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Art History: Making & Meaning: Approaches in Technical Art History

University of Glasgow

School of Culture and Creative Arts
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Annual Tuition Fee: ≈ € 5,290 - ≈ € 13,520 (non-EEA)
Location: Glasgow / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴
Duration: 12 months Start Date: September
Educational Form:
  • Taught
Education Variants:
  • Parttime
  • Fulltime
Languages: English 
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Location of University of Glasgow

* You will take a five-day study trip to a European city.
* You have the opportunity to take part in a project-based work placement engaging in interdisciplinary research, where you can explore a possible future career while meeting professional practitioners and developing your skills and experience.
* You will have an opportunity to plan, organise and design a venue-based exhibition of a group of objects from a museum collection. The whole process, from planning, selection, through research, design and interpretation will be undertaken with support from museum and School of Culture and Creative Arts staff.
* Our research forum provides you with a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. It provides a sense of art history’s own history as well as contemporary concerns and practice, examining the beliefs and values that have informed various forms of historical and visual analysis and enquiry. It is focused around a series of seminars or workshops run by members of staff and visiting academics.

Programme overview * MLitt: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time

You will take five core courses and one optional course, this is followed by a period of self-study towards a dissertation on a topic chosen by you with the approval of your supervisor.

Core courses

* Research forum
* Research and professional skills
* Art in the making: historical techniques
* Art in the making: Modern and Avant-Garde techniques
* The authentic art work: interpretation, conservation, preservation.

Optional courses

* Deconstructing the artefact: materials investigation
* Work placement.


Contents

You will take five core courses and one optional course, this is followed by a period of self-study towards a dissertation on a topic chosen by you with the approval of your supervisor.

Core courses

* Research forum
* Research and professional skills
* Art in the making: historical techniques
* Art in the making: Modern and Avant-Garde techniques
* The authentic art work: interpretation, conservation, preservation.

Optional courses

* Deconstructing the artefact: materials investigation
* Work placement.

IELTS

You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.

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Requirements

Entry requirements for postgraduate taught programmes are a 2.1 Honours degree or equivalent qualification (for example, GPA 3.0 or above) in a relevant subject unless otherwise specified.

Note: A minimum 2.1 in History of Art or a related subject is required. You should also submit a writing sample of 2-3000 words, a CV and a personal statement.

If your first language is not English, the University sets a minimum English Language proficiency level

Language Proficiency

Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): Grade B (Score: 75)

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