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Graduate Diploma World Art Studies (Graduate Diploma)

Duration:: 1 years
Attendance:: Full Time
Award:: Graduate Diploma
School of Study:: Art History and World Art Studies

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The Graduate Diploma provides an introduction to art history. If you have already completed an undergraduate degree in a subject other than art history and you now wish to pursue art history at MA or research level, this course will bring you up to speed with the subject. Students select six modules from the wide range of undergraduate modules on offer in the School.

Candidates for whom English is not their first language are expected to provide evidence of proficiency in written and spoken English. A minimum IELTS overall band score of 6.5 is required with a minimum of 6 in each section.

Course Organiser:Mr. John Mitchell

Why choose us Our teaching received a 96% satisfaction rate in both the 2012 National Student Survey and the 2013 Guardian University Guide league table.

Our students are able to study a wider range of artistic cultures, periods and forms than in any other art history department in the UK. The School is particularly renowned for its broad approach to art, encompassing ancient, medieval, Renaissance, baroque, modern and contemporary European art, American art, African art, Asian art and Pacific art. Staff, students and researchers in the School are interested in the history of art, as well as archaeology, anthropology, cultural heritage, and museum studies.We engage with all forms of visual and material creativity from oil painting, sculpture and drawing through to architecture, photography, video and installation art. We teach small groups of students in a friendly, supportive and open environment, supported by great facilities. This is why the Guardian University Guide consistently ranks us among the top departments in the UK for student satisfaction with teaching and feedback, for staff-student ratio and for the quality of student resources.

The School has a long-standing international reputation for excellence; ranked 1st in the UK for world-leading research in the latest Research Assessment Exercise, we are one of the most important and highly-rated History of Art departments in the UK. Our graduates go on to high profile posts in such prestigious institutions as the British Museum, V&A, Tate and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as leading History of Art departments, publishers and the commercial art world.

The School of Art History and World Art Studies is based in Norman Foster’s world-famous Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, an icon of modern design, which contains an astounding art collection with major internationally-renowned works by artists such as Francis Bacon, Edgar Degas, Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso. Students work in close proximity to this collection, “perhaps the greatest resource of its type on any British campus” according to the Times Good University Guide.

95% of our History of Art graduates (and 88% of the School’s BA graduates overall) go on to work and/or postgraduate study within 6 months of graduating. We are therefore the highest-rated department in England (and joint first in the UK) for History of Art graduate prospects
100% of our History of Art graduates (and 97% of the School’s BA graduates overall) said they thought staff had made the subject interesting. This figure was matched by just one other History of Art department in England
Almost 90% of the School’s BA graduates said that they had received the advice and support they needed to do well in their studies, a figure exceeded by just two other History of Art departments in the UK. This is probably because – as the survey reveals – our students get more lectures, seminars, tutorials and general contact time with academic staff than students at many other leading History of Art departments in the UK
96% of our History of Art graduates said they had been provided with the IT resources they needed for their studies, a figure matched by just one other History of Art department in the UK
Finally, 94% of the School’s BA graduates overall said they were highly satisfied with the quality of their degree course, continuing our tradition of providing a first-class university education in History of Art as well as Archaeology, Anthropology, and Museum and Gallery Studies.

Year 1

Option A Study (120 credits)

Students will select 120 credits from the following modules:

Name	Code	Credits
ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN VENICE	ART-2V08	20
The module prepares for the study of Venetian art and architecture undertaken in Venice for ten days in the co-requisite unit ART-2V10.
CATEGORIES AND CONCEPTS	ART-2L06	20
This compulsory lecture module examines how artefacts are approached in the different disciplines of archaeology, anthropology and art history. This examination is conducted by exploring the histories of the various disciplines in order to reveal how they have developed their procedures and conceptual tools.
CONTEMPORARY GALLERY AND MUSEUM STUDIES	ART-2Z13	20
The issues facing galleries and museums in contemporary times are many: issues to do with the status of collections, their display, questions of finance and audiences, acquisitions and in certain circumstances disposal and repatriation in the case of objects from overseas. This module examines these questions in detail, focusing on a number of case studies to provide a detailed understanding.
DISPLAYING THE PAST	ART-2Z30	20
Most, if not all, art galleries and museums are inherently engaged with the past. The choices they make about what to display, and how to display it, have been influential in shaping the interpretation of both distant and more recent periods and cultures. How have museums and galleries used the past to make statements about their own societies - consciously or not? This module will use both historical and present-day case studies to explore this question and related issues. Although the module focuses in particular on antiquities and the ancient world, the range of potential topics is broad.
EARLY ISLAM: TYPES, DYNAMICS AND DIFFUSION	ART-1Z04	20
This module provides an introduction to the architecture and arts of early Islam. It examines the beginnings of a new faith and state and the evolution of a new art and new architectural paradigms. The historical focus will be on the Umayyad and Abbasid periods, ranging across Asia, into Africa and west to southern Spain. Types, their evolution, variation and diffusion - in architecture, sculpture, mosaic, painting, textiles, books, silver plate, ceramics - will be introduced and interpreted. The theme of the module will be ongoing cultural formation and reformation through invention and the appropriation, assimilation and transformation of visual and material traditions across time.
FIELDWORK, ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN VENICE	ART-2V10	20
The study of Venetian art and architecture undertaken in Venice for ten days following preparation in the co-requisite module ART-2V08. As a guide, at current figures we expect the trip to cost in the region of 800 pounds.
FORM AND FUNCTION	ART-1L08	20
Most art objects, artefacts and buildings are designed to serve a set of purposes. These may be straightforward and practical or very complex, elusive and difficult to account for. Drawing on a range of case studies from a broad geographical and chronological spectrum, this compulsory lecture module examines how use and function helps to explain why art objects, artefacts and buildings look the way they do. Building on this, the module then considers whether meaning is rooted in original, intended functions or in later changes in use or somewhere else entirely.
INDIGENOUS ARTS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES	ART-2Z28	20
This module begins by analysing what is meant by Indigenous arts and peoples. In particular, we shall consider the link between the anthropology of art and Indigenous identity. The module continues by examining issues related to the interpretation of indigenous arts in wide-ranging geographic and cultural contexts from North America, to India and Australia. It then questions Indigenous peoples' engagement with notions of ethnicity and heritage, as well as the formation of an 'Indigenous media' through film-making. The module aims to foster an inter-disciplinary approach.
INTRODUCTION TO GALLERY AND MUSEUM STUDIES	ART-1Z12	20
This module introduces some of the key concepts and tenets underpinning galleries and museums. The first half of the module reviews the history of galleries and museums and examines the ways in which society impacts upon the structure and objectives of institutions that display art and objects. The second half of the module considers the reverse process: the ways in which museums and galleries engage visitors with their activities and their displays.
INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY	ART-2Z36	20
Building on the Japanese holdings of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, the module will survey major developments in ceramics, lacquer, metallurgy, sculpture, architecture, painting and photography. Cross-cutting themes will include links between ancient and modern, with northeast Asia and beyond, connoisseurship, collecting and exhibiting Japan's artistic and archaeological heritage. The course offers students a comprehensive introduction to the fascinating art and archaeology of the Japanese archipelago, from Heian to Edo, from Okinawa to Hoddaido, and from the stone age to the contemporary.
INVASION AND INVENTION: ART IN ENGLAND 1020-1135	ART-3X02	30
England was invaded twice during the 11th century, by Danes and Normans. Despite the resulting upheavals the period was one of the most productive of art and architecture that the country has ever experienced. Major and complex new buildings appeared at a remarkable rate and were elaborately decorated and furnished. Dozens of new libraries were created and stocked with manuscripts. How did historical circumstances and cultural activity interact in this environment? We shall explore this question through artefacts such as the Bayeux tapestry, Canterbury Cathedral and the Tower of London. In effect we shall be using '1066 and all that' to examine the relationship between art and history.
LEARNING FROM OBJECTS	ART-1S03	20
The aim of this module is to convey some of the basic principles, methods and problems involved in studying artefacts and art objects, be they small or large, two or three-dimensional. The module draws on the visual and architectural resources of Norwich and the Sainsbury Collection. It is taught by a series of lectures, group discussions and presentations.
MAKERS AND MAKING	ART-1L05	20
A compulsory lecture programme which will serve as an introduction, first to the materials and processes of artistic creation, their physical and working properties and their social and symbolic meanings. Then it will look at the activities of artists, architects and artisans across time and space, their working roles, their changing status, their cultural representation and the myths which surround them.
MATERIAL WORLDS	ART-2X89	20
Recent research in archaeology and anthropology has begun to reframe questions posed by the study of material culture. This module introduces some contemporary archaeological and anthropological perspectives on art and material culture. Case studies are drawn from around the world. This module is compulsory for V0L0 and V0LX students. It is taught jointly by an archaeologist and an anthropologist.
RENAISSANCE PAINTING AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES IN EUROPE	ART-1Z18	20
This module explores the various ways in which patrons and painters negotiated and exchanged ideas, values and conventions of practice across Western Europe in the course of the fifteenth century. In particular, we will examine cultural links between the territories ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy in Northern France and Low Countries and the republics and courts of the Italian peninsular. The focus will be on the visual analysis and comparative interpretation of painted images and on the reading and discussion of primary written sources.
TRANSPORTED SUBJECTS: BRITISH ART AND GLOBAL ENCOUNTER IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES	ART-3Y17	30
Structured as a geographical tour in which the particular issues and artworks provoked in British subjects by the West Indies, North America, the Pacific, Asia and Africa are addressed and thematically interlinked, this course explores the ways in which 'British' visual culture was transformed by global contact. Analysing the works of artists such as John Singleton Copley, Sir Joshua Reynolds, JMW Turner and William Holman Hunt in a range of media including painting, sculpture and photography, we will consider issues such as the problems involved in representing slaves, the Gothic visual effects of American independence in Britain, the distinctive forms of British oriental imagery, and the ways in which art registered revised conceptions of 'home' (Britain itself, both our departure point and our final destination) in the face of imperial and global experience.
VISUAL DISPLAY	ART-2L05	20
This module examines the variety of ways in which visual displays operate - displays such as, for example, public rituals and art exhibitions. It investigates the many factors influencing how we are presented with and respond to artefacts and art objects. To do this, the module is structured around a series of historical and contemporary case studies drawn from around the world. The central aim is to promote and develop a critical awareness of the issues and complexities surrounding past and present visual displays.
WORLD ARCHITECTURE? RETHINKING THE 'BAROQUE' THROUGH JESUIT CHURCHES	ART-2Z25	20
A recent exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum proposed that the 'Baroque' style was a world-wide phenomenon, the first of its kind. But is that really so? And what issues and problems arise when art-historical enquiries are structured by a (putatively) global notion of style? If we are to study global phenomena, is style in fact a helpful art-historical category at all? To test such questions, this module focuses on one type of building, churches, erected in great numbers for one of the first truly global institutions, the Jesuit order. From the middle of the sixteenth century and for the following two hundred years, this order of Roman Catholic missionaries presided over the building and decoration of churches in places as diverse as Rome, Venice, Antwerp, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Lima, Beijing and Goa. Moreover, for art historians in the early twentieth century, the Jesuits were closely associated with the coming of the 'Baroque'; this is what makes them into an ideal case-study for addressing the above questions. The module thus investigates the relationship between style, architecture, agency and institutional patronage but on a truly global scale.
WORLD ART: ISSUES AND DEBATES	ART-3L03	30
This module is a 30-credit version of ART-3L01, 'WORLD ART: ISSUES AND DEBATES. It may only be taken by non-ART and visiting students.
WORLD ART: ISSUES AND DEBATES	ART-3L01	20
In this compulsory third-year lecture course the frameworks of world art are addressed. The wider issues of European boundaries, the movement and trade of objects across frontiers, national identities, globalisation and cultural hybridity are also discussed.

Disclaimer

Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules and regular (five-yearly) review of course programmes. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, there will normally be prior consultation of students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff or sabbatical leave. Where this is the case, the University will endeavour to inform students.

Entry Requirements

Degree Subject:: Humanities or Social Sciences
Degree Classification:: UK BA (Hons) 2.1 or equivalent

Students for whom English is a Foreign language

We welcome applications from students whose first language is not English. To ensure such students benefit from postgraduate study, we require evidence of proficiency in English. Our usual entry requirements are as follows:

IELTS: 6.5 (minimum 6.0 in all components)
TOEFL: Internet-based score of 92 (minimum 19 listening, 21 speaking, 19 writing and 20 in reading)
PTE (Pearson): 62 (minimum 55 in all components)

Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.

Other tests such as TOEIC and the Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English are also accepted by the university. Please check with the Admissions Office for further details including the scores or grades required.

INTO UEA and INTO UEA London run pre-sessional courses which can be taken prior to the start of your course. For further information and to see if you qualify please contact intopre-sessional@uea.ac.uk (INTO UEA Norwich) or pseuealondon@into.uk.com (INTO UEA London).

Alternative Qualifications

If you have alternative qualifications that have not been mentioned above then please contact the university directly for further information.

Assessment

All applications for postgraduate study are processed through the Admissions Office and then forwarded to the relevant School of Study for consideration. If you are currently completing your first degree or have not yet taken a required English language test, any offer of a place will be conditional upon you achieving this before you arrive.

Fees and Funding

Tuition fees

Tuition fees for Postgraduate students for the academic year 2013/14 are £5,000 for Home/EU students and £12,500 for International Students.

If you choose to study part-time, the fee per annum will be half the annual fee for that year, or a pro-rata fee for the module credit you are taking (only available for Home/EU students).

We estimate living expenses at £600-£650 per month.

Scholarships and Awards:

There are a variety of scholarships, studentships and other awards available to those applying for places on our taught postgraduate degrees.

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Funding for Masters Degrees and Diplomas

Applications for Postgraduate Taught programmes at the University of East Anglia should be made directly to the University.

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Further Information

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If you would like to discuss your individual circumstances prior to applying please do contact us:

Postgraduate Admissions Office
Tel: +44 (0)1603 591515
Email: admissions@uea.ac.uk

International candidates are also encouraged to access the International Students section of our website.