School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies

MA / Postgraduate Diploma / Postgraduate Certificate Country House Studies

Duration (months): 12 F/T, 24 P/T

Programme Code: 7173; PGDip (F/T) 7171; PGDip (P/T) 7172; PG Cert 6008

Total Credits: MA 120, PGDip 80, PG Cert 40

Entry requirements

A good upper second class degree from a university in the UK, or its equivalent from a foreign university. Candidates with non-standard qualifications will be assessed according to their individual merits. Candidates may apply to take semester 1 or 2 only, for which they will be eligible to receive a Certificate, or to take the two semesters consecutively, for which they will be eligible to receive a Postgraduate Diploma. In addition, candidates who have satisfactorily completed an equivalent programme of study elsewhere may be exempted from parts of the MA and be eligible to receive the Postgraduate Diploma by taking one of the three semesters, or to receive the Masters degree by taking one or two semesters. Exemption will be restricted to particular programmes of study run by institutions with which the Fine Art Department has made an agreement specifically for this purpose. Dissertations which have been supervised and examined by such institutions will be accredited as elements of prior learning. An exemption agreement would not give any student an automatic right to entry to the Leeds programme: candidates would be required to apply and go through a selection procedure in the normal way.

Objectives

To enable students to gain insight into the historical development of country houses and their art collections from the Renaissance to the present day, to stimulate research on this subject; to provide professional training for those who work in historic house or aspire to work in them.

Compulsory modules

MA Cultural Studies

Duration (months): 12 F/T, 24 P/T

Programme Code: 7200 F/T, 7210 P/T

Total Credits: 120

Entry Requirements

A good honours degree in art history or equivalent in Cultural Studies, French, Art History, English, Communications or related subject.

Objectives

To familiarise students with the theoretical materials out of which cultural studies has been formed and to debate the problematic of historical analysis of the post Enlightenment era and the current critiques in post-structuralist theory and practice. The main areas of interest are, therefore, cultural theory and cultural history with a broad view of cultural objects relevant to such analysis.

Compulsory modules

MA Feminism and the Visual Arts

Duration (months): 12 F/T, 24 P/T

Programme Code: 7381 F/T, 7386 P/T

Total Credits: 120

Entry requirements

A good honours degree in art history, fine art or another approved subject. Other formal qualifications which are considered to be equivalent by the admissions tutor are acceptable.

Objectives

To analyse feminism's impact on, and intervention in, historiography, cultural theory and the practice of the visual arts.

Compulsory modules

MA Sculpture Studies

Duration (months): 12 F/T, 24 P/T

Programme Code: 8090 F/T, 8089 P/T

Total Credits: 120

Entry Requirements

A good honours degree in art history or equivalent in Fine Art, Art History or related subject.

Objectives

By the end of this programme students should be able to understand the major historical, critical and theoretical issues connected with the study of sculpture and should have acquired the ability to advance information and argument coherently in both textual and verbal form.

Compulsory modules

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:

MA Social Theory and History of Art

Duration (months): 12 F/T, 24 P/T

Programme Code: 8100 F/T, 8101P/T

Total Credits: 120

Entry Requirements

A good honours degree in art history or another approved subject. Other formal qualifications which are considered to be equivalent by the admissions tutor are acceptable.

Objectives

By the end of this programme, students will have been introduced to various ways in which social history and contemporary critical theory connect with the actual work of art and how, at the present moment in the development of the discipline, it and its history might be researched and written. By the completion of the programme, students will have been provided with a firm historical and theoretical basis for graduate work in the social history of art broadly conceived.

Compulsory modules

plus 40 credits taken from the following optional modules:

Programme Title: MA in Art History @ Leeds

Programme Code: MA-AH-FT (Full-time), MA-AH-PT (Part-time)

Duration: 1 year full-time or two-year part time

Total Credits: 120

Entry Requirements:

A 2.1 at first degree level or above

Objectives:

At the end of this programme students will have a foundation in current theoretical and methodological resources for advanced work on the histories of art. The student will have engaged substantively through course work with current research in the histories and theories of art through detailed case studies which will be selected from an extended array offered by scholars working in areas such as sculpture, architecture, Jewish visual arts and cultures, feminist interventions in the histories of art, and a range of specialist topics in the histories of European and American art history from the middle ages to the present. The MA aims to provide an opportunity for specialist, research-based teaching of art history at a graduate level that consolidates the major theoretical, critical and historiographical developments in this discipline associated with the scholars working at the University of Leeds while also offering the students an opportunity to study art history in the presence of related interdisciplinary projects such as cultural analysis, feminist studies and Jewish studies in art and culture.

Level 5

Compulsory Modules:

Optional Modules:

Candidates will be required to study 60 credits from the following optional modules:

Programme Title: MA in Gender and Difference in the Histories of Art

Programme Code: MA-GDHA-FT, MA-GDHA-PT

Duration: 1year full-time or 2 years part-time

Total Credits: 120

Entry Requirements: A good honours degree in Fine Art, Art History or other approved subject

Objectives: At the end of this programme students will have engaged with the critical theories which have reshaped the study and writing of art’s histories since the 1970s, with particular focus on questions of sexual and other differences as a key factor in both the discourses of modernist art history and the transforming practices of art in the twentieth century. The students will have access to cutting edge feminist, queer, postcolonial thinking about visual representation and difference and they will have the opportunity to move from their core modules in the study of femininity, modernity and representation in the culture of the twentieth century into related studies such as film analysis, trauma studies, cultural studies and contemporary theory and practice in the visual arts.

Level 5

Compulsory Modules:

Optional Modules:

You will also be required to study 40 credits from the following :

MA in the History and Theory of Architecture

Programme Code: MA-HIST/A-FT (F/T), MA-HIST/A-PT (P/T)

Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time

Total Credits: 120

Entry Requirements: A 2:1 degree at first degree level or above.

Objectives: By the end of this programme, students should have:

• A critical understanding of the ways in which architecture and material culture have been represented and interpreted by historians and cultural theorists from the first century BC to the present day.
• Knowledge of the way the country house functioned as a social and economic unit in Britain and Ireland from the dissolution of the monasteries to the twentieth century.
• A critical understanding of key modernist and postmodernist buildings, texts and practices in the 20th-21st centuries.
• one of the following:
  • critical understanding of the non-Classical tradition in architecture from the mid-19th century to the present day
  • a substantial understanding of some of the significant theories and practices of design between 1800 and 1910
  • through individual directed study, knowledge and critical understanding of either an architectural movement or the works of a specifc architect and/or theorist of the post-Mediaeval era

Level 5

Compulsory Modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules

Candidates will be required to study 40 credits from the following optional modules:

Programme Title: MA in Fine Art

Programme Code: MA-AH/FA-FT (Fulltime), MA-AH/FA-PT (Part-time)

Duration: 1 year Full Time; 2 years P/T

Total Credits: 120

Entry Requirements:

A good honours degree in fine art or related discipline. Portfolio of slides and supporting letter.

Objectives:

To promote and inculcate the integrated study of the practice and theory of visual art understood as comprising a broad range of media and techniques. To enable students to elaborate and synthesise their existing skills/competences in analysing and producing visual art; to provide the resources and learning context necessary to assess and critically evaluate theories of visual representation as an integral part of the production of practical work in the visual arts. To provide the basis for future professional art practice. Students study for a minimum of 3.5 days in the studios engaged with the production of a body of practical work in consultation with course tutors; students attend for theoretical classes/seminars for approximately one half day per week and pursue two specified theory modules in Semester 1 & 2. In semester 3, students prepare and mount and exhibition of work, or equivalent public output, done during the programme, together with related documentation.

Level 5

Compulsory Modules:

Optional Modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:

Programme Title: MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies

Programme Code: MA-AH/AGM-FT (Fulltime), MA-AH/AGM-PT (Part-time)

Duration: 1 year Full Time; 2 years P/T

Total Credits: 120

Entry Requirements:

A 2:1 degree at first degree level or above.

Objectives: By the end of this programme, students should have: a critical understanding of the ways in which architecture and material culture have been represented and interpreted by historians and cultural theorists from the first century B.C. to the present day; a critical understanding of the issues surrounding curatorship, museology, and museum management, including cultural diversity within the museum; understanding and experience of the formation of country house collections, methods of display and interpretation.