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Fine Art MA
University Of ChichesterStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The course is a broad, studio-based programme with an open and inclusive approach to fine art practice; the programme encourages both specialist and cross-disciplinary approaches enabling students to extend and deepen their knowledge and application of fine art practice.(read more)
Art History and Theory with English for Academic Purposes Diploma
University Of EssexStudy modes: Full time
Course description: This course is designed for those who need to improve their language and study skills and their subject knowledge in art history and theory before going on to a Master's programme; successful completion of the graduate diploma at the required level will normally qualify students for entry to an appropriate Master's level programme in the department of art history and theory.(read more)
Art History and Theory (Modern and Contemporary Art and Theory) MA
University Of EssexStudy modes:
Course description: This course covers a wide subject area with a special focus on modern and contemporary art and theory; modules tackel issues in the context of a close study of art from 1960 to the present.(read more)
Art History and Theory (Lens-Based Media: Film, Photography, Video) MA
University Of EssexStudy modes:
Course description: This course covers a wide subject area with a special focus on lens-based media; modules encourage a specific approach to film which takes account of its close relationship with other visual arts; independent and experimental films are also explored.(read more)
Classical Art and Archaeology MA
King's College London (University Of London)Study modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The Master's programme in classical art and archaeology is organised on an intercollegiate basis, so that the programme offerings combine the expertise of staff in all 3 of the participating colleges; it centres on the University's institute of classical studies.(read more)
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Art History and Theory (European Art from Renaissance to Realism) MA
University Of EssexStudy modes:
Course description: Covers a wide subject area with a special focus on European art; modules focus on a succession of major artists from Duccio and Giotto via Raphael and Michelangelo to Caravaggio and Poussin, and examine the interaction of different influences and interactions.(read more)
History of Art MPhil
Oxford Brookes UniversityStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Supervision is available for research in the following main areas: 18th- and 19th-century British painting; landscape and genre; representations of the countryside; 18th-century British art; the reception of 17th-century Flemish and Dutch art; art theory from the 15th to 19th centuries; 20th-century art in Europe and the US; ideology and the visual arts; architecture and modernism in Europe; art and architecture of Vienna c.(read more)
Fine Art MA
University Of KentStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: This taught programme enables students to develop their fine art practice in the context of 4 project-based modules in which they propose and develop work within specific media of their choice; each module is accompanied by a series of seminars designed to enhance knowledge and understanding in a key area of fine art practice.(read more)
Art History and Theory MPhil
University Of EssexStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Supervision is available for research in the following fields: Aesthetics and theory of art; historiography and criticism; contemporary art and critical theory; psychoanalysis and art; photography, art and music; European art and theory 1250-1700, particularly in Italy and France; British and European art and theory in the 18th and 19th century.(read more)
History of Art PhD
Oxford Brookes UniversityStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Supervision is available for research in the following main areas: 18th- and 19th-century British painting; landscape and genre; representations of the countryside; 18th-century British art; the reception of 17th-century Flemish and Dutch art; art theory from the 15th to 19th centuries; 20th-century art in Europe and the US; ideology and the visual arts; architecture and modernism in Europe; art and architecture of Vienna c.(read more)
Art History MA
University Of NottinghamStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The programme offers students the opportunity to follow 1 of 3 pathways in art history and visual Culture; these pathways are: Master's in Art History: renaissance to the present day; modern art; criticism and display; Master's in Visual Culture: art, photography and film; students choose a pathway according to their personal interests in art history and visual culture; they work towards their dissertation throughout their Master's pathway.(read more)
History and Philosophy of Art MPhil
University Of KentStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: As a group we have a collective interest in developing interdisciplinary projects, informed by theoretical approaches such as semiology and psychoanalytical criticism; shared areas of research interest include: reading the image; photography; landscape; cultural memory.(read more)
Art History and Theory PhD
University Of EssexStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Supervision is available for research in the following fields: Aesthetics and theory of art; historiography and criticism; contemporary art and critical theory; psychoanalysis and art; photography, art and music; European art and theory 1250-1700, particularly in Italy and France; British and European art and theory in the 18th and 19th century.(read more)
History and Philosophy of Art MA (Research)
University Of KentStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: As a group we have a collective interest in developing interdisciplinary projects, informed by theoretical approaches such as semiology and psychoanalytical criticism; shared areas of research interest include: reading the image; photography; landscape; cultural memory.(read more)
Art History and Theory PgDip
University Of EssexStudy modes: Full time
Course description: Students put together a programme suitable for their individual needs from a choice of modules available.(read more)
Visual Culture MLitt
University Of AberdeenStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Modules include: Research methods; the mechanics of scholarly writing; the presentation of research in visual culture; theory and practice of images and spaces; 2 options from list including: expressionism; audio/visual: music, sound and visual culture; Berlin, city of the 20th century; plus dissertation of 12-15000 words.(read more)
History of Art and Design MPhil
Loughborough UniversityStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Specific interests of the history of art and design research group: Modern western art history and theory; primitivism; colonial and post-colonial discourse; outsider art; furniture and interior design (18th-20th century); furniture trade and industry; 19th-century design; women's art practice (18th-20th century); feminist aesthetics; music and the visual arts.(read more)
Fine Art PgCert
University Of ChichesterStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The course is a broad, studio-based programme with an open and inclusive approach to fine art practice; the programme encourages both specialist and cross-disciplinary approaches enabling students to extend and deepen their knowledge and application of fine art practice.(read more)
History of Art MPhil
University Of BirminghamStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The Department is located in the Barber Institute, which houses the Barber Institute gallery; this is an excellent and representative collection of post-medieval European art; it includes paintings, engravings and drawings by such artists as Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Veronese, Picasso, Magritte, as well as an important collection of 19th-century painting by artists such as Monet, Manet, Degas, Gauguin, Turner and Whistler.(read more)
Fine Art PgDip
University Of ChichesterStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The course is a broad, studio-based programme with an open and inclusive approach to fine art practice; the programme encourages both specialist and cross-disciplinary approaches enabling students to extend and deepen their knowledge and application of fine art practice.(read more)
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I took the course and it is not worth it
Fine and Decorative Art PgDip/MA
Sotheby's Institute Of Art
Anon, February 2010Overall score
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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SO AS it is
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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Art History And Theory Ma
University Of Essex
Marianna, November 2007Overall score
It was very isolated. Good for people who like peace and quiet. The town has enough to do to keep you occupied for a while and at least its not a long train ride to London. The campus is naturally beautiful, pond, grass, geese but the buildings are ugly. People try to be helpful.
Study experience
Facilities
I was not impressed wit hthe art book collection and needed to go elsewhere to do my research.
Postgraduate life
They are very enthusiastic but I was not a member.
Job prospects
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