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Art History
MA (Single Honours Degree) Art History
MA (Joint Honours Degrees) Art History and one of:
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Entry Requirements The likely minimum grades currently required are shown below. (For Joint Honours degrees the subject with the higher entry requirements determines the likely minimum grades.)
SQA Highers: AABB GCE A-Levels: AAB International Baccalaureate Points: 35
Please note: • Obtaining these grades may not guarantee you a place. • We consider all aspects of every application, including the personal statement.
• Remember to confirm that you also meet the Faculty Entrance Requirements. Information on these and other qualifications pages 52-85.
Degree Structure For Arts Faculty information and other module choices, see page 13.
Features
• We were awarded the top score for a learning and teaching review in March 2010.
• The School enjoys an international reputation for its teaching and research.
• The modular structure offers the possibility of combining art-historical courses with those in a range of other subjects.
• The School has a friendly face and is responsive to the needs of individual students.
• Art History is a popular, career-orientated subject you can take with no previous experience.
• The School performed well in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, in which 90 per cent of its assessed research was placed in the ‘international’ bands, with 75 per cent judged to be ‘world leading’ (4*) or ‘internationally excellent’ (3*) (see page 5).
• Excellent town centre location and a short distance from the sea and coastal walks.
The main purpose of the School’s degree programme is not to train students to become professional art historians, but rather to provide a high-quality general education, from which they gain intellectual breadth and learn to become verbally and visually articulate. The central aim of Art History as a university subject is to assess images of all kinds critically and perceptively. It does not involve technical or practical art skills – although previous experience in these, perhaps in the context of a Higher or an A-Level, would certainly provide a useful background.
Art History involves the study of the visual arts of the past and present. As an academic discipline it usually focuses on the histories of the so-called ‘major arts’ (painting, sculpture and architecture) but it also encompasses the applied arts (e.g. furniture, metalwork), graphic arts (drawing, printmaking) and photography. A wide range of factors may be considered: the analysis of style, content and meaning; patronage and social significance; the implicit and explicit ideas behind works; broad questions of theory and aesthetics.
“One of the world’s top 20 Arts and Humanities universities” The Times Higher Education World Rankings 2010.
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Subject Enquiries Professor Peter Humfrey E:
art.history@st-andrews.ac.uk
General Enquiries UK/EU:
student.recruitment@
st-andrews.ac.uk Rest of the World:
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www-ah.st-andrews.ac.uk
Although the history of art is not yet well established as a school subject, students find that it has much in common with other arts subjects such as History and English. The essential difference is that, unlike these, the foundation of art- historical study is visual and students learn to look extensively and analytically at works of art and architecture, both in reproduction and in the original.
The School is generally recognised as one of the leading departments in the UK with an excellent record for both teaching and research. The relatively large number of academic staff ensures that the large lecture classes in the first and second years are offset by small-group tutorials and also provides a wide range of options at Honours level. At all levels, visits are organised to galleries and monuments in Scotland. The School is located on North Street, close to the mediaeval heart of St Andrews. It combines classrooms, administrative and staff offices, and an extensive Visual Resources Collection.
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