing the Sixties 30
AH4161 Gauguin and Primitivism 30
AH4163 Approaches to Modern Sculpture 30
Histories of Photography (1835 - 1905) 30
AH4167 Symbolism, Decadence and Modernity 30
AH4170 Art, Piety and Performance: Charitable Institutions in Early Modern Venice 30
AH4173 Architecture and its Image. From Brunelleschi to Palladio 30
AH4174 Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela 30
AH4175 Luxury Goods in the Middle Ages 30
AH4176 Early Modern Cities 30
Objects of Devotion: The Art and Material Culture of Medieval Christianity 30
AH4182 Principles and Protagonists of Italian Renaissance Architecture 30
AH4183 The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe 30
The Art of the Apocalypse from the Middle Ages to the Present 30
AH4185 Michelangelo: Sculptor, Painter, Architect 30
AH4190 Romanticism and Visuality 1780 - 1830 30
AH4191 Art, Science and Technology 1700-1900 30
AH4192 Images of Empire 30
English Art and Modernism 30
AH4205 Byzantium, 330 - 1453: Art, Religion and Imperial Power 30
AH4206 Raphael and His Reception 30
The Portrait in Western Art 30
Portuguese Renaissance from Local to Global 30
AH4211 Islam and the Arts 30
AH4213 Dada and Surrealism 30
AH4214 Body / Politics: Performance Art Since 1960 30
AH4215 Critical Issues in Contemporary Art 30
AH4216 Medieval Islamic Painting 30
AH4218 The Art of Iran, 600 B.C. to 1700 A.D. 30
AH4221 The French Avant-Garde from Realism to Impressionism 30
Art, Theatre and Performance in France 1600-1800 30
AH4226 African Modernisms 30
Scotland and the Arts of Africa 30
Communication in Art History 15
Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4240 The Art of War: Battle, Rivalry, Paragone, 1400-1700 30
AH4241 Leonardo da Vinci, 500 years later 30
AH4245 The Intersectional Body in Art Since the 1960s 30
AH4246 The Art and Visual Culture of the Global HIV/AIDS epidemic 30
Latin American Modernisms 30
AH4251 Postmodernism and Contemporary Art in Latin America 30
Art History and Environmental Crisis 30
Decolonial, Feminist, Queer: Histories of Art in Britain Since 1945 30
AH4260 Ottoman Art and Architecture 30
Aspects of Japanese Visual Culture 1820-1920 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

With the permission of the Director of Teaching and the relevant Head of School, 30 credits in Third or Fourth year may be substituted by 3000- or 4000- level credits from another subject.
MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: CO3020 - CO3049, CO4002 - CO4049, CO4098 - CO4099, ML4794
Cultural Memory and Literature 15
CO3021 Crossing the Mediterranean 15
CO4002 The Literary Canon 15
CO4003 Issues in Cultural Studies 15
CO4020 Literature and the Bible 15
Autobiography and the Visual Arts 15
CO4022 Illness and Literature 15
CO4024 Performing Early-Modern Sexualities 15
Classicism in European Literature 15
CO4027 Folk and Fairy Tales 15
Great Works and their Adapations 15
CO4029 Science and Culture in European Modernisms 15
The Short Story 15
Experiences of Exile 15
CO4032 Bad Books 15
CO4033 Essays, Manifestos, and Epigrams 15
Short Dissertation in Comparative Literature 15
Long Dissertation in Comparative Literature 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year


Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).