Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session

B.A. History of Art with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 2
2024/25 Session

Students may apply to undertake an optional Year abroad between level I and level H:

Year Abroad: Students must have achieved a minimum overall weighted average of 55 at the end of the first year in order to be eligible for study abroad.

An optional year abroad taking modules, in English, relevant to the History of Art programme.

Modules to be chosen from an approved list relevant to the History of Art programme. Modules will be selected in conjunction with the academic member of staff responsible for the programme, to ensure that they are at an appropriate level, that they do not duplicate our own provision, and that they contribute to the programme. If there is any duplication of our programme, the student will be ineligible to sit those modules on return to Birmingham

If the module is passed the student's degree title will have 'with Year Abroad' added.

With effect from the 2020-21 cohort, Year 2 will be weighted at 25% and final LH year at 75%.
The Year Abroad will be assessed on a pass/fail basis only and it will not contribute to the final degree classification.

The following must be taken:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Art History in the Field: Overseas Study Trip	10 24005	10	Semester 2
LI Research Techniques in History of Art	10 24008	10	Semester 2

Students must take THREE optional modules in Semester 1 and TWO optional modules in Semester 2.

The following is an indicative list:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Abstraction and Beyond	09 31891	20	Semester 1 or 2
LI American Art in the 1960s	09 26758	20	Semester 2
LI Art, Architecture and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna	10 24000	20	Semester 1
LI Art, Race and the British Empire, 1837-1901: Contexts, Approaches, Legacies	09 37040	20	Semester 1
LI Craft: Practices, Concepts, Activism	09 37038	20	Semester 2
LI History of Art Semester Abroad	10 27213	60	Semester 1 or 2
LI History of Art Year Abroad	09 28644	120	Full Term
LI History of Art Year Abroad	09 39334	120	Full Term
LI Impressionism and After: Art and Society in Late Nineteenth-Century France	09 26713	20	Semester 2
LI Inside the Gallery: Curating an Exhibition	09 34891	20	Semester 1
LI Making Culture: New Ways of Reading Things	10 30802	20	Semester 2
LI Political Art	09 31897	20	Semester 1
LI Post-War: Art in Britain After the Second World War	10 30805	20	Semester 1
LI Power, Society, Politics: Religious Art in Northern Europe, c. 1400-1600	09 24247	20	Semester 1
LI Real and Ideal: Art and Society in Mid Nineteenth Century France	10 24003	20	Semester 2
LI Renaissance Art in Italy and the Netherlands c.1400-60	10 24004	20	Semester 2

Students may also apply to undertake a Semester Abroad at level I. This must be undertaken in semester 1.

If successful in applying to undertake a Semester Abroad, you will be required to pick modules from the host institution. The modules will be taught in English and relevant to the BA History of Art. Modules are to be chosen from an approved list relevant to each academic year. Modules will need to be selected in conjunction with the academic member of staff responsible for the programme, to ensure that they are at an appropriate level, that they do not duplicate our own provision, and that they contribute to the programme. If there is any duplication of our programme, the student will be ineligible to sit those modules on return to Birmingham.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI History of Art Semester Abroad	10 27213	60	Semester 1 or 2