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Master of Arts (Honours) Art History and International Relations


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) International Relations (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
Concepts in Global Politics 20 AND
Foreign Policy and Diplomacy in Global Politics 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) International Relations (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
Theoretical Approaches to International Relations 20 AND
Studying International Relations 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


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) International Relations (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List : IR3000 - IR3999 AND
International Political Economy 30
IR3006 International Regimes and Organisations 30
IR3007 Democracy and Democratisation 30
International Terrorism 30
IR3011 Ethics and World Politics 30
Third World in International Development 30
IR3021 Case Studies in Conflict Analysis 30
International Relations and International Law 30
IR3023 US Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of Power 30
IR3024 The Politics of Africa 30
International Security 30
IR3026 Diplomacy and Conflict Intervention 30
IR3029 The Logic of Irregular Warfare 30
IR3030 Human Rights in Theory and Practice 30
Globalisation and the War on Terrorism 30
Globalisation and its Disjunctures 30
Post-Conflict Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR3036 Independent study in International Relations - Norms in International Relations 30
IR3037 Independent study in International Relations - Political leadership 30
Conflict Management, Settlement, and Resolution 30
International Relations of the European Union 30
IR3041 International Political Theory 30
IR3042 Representations of Violent Conflict: Research Seminar 30
Approaches to Counter-Terrorism 30
Pathways of European State Formation 30
Violence in Deeply-Divided Societies 30
Foreign Policy of Modern China 30
Arrested Development? The Politics of Postcolonialism 30
IR3048 Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention 30
IR3049 International History and International Relations 30
IR3050 State, Power, Crime 30
IR3051 International Relations Theory: From Fear to Queer 30
IR3052 The Politics of Violence and Resistance in Latin America 30
IR3053 Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Transition in Latin America 30
IR3054 Mapping the Boundaries of Emerging and Evolving Securities 30
IR3055 International Relations and the Internet 30
Political Leadership: Theories and History 30
Armaments and International Relations 30
Armed Forces, Societies and Governments: An International Perspective on Civil-Military Relations 30
Rebellion and Revolution 30
IR3062 The United Nations since 1945 30
Organised Crime and Corruption 30
Critical Terrorism Studies 30
IR3065 Refugees and International Relations 30
Emotional Encounters: Diplomacy, Power and Persuasion in World Politics 30
IR3067 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR3068 Christianity and World Politics 30
IR3070 Armed Conflict in Africa 30
IR3071 Dealing in Darkness? An Anatomy of Realist Thought in International Relations 30
IR3072 New and emerging security threats in the Caucasus and Central Asia 30
Dilemmas of International Order: Governing Conflict and Human Rights 30
IR3074 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
Leader Personality and Foreign Policy 30
IR3076 Political Economy of Trade and Investment 30
IR3077 The Motives and Enablers of Terrorist Violence 30
Hot Economics, Cold Politics? International Relations of Northeast Asia 30
Feminist Theories in Global Politics 30
Russian Politics and Foreign Policy after Communism 30
IR3104 The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe 30
Asian Security 30
IR3113 Gender and Generation 30
Migration in Global Politics: Ethics, Politics, and Practice 30
IR3205 Intelligence and International Relations in the 20th Century and Beyond 30
The Politics of Postcolonial Forests 30
Conflict in the Middle East 30
Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
IR3302 Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
The International, Modernity and Contemporary Gulf Politics 30
IR3791
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 30 credits from Module List: IR4100 - IR4999 (excluding IR4794 - IR4795), SD4225
IR4401 Communication in International Relations 15
The Language of Politics 30
Global Public Policy 30
IR4516 The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR4519 Politics and Development in Southeast Asia 30
IR4522 Critical Approaches to International Security 30
The Aftermath of the Wars: Liberal Dilemmas 30
IR4530 Genocide 30
The Cultural Politics of Human Rights 30
IR4535 Theories of Friendship, Solidarity and Peace 30
IR4538 Identities, Belonging and Others 30
The Changing Character of War 30
Gender and Terrorism 30
IR4543 Activism and Resistance 30
Wars and Peace in the Caucasus 30
IR4545 Indian Foreign Policy 30
IR4546 The Psychology of International Security 30
Force and Statecraft 30
Art and Conflict 30
IR4552 The Politics of the Environment 30
Europe, America and the Transatlantic 30
IR4554 Global Aesthetics and Politics 30
Music, Politics and International Relations 30
IR4556 Politics and Time: Memory, Narrative and Mourning in Group Identity and Conflict 30
IR4560 Faith, Politics, and War: The Augustinian Tradition in IR 30
IR4561 Security as Ethics: Rethinking the Global Polity 30
IR4562 The Political Lives of Objects 30
Rebels, Terrorists, Militias: The Comparative Analysis of Armed Groups 30
Strategic Studies 30
Contemporary Political Theory: from revolution to recognition 30
IR4566 Comparative regionalism 30
IR4567 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR4568 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
Geopolitics of Energy in the Caspian Region 30
Everyday Life and Global Politics 30
IR4571 Conflict and intervention in world politics 30
IR4572 Economy of Anger: Marxism, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Status 30
IR4573 Global Economic Governance: Visions and Realities 30
Understanding Terrorism 30
Queer IR, Queering Global Politics 30
The Psychology of Motives in Foreign Policy Analysis 30
Order and Crisis in World Politics 30
The Politics of Nature and Place 30
IR4579 Race, Caste and the Making of the Modern World 30
IR4580 The Global Politics of European Integration 30
Debates in Terrorism and Political Violence 30
Prison Violence & Resistance 30
IR4600 Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East 30
Political Order and Violence in the Middle East 30
IR4602 International Relations of the Middle East 30
Political Islam and International Relations 30
IR4606 Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East 30
Britain and Iraq 1914-2004 30
Green Politics: theory and practice 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

Access to up to thirty 4000-level credits requires the permission of the Adviser of Studies.

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) International Relations (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List: IR4000 - IR4999, ID4002, SD4225 AND
Honours Dissertation in International Relations 60
IR4401 Communication in International Relations 15
The Language of Politics 30
Global Public Policy 30
IR4516 The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR4519 Politics and Development in Southeast Asia 30
IR4522 Critical Approaches to International Security 30
The Aftermath of the Wars: Liberal Dilemmas 30
IR4530 Genocide 30
The Cultural Politics of Human Rights 30
IR4535 Theories of Friendship, Solidarity and Peace 30
IR4538 Identities, Belonging and Others 30
The Changing Character of War 30
Gender and Terrorism 30
IR4543 Activism and Resistance 30
Wars and Peace in the Caucasus 30
IR4545 Indian Foreign Policy 30
IR4546 The Psychology of International Security 30
Force and Statecraft 30
Art and Conflict 30
IR4552 The Politics of the Environment 30
Europe, America and the Transatlantic 30
IR4554 Global Aesthetics and Politics 30
Music, Politics and International Relations 30
IR4556 Politics and Time: Memory, Narrative and Mourning in Group Identity and Conflict 30
IR4560 Faith, Politics, and War: The Augustinian Tradition in IR 30
IR4561 Security as Ethics: Rethinking the Global Polity 30
IR4562 The Political Lives of Objects 30
Rebels, Terrorists, Militias: The Comparative Analysis of Armed Groups 30
Strategic Studies 30
Contemporary Political Theory: from revolution to recognition 30
IR4566 Comparative regionalism 30
IR4567 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR4568 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
Geopolitics of Energy in the Caspian Region 30
Everyday Life and Global Politics 30
IR4571 Conflict and intervention in world politics 30
IR4572 Economy of Anger: Marxism, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Status 30
IR4573 Global Economic Governance: Visions and Realities 30
Understanding Terrorism 30
Queer IR, Queering Global Politics 30
The Psychology of Motives in Foreign Policy Analysis 30
Order and Crisis in World Politics 30
The Politics of Nature and Place 30
IR4579 Race, Caste and the Making of the Modern World 30
IR4580 The Global Politics of European Integration 30
Debates in Terrorism and Political Violence 30
Prison Violence & Resistance 30
IR4600 Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East 30
Political Order and Violence in the Middle East 30
IR4602 International Relations of the Middle East 30
Political Islam and International Relations 30
IR4606 Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East 30
Britain and Iraq 1914-2004 30
Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Green Politics: theory and practice 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
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List : IR3000 - IR3999
International Political Economy 30
IR3006 International Regimes and Organisations 30
IR3007 Democracy and Democratisation 30
International Terrorism 30
IR3011 Ethics and World Politics 30
Third World in International Development 30
IR3021 Case Studies in Conflict Analysis 30
International Relations and International Law 30
IR3023 US Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of Power 30
IR3024 The Politics of Africa 30
International Security 30
IR3026 Diplomacy and Conflict Intervention 30
IR3029 The Logic of Irregular Warfare 30
IR3030 Human Rights in Theory and Practice 30
Globalisation and the War on Terrorism 30
Globalisation and its Disjunctures 30
Post-Conflict Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa 30
IR3036 Independent study in International Relations - Norms in International Relations 30
IR3037 Independent study in International Relations - Political leadership 30
Conflict Management, Settlement, and Resolution 30
International Relations of the European Union 30
IR3041 International Political Theory 30
IR3042 Representations of Violent Conflict: Research Seminar 30
Approaches to Counter-Terrorism 30
Pathways of European State Formation 30
Violence in Deeply-Divided Societies 30
Foreign Policy of Modern China 30
Arrested Development? The Politics of Postcolonialism 30
IR3048 Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention 30
IR3049 International History and International Relations 30
IR3050 State, Power, Crime 30
IR3051 International Relations Theory: From Fear to Queer 30
IR3052 The Politics of Violence and Resistance in Latin America 30
IR3053 Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Transition in Latin America 30
IR3054 Mapping the Boundaries of Emerging and Evolving Securities 30
IR3055 International Relations and the Internet 30
Political Leadership: Theories and History 30
Armaments and International Relations 30
Armed Forces, Societies and Governments: An International Perspective on Civil-Military Relations 30
Rebellion and Revolution 30
IR3062 The United Nations since 1945 30
Organised Crime and Corruption 30
Critical Terrorism Studies 30
IR3065 Refugees and International Relations 30
Emotional Encounters: Diplomacy, Power and Persuasion in World Politics 30
IR3067 The International Criminal Court in World Politics 30
IR3068 Christianity and World Politics 30
IR3070 Armed Conflict in Africa 30
IR3071 Dealing in Darkness? An Anatomy of Realist Thought in International Relations 30
IR3072 New and emerging security threats in the Caucasus and Central Asia 30
Dilemmas of International Order: Governing Conflict and Human Rights 30
IR3074 International Relations of Energy and the Environment 30
Leader Personality and Foreign Policy 30
IR3076 Political Economy of Trade and Investment 30
IR3077 The Motives and Enablers of Terrorist Violence 30
Hot Economics, Cold Politics? International Relations of Northeast Asia 30
Feminist Theories in Global Politics 30
Russian Politics and Foreign Policy after Communism 30
IR3104 The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe 30
Asian Security 30
IR3113 Gender and Generation 30
Migration in Global Politics: Ethics, Politics, and Practice 30
IR3205 Intelligence and International Relations in the 20th Century and Beyond 30
The Politics of Postcolonial Forests 30
Conflict in the Middle East 30
Politics and State Formation in the Middle East 30
IR3302 Democracy and Revolution in North Africa 30
The Arab - Israeli Conflict 30
The International, Modernity and Contemporary Gulf Politics 30
IR3791
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

Access to up to thirty 3000-level credits requires the permission of the Adviser of Studies.

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 ).