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Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: The Professional Development in Arts Practice MA provides an opportunity for post-graduate study in the fine and applied arts. (read more)
Course venue: Liverpool John Moores University, L1 2TZ
Details: 5 years (maximum) part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This course provides a broad based learning experience in production skills and technical knowledge, but also provides a wider curriculum for students who wish to aesthetics based course. (read more)
Course venue: Staffordshire University, ST4 2DE
Details: 2 - 3 years part time day course.
Course fees: Fees are reviewed annually.
Course description: The MBA will explore today’s arts and culture issues in depth, and develop the management skills to strengthen your performance within the wider context of arts management issues in Wales, the UK and beyond. (read more)
Course venue: School Of Creative Arts And Humanities, Carmathen, SA31 3EP
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Unavailable
Course description: This course provides the opportunity to either explore the boundaries of contemporary visual arts practice or the opportunity to analyse and theorise issues within visual culture. (read more)
Course venue: Bradford College, BD7 1AY
Details: 2 years full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This course covers the following modules: The role of the arts in society. (read more)
Course venue: Swansea Metropolitan University, SA1 6ED
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This highly flexible programme offers you the opportunity to follow one of three pathways in Art History and Visual Culture. (read more)
Course venue: University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD
Details: 2-6 years part time evening course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change and you are advised to check the current details with the course provider before enrolling on this course.
Course description: Students follow a core programme of research seminars. (read more)
Course venue: London Metropolitan City Campus, E1 7QA
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course venue: Liverpool John Moores University, L1 2TZ
Details: 5 years (maximum) part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This course provides a broad based learning experience in production skills and technical knowledge, but also provides a wider curriculum for students who wish to aesthetics based course. (read more)
Course venue: Staffordshire University, ST4 2DE
Details: 36-72 months part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: Once you are accepted as a research student, you will be allocated a supervisory team, including a director of studies who will guide you through your research work. (read more)
Course venue: Teesside University, TS1 3BA
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This course provides a broad based learning experience in production skills and technical knowledge, but also provides a wider curriculum for students who wish to aesthetics based course. (read more)
Course venue: Staffordshire University, ST4 2DE
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: An intensive research training programme with a high level of supervisorial contact and is suitable for those who have a clear idea of a research topic, but who need to acquire new research skills or hone existing ones before undertaking a substantial dissertation. (read more)
Course venue: University of Winchester, SO22 4NR
Details: 96 weeks part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This cross-disciplinary course addresses the theoretical and practical issues relating to the growing field of art and the environment. (read more)
Course venue: Manchester Metropolitan University, M15 6BH
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: The past 50 years have seen a remarkable increase in the number of novels, poems and plays dealing with the subject of visual art or artists, while, at the same time, art itself has grown ever more accustomed to presentation through a filter of words and ideas. (read more)
Course venue: Norwich University College of the Arts, NR2 4SN
Details: 18-24 months full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course venue: Manchester Metropolitan University, M15 6BH
Details: 24-60 months full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: Once you are accepted as a research student, you will be allocated a supervisory team, including a director of studies who will guide you through your research work. (read more)
Course venue: Teesside University, TS1 3BA
Details: Variable customised course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course venue: Lancaster University, LA1 4YW
Details: 12 months full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: The MLitt will appeal to students who wish to study art and architecture from the medieval to modern period, gaining experience in the trade-craft of research. (read more)
Course venue: University of Aberdeen, AB24 3FX
Details: 6 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: Key areas of research are: site, location, dislocation & Diaspora. (read more)
Course venue: Main Site, PR1 2HE
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Unavailable
Course description: This course provides the opportunity to either explore the boundaries of contemporary visual arts practice or the opportunity to analyse and theorise issues within visual culture. (read more)
Course venue: Bradford College, BD7 1AY
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Postgraduate Art reviews
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I had completed an undergraduate Art History degree before enrolling in the masters in Fine and Decorative Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London. I found that the standard was significantly lower than what I had experienced at university in that the majority of students did not come from a strong background in art history. Many were communication majors, English, business or even science- basically any graduates who desired a "career change". In fact, in order to gain entry into the course you need 1) a degree (any kind) and 2) close to 20,000 pounds. As a result most lacked sound analytical and research skills.
Study experience
The lectures were very much targeted towards people who had no background of art history and could be compared with first year level university lectures. Contrary to all university masters degrees in art history however, there was no mandatory reading as the philosophy of the course is centered upon "object-based learning". However, this approach to art history when not supported by the study of an object's historical, aesthetic, cultural and political contexts is fairly useless. The course also claims to focus on techniques and materials, and while there is certainly value in learning from this perspective the course does not in the end teach you much more than how to identify a few different woods and that tempera paint dries at a faster rate than oil paint.
Facilities
The Institute is small and limited, not that well set up for students. The library was small and you had to rely on the Art Library at the V&A and the British Library for most of your research. There are not enough computers.
Postgraduate life
No postgraduate life really. Close friends keep in touch.
Job prospects
It claims to prepare you for auction house careers and other commercial art careers. Sotheby's auction house reserves (in 2008-09) 30 places for students (in all departments not just Fine and Decorative Art) to work as interns for 3 months, full time (including lots of overtime) and unpaid (transport and lunch expenses are not covered). This significantly narrows down the amount of people who are able to apply as only a minority can afford to live in London unpaid for 3 months with no guarantee of a job at the end (paid positions come up very seldom) and then if you are an international student (of which most in the course are) there is the additional problem of visas. While the course and the internship does certainly give you a decent chance to land yourself a paid full time job in the commercial art sector, the whole endeavour is expensive and quite frankly commercial art professionals, such as auction house experts, do not earn substantial amounts contrary to popular belief (you will earn more being an art history professor). Of the students in my class those who could afford to do the internship did, those who couldn't looked for months for paid work in the arts and most did not succeed (there are simply more people searching for jobs than there are jobs in the arts) and ended up in retail or administration in order to survive. Others simply changed career paths and pursued other goals.
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History of Art and/or Archaeology MA
School Of Oriental And African Studies (University Of London)
Jen, November 2007Overall score
Yes, there is a great selection of courses
Study experience
They vary, enerally very good. Really good professors. 6 hours p/w and there is room for improvement
Facilities
Very good at times. Access to other library would be good.
Postgraduate life
Yes, there are lots... and of all sorts.
Job prospects
I am here for career enhancement. I hope so.
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History of Art MA (Hons)
University Of Aberdeen
Lottie, February 2008Overall score
Better now I'm in 3rd year. Definitely a good experience. Would be better if I didn't have to have a job. Advice: Get involved!!
Study experience
Great-harder now but really interesting. 8 hours a week. Go to lectures-makes exams easier. Poor facilities!
Facilities
Poor!! New one will be good. Poor sports too- new one will be good!!
Postgraduate life
Yes lots-great variation. On student radio and student charities campaign.
Job prospects
Travel-work in London-gallery work?-not sure. Not worried yet!
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