Art History

Informal specialisationYear: 2019

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Overview

A major in Art History with an average of at least H2A (75%) in second and third-year subjects within the major, or equivalent.

Intended learning outcomes

see the course objectives

Last updated: 4 March 2025

Structure

100 credit points

Students undertaking pure honours in art history must complete:

  • AHIS40023 Art History Thesis Part 1, and AHIS40024 Art History Thesis Part 2 (50 points);
  • MULT50001 Research Principles & Practices (*see note below) (12.5 points);
  • 37.5 points of subjects, with at least 25 points of subjects from the advanced research in art history list of subjects

Students undertaking combined honours in art history and another discipline must complete:

  • AHIS40023 Art History Thesis Part 1, and AHIS40024 Art History Thesis Part 2 (50 points);
  • MULT50001 Research Principles & Practices (*see note below) (12.5 points);
  • three honours subjects in the combining discipline (37.5 points)

or

  • honours thesis in the combining discipline (50 points);
  • research methods subject in the combining discipline (12.5 points);
  • three subjects from the advanced research in art history list of subjects (37.5 points)


*Note: Students must undertake MULT50001 Research Principles and Practices in the first semester of their Art History Thesis enrolment.

Subject Options

Compulsory subjects:

Note: Art History Thesis requires two consecutive semesters of enrolment.

Code Name Study period Credit Points
AHIS40023 Art History Thesis Part 1
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 25
AHIS40024 Art History Thesis Part 2
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 25
MULT50001 Research Principles and Practices
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Advanced research in art history subjects:

Code Name Study period Credit Points
AHIS40006 Postcolonial Visual Art
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
AHIS40008 Twentieth-Century Italian Art: 1909-1969
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
AHIS40013 Contemporary Art in China
July (Off Campus)
 25
AHIS40016 Aboriginal Art in the Northern Territory
Winter Term (Off Campus)
 12.5
AHIS40019 The Book: Late Antiquity to Renaissance
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
AHIS40020 Museology in Florence
November (Off Campus)
 12.5
AHIS40005 Trauma & Spectacle: Postwar European Art Not available in 2019 12.5
AHIS40007 The Artist's Body Not available in 2019 12.5
AHIS40022 Studying Contemporary Art Overseas Not available in 2019 25
AHIS40002 Indigenous Photography, New Media, Film Not available in 2019 12.5
AHIS40015 Histories and Theories of Conservation Not available in 2019 12.5
AHIS90008 Writing About Art and the Moving Image
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Additional subjects

Code Name Study period Credit Points
AHIS90005 History and Philosophy of Museums
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
AHIS90004 The Print Room
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ACUR90005 Interpreting Exhibitions
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
AHIS90007 Biennales, Triennales and Documentas Not available in 2019 12.5

Links

http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/study/art-history

Last updated: 4 March 2025