MA modules
The list of modules is indicative only, and subject to change.
Modules available in Semester One 2023
- Art & Imagery in York Minster
- Art and the Political Psyche in Britain 1979-1997
- Ceramic Arts of the Islamic World: A Framework for Study
- Court, Country, Company: The Forms of Indian Painting
- Home, Habitat & Community in Modern Italian Art
- Peter Paul Rubens: Painting for Peace in an Age of War
- Scrolls and Serpents
- Sir Christopher Wren
- The Afterlives of Medieval Art
Modules available in Semester Two 2024
- Art, Magic and the Miraculous in Renaissance Italy
- Art, Mass Media and Communication 1945-1991
- Between Art and Mind: Diagrams in Medieval Europe
- Fashion: Theories, Objects, Images (1540-1940)
- Medieval Islamic Architecture on the Frontiers: Synthesis, Innovation & Change
- Monument, Object, Fetish, Artefact: Contesting 'Modern' Sculpture
- Painting on Light: Stained Glass in the Medieval Tradition
- Seeing Sculpture
- New!: Who Owns Antiquities? The Politics of Museology and Archaeology
Pathway degrees
Pathway degree students must take at least two of their modules from those designated to the relevant specialism.
How modules work
All taught MA and pathway degree students are required to study a core module, Research Skills in History of Art which students take in the first semester.
In addition to this students will choose four optional modules, as well as writing a dissertation under the guidance of a supervisor.
Students may take up to two of their option modules from other departments at York and from the interdisciplinary research centres.
Previously offered modules include:
- Art and Identities in Medieval Spain
- Art on Show
- Churches and High Crosses
- Contact zones: Art and Culture in the British Empire, c1851-1900
- Contemporary Art in the 'Middle East'
- Early Modern Habsburg Women & Their Material Legacy
- Installation/Participation
- Joshua Reynolds: Portraiture in Action
- Rethinking the Baroque
- Sir Christopher Wren
- The Art of War: The St. Paul's Sculptural Pantheon
- Visuality and Painting in France & England 1850-1914
- Visualizing Conflict in the Twentieth Century