专业详情
This course draws on the established strengths of the discipline of art history in formal, iconographic and contextual analysis in the Faculty of History’s History of Art Department and links them to a rigorous approach to questions of theory and method.
The course will expose you to the ways in which the subjects of visual history are being redefined on a broad base to include a much wider range of artefacts and visual media, including images and objects produced in contexts ranging from the scientific to the popular.
Teaching comprises:
- a compulsory methodology paper, Issues in Art History, which is taught in a seminar series during Michaelmas and Hilary terms. There is also an associated lecture series, workshops on professional practice and object-handling sessions in Oxford collections.
- one option paper, normally taught in small classes during Michaelmas and Hilary terms.
Full details of core and optional papers are available on the course webpage on the department’s website (see the Further information and enquires section for further details).
You will also write a dissertation of up to 15,000 words, which will be submitted in Trinity term (see the Assessment section below for further details).
It is expected that about 25% of a student’s time will be spent as self-directed research and study.