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Master of Arts (Honours) Art History


MA (Hons) Art History: First Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 20 and 40 credits from Module List: AH1001, AH1003 AND
AH1001 Art in Europe and Beyond to 1600 20
AH1003 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Art History: Second Year
Code Module name Credits
^ AH2001 Modernity, Empire, and Revolution: Art from 1789-1900 20 AND
^ AH2002 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

  • passes in modules marked ^

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.

See: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/academic/academic-advising/glossary/honours-entry/ )

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: Third Year
Code Module name Credits
AH3130 Approaches to Art History 30 AND
View list 90 credits from Module List: AH3000 - AH4089, AH4100 - AH4899 (excluding AH4794 - AH4795)
AH3104 Central European Art, Architecture and Design, c. 1900 30
AH3106 Experiencing Sculpture in the Early Modern World 30
AH3107 Art of the Ming and Qing Dynasties from a Global Perspective 30
AH3109 Timurid Art and Architecture (ca. 1370 – 1507) 30
AH310A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH310B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH310C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH3112 Women Artists and Autobiography 30
AH311A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH311B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH311C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH312A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH312B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH312C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH3130 Approaches to Art History 30
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH3132 The Relief 30
AH3133 Tradition and Subversion: Topics in Nineteenth-Century French Art 30
AH3134 Collecting Chinese Art: Histories and Practices 30
AH3196 Modern Art beyond the West 30
AH3235 Spanish Painting in the Age of Velázquez 30
AH401A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH401B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH401C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH402A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH402B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH402C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH404A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH404B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH404C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
AH4051 Ajab: The Aesthetics of Wonder in Islamic Art 30
AH405A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH405B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH405C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH406A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH406B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH406C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH4076 Rubens and Rembrandt: Parallel Worlds 30
AH4078 Art and Politics in France since 1945 30
AH407A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH407B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH407C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH4081 The Scandinavian Art of Building and Design: Identity and Myth 30
AH4087 Aspects of Surrealism 30
AH408A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH408B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH408C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH410A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH410B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH410C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH411A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH411B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH411C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH412A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH412B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH412C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH4130 Realism and Symbolism in Russian Art 1820-1910 30
AH4142 Aspects of Modern Photography, 1910 - 1955 30
AH4147 Classicism in Western Art: The Legacy of Greece and Rome 30
AH4148 Orientalism and Visual Culture 30
AH4153 Object Encounters: An Enterprise Project on the University Collections and their Histories 30
AH4154 Chinggis Khan and His Descendants: Art and Culture in Mongol Eurasia 30
AH4156 Seeing the Sixties 30
AH4161 Gauguin and Primitivism 30
AH4163 Approaches to Modern Sculpture 30
AH4166 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
AH4177 Objects of Devotion: The Art and Material Culture of Medieval Christianity 30
AH4178 Art and the Ocean: Aesthetics, Materiality, and Ecology, ca. 1500-1800 30
AH4182 Principles and Protagonists of Italian Renaissance Architecture 30
AH4183 The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4184 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
AH4196 English Art and Modernism 30
AH4205 Byzantium, 330 - 1453: Art, Religion and Imperial Power 30
AH4206 Raphael and His Reception 30
AH4208 The Portrait in Western Art 30
AH4209 Art in the Portuguese world, circa 1400–1750 30
AH4211 Islam and the Arts 30
AH4212 Cultures of Collection and Display ca. 1851 to the Present Day 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 Gender and Consumption in French Art 1860-1895 30
AH4222 Art, Theatre and Performance in France 1600-1800 30
AH4226 African Modernisms 30
AH4227 Scotland and the Arts of Africa 30
AH4235 Communication in Art History 15
AH4236 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
AH4250 Latin American Modernisms 30
AH4251 Postmodernism and Contemporary Art in Latin America 30
AH4252 Art History and Environmental Crisis 30
AH4253 Decolonial, Feminist, Queer: Histories of Art in Britain Since 1945 30
AH4254 Museums and Audiences 30
AH4255 British Theatre and Visual Culture: 1740-1880 30
AH4256 British Theatre and Visual Culture: 1880-Today 30
AH4260 Ottoman Art and Architecture 30
AH4265 Aspects of Japanese Visual Culture 1820-1920 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 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) Art History: Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List: AH4097, AH4099 AND
AH4097 60-Credit Honours Dissertation in Art History 60
AH4099 30-Credit Dissertation in Art History 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 60 and 90 credits from Module List: AH3000 - AH4089, AH4100 - AH4899 (excluding AH4794 - AH4795), ID4002
AH3104 Central European Art, Architecture and Design, c. 1900 30
AH3106 Experiencing Sculpture in the Early Modern World 30
AH3107 Art of the Ming and Qing Dynasties from a Global Perspective 30
AH3109 Timurid Art and Architecture (ca. 1370 – 1507) 30
AH310A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH310B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH310C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH3112 Women Artists and Autobiography 30
AH311A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH311B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH311C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH312A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH312B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH312C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH3130 Approaches to Art History 30
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH3132 The Relief 30
AH3133 Tradition and Subversion: Topics in Nineteenth-Century French Art 30
AH3134 Collecting Chinese Art: Histories and Practices 30
AH3196 Modern Art beyond the West 30
AH3235 Spanish Painting in the Age of Velázquez 30
AH401A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH401B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH401C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH402A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH402B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH402C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH404A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH404B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH404C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
AH4051 Ajab: The Aesthetics of Wonder in Islamic Art 30
AH405A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH405B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH405C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH406A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH406B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH406C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH4076 Rubens and Rembrandt: Parallel Worlds 30
AH4078 Art and Politics in France since 1945 30
AH407A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH407B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH407C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH4081 The Scandinavian Art of Building and Design: Identity and Myth 30
AH4087 Aspects of Surrealism 30
AH408A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH408B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH408C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH410A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH410B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH410C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH411A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH411B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH411C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH412A Study Abroad: Art History (4) 4
AH412B Study Abroad: Art History (5) 5
AH412C Study Abroad: Art History (6) 6
AH4130 Realism and Symbolism in Russian Art 1820-1910 30
AH4142 Aspects of Modern Photography, 1910 - 1955 30
AH4147 Classicism in Western Art: The Legacy of Greece and Rome 30
AH4148 Orientalism and Visual Culture 30
AH4153 Object Encounters: An Enterprise Project on the University Collections and their Histories 30
AH4154 Chinggis Khan and His Descendants: Art and Culture in Mongol Eurasia 30
AH4156 Seeing the Sixties 30
AH4161 Gauguin and Primitivism 30
AH4163 Approaches to Modern Sculpture 30
AH4166 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
AH4177 Objects of Devotion: The Art and Material Culture of Medieval Christianity 30
AH4178 Art and the Ocean: Aesthetics, Materiality, and Ecology, ca. 1500-1800 30
AH4182 Principles and Protagonists of Italian Renaissance Architecture 30
AH4183 The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4184 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
AH4196 English Art and Modernism 30
AH4205 Byzantium, 330 - 1453: Art, Religion and Imperial Power 30
AH4206 Raphael and His Reception 30
AH4208 The Portrait in Western Art 30
AH4209 Art in the Portuguese world, circa 1400–1750 30
AH4211 Islam and the Arts 30
AH4212 Cultures of Collection and Display ca. 1851 to the Present Day 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 Gender and Consumption in French Art 1860-1895 30
AH4222 Art, Theatre and Performance in France 1600-1800 30
AH4226 African Modernisms 30
AH4227 Scotland and the Arts of Africa 30
AH4235 Communication in Art History 15
AH4236 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
AH4250 Latin American Modernisms 30
AH4251 Postmodernism and Contemporary Art in Latin America 30
AH4252 Art History and Environmental Crisis 30
AH4253 Decolonial, Feminist, Queer: Histories of Art in Britain Since 1945 30
AH4254 Museums and Audiences 30
AH4255 British Theatre and Visual Culture: 1740-1880 30
AH4256 British Theatre and Visual Culture: 1880-Today 30
AH4260 Ottoman Art and Architecture 30
AH4265 Aspects of Japanese Visual Culture 1820-1920 30
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 module catalogue 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.

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 St Andrews School in the Learning Agreement (see www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/study-abroad/academic ).