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Programme code | 1HART010U |
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Programme type | Joint Honours (UG) |
Programme director(s) |
David Brookshaw (Portuguese)
Mike O'Mahony (History of Art) |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
School/department | Department of History of Art (Historical Studies) |
Second School/department | Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
Teaching institution | University of Bristol |
Awarding institution | University of Bristol |
Relevant QAA subject benchmark groups |
History of art, architecture and design (2019) (benchmark statement)
Languages, Cultures and Societies (2023) (benchmark statement) |
Mode of study | Full Time |
Programme length | 4 years (full time) |
History of Art
The programme is designed to provide students with a broad understanding of History of Art as it is currently practiced through the progressive acquisition of both subject-specific and transferable skills. Students who complete the programme will be fully able to progress to postgraduate study in both History of Art and other Humanities subjects. They will also have gained experience and skills that will establish a solid foundation for many types of career. The programme is further designed:
Portuguese
The programme provides the opportunity to study the language, literature society, culture, politics and history of Portuguese and another subject.
For the Portuguese programme:
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A range of essay writing skills (short and extended essays). Project work. Seminar presentations. |
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Intellectual skills are developed through seminars, tutorials, oral presentations and essay writing. |
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Essay writing and examinations test the students' ability to analyse information and present reasoned arguments. |
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Seminars and tutorials are used to develop oral communication by requiring students to engage in class discussions and to give short introductory talks/presentations to initiate discussion. These oral skills are further developed in the language classes. |
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All units are assessed through written coursework in the form of essays of varying lengths and requirements. These require a detailed and expansive handling of literature and extensive reading in support of their conclusions. |
Statement of expectations from the students at each level of the programme as it/they develop year on year.
Level C/4 - Certificate |
Year 1 of the course has been expressly designed to lay the foundations which will allow students to fulfil the course's aims and objectives. Core units in language are geared to lead the student in the development of their language skills. Foundation units introduce students to the literature, society, culture, politics and history of Portuguese-speaking countries, with an emphasis on the modern period. The expectation is that their work may require considerable direction from members of staff at this stage. |
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Level I/5 - Intermediate |
In Year 2 students are expected to be able to demonstrate that they have expanded the range and depth of their knowledge in various areas of the discipline and their capacity to evaluate their work. The themes and language readings will be of greater depth and substance. Students will develop their analytical skills, their ability to structure their work and present it fluently. They will be encouraged in group work skills through active participation in seminars and oral language classes. They will be developing a capacity for self-directed learning (for example, through the researching and writing of essays and projects). The grammatical and lexical knowledge of the Portuguese language will be tested, as will their specialist knowledge of specific periods/topics within the language, literature, society, culture, politics, history of the Portuguese-speaking world |
Level H/6 - Honours |
Students are expected to have expanded the breadth of their knowledge through the study of optional units, which are more closely linked to staff research interests and which aim to develop conceptual and methodological approaches in more complexity.Students will be expected to develop further their ability to gather and assimilate information, to synthesise these in an appropriate way, to engage in sophisticated evaluation of texts. The students' ability to assimilate and synthesise material, organise their ideas, weigh conflicting interpretations, marshal arguments, form judgements and present their thoughts in written and verbal forms with precision and clarity will be further developed. There will be an emphasis on independent learning, self-directed study and research skills. The grammatical and lexical knowledge of the Portuguese language will be tested, as will their specialist knowledge of specific periods/topics within the language, literature, society, culture, politics and history of the Portuguese- speaking world. |
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Acquisition of art historical knowledge and skills through lectures, seminars, tutorials, specially constructed art historical skills units, directed reading and individual formative feedback. Independent research is fostered through a supervised Project at Level I/5 of the programme and a Dissertation at level H/6. |
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Range of essays (varied lengths). 9,000-word Dissertation. Student presentations. Examinations (both seen and unseen). |
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Skills are acquired, practised and refined through participation in lectures and, in particular, engagement in seminars, written work of various lengths, and individual written and oral feedback from tutors. |
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Units are assessed through a variety of written coursework, student presentations and unseen examinations which require a demonstration of a combination of these skills. |
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Written communication skills are acquired, refined and practiced through the production of essays, projects and a dissertation, and individual written and oral feedback from tutors. Seminars and tutorials are used to develop oral communication by requiring students to engage in class discussions and to make oral presentations. Specially devised skills units at Level C/4 and integrated skills training at Levels I/5 and H/6. |
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Some units require oral class presentations to a satisfactory standard to gain credit points. IT skills are assessed within the level C skills unit. The ability to locate and access sources is required in all written work. |
Statement of expectations from the students at each level of the programme as it/they develop year on year.
Level C/4 - Certificate |
Students are expected to acquire the foundations, in terms of both subject-specific knowledge and skills, on which to develop appropriate expertise in line with the aims and objectives of the programme. They will acquire familiarity with a broad chronological and geographical range of practices in the production, dissemination and reception of visual culture though three survey lecture series, ranging from the medieval period to the present day. The skills unit (Approaching the Object) will introduce students to the specialist terminology and conventions of the discipline, as well as a outlining a broad range of methods pertinent to art historical enquiry (including IT). The Special Topic will introduce students to more specialized, thematically driven approaches to the study of History of Art, whilst the Special Topic Project, backed up with tutor-led guidance, will facilitate the development of skills in independent study and research. |
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Level I/5 - Intermediate |
At Level I/5 students are expected to expand the range and depth of their knowledge in core areas of the discipline, develop their capacity to evaluate material using a variety of critical perspectives and develop their written and oral communication skills. They will also have the opportunity to work as part of a team on a group project. Students will have the opportunity to consolidate what they have learned in year one and to use their knowledge, understanding and skills to evaluate critically and formulate evidence-based arguments. Students will extend their analytical skills and their ability to structure their work and present it fluently. They will be encouraged in group work skills through active participation in seminars and the Group Project and they are expected to develop their capacity for self-directed learning (for example, through the researching and writing of essays and coursework assignments). Through Histories and Theories of Art students will be familiarised with the diversity and richness of art historical writing of the past and present, develop skills in dealing with historiographical and methodological issues, and be introduced to a variety of sub-disciplines that underpins the range of current and past art historical study. The unit will equip students with the conceptual tools they need to develop further their understanding of particular topics and to strengthen their capacity to make connections between the different areas of their studies. The Lecture Response Units will be interactive and students will be expected to develop the ability to contribute in a variety of ways: in their Special Field students will develop their research skills through a focus on primary sources; in their projects they will further develop their independent research abilities. |
Level H/6 - Honours |
At level H students are expected to broaden and deepen their knowledge, and to apply relevant conceptual and methodological approaches to more complex art historical issues. Students will be encouraged to develop greater independence both as learners and in their own critical judgements and to reflect both on the nature of History of Art as a discipline and their own progress as art historians. At the same time, work is more research orientated and requires more independent study based on primary source materials. Working with staff on areas closely linked with their research specialisms, students will be expected to develop further their ability to gather, assimilate and synthesise information from diverse sources, and to engage in sophisticated critical evaluation of art historical and other historical texts. Building on the preparatory work in levels C and I students will undertake an extended, independently conceived and researched Dissertation. Students will be expected to present work which meets the highest standards of art historical scholarship for this level. |
The intended learning outcome mapping document shows which mandatory units contribute towards each programme intended learning outcome.
For information on the admissions requirements for this programme please see details in the undergraduate prospectus at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/prospectus/undergraduate/ or contact the relevant academic department.
Student workloads in the Arts Faculty are calculated on the basis of an average of 40 hours per week over the 30 weeks of the academic year. 10 credits therefore represents roughly 100 hours of student work. Part of this workload is made up of lectures, classes and other formal contact time, typically around 6-8 hours per week during each Teaching Block; it will be more for those studying languages or practice-based subjects, and tends to be less in the later years of the programme as students are expected to be doing more independent work. The bulk of the workload is made up of preparation for class (normally around 3-4 hours per contact hour) and work on assessment tasks (e.g. researching and writing coursework, revising for exams).
History of Art
There are six Joint Honours programmes: History of Art and French / German / Italian / Portuguese / Russian / Spanish – These programmes involve a year spent in the country relevant to the language studied. Students go abroad in their third year, having completed Level I/5, and return to complete Level H/6.
Portuguese
The Department also offers single honours programmes in Spanish and Hispanic Studies (Spanish with Portuguese or Catalan) and through the School of Modern Languages, joint programmes in Portuguese with one of the following: Czech, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and in Spanish with one of the following: Czech, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Drama; History of Art, Philosophy and Politics.
The Department has SOCRATES links/exchanges with universities in Evora and Oporto. The University has an agreement with the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil to take students during their year abroad. Further links with Brazilian universities are being established.
History of Art
http://www.bris.ac.uk/arthistory/
or Email - art-history@bristol.ac.uk
Portuguese
Mandatory Unit Portuguese Language is must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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Portuguese Language | HISP10302 | 40 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Key Moments in Lusophone History and Culture | HISP10009 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Approaching the Past | HIST13015 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 | |
Students with A-Level Portuguese take the following instead of HISP10302, HISP10303 and HISP10304. | |||||
Portuguese Language - Post A Level | HISP10307 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
In exceptional circumstances students with a high level of competence in Portuguese can take: | |||||
Language (Advanced) | MODL10014 | 40 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Choose two units from the following: | |||||
Introduction to Medieval Art | HART10215 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Early-Modern Art | HART10216 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Introduction to Modern Art | HART10217 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Certificate of Higher Education | 120 |
Mandatory Unit Portuguese Language is must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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Portuguese Lang for Joints/ML | HISP20302 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following list: | |||||
Body/Image: Gender and Corporeality in the Lusophone World | HISP20058 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Self and nation in Lusophone modernisms | HISP20057 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Race, Religion, and Gender: Readings in the History of the Iberian Atlantic World, 1430-1830 | HISP20062 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Languages of the Iberian Peninsula | HISP20088 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Urban Narratives in the Lusophone World | HISP20091 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
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Histories and Theories of Art | HART22223 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 | |
One of the following: | |||||
Group Project | HART22224 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Special Field Project | HART22225 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
If students take HART22224 (Group Project) they take one Lecture Response unit from the following list, if they take HART22225 (Special Field Project) they take one Special Field unit from the following list: | |||||
Lecture Response Units: | |||||
Architecture and Urbanism | HART20019 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Camera Eye: Inter-war Photographic Culture (Level I Lecture Response Unit) | HART25000 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Modern Art in the USA 1900-1939 (Lecture Response Unit) | HART20005 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Sculpture and the Body (Level I Lecture Response Unit) | HART20026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Special Field units: | |||||
Art and Music | HART20008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Early Italian Art | HART20009 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Art and War, ca. 1899 to the present (Level I Special Field) | HART26000 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Cold War Culture: Art and Politics since 1945 (Level I Special Field) | HART26001 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Urban Art (Level I Special Field) | HART26004 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list: | |||||
Political Systems of Modern Europe | MODL20008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Extended Essay | MODL20009 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Memory and History in the Twentieth Century | MODL20010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Introduction to Linguistics | MODL23013 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Woman and Nation | MODL23017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Theatre and Performance | MODL23021 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Students may choose up to one unit from the following list: | |||||
Catalan Language (Elementary) | MODL23014 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Czech Language (Elementary) | MODL23015 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Diploma of Higher Education | 120 |
Mandatory Year Abroad is must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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Year Abroad Portuguese | HISP29101 | 120 | Mandatory | AYEAR | |
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Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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Portuguese Language for School of Modern Languages and Joint degrees | HISP30302 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 | |
Students must choose at least one but no more than two units from the following list: | |||||
Theory and Practice of audio-visual Translation and Subtitling for Students of Portuguese | HISP30055 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Hispanic Sociolinguistics | HISP30056 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Culture and Politics in Luso-Africa and Brazil 18th-19th Centuries | HISP30058 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Transnational Narratives in Contemporary Brazilian Culture | HISP30059 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Dictatorships, prisons, and writing(s) in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds | HISP30070 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
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Dissertation | HART31047 | 20 | Mandatory | B | TB-4 |
Students also take 40 credit points from History of Art Special Subject, Lecture Response or Reflective Art History unit, Students MUST take 20 credits from Lecture Response Units but the other 20 credits can be from either of the list below: | |||||
History of Art Special Subject Units | |||||
German Expressionism | HART30035 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Physical Culture - Visual Culture | HART30036 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Artistic Exchange in the Mediterranean | HART30029 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Art and Theatre | HART30047 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
History of Art Lecture Response Units | |||||
American Art: Art and Identity (Lecture Response Unit) | HART30026 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Realism (Level H Lecture Response Unit) | HART30044 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Prints | HART30046 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Modernism and the 'Black Atlantic' | HART30048 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Self Portraiture | HART30037 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Reflective Art History Units | |||||
Approaches to the Artist (Reflective Art History Unit) | HART30007 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Religious Art (Reflective Art History Unit) | HART30008 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Copies and Originals | HART30034 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Vision | HART30040 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Students may take one of the following units in place of any History of Art (HART) optional unit: | |||||
Beyond the Battlefield: Environment and Conflict | HUMS30002 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Public Role of the Humanities | HUMS30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Students may choose up to two unit from the following list: | |||||
Communism in Europe | MODL30001 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Independent Study 1 | MODL30005 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Translating in a Professional Context | MODL30010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Teaching Modern Languages as a Foreign Language | MODL30013 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Sociolinguistic Anthropology: Language, Culture, and Society | MODL30016 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Prague: A Tale of Three Cities | MODL30017 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Reimagining Odysseus | MODL30019 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
This unit is only available to students studying Programmes of French German or Spanish: | |||||
Liaison Interpreting | MODL30006 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
Students may choose MODL30011 if they took MODL23014 in their second year of study and students may choose MODL30012 if they took MODL23015 in their second year of study: | |||||
Catalan Language (follow-on) | MODL30011 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
Czech Language (follow-on) | MODL30012 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 | |
History of Art and Portuguese (BA) | 120 |
Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:
For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.
For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.
Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.
All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.
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.
The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).
An Ordinary degree can be awarded if a student has successfully completed at least 300 credits with a minimum of 60 credits at Level 6.
The pass mark for the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine and Dentistry is 50 out of 100. The classification of a degree in the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry is provided in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
Please note: This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if he/she takes full advantage of the learning opportunities that are provided.
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