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Programme structure: History of Art (BA) - what's running in 2017/18

Please note: you are viewing unit and programme information for a past academic year. Please see the current academic year for up to date information.

Students may substitute History units from the parallel options list. Details will be provided by the School.

Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Histories and Theories of Art HART22223 20 Mandatory TB-1
Special Field Project HART22225 20 Mandatory TB-2
Curating the Object HART20029 20 Mandatory TB-2
For students who take optional unit HUMS20002, this may stand in place of one or more of the Year 2 units which are normally mandatory in this programme.
Two Level I Lecture Response Units from the following list:
Modern Art in the USA 1900-1939 (Lecture Response Unit) HART20005 20 Optional TB-1
Art in Britain (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HART20024 20 Optional TB-1
Sculpture and the Body (Level I Lecture Response Unit) HART20026 20 Optional TB-1
Architecture and Urbanism HART20019 20 Optional TB-1
Choose open units OPEN 20 Optional
One Special Field unit from the following list:
Art and War (Level I Special Field) HART20027 20 Optional TB-2
Cold War Culture: Art and Politics since 1945 (Level I Special Field) HART26001 20 Optional TB-2
Modern Art in Britain 1910-1960 (Level I Special Field) HART26003 20 Optional TB-2
Paris HART20028 20 Optional TB-2
Early Italian Art HART20009 20 Optional TB-2
Students may take one of the following units in place of a Level I Lecture Response unit:
The Age of the Anthropocene HUMS20005 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to Digital Humanities HUMS20006 20 Optional TB-1
Students may take the following unit in teaching block two:
Study Abroad/ Erasmus HUMS20002 60 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Diploma of Higher Education   120      

Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

  • 40 out of 100 – for level C/4, I/5 & H/6 units
  • 50 out of 100 – for level M/7 units

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Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.

Exit awards

All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.

  • To be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 240 credit points, of which at least 90 must be at level 5.
  • To be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 120 credit points at level 4.

Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.

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Additional progress information

Students are permitted to conditionally progress to the next year of study and make up a credit deficit where they have failed a particular unit or units provided this meets the conditions in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.

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