This generic course offers the opportunity to change campus or registration within the field of History of Art and Material Culture studies at the end of the first year. Option modules are also available from Humanities and Social Sciences in Leicester. In Part 2, studied in Leicester, students specialise and study the history of the visual arts, theory and criticism with emphasis on the modern period. Modules include women and the visual arts, French art and society, British art, Romanticism, Degas, landscape painting, portraiture, art criticism in British, American and European art. There are also options in the History of Architecture and Design, Arts Management or the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Many graduates gain their first job as a result of their placement.
Assessment is largely through coursework and a final year dissertation. OPEN DAYS Open days are held regularly throughout the year.