A broad subject base is welcomed - no specific subjects are required. All equivalent qualifications are welcome and applications are considered individually. Applicants with Key Skill Qualifications are encouraged to outline these in their personal statement. Our graduates have pursued careers in arts management, conservation, design, education, library services, public relations, publishing and retailing.
Many students go on to undertake postgraduate research.
Among recent graduates, one works in the education department of the Royal Academy, one teaches at a sixth form college in London, another is writing a PhD on German art between the wars and another is an exhibitions officer at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. It introduces the history of the visual arts, architecture and design, museum heritage, art market, material culture studies, theory, approaches and research methods. 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.